59. After this Act shall have come into operation no action shall be maintainable in England for criminal conversation. 60. None of the fees payable under this Act, except as herein expressly provided, shall be received in money, but every such fee shall be collected and received by a stamp denoting the amount of the fee which would otherwise be payable; and the fees to be so collected by stamps shall be 66 Stamp Duties," and be under the management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. 61. The provisions contained in or referred to by an Act of the present Session of Parliament, "to amend the Laws relating to Probates and Letters of Administration in England," and applicable to the collection and payment and accounts of the fees to be received thereunder by means of stamps, and to such stamps, and the vellum, parchment, or paper on or to which the same shall be impressed or affixed, and in relation to documents which ought to have stamps impressed thereon or affixed thereto, and to the punishment of persons for such wrongful acts as therein mentioned in relation to stamps, or fees or sums of money which ought to be collected by means of stamps, shall be applicable to and for the purposes of this Act, as if such provisions as aforesaid had been contained or referred to in this Act with reference to the like matters, and the Court under this Act had been mentioned, instead of the Court of Probate, or the Judge thereof, as the case may be. 62. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, out of such monies as may be provided and appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, to cause to be paid all necessary expenses of the Court under this Act, and other expenses which may be incurred in carrying the provisions of this Act into effect, except as herein otherwise provided. 63. The same amount of stamp duty as is now payable on the admission of a proctor to any ecclesiastical court shall be payable by every person to be admitted as a proctor in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or in the Court of Probate, who shall not have been previously admitted as a proctor in the other of such courts, or in any ecclesiastical or Admiralty court, and have paid the stamp duty in respect thereof; and every person who shall practise as a proctor or as a solicitor or attorney in the said Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or the said Court of Probate, shall obtain an annual certificate to authorize him so to do, under the Stamp Duty Acts, in the same manner as proctors practising in the ecclesiastical or Admiralty courts, and solicitors and attornies practising in Her Majesty's courts at Westminster, are now required to do by the said Acts or any of them, and shall be subject and liable to the same penalties and disabilities in case of any neglect to obtain such certificates as such proctors, attornies, and solicitors are now subject and liable to for any similar neglect, and as if the clauses and provisions of the said Acts in relation to such certificates had been inserted in this Act, and specially enacted in reference to proctors, solicitors, and attornies practising in the said Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and Court of Probate, provided that one annual certificate only shall be required for any one person, although he may practise in more than one of the capacities aforesaid, or in several of the courts herein before mentioned. 64. Every person who at the time of the passing of this Act has been duly admitted and is practising as a proctor in any ecclesiastical court in England shall, at the expiration of two years from and after the commencement of this Act, be entitled to make a claim for compensation to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and the said Commissioners, by examination of evidence on oath (which they are hereby empowered to administer), or otherwise, as they shall think fit, shall inquire into and ascertain the loss, if any, of professional gains and profits in respect of suits relating to marriage and divorce sustained by such proctors respectively, upon a comparison in each case of the average clear gains of the three years immediately before the commencement of this Act, arising from such last-mentioned business, and the average of the same gains during the two years immediately succeeding the commencement of this Act; and the said Commissioners shall in each case, having regard to all the circumstances, award a reasonable compensation, by way of annuity, to the persons sustaining such loss, during their lives, but in no case shall such annuity exceed one half of the annual loss so ascertained as aforesaid; and such annuities shall be paid out of monies to be annually provided by Parliament for that purpose, and the persons receiving the same shall be subject to the provisions contained in the 19th section of the Act, 4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 24. 65. In case the Judge of the Court of Probate established by any Act passed during the present Session shall be appointed Judge Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, the salary of such Judge shall be the sum of 5,000%. per annum; but such Judge, if afterwards appointed Judge of the Admiralty Court, shall not be entitled to any increase of salary. 66. Any one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State may order every Judge, registrar, or other officer of any ecclesiastical court in England or the Isle of Man, or any other person having the public custody of or controul over any letters patent, records, deeds, processes, acts, proceedings, books, documents, or other instrument relating to marriages, or to suits for divorce, nullity of marriage, restitution of conjugal rights, or to any other matters or causes matrimonial, except marriage licences, to transmit the same, at such times and in such manner, to such places in London or Westminster, and under such regulations, as the said Secretary of State may appoint; and if any Judge, registrar, officer, or other person shall wilfully disobey such order he shall for the first offence forfeit the sum of 100l., to be recoverable by any registrar of the Court of Probate as a debt under this Act in any of the superior courts at Westminster, and for the second and subsequent offences the Judge Ordinary may commit the person so offending to prison for any period not exceeding three calendar months, provided that the warrant of committal be countersigned by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, and the said persons so offending shall forfeit all claim to compensation under this Act. 67. All rules and regulations concerning practice or procedure, or fixing or regulating fees, which may be made by the Court under this Act, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within one month after the making thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting, within one month after the commencement of the then next Session of Parliament. 68. The Judge Ordinary of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes for the time being shall cause to be prepared in each year ending the 31st of December a return of all fees and monies levied in such year on account of the fee fund of the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and of any other fund under the authority of this Act; also a return of the annual salaries of the said Judge Ordinary, and of all persons holding offices in the said Court, with all the incidental expenses of the said court, whether the salaries and incidental expenses aforesaid be defrayed out of fees or out of any other monies; also, a return of all superannuations, pensions, annuities, retiring allowances, and compensations made payable under this Act, in each year, stating the gross amount, and the amount in detail, of such charges: Provided always, that all such returns as aforesaid shall be presented to both Houses of Parliament on or before the 31st of March in each year, if Parliament is then sitting, and if Parliament is not sitting, then such returns shall be presented within one month of the first meeting of Parliament after the 31st of March in each year. VOL. XXXV.-STAT. 2 P Α TABLE OF All the STATUTES passed in the First Session of the Seventeenth XIV. An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies 17 18 XVII. An Act to amend the Act of the Eleventh and XVIII. An Act to regulate Procedure in the Bill ... ... 29 Water Power, notwithstanding Final Award, in ... ... ... 33 Leases in Scotland, and Assignations thereof... 36 ... ... 42 42 ... ... XLIV. An Act to regulate the Institution of Suits at ... ... XXXIV. An Act to explain an Act for the Settlement 49 LI. An Act to guarantee a Loan for the Service of ... ... LII. An Act for discharging Claims of the New Zea- LX. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws ... ... 157 and to amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 LXX. An Act to provide for the Extension of the ... ... ... ... ... LXXV. An Act to confirm an Order in Council con- LXXX. An Act to amend 'The Joint-Stock Companies |