Stamps not marked as herein men. tioned to be of no Effect. Part of the Writing to be on the Stamp, &c. Penalty 101. Instruments not having by Accident, &c. the proper Stamp, if brought to the Stamp Office in Dublin within 60 Days, shall be properly stamped. Change, Variation or Alteration shall be given by Advertisement in the Dublin Gazette, and in some other Public Newspaper, a convenient Time before the Types, Marks or Stamps on which such new Devices er Marks shall be made shall be used. VI. And be it further enacted, That such Types, Marks or Stamps, having the Words "Chancery Fund" or "Exchequer Fund" respectively impressed thereon, together with such other Words, Figures and Devices as before mentioned, shall be the only proper Types, Marks and Stamps for denoting the several Duties granted by this Act; and that all Vellum, Parchment or Paper not marked with such Types, Stamps or Marks shall be of no other Effect than if the said Matters respectively had been written or printed on Vellum, Parchment or Paper not marked or stamped, although any other Stamps or Stamp may be impressed thereon of the Amount by Law required, or of any greater Amount; and all Persons who shall so write or print any such Article, Matter or Thing respectively on any Paper, Vellum or Parchment having any such improper Stamp or Stamps thereon, shall incur and suffer such Penalty as they would be liable to in case such Article, Matter or Thing respectively had been written or printed on Paper, Parchment or Vellum not marked or stamped. VII. And be it further enacted, That all Matters and Things in respect whereof any of the said Stamp Duties shall be payable by this Act, shall be written or printed, or written and printed in such Manner (and if printed or written in part or entirely before being stamped, shall be so stamped) that some Part of the Writing or Printing thereof shall be on the Stamps or Marks which shall be placed on the Vellum or Parchment or Paper thereof; and such Writing or Printing shall from thence be continued in the usual Form of writing, printing or engrossing Deeds or Writings, so that no blank Space shall be left, whereby such Stamps might be made applicable to any other Deed or Instrument whatsoever, upon pain that any Person who shall so write, engross or print or stamp, or caused to be written, engrossed or printed or stamped any such Writing, Matter or Thing, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning hereof, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds. VIII. And be it further enacted, That when any Instrument, Article, Matter or Thing charged with a Duty by this Act, marked with any Type, Device or Mark authorized by this Act, shall have been engrossed or written on Parchment, Vellum or Paper not duly stamped with the proper Amount of Duty, and it shall satisfactorily appear to the said Commissioners of Stamps, upon Oath or Affirmation or otherwise, that the same hath happened either by Accident or Inadvertency, or from urgent Necessity or unavoidable Circumstances, and without any Intention in any Party to defraud His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, of the Duty chargeable upon such Instruments, then and in every of the said Cases, if such Instrument shall within Sixty Days from the Preparation or first Execution thereof be brought to the Stamp Office in the City of Dublin to be stamped, and the Duty chargeable upon such Instrument shall be paid, it shall and may be lawful for such Commissioners, if they shall think proper so to do, to remit any Penalty payable on stamping such Instrument, or any Part thereof so executed without being stamped, and to cause such Instrument to be stamped with the proper Stamp ; and every Person concerned in engrossing any such Instrument or executing the same, shall be thereupon exempt from all Penalties on account thereof. any Where Instruments are not executed, or not used for the missioners em Stamps in lieu of those so become unfit for Use. IX. And be it further enacted, That upon Proof on Oath or solemn Affirmation (if by a Quaker) made before the said Conmissioners or any of them, or before any Inferior Officer by them in that Behalf appointed, (and which Oath or Affirmation such Purposes inOfficer is hereby empowered to administer), to the Satisfaction tended, whereby of such Commissioner or Officer, that any Deed or Instrument, Loss would be Article, Matter or Thing written or printed upon any stamped sustained by the Vellum, Parchment or Paper marked and stamped as required Parties, Comby this Act, with the appropriate Stamp for any of the Duties powered to give granted by this Act hath not been executed or signed by any appropriate Party or Parties, or that such Vellum, Parchment or Paper hath not been used for any of the Purposes for which the same was or were intended, or that any Form of Instrument whatever, printed with Blanks to be filled up according to each Case, hath by the Death of any Party, Repeal of any Act of Parliament, or other Event or Fatality, become unfit for the Purpose intended, and the Person making such Affidavit or Affirmation hath not, nor hath any other Person on his Account, received, and that such Person will not receive any Money or other Consideration for the Stamp thereupon, and that the said Stamp or Stamps is or are really and truly the Property of the Person making such Affidavit, and have or hath been paid for by such Person to the full Amount of the Duty thereon, and that such Person will be a Loser to such Amount unless such Person shall receive other Stamps in lieu thereof, and upon the Person or Persons who should produce such Proof delivering such stamped Vellum, Parchment or Paper as aforesaid, and delivering at the same Time a like Quantity of Vellum, Parchment or Paper to be stamped, then and in every such Case the said Commissioners shall cause the same to be stamped or marked with such appropriate Stamps, to denote the several and respective Duties granted by this Act, which shall be stamped, marked or impressed on the stamped Vellum, Parchment or Paper so then delivered in, or to denote any of the other Duties granted by this Act which may be required, the Person so requiring the same first paying the Difference of Amount in that Behalf (if any): Provided always, that such stamped Vellum, Parchment or Paper Conditions. so delivered in shall be brought to the Commissioners of Stamps at the Stamp Office in Dublin, within Six Calendar Months next after such Deed or Instrument shall have been engrossed or written, or such blank Form shall have been rendered unfit for the Purpose intended, if the same shall belong to any Person or Persons resident in Dublin, or within Ten Miles of the Castle of Dublin, or within Twelve Calendar Months if the same respectively shall belong to Persons resident elsewhere: Provided also, that the said Commissioners, or any Officer under their Authority, shall not be required or obliged to impress on any Paper, Parchment or Vellum so brought, any Stamp or Mark which shall then be Separate Accounts to be kept of the Duties. Money paid into Exchequer, and carried to Consolidated Fund, Accounts shall also be kept at the Exchequer of Sums received on ac count of Duties and of Salaries paid to Masters in Chancery and to Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer. be confined to Paper having the Water Mark of the said Stamp Office. X. And be it further enacted, That separate and distinct Accounts shall be kept by the Commissioners of Stamps, and by and under their Directions, of all Sums which shall from time to time be received by, from or under the said respective Duties so made payable by this Act; and Copies of such Accounts shall from time to time, that is to say, on the First Monday in every Calendar Month, and as much oftener as the Nature of the Case shall admit of, be furnished to the Receiver General of Stamp Duties; and such Receiver General, as speedily as possible after receiving every such Account, shall, out of the Money in his Hands, or out of the first Money that shall come to his Hands, pay into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Dublin what shall remain of all and every Sum and Sums appearing thereby to have been so received on account of the said Duties respectively; and all and every Sum and Sums so paid into the Receipt of the said Exchequer shall be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until Provision shall be otherwise made by Parliament. XI. And be it further enacted, That separate and distinct Accounts shall be kept at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Dublin, of all and every Sum and Sums so paid into the Receipt of the said Exchequer on account of the said Duties granted by this Act, and also of all Salaries and Allowances which shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund to the Masters in Ordinary in the said Court of Chancery, and to the Chief Remembrancer of the said Court of Exchequer from time to time for the Time being, and to any such Masters, or any such Chief Remembrancer, who shall have resigned their Offices respectively, under, or by virtue of the said Acts of this present Session of Parliament for the better Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery and in the Equity Side of the Court of Exchequer Accounts to be in Ireland; and that such Accounts, as also the Accounts by this Act required to be kept by the Commissioners of Stamps of all Sums received on account of the Duties made payable by this Act, shall be transmitted by the proper Officer in the said Receipt of Exchequer, and by the Secretary to the said Commissioners of Stamps, to the Office of the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, within Fourteen Days next after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, and in like manner within Fourteen Days next after the Fifth Day of January in every succeeding Year, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Month after such Fifth Day of January if Parliament shall be then sitting, or otherwise within Fourteen Days after the then next Meeting of Parliament. transmitted to Chief Secretary of Ireland, to be laid before Parliament. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. SCHEDULE of the DUTIES of STAMPS which are to be paid and payable for and in respect of the First Sheet or Piece of Vellum, Parchment or Paper upon which the several Instruments, Matters and Things herein mentioned, relating to the Business of the Office of any Master in the Court of Chancery, or relating to the Equity Side of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, shall be respectively written or printed, and which Duties shall be payable over and above any other Duties payable by Law on the like Proceedings. ANSWER. Which shall be sworn by any Defendant, for each Any Schedule to such Answer, for each Defendant sworn DEDIMUS. On the Return thereof On the Return thereof On every Summons which shall actually issue on a CERTIFICATES. On every Certificate, except Certificates at On every Certificate at the Foot of any Bill of Costs, where the Amount, as furnished or claimed by such Bill, shall not exceed the Sum of 50l. Where such Amount shall exceed the Sum of 50l., for every Sum of 10l., or fractional Part of 10l. above 50l., an additional Sum of RECOGNIZANCE. Any Recognizance taken or acknowledged, for each Cognizor INROLLING DEEDS. Any Fiat or Acknowledgment for inrolling any Deed REPORTS.- Any Report under Interlocutory Order Under Decretal Order, pronounced in a short Cause NOTICES. Any Notice, Advertisement or Posting to sell Lands LEASES AND DEEDS.-Any Lease, and any Counterpart thereof, where the usual printed Form will suffice Any other Deed where the usual printed Form will suffice Any Lease, and any Counterpart thereof, where the Contract is of so special a Nature that a special Conveyance shall be prepared and engrossed Any other Contract of such special Nature Any Deed executed by any Master in Chancery, or by the Chief Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer, in the Name of any Party in a Cause refusing or declining to execute such Deed, or residing out of the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery or Exchequer respectively, for each Person so declining or refusing, or residing beyond Any Deed of any other Sort where any Master in Chan- Any Commission of Lunacy Court of Exchequer in Scotland may issue, 10,000l. per Annum, or 50,000l. in the Whole. His Majesty may appoint Commissioners to meet in Lon don or Westminster. A Secretary, CA P. LXXIX. £. s. d. 0 5 0 2 2 0 An Act for building additional Places of Worship in the WHEREAS Fistes are so extensive that it is impossible for WHEREAS in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland many * many of the Inhabitants to attend Divine Service at the Parish Church; and it is also impossible for the Ministers serving the Cure thereof to visit the more distant Inhabitants of such Parishes And Whereas it is necessary that these Evils should be remedied by providing and erecting additional Places for the Celebration of Divine Service, according to the Form of the Church of Scotland as by Law established, in such Parishes :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland to issue, for the Purposes of this Act, Precepts from time to time upon the Receiver General of Scotland, for the Payment, out of any Public Money then in his Hands, of the Sum or Sums specified in such Precepts, in the Manner therein directed, not exceeding the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds in any one Year, and not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fifty thousand Pounds. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by a Commission under His Royal Sign Manual, to nominate, constitute and appoint such Persons as His Majesty shall deem fit to be His Commissioners for carrying into Execution the Purposes of this Act, and to order in such Appointment that any Three or more of such Commissioners may act in the Execution of the Powers of this Act; and such Commissioners are hereby directed to meet from time to time in London or Westminster, for the Purposes of this Act, and at all such Meetings in case of an Equality of Voices the Chairman shall have a casting Vote. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint a Secretary and Clerk, and |