ny Two of them; and every such Officer shall be at liberty to ake Copies of or Extracts from any such Book or Account as foresaid, and to inspect and ascertain the Amount of any Gold

or Silver Coin held by such Banker; and if any Banker or other Penalty for Person keeping any such Book, or having the Custody or Posses- refusing to on thereof or Power to produce the same, shall, upon demand allow such ade by any such Officer showing (if required) his Authority in Inspection. at Behalf, refuse to produce any such Book to such Officer for Inspection and Examination, or to permit him to inspect and xamine the same, or to take Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom, r of or from any such Account, Minute, or Memorandum as foresaid, kept, contained, or entered therein, or if any Banker other Person having the Custody or Possession of any Coin Langing to such Banker shall refuse to permit or prevent the spection of such Gold and Silver Coin as aforesaid, every such anker or other Person so offending shall for every such Offence rfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds: Provided always, at the said Commissioners shall not exercise the Powers aforeid without the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's

reasury.

XXIÍ. And be it enacted, That every Banker in Ireland, other All Bankers to an the Bank of Ireland, who is now carrying on or shall here- return their der carry on Business as such, shall, on the First Day of Names once a Gary in each Year, or within Fifteen Days thereafter, make

Year to the

Return to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, at their Stamp Office. ffice in Dublin, of his Name, Residence, and Occupation, or, the Case of a Company or Partnership, of the Name, Residence, nd Occupation of every Person composing or being a Member such Company or Partnership, and also the Name of the Firm ander which such Banker, Company, or Partnership carry on the Business of Banking, and of every Place where such Business is carried on; and if any such Banker shall omit or refuse to make such Return within Fifteen Days after the said First Day of January, or shall wilfully make other than a true Return of the Persons as herein required, every Banker so offending shall forfeit

pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds; and the said Commissioners. of Stamps and Taxes shall on or before the First Day of March every Year publish in the Dublin Gazette a Copy of the Return.

in

so made by every Banker.

XXIII. And be it enacted, That if the monthly average Penalty on Circulation of Bank Notes of any Banker, taken in the Manner Banks issuing berein directed, shall at any Time exceed the Amount which in excess. such Banker is authorized to issue and to have in Circulation under the Provisions of this Act, such Banker shall in every such Case forfeit a Sum equal to the Amount by which the average monthly Circulation, taken as aforesaid, shall have exceeded the Amount which such Banker was authorized to issue and to have in Circulation as aforesaid.

Bills of Exchange,

negotiable

Ireland.

XXIV. And be it enacted, That all Promissory or other Notes,. Notes for less or Drafts, or Undertakings in Writing, being than 20s. not or transferable, for the Payment of any Sum or Sums negotiable in. being negotiable or any Orders, Notes, or Undertakings in Writing, or transferable, for the Delivery of any Goods, specifying their Value in Money. less than the Sum of Twenty

of Money,

E e 3

Shillings

Notes for 208.

less than 51., to be drawn in

certain Form.

Shillings in the whole, heretofore made or issued, or which hereafter be made or issued in Ireland, shall, from and after First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty be and the same are hereby declared to be absolutely void of no Effect, any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the con thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and that if any Perso Persons shall, after the First Day of January One thousand hundred and forty-six, by any Art, Device, or Means whatso publish or utter in Ireland any such Notes, Bills, Drafts Engagements as aforesaid, for a less Sum than Twenty Shill or on which less than the Sum of Twenty Shillings shall be and which shall be in anywise negotiable or transferable, or negotiate or transfer the same in Ireland, every such P shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence any Sum not ex ing Twenty Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, at the Discr of the Justice of the Peace who shall hear and determine Offence.

XXV. And be it enacted, That all Promissory or other N and above, and Bills of Exchange, or Drafts, or Undertakings in Writing, b negotiable or transferable, for the Payment of Twenty Shill or any Sum of Money above that Sum and less than Five Pou or on which Twenty Shillings, or above that Sum and less t Five Pounds, shall remain undischarged, and which shal issued within Ireland at any Time after the First Day of Jan One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, shall specify Names and Places of Abode of the Persons respectively whom or to whose Order the same shall be made payable, shall bear Date before or at the Time of drawing or issuing ther and not on any Day subsequent thereto, and shall be made paya within the Space of Twenty-one Days next after the Date there and shall not be transferable or negotiable after the Time here limited for Payment thereof, and that every Endorsement to made thereon shall be made before the Expiration of that Tim and to bear Date at or not before the Time of making there and shall specify the Name and Place of Abode of the Pers or Persons to whom or to whose Order the Money contained every such Note, Bill, Draft, or Undertaking is to be paid; that the signing of every such Note, Bill, Draft, or Undertaki and also of every such Endorsement, shall be attested by subscribing Witness at the least; and which said Notes, Bill Exchange, or Drafts, or Undertakings in Writing, may be or drawn in Words to the Purport or Effect as set out in t Schedules to this Act annexed marked (D.) and (E.); and the all Promissory or other Notes, Bills of Exchange, or Drafts, Undertakings in Writing, being negotiable or transferable, the Payment of Twenty Shillings, or any Sum of Money abo that Sum and less than Five Pounds, or in which Twent Shillings, or above that Sum and less than Five Pounds, sha remain undischarged, and which shall be issued in Ireland at any Time after the said First Day of January One thousand eigh hundred and forty-six, in any other Manner than as aforesaid, and also every Endorsement on any such Note, Bill, Draft, or other Undertaking to be negotiated under this Act, other than aforesaid, shall and the same are hereby declared to be absolutely

wid

void, any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided that nothing in this Clause contained shall be construed to extend to any such Bank Notes as shall be lawfully issued by any Banker in Ireland authorized by this Act to continue the Issue of Bank Notes.

less than Five

Pounds.

XXVI. And be it enacted, That if any Body Politic or Corpo- Penalty for rate or any Person or Persons shall, from and after the said First Persons other than Bankers Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, make, sign, issue, or re-issue in Ireland any Promissory Note payable rized issuing hereby authoon demand to the Bearer thereof for any Sum of Money less than Notes payable the Sum of Five Pounds, except the Bank Notes of such Bankers on demand for as are hereby authorized to continue to issue Bank Notes as aforesaid, then and in either of such Cases every such Body Politic or Corporate or Person or Persons so making, signing, suing, or re-issuing any such Promissory Note as aforesaid, except as aforesaid, shall for every such Note so made, signed, issued, or re-issued forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds. XXVII. And be it enacted, That if any Body Politic or Penalty for Corporate or Person or Persons shall, from and after the passing Persons other of this Act, publish, utter, or negotiate in Ireland any Promissory hereby author other Note (not being the Bank Note of a Banker hereby rized uttering authorized to continue to issue Bank Notes), or any Bill of or negotiating Exchange, Draft, or Undertaking in Writing, being negotiable Notes, Bills of or transferable, for the Payment of Twenty Shillings, or above Exchange, &c., that Sum and less than Five Pounds, or on which Twenty transferable, for Shillings, or above that Sum and less than Five Pounds, shall 20s. or less than remain undischarged, made, drawn, or endorsed in any other Five Pounds. Manner than as is herein-before directed, every such Body Politic for Corporate or Person or Persons so publishing, uttering, or negotiating any such Promissory or other Note (not being such Bank Note as aforesaid), Bill of Exchange, Draft, or Undertaking in Writing as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty

Pounds.

than Bankers

Payment of

XXVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing Not to prohibit herein contained shall extend to prohibit any Draft or Order Checks on drawn by any Person on his Banker, or on any Person acting

as such Banker, for the Payment of Money held by such Banker or Person to the Use of the Person by whom such Draft or Order shall be drawn.

Bankers.

ties.

XXIX. And be it enacted, That all pecuniary Penalties under Mode of enthis Act may be sued or prosecuted for and recovered for the forcing PenalUse of Her Majesty, in the Name of Her Majesty's Attorney General or Solicitor General in Ireland, or of the Solicitor of Stamps in Ireland, or of any Person authorized to sue or prosecute for the same, by Writing under the Hands of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, or in the Name of any Officer of Stamp Duties, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in the Court of Exchequer in Dublin, or by Civil Bill in the Court of the Recorder, Chairman, or Assistant Barrister within whose local Jurisdiction any Offence shall have been committed, in respect of any such Penalty, or, in respect of any Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds, by Information or Complaint before One or more Justice or Justices of the Peace in Ireland, in such and the same Manner as any other Penalties imposed by any of the Laws now

Companies to sue and be sued in the Names of

their Officers.

6 G. 4. c. 42.

in force relating to the Duties under the Management of the Co missioners of Stamps; and it shall be lawful in all Cases for Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, either before or after a Proceedings commenced for Recovery of any such Penalty, mitigate or compound any such Penalty as the said Commission shall think fit, and to stay any such Proceedings after the sa shall have been commenced, and whether Judgment may have be obtained for such Penalty or not, on Payment of Part only of a such Penalty, with or without Costs, or on Payment only of Costs incurred in such Proceedings, or of any Part thereof, or such other Terms as such Commissioners shall judge reasonab Provided always, that in no such Proceeding as aforesaid shall Essoign, Protection, Wager of Law, nor more than One In lance be allowed; and all pecuniary Penalties imposed by incurred under this Act, by whom or in whose Name soever t same shall be sued or prosecuted for or recovered, shall go a be applied to the Use of Her Majesty, and shall be deemed to and shall be accounted for as Part of Her Majesty's Rever arising from Stamp Duties, any thing in any Act contained, any Law or Usage, to the contrary in anywise notwithstandin Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Commission of Stamps and Taxes, at their Discretion, to give all or any Pa of such Penalties as Rewards to any Person or Persons who sha have detected the Offenders, or given Information which m have led to their Prosecution and Conviction.

XXX. And be it enacted, That after the passing of this A every Company or Copartnership of more than Six Persons esta lished before the passing of this Act, for the Purpose of carryin on the Trade or Business of Bankers within the Distance Fifty Miles from Dublin, shall have the same Powers and Priv leges of suing and being sued, and of presenting Petitions t found Sequestrations or Fiats in Bankruptcy, in the Name of y one of the public Officers of such Company or Copartnership, the nominal Plaintiff, Petitioner, or Defendant, on behalf of such Company or Copartnership, as are provided with respect to Com panies carrying on the said Trade or Business at any Place in Ireland exceeding the Distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reizt of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Reg lation of Copartnerships of certain Bankers in Ireland; and a Judgments, Decrees, and Orders made and obtained in any Actic Suit, or other Proceeding brought, instituted, or carried on by f against any such Company or Copartnership carrying on Business within the Distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, in the Name their public Officer, shall have the same Effect and Operation, an may be enforced in like Manner in all respects, as is provided in and by the last-mentioned Act with respect to the Judgments, Decrees, and Orders therein mentioned; provided that every such Company or Copartnership as last aforesaid shall make out and deliver from Time to Time to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes the several Accounts or Returns required by the lastmentioned Act; and all the Provisions of the last-mentioned Act as to such Accounts or Returns shall be taken to apply to the

Accounts or Returns so made out and delivered by the said last

mentioned

mentioned Companies, as if they had been originally included in the Provisions of the last-mentioned Act.

ment between

XXXI. And whereas a certain Joint Stock Banking Company, Provision in called and known as "The Tipperary Joint Stock Bank," case of Deter' refrained from issuing its own Bank Notes, under a certain mination of Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of existing AgreeIreland for the Issue of the Bank Notes of the said Governor Bank of Ireland * and Company, which Agreement is determinable by either Party and Tipperary upon certain Notice to the other Party, and it is just that in case Joint Stock such Agreement should at any Time hereafter during the Con- Bank. *tinuance of this Act be determined and put an end to by the ** Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, that the said Tipperary Joint Stock Bank should receive by way of Compenfsation such Composition as hereafter mentioned;' be it therefore enacted, That if the said Agreement shall be at any Time hereafter during the Continuance of this Act determined or put an end to by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, then and in such Case the said Governor and Company shall from the Termination of the said Agreement pay and allow to the said Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, so long as the latter shall continue to carry on the Business of a Bank and to issue exclusively the Notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, a Composition at and after the Rate of One per Centum per

Annum

the average annual Amount of the Bank of Ireland Notes issued by the said Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, and kept in Circalation, such average annual Amount to be ascertained by the Bank of Ireland in the Manner provided for regulating the Compensation to be made to certain Bankers by the Bank of England in and by the Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate 7&8 Vict. c. 32. the Issue of Bank Notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges for a limited Period: Provided always, that the total Sum payable to the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank by way of Composition as aforesaid in any One Year shall not exceed Ŏne per Ĉent. on an Amount that hath been agreed on by and between the Bank of Ireland` and the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, and certified by both Banks to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes; and such Composition shall cease to be payable from and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

XXXII. And be it enacted, That the Term "Bank Note" used Interpretation in this Act shall extend and apply to all Bills or Notes for the of Act. Payment of Money to the Bearer on demand; and that the Term "Banker" shall, when the Bank of Ireland be not specially excepted, extend and apply to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, and to all other Corporations, Societies, Partnerships, and Persons, and every individual Person carrying on the Business of Banking, whether by the Issue of Bank Notes or otherwise; and that the Word "Coin" shall be construed to mean the Coin of this Realm; and that the Word "Person" used in this Act shall include Corporations; and that the Singular Number used in this Act shall include the Plural Number, and the Plural Number the Singular, except where there is any thing in the Context repugnant to such Construction; and that the Mascu