Notary may
demand the
Amount of
Charges from

the Acceptor or
Maker of the

Bill, and if not paid may refuse to receive Pay

ment of the Bill.

Sums allowed for protesting Bills.

Notaries practising in Dublin to keep a Pub

lic Office.

Limits of

Purposes of this Act.

that such Holder shall be entitled and is hereby authorized:
recover over, in like Manner, from such Acceptor or Maker A
such Bill or Note, or other Party or Parties thereto, as last afere d
said, the full Amount of such Notary's Charge for presenting the
same, in case (notwithstanding such Acceptance or Payme
thereof, upon such Presentment by such Notary as aforesai
the same had been previously thereto duly presented to su
Acceptor or Maker for Acceptance or Payment thereof, and su
Acceptance or Payment had not been made: Provided also, the
in all Cases where the Holder of such Bill or Note shall be e
titled, under the aforesaid Provisions of this Act, to recover fro
the Acceptor or Maker of such Bill or Note, or other Party |
Parties thereto, such Notary's Charge for registering and copy
in his Books, or presenting the same for Payment, or noting t
same as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such Notary, at the T
of presenting such Bill or Note for the Payment thereof, to demand
from the Acceptor or Maker thereof, or the Person paying the
same, the full Amount of such Charge or Charges, over and above
the Sum specified in such Bill or Note; and in case such At
ceptor or Maker shall, on such Demand, refuse to pay such No-
tary the full Amount of such Charge or Charges, it shall and my
be lawful for such Notary to refuse to receive Payment of the
Sum specified in such Bill or Note, or the Acceptance of such
Bill, notwithstanding that the same may be tendered; but every
such Bill or Note shall, by reason of such Refusal to pay such
Charge or Charges as aforesaid, be deemed to be and shall be
dishonoured, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, every such Notary Public, or other Person as aforesaid. shall be entitled to a Sum of Four Shillings for protesting any Foreign Bill of Exchange, over and above all Stamp Duty pay able upon such Protest, and also over and besides the Sum of One Shilling for registering and copying such Bill, as hereinbefore provided.

XV. And be it enacted, That all Public Notaries practising is the City of Dublin, shall keep a Public Office in some known and convenient Street or Place in the said City, on which the Name of such Notary and his Profession shall be set forth in legible Characters; and that the said Notaries shall keep their Offices open from Six of the Clock in the Afternoon until Nine of the Clock in the Evening of every Day (Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and Days of Fast and Days of Thanksgiving

excepted).

XVI. And it is hereby further declared and enacted, That all Dublin for the Places within the City or County of Dublin over which the Ju risdiction of the Commissioners for paving, cleansing, and lighting the City of Dublin, commonly called the Paving Board, extends, pursuant to an Act passed in the Forty-seventh Year of His late Majesty George the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual Improvement of the City of Dublin and the Environs thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be for the Purposes of this Act within the Bounds or Limits of the said City of Dublin.

XVII. Provided

XVII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to repeal or alter the Provisions of any Act relating to Bills of Exchange or Promissory Notes now n force in Ireland, saving so far as the same are repealed or ltered by the express Provisions of this Act.

CA P. XXV.

An Act to authorize the Appointment of Persons to act as
Solicitors on behalf of His Majesty in any Court or Juris-
diction in Revenue Matters.
[19th June 1828.]

WHEREAS it has bee
HEREAS it has been found greatly conducive to the
Public Interest that Persons specially appointed by the
Commissioners of the Treasury, or by the several Commissioners
of His Majesty's Revenue, to be Solicitors or Attornies on be-
half of His Majesty, should act and practise as such Solicitors
or Attornies without being admitted and enrolled as Solicitors
or Attornies, and without being subject, by reason of such acting
or practising, to any of the Regulations in force in any Part
of the United Kingdom relating to Solicitors or Attornies:' Be
t therefore enacted and declared by the King's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spi-
itual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That whenever any
Person has been or is or shall be appointed to be Solicitor or
Attorney on behalf of His Majesty, under the Orders and Direc-
ions of the Commissioners of the Treasury, Customs, Excise, or
Stamps, or under the Orders and Directions of any Commissioners
or other Persons or Person having the Management of any other
Branch of His Majesty's Revenue, for the Time being, it is and
shall and may be lawful for such Person to act and practise as
such Solicitor or Attorney under such Orders and Directions in
all and every Court and Courts, Jurisdiction and Jurisdictions,
Place and Places, in any and every Part of the United Kingdom;
any Thing in any Act of Parliament, or in any Order or Rule
of
any Court of Justice, or any Law, Usage, or Custom in force
in any Part of the United Kingdom relating to Solicitors or At-
tornies, or to the Admission or Practice of such Solicitors or At-
tornies, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

Persons who

and Proceed

II. And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall or may have acted as such Solicitor or Attorney under or in pur- shall have suance of or in obedience to any such Appointment, Orders, and acted as such Directions as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby respectively in- indemnified; demnified for and on account of the same, and of any Act or Thing ings against done in pursuance of or in obedience to or in conformity with them to be such Appointment, Orders, and Directions; and if any Action, stayed. Suit, Prosecution, or Proceeding hath been or shall be commenced against any Person, for or in respect of any Act, Matter, or Thing done under such Appointment, Orders, or Directions as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Defendant or Defender in any such Action, Suit, Prosecution, or Proceeding, in or before whatever Court the same may be commenced or had, to apply to such Court by Motion in a summary Way to stay all Proceedings what

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ever

57 G.3. c. 64.

ever against such Defendant or Defender, and such Court is here required to make Order for that Purpose accordingly.

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CA P. XXVI.

An Act to regulate the Office of Keeper of the General Re gister of Hornings and Inhibitions in Scotland.

[19th June 1828.

THEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of

W Reign of His late Majesty King George the Thirt

intituled An Act to abolish certain Offices, and to regulate others, in Scotland, it is enacted, that from and after and upon the Te mination respectively of the then existing Interests in certa Offices therein mentioned, videlicet, the Office of Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland, the Office of King's Remembrancer Exchequer in Scotland, the Office of Lord Treasurer's Remenbrancer in Exchequer in Scotland, the Office of Presenter d Signatures in Exchequer in Scotland, the Office of Keeper of the 'General Register of Seizins in Scotland, the Office of Clerk to the Admission of Notaries in Scotland, the Office of Director of the Chancery in Scotland, the Office of Clerk of the Chancery in Scotland, and the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Admiralty in Scotland, and so soon as the said Offices, or any or either of them respectively, should become vacant, the Duties thereof should be discharged by the Officer appointed to hold the same in Person; and from time to time as any of the said respective • Offices should become vacant, it should be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them, for the Time being, and they were thereby authorised and required to regulate the Duties and Establishments of the said Offices respectively, as they respectively become vacant, so as that the several Duties to be discharged therein respectively should be performed in Person; and thereupon and thereafter such and such Number of fit and proper Persons should be appointed, or should be authorized and drected to be appointed, as might be sufficient and necessary to perform and execute the Duties to be done, performed, and executed in the said Offices respectively, as the said Commis⚫sioners should deem fit, with such Salaries and Allowances as should be ordered and appointed by the said Lord High Trea'surer or Commissioners of the Treasury in that Behalf, Regard 'being had in every such Case to the Nature and Extent of the Duties to be performed, and to the Responsibility which might attach or belong to the several or respective Offices or Persons ' executing the Duties of said Offices respectively; and all such Regulations, Appointments, Salaries, and Allowances, when so made and established, should become and be in full Force and Effect in relation to the said Offices respectively, any Thing • contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or any Law or Laws, or Usage, Custom, or Practice to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that any Fees then charged or chargeable for or in respect of any of the said Offices, or re⚫ceived or receivable, according to Law, in any of the said Offices ' respectively,

respectively, should continue to be received, and the same should be applied in Payment of the Salary or Salaries, Allowance or Allowances, authorized by the said recited Act to be granted or made in each of the said Offices in which such Fees should be received; and if any Balance of such Fees should * remain, after paying and satisfying such Salaries or Allowances respectively, the same should be paid at least once in Three Months to the Receiver General of Scotland, and should by him be paid and accounted for in the same Manner with any Public Monies received and accounted for by him: And Whereas the Office of Keeper of the General Register of Hornings and Inhibitions in Scotland is now vacant, and it is expedient that this Office should be regulated, and that the whole Provisions of the said recited Act herein set forth should extend and apply to the said Office;' Be it therefore 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 from and after the passing of this Act the several Provisions of the said recited Act herein set forth shall all of them extend and be held to apply to, and shall apply to, the Office of Keeper of the General Register of Hornings and Inhibitions in Scotland.

II. And it is hereby declared and enacted, That all Matters and Things relative to the Regulation of the said Office, the Discharge of its Duties in Person, its Establishment, Allowances, Payment of Fees, and the Application thereof, shall all of them be judged of, fixed, and determined in the same Manner in all respects as if the said Office of Keeper of the General Register of Hornings and Inhibitions had been included in the said recited Act along with the other Offices enumerated in the Provision thereof herein set forth.

CAP. XXVII.

An Act to repeal the Allowances made to Stationers on the Purchase of Stamps for Receipts at the Head Office in London, and to grant an Allowance to Persons purchasing such Stamps to a certain Amount of the Commissioners of Stamps or of the Distributors of Stamps in Great Britain. [19th June 1828.]

Certain Powers of recited Act to extend to

the Office of
Register of
Hornings and
Inhibitions.

Office to be

under the same Regulations as if it had been

included in the recited Act.

W third, 44 G. 5. c.98. HEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-fourth Year of

'intituled An Act to repeal the several Stamp Duties under the Commissioners for managing the Duties upon stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper in Great Britain, and to grant new and additional Duties in lieu thereof, certain Allowances, set forth in the Schedule marked (C.) to the said Act annexed, are di<rected to be made, and amongst others to every Person who at one and the same Time should produce at the Head Office for Stamps in London to be stamped, or shall buy of the Commissioners of the Stamp Duties, Vellum, Parchment, or Paper, charged with any Stamp Duty to the Amount in the Whole of Thirty Pounds or upwards, an Allowance after the Rate of One

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، Pound

From the

5th July 1828, the Allowances granted by the

recited Act on the Purchase of Stamps for Receipts, repealed. New Allowance

to be made in lieu thereof.

Commissioners

to issue Stamps for Receipts

Pound Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds, and t Stationers who shall purchase Stamps for Receipts to the Amount at one and the same Time of Ten Pounds, on th Terms in the said Schedule mentioned, an Allowance after t Rate of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundr < Pounds, over and above the usual Allowance on the presez Payment of Stamp Duties to the Amount of Thirty Pounds an upwards: And Whereas it is expedient to repeal the said A lowance of One Pound Ten Shillings per Centum, so far as th 'same relates to the Stamp Duty on Receipts, and also to repea the said Allowance of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings per Centur by the said Act directed to be made to Stationers on the P chase of Stamps for Receipts; and in order to encourage and promote the Purchase and Distribution of Stamps for Receipts in Places remote from the Head Office for Stamps, it is also expedient that in lieu of the said Allowances so to be repeale a liberal Allowance should be made to all Persons who shall t one and the same Time purchase Stamps for Receipts, to the Amount hereinafter mentioned, of the Commissioners of Stamps.

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or of any Distributor or Sub-distributor of Stamps in any Pa

of Great Britain, and that the said Commissioners should be authorized and directed to issue Stamps for Receipts upc Paper provided by them, without making any Charge upon the Persons to whom such Stamps shall be issued for the Paper upon which the same shall be impressed: Be it therefore e acted 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 Athority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of Ja One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight the said Allowance of One Pound Ten Shillings per Centum granted by the said recited Act, so far as the same relates to the Duty upon Receipts and also the said Allowance of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings p Centum by the said Act directed to be made to Stationers on the Purchase of Stamps for Receipts, shall be and the same are hereby respectively repealed; and in lieu of the said Allowances hereby repealed, and of all other Allowances on the Purchase of Stamps for Receipts, there shall be made to every Person who at one and the same Time shall buy of the Commissioners of Stamps, at their Head Office for Stamps in London, Stamps for Receipts to the Amount of Five Pounds or upwards, or who at one and the same Time shall buy of any Distributor or Sub-distri butor of Stamps in any other Part of Great Britain, not being within the Distance of Ten Miles from the said Head Office, Stamps for Receipts to the Amount of One Pound or upwards. an Allowance of the Sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred pounds, and so in proportion for any greater or less Sum than One hundred Pounds of such Stamps so purchased, not under Five Pounds or One Pound respectively: Provided always, that no Allowance shall be made for any fractional Part of the Sum of One Pound.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of Stamps, and they are hereby authorized and required, to issue Stamps for Receipts upon Paper

provided