Forgery.

7 W. 4. &
1 Vict. c. 84.

Bank to continue a Corporation.

No Fee for
Payments.

and the Person or Persons to whom such Transfer or Transfers shall be made shall respectively underwrite his, her, or their Acceptance thereof, and no other Method of assigning or transferring the said Stock, and the Annuities attending the same, or any Part thereof, or any Interest therein shall be good and available in Law; and no Stamp Duties whatsoever shall be charged on the said Transfers or any of them.

XXXII. And be it enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or shall willingly act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting, any Receipt or Receipts for the Whole or any Part or Parts of the said Subscription towards the said Sum of Four Millions, either with or without the Name or Names of any Person or Persons being inserted therein as the Subscriber or Subscribers thereto, or Payer or Payers thereof or of any Part or Parts thereof, or shall alter any Number, Figure, or Word therein, or utter or publish as true any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered Receipt or Receipts, with Intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any Body Politic or Corporate, or any Person or Persons whatsoever, every such Person or Persons so forging or counterfeiting, or causing or procuring to be forged or counterfeited, or willingly acting or assisting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering, uttering, or publishing as aforesaid, being thereof convicted in due Form of Law, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and liable to be transported beyond the Seas for Life or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Four Years nor less than Two Years, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to abolish the Punishment of Death in Cases of Forgery.

XXXIII. And be it enacted, That the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Successors, notwithstanding the Redemption of all or any of their own Funds, in pursuance of the Acts for establishing the same, or any of them, shall continue a Corporation for the Purposes of this Act until the Annuities by this Act granted shall be redeemed by Parliament as aforesaid, and that the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any Member thereof, shall not incur any Disability for or by reason of their doing any Matter or Thing in pursuance of this Act.

XXXIV. And be it enacted, That no Fee, Reward, or Gratuity whatsoever shall be demanded or taken of any of Her Majesty's Subjects for receiving or paying the said Subscription in Exchequer Bills or any of them, or for any Receipt concerning the same, or for paying the said Annuities or any of them, or for any Transfer of any Sum, great or small, to be made in pursuance of this Act, upon pain that any Officer or Person offending by taking or demanding any such Fee, Reward, or Gratuity, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds to the Party aggrieved, with full Costs

of Suit, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Privilege, or Wager of Law, Injunction, or Order of Restraint, or any more than One Imparlance, shall be granted or allowed.

XXXV. And be it enacted, That if any Person or Persons General Issue. shall be sued, molested, or prosecuted for any thing done by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, such Person or Persons shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence in his, her, or their Defence or Defences; and if afterwards a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall discontinue his, her, or their Action or Prosecution, or be nonsuited, or Judgment shall be given against him, her, or them, upon Demurrer or otherwise, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs awarded to him, her, or them against any such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs.

INDEX

TO THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES,

2 & 3 VICTORIA.

Shewing whether they relate to the Whole or to any Part of the United

Kingdom; viz.

E. signifies that the Act relates to England (and Wales; if the Subject extends so far).

S.

I.

Scotland.
Ireland.

G.B.

G.B. & I.
E. & I.
U.K.

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Great Britain.

Great Britain and Ireland.

England and Ireland.

The Whole of the United Kingdom.

A.

ABOLITION of Imprisonment for Debt, except in certain
Cases, amending 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110. for

of the Slave Trade, continuing 1 & 2 Vict. c. 102. until
Six Months after the Commencement of the next
Session of Parliament, for authorizing Her Majesty
to carry into immediate Execution by Orders in
Council any Treaties for

Administration of Justice, making further Provision for, in the
Courts of the Stannaries of Cornwall

in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, amending
9 Geo. IV. c. 83., and continuing the same until the
31st Dec. 1840, for

in detached Parts of Counties

Appropriation Acts

Alienation of Corporate Property in certain Towns, to restrain,
until 1st Sept. 1840

Archbishops enabled to raise Money on Mortgage of their Sees
for the Purpose of building and otherwise providing fit Houses
for their Residence

Army, annual Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion in, and
for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters

Cap. Relating to.

39. E.

57. U. K.

58. E.

Cap. Relating to.

51. U.K.

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Army, to regulate the Payment and Assignment in certain
Cases of Pensions granted for Service in
Arrest on Mesne Process in Civil Actions, amending 1 & 2 Vict.
c. 110. for abolishing, except in certain Cases
Assaults, for the better Prevention and Punishment of
Assessed Taxes, Compositions for, continued for One Year

Assize, Judges of, authorizing the Purchase or building of
of?

Lodgings for, on their Circuits

Justices of, enabled on their Circuits to take Inquisition
of all Pleas in the Court of Exchequer of Pleas which
shall be brought before them without a special Com-
mission for that Purpose

and Nisi Prius, Justices of. See Courts for Counties.
Attornies Clerks, annual Act for the Relief of, in certain Cases

39. E.

77. I.

35. E.

69. E.

22. E.

33. U.K.

B.

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intil}

91. I.

68. E.

Bank of Ireland, continuing 1 & 2 Vict. c. 81. relating to, until
1st Jan. 1841
Banking Companies (Joint Stock) continuing until 31st Aug.
1840 1 & 2 Vict. c. 96. relating to legal Proceedings by cer-
tain, against their own Members, and by such Members
against the Companies

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Bankruptcy, for the better Protection of Purchasers against

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Bankrupt Laws, for the better Protection of Parties dealing
with Persons liable to
Bankrupts, for regulating the Sequestration of the Estates of
amending 6 & 7 Gul. IV. c. 14. for amending the Laws
relating to
Bastard Children, Justices of Peace in Petty Sessions enabled to
make Orders for the Support of
Bills of Exchange, amending and extending until 1st Jan. 1842
the Provisions of 7 Gul. IV. & 1 Vict. c. 80. for exempting
certain, from the Operation of the Laws relating to Usury
Birmingham, for improving the Police in, for Two Years, and
thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament
Bishops enabled to raise Money on Mortgage of their Sees, for
the Purpose of building and otherwise providing fit Houses for
their Residence

f, to }

Bolton, for improving the Police in, for Two Years, and thence
until the End of the then next Session of Parliament
Bombay, empowering the Supreme Court of Judicature of, to
make Rules and Orders concerning Pleadings
Borough Courts, for regulating the Proceedings in
Boroughs, for more equally assessing and levying Watch Rates
in certain

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Bounty. See Queen Anne's Bounty.

es}

Bricks, repealing the Excise Duties and Drawbacks on, and
granting others in lieu thereof; and consolidating and amend-
ing the Laws for collecting and paying the same