Not to affect duty on admi nistration. Application of judge of the Court of Probate, subject as regards the tables of fees to the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and such proportions of the said fees as the said judge, with such approval as aforesaid, shall think proper, may be made payable to the registrars of the county courts acting in the said matters, but the total amount to be charged to applicants shall not in any one case exceed the sums mentioned in the schedule to this Act. 6. PROVIDED always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any duty now payable on letters of administration. 7. THE provisions of this Act shall apply to Ireland, subject to the modifications following; (that is to say,) The term the "registrar of the county court" shall be construed to mean The term "Court of Probate" shall be construed to mean the Court of SCHEDULE. Where the whole estate and effects of the intestate shall not exceed in value twenty pounds, the sum of five shillings; and where the whole estate and effects shall exceed in value twenty pounds, the sum of five shillings, and the further sum of one shilling for every ten pounds or fraction of ten pounds by which the value shall exceed twenty pounds. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 87. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT to make better provision respecting certain sums payable to School- WHEREAS in pursuance of the Act of the session of the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-seven, intituled "An Act to facilitate the foundation and endowment of additional schools in "Scotland," (in this Act referred to as the Highland Schools Act, 1838,) the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (hereafter referred to as the Treasury) have purchased twenty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds ten shillings and fourpence three per cent. consolidated Bank annuities in the names of their nominees: And whereas at the passing of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, there was payable in pursuance of the Highland Schools Act, 1838, out of the dividends of the said Bank annuities, to the schoolmaster appointed in each of the parishes specified in the first column of the schedule to this Act, the annual sum set opposite to the name of such parish in the second column of that schedule, and the dividends of the said Bank annuities are insufficient to pay such annual sums, but such insufficiency could have been supplied under the Highland Schools Act, 1838, if the same had not been repealed: c. 62. And whereas by the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, the Highland Schools 35 & 36 Vict. Act, 1838, was repealed in general terms, subject to the following proviso: "Provided that any sum payable to a schoolmaster prior to the passing of this "Act under the Act of the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-seven, shall continue to be paid to him so long as he holds the office of schoolmaster on account of which such sum was "payable to him, and shall thereafter be paid to the school board of the parish in which he held such office for the purposes of the school fund," but no provision was made for the disposal of the said Bank annuities or for meeting the said insufficiency of the dividends thereof to pay the said sums: " And whereas by the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, the school board was 35 & 36 Vict. substituted for the heritors in every parish: And whereas it is expedient expressly to repeal the Highland Schools Act, 1838, and make such provision respecting the said Bank annuities and annual sums as is herein-after contained : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: Preliminary. 1. THIS Act may be cited as the Highland Schools Act, 1873. Endowment Schools. 2. THE annual sums mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall, after the passing of this Act, be charged on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and the Treasury shall by equal half-yearly payments in every year pay out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof, to the school board of every parish named in the first column of the schedule to this Act, for the purposes of the school fund, the annual sum which in the second column of that schedule is placed opposite to the name of such parish. Temporary Provisions and Repeal. c. 62. Short title. Charge of sums in schedule on ment thereof to school board. 1 & 2 Vict. 3. So long as any schoolmaster to whom any of the annual sums mentioned Provision for existing schoolin the schedule to this Act was at the passing of this Act payable in pursuance masters. of the Highland Schools Act, 1838, continues to hold his office, the school board shall pay to him every half-yearly payment of that annual sum as soon as may be after they receive the same. c 87. SCHEDULE. Annual Sums payable at the passing of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 62. to the Schoolmasters of the Parishes named below under 1 & 2 Vict. c. 87. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 90. CHAPTER 55. AN ACT to amend the Medical Acts so far as relates to the University of London. [28th July 1873.] WHEREAS by the Medical Act (hereinafter called the principal Act), and Acts amending the same, every person becoming possessed of any one or more of the qualifications mentioned in the said Acts is to be entitled to be registered under the principal Act, and one of such qualifications is that of doctor, or bachelor, or licentiate of medicine, or master in surgery university of the United Kingdom: in any And whereas by the principal Act it is further provided, that any two or more of the colleges and bodies in the Medical Acts in that behalf mentioned may, with the sanction and under the directions of the General Council, unite and co-operate in conducting the examinations required for qualifications to be registered under the principal Act: And whereas the University of London is one of such bodies, but doubts are entertained whether it is able to take advantage of the herein-before recited provisions of the principal Act unless it receives further powers from Parliament, and accordingly it is expedient to amend the Medical Acts so far as relates to the said University: of London). Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: 1. IF, in pursuance of the principal Act, the University of London unites or co-operates with any of the colleges or bodies in that behalf mentioned in the Medical Acts in conducting the examinations required for qualifications to be registered under the principal Act, then, notwithstanding anything in any statute or charter contained, it shall be lawful for the chancellor, vicechancellor, and fellows for the time being of the said University to prescribe, by a byelaw under the common seal of the said University, that no person shall become a doctor, or bachelor, or licentiate of medicine, or master in surgery of the said University unless (in addition to passing such examination, if any, and complying with such other conditions, if any, as may be prescribed by any byelaws in force for the time being made in pursuance of any charter of the said University) he shall have passed such examination for qualification to be registered under the Medical Act, and complied with such conditions relating thereto, as may be agreed upon between the said University and the college or body, colleges or bodies, with whom the said University may be united or co-operating as aforesaid. Provided, that no byelaw made in pursuance of this Act shall be of any force unless it has the assent of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that it shall be lawful for one of such Secretaries of State at any subsequent time, if he shall think fit, to revoke such assent. Power to University of Lon don to make byelaw with a view to the Medical Act. 2. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Medical Act (University Short title ard of London), 1873, and shall be construed as one with the Medical Acts. construction of Act. CHAPTER 57. AN ACT to make provision for the Redemption of divers permanent Charges on the Consolidated Fund and on the Votes of Parliament. [28th July 1873.] WHEREAS under section fifteen of the Crown Lands Act, 1866, divers 29 & 30 Vict. pensions, annuities, and other annual payments formerly payable out of the land revenues of the Crown have been transferred to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and are at the time of the passing of this Act charged thereon and payable thereout: And whereas there are charged on and payable out of the said Consolidated Fund, and moneys provided by Parliament, other pensions, annuities, and annual payments which will not determine with the life of the individuals to whom the same are at the passing of this Act payable, which are not part of the Bank annuities that form the National Debt: And whereas it is expedient to provide for the redemption of such pensions, annuities, and annual payments: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: c. 62. 1. THIS Act may be cited as the Consolidated Fund (Permanent Charges Short title. Redemption) Act, 1873. Contract for redemption of annuity. Payment of money and cesser of annuity. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 44. Proviso in case of annuities under five pounds, or redemption money under 100/. Miscellaneous provisions. Charges Redemption). 2. WHERE any annuity (as defined by this Act) is charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or moneys provided by Parliament, either in perpetuity or for a period not determinable with the life of the individual to whom the same is for the time being payable, the Treasury may at any time contract for the redemption of the same or any part thereof by payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of a capital sum not exceeding such sum as would, according to the average price of Government securities at the date of such contract, purchase an amount of Government securities yielding annual dividends equal to the amount of such annuity. In entering into any such contract, the Treasury shall have regard to the contingency (if any) of the determination of the annuity, and may surrender such contingency upon such terms as they may think reasonable. Where the person to whom such annuity is for the time being payable is a limited owner, the contract made for the redemption of the annuity shall not be valid unless it is assented to, if such limited owner is an ecclesiastical corporation in England, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and in any other case by the Court of Chancery, but when so assented to shall be binding on the heirs, successors, executors, and administrators of such limited owner, and all other persons interested in the annuity. 3. THE money for the redemption of the annuity, in case the owner is an ecclesiastical corporation in England, shall be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and in other cases where the owner is a limited owner shall, and in any case where the owner is not a limited owner may be paid into the Court of Chancery to an account intituled ex parte the owner of the annuity in the matter of this Act, or to such other account as may be directed by the said Court, or by a rule under the Court of Chancery Funds Act, 1872, and shall be applied by or under the direction of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the said Court respectively for the benefit of the person entitled thereto. As soon as any money is paid in pursuance of any contract for the redemption of any annuity, that annuity shall cease to be charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund, or moneys provided by Parliament, so, however, that any proportionate part of such annuity which may be due up to the time of such payment shall be paid to the person entitled thereto. 4. In the case of an annuity not payable to an ecclesiastical corporation, if the annuity does not exceed five pounds a year, or the sum payable for the redemption of the annuity does not exceed one hundred pounds, the contract need not be assented to by the Court of Chancery, and the money need not be paid into the Court of Chancery, but may be paid to the person entitled for the time being to receive the annuity, and the receipt of such person shall be a good discharge for money so paid. 5. WHERE any doubt exists either as to whether a person to whom an annuity for the time being is payable is or is not a limited owner, or as to the title of a person to any annuity, the contract may be assented to, the money paid, and other proceedings under this Act had, as if the person to whom such annuity is payable were a limited owner. Any power vested by this Act in the Court of Chancery may be exercised by a judge thereof sitting at chambers. |