Kingdom for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and required, from time to time, by: Warrant or Warrants under their Hands, to direct the proper Officer of the Exchequer to issue and pay out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to such Person or Persons as may be appointed to receive the same, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the Sum of Six thousand three hundred Pounds per Annum, to commence and be computed from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, for the Salaries of Ministers, Catechists and Schoolmasters, in the Dioceses of Jamaica and Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, and to be distributed among such Ministers, Catechists and Schoolmasters, in Salaries or otherwise, as the Bishops of the respective Dioceses, with the Approbation of the Commissioners of the Treasury, or of His Majesty's Secretary of State, shall appoint; and so that the Sum to be paid to the Ministers, Catechists and Schoolmasters, in pursuance of the said Act of the last Session of Parliament and of this Act, shall not exceed Two thousand one hundred Pounds per Annum for the Diocese of Jamaica, and Four thousand two hundred Pounds per Annum for the Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. and that no Minister shall have a Salary exceeding Three hundred Pounds per Annum, as authorized by the said Act. CAP. V. An Act to give effect to Treaties of Commerce with Countries. Whave been concluded between His Majesty and the Repub HEREAS Treaties of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation lics of the States of the Rio de la Plate and of Colombia respectively And Whereas it is expedient to give effect to such Parts of the said Treaties as require the Sanction of Parliament;' 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 all Ships, of whatever Built, and in whatever Way acquired, being duly owned and navigated as the Ships of the said Republics respectively, shall, for the Term of Seven Years from the respective Dates of such Treaties, be deemed Colombia to be the Ships of those Countries respectively, in all Places under deemed Ships British Dominion; any Thing in the Law of Navigation to the of those Councontrary notwithstanding. II. And Whereas Treaties of the like Nature may be concluded 'between His Majesty and other Countries in America not yet provided with National Merchant Shipping, built or acquired in Manner required by the Law of Navigation;' Be it therefore enacted, That all Ships, of whatever Built, and in whatever Way acquired, being duly owned and navigated as the Ships of particular Countries in America, shall be deemed to be the Ships of such Countries respectively, in all Places under British Dominion, for any Term not exceeding Seven Years, agreed to in that behalf in any Treaty between His Majesty and any of such Countries respectively; B 2 Ships owned and navigated as Ships of Rio de la Plate and tries as herein mentioned. The like Privilege extended to Ships of other Countries in America. 3 G.4.c.70. repealed. 17 G.3. c.30. not to extend spectively; any Thing in the Law of Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. VI. An Act to limit, and after a certain Period to prohibit, the II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the said Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for further restraining the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Inland Bills of Exchange, under a limited Sum, within that Part of Great Britain called England, (which Act was made perpetual by an Act passed in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Ma-jesty, intituled An Act for making perpetual Two Acts, passed· in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for restraining the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange under a limited Sum within that Part of Great Britain called England, and will, by the Repeal of the said recited Act of the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, become and be in full force,) shall not extend or be construed to extend to any such Promissory Notes, or Forms of Promissory Notes, payable to Bearer on Demand, of any Bankers or Banking Companies, or other Person or Persons in England, duly licensed, as shall have been stamped before the Fifth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, under the Provisions of any Act or Acts relating to the Stamp Duties upon Promissory Notes or Bills of Exchange under the Sum of Five Pounds; nor to any Promissory Notes of the Governor and Company of the Bauk of England, payable to the Bearer on Demand, for any Sum under Five Pounds, which shall have been made out and bear Date before the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and. twenty six, but all such Promissory Notes so duly stamped, or so made out, and bearing Date as aforesaid, may be issued and reissued by all such Bankers and Banking Companies, and Persons aforesaid, and by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England respectively, until the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred hundred and twenty nine; any Thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That if any Body Politic or Corporate, or any Person or Persons, shall froin and after the passing of this Act, and before the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, make, sign, issue or re-issue in Eng land any Promissory Note payable on Demand to the Bearer thereof, for any Sum of Money less than the Sum of Five Pounds, except such Promissory Note or Form of Note as aforesaid, of any Banker or Bankers, or Banking Companies, or Person or Persons duly licensed in that behalf, which shall have been duly stamped before the Fifth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and except such Promissory Note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England as shall have been or shall be made out and bear Date before the said Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty six; or if any Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, shall, after the said Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, make, sign, issue or re-issue in England any Promissory Note in Writing, payable on Demand to the Bearer thereof, for any Sum of Money less than Five Pounds, then and in either of such Cases every such Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, so making, signing, issuing or re-isssuing 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. Issuing unduly, &c. before or after 5th April 1829, Notes herein described. Penalty, Unduly uttering, &c. Notes herein described otherwise than IV. And be it further enacted, That if any Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, in England, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, publish, utter or negotiate any Promissory or other Note, (not being a Note payable to Bearer on Demand, as is hereinbefore mentioned,) or any Bill of Exchange, Draft or Under- according to taking in Writing, being negotiable or transferable for the Payment the Directions of Twenty Shillings, or above that Sum and less than Five Pounds, of 17 G.3.c.30. or on which Twenty Shillings, or above that Sum, and less than Five Pounds, shall remain undischarged, made, drawn or indorsed in any other Manner than as is directed by the said Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty; every such Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, so publishing, uttering or negotiating any such Promissory or other Note, (not being such Note payable to Bearer on Demand as aforesaid,) Bill of Exchange, Draft or Undertaking in Writing as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds. V. And be it further enacted, That the Penalties which shall or may be incurred under any of the Provisions of this Act, and which are in lieu of the Penalties imposed by the said Act of the Seventeenth Year of His late Majesty, may be sued for, recovered, levied, mitigated and applied in such and the same Manner as any other Penalties imposed by any of the Laws now in force relating to the Duties under the Management of the Commissioners of Stamps. VI. And be it further enacted, That the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall and they are hereby required, from time to time, from and after the passing of this Act, on the Fifteenth Day of each Month in each and every Year preceding the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, B 3 (or Penalty. Penalties may be recovered under the Stamp Acts. Bank of England to deliver to Treasury Accounts of their Notes herein de scribed in mentioned. Manner herein (or if such Days, or any of them, shall happen on a Sunday, then on the Sixteenth Day of any such Month respectively,) to cause a true and perfect Account in Writing to be taken and attested by the proper Officer, of the Total Number of Notes of the said Governor and Company, under the Value of Five Pounds, which shall have been issued during each and every Week of the preceding Month, ending on the Saturday next preceding such Days respectively, from Monday until Saturday in each and every Week, both inclu sive, distinguishing the respective Denominations and Values of such Notes, and also stating the Total Amount actually in Circulation at the Close of Business on every such Saturday, and shall cause such Account to be transmitted and delivered within Three Days after such Fifteenth Day of each and every such Month as aforesaid, to One of the Secretaries of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, who shall and they are hereby required to cause the same to be published forthwith in the London Gazette, and shall also, and are hereby required to cause a Copy of such Account to be laid before both Houses of Parliament at each and every of the Periods above mentioned, if Parliament shall at such Times be sitting, or otherwise within Ten Days after the next Meeting of Parliament. Such Accounts to be published in the Gazette, and laid before Parliament, if sitting. Commissioners of Stamps not to stamp certain Notes herein described. Indemnity to VII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, the Commissioners of Stamps shall not be empowered to provide any Stamp or Stamps for expressing or denoting the Duty or Duties payable in England upon any Promissory Note for the Payment to the Bearer on Demand of any Sum of Money less than the Sum of Five Pounds; nor shall it be lawful for the said Commissioners, or any of their Officers, to stamp any Promissory Note, or the Form of any Promissory Note, for the Payment to the Bearer on Demand of any Sum of Money less than Five Pounds. VIII. And Whereas the said Commissioners of Stamps did, in pursuance of Directions in that behalf from the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Bri'tain and Ireland, on the Third Day of February last past, order 'their Officers not to stamp any more Promissory Notes for Circu'lation in England of less Value than Five Pounds; and it is expedient that the said Commissioners of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Stamps, and all Persons acting under their Authority in that behalf, should be indemnified for having so respectively acted without the Authority of Parliament;' Be it therefore enacted, That the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, Commissioners and the said Commissioners of Stamps respectively, and all Persons of Treasury who shall by their Order, in pursuance of the said Directions, have and Stamps. refused to stamp any such Notes, or to do any Matter or Thing relating thereto, shall be and are and is hereby saved harmless, indemnified and discharged in respect thereof, as well against the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, as against all and every other Persors and Person; and that all Suits and Proceedings whatsoever touching or concerning any Matter discharged by this Act, shall be and the same are hereby made void and of no Effect, to all Intents and Purposes; any Law, Statute or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Suits and Proceedings void. Act not to extend to Orders IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein herein contained shall extend to any Draft or Order drawn by any Person or Persons on his, her, or their Banker or Bankers, or on any Person or Persons acting as such Banker or Bankers, for the Payment of Money held by such Banker or Bankers, Person or Persons, to the Use of the Person or Persons by whom such Draft or Order shall be drawn. X. And be it further enacted, That every Promissory Note payable to Bearer on Demand, for any Sum of Money under the Sum of Twenty Pounds, which shall be made and issued after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, shall be made payable at the Bank or Place where the same shall be so made and issued as aforesaid: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent any such Promissory Note from being made payable at several Places, if one of such Places shall be the Bank or Place where the same shall be so issued as aforesaid. XI. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended or repealed, by any Act or Acts to be made in this pre sent Session of Parliament. CAP. VII An Act to facilitate the advancing of Money by the Governor drawn by any Person on his Banker. Notes herein described to be payable at the issued. Bank where Act may be this Session. altered, &c. WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the 6 G.4. c.94. :W Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to alter and amend an Act for the better Protection of the Property of * Merchants and others, who may hereafter enter into Contracts or Agreements in relation to Goods, Wares or Merchandize intrusted to Factors or Agents: And Whereas certain of the Enactments therein contained are by the said Act to take effect from and after the First Day of October in the present Year: And Whereas it is 'expedient that Part of the said last mentioned Enactments should, as far as relates to Loans or Advances of Money made by the * Governor and Company of the Bank of England upon Deposits or Pledges, immediately take place and have effect: 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, any Person or Persons intrusted with and in Possession of any Bill of Lading, India Warrant, Dock Warrant, Warehouse Keeper's Certificate, Wharfinger's Certificate, Warrant or Order for Delivery of Goods, shall be deemed and taken to be the true Owner or Owners of the Goods, Wares and Merchandize described and mentioned in the said several Documents hereinbefore stated respectively, or either of them, so far as to give Validity to any Contract or Agreement hereafter to be made or entered into by such Person or Persons, so intrusted and in possession as aforesaid, with the said Governor and Company, for the Deposit or Pledge thereof, or any Part thereof, as a Security for any Money or negotiable Instrument or Instruments advanced or given by the said Governor and Company upon the Faith of such several Dacu How far Persons in Possession of Bills of Lading, &c. deemed Owners of Goods mentioned therein. |