and at the same Time to keep up the said Fund to an Amount 'sufficient to satisfy the Charges thereon, as well under this Act as under any former Act, it is expedient to make such Addition to the said Fund as herein-after provided:' Be it therefore enacted, That so much of any Act or Acts now in force as directs that the surplus Interest and annual Produce which hath arisen and shall arise from the Monies placed out on the several Accounts, intituled "Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery," and "Account of Securities purchased with surplus Interest arising from Securities carried to an Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery," beyond what shall be sufficient to answer the Purposes of the several Acts relating to such Securities, and also the Interest produced from the Securities purchased with such surplus Interest and annual Produce, shall from Time to Time be placed out in the Purchase of Government or Parliamentary Securities in the Name of the Accountant General of the said Court, and placed to the Credit of the said Account, intituled "Account of Securities purchased with surplus Interest arising from Securities carried to an Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery," shall be repealed, and the surplus Interest and annual Produce hereafter to arise from the Monies placed out on the Two several lastmentioned Accounts, beyond what shall be sufficient to answer the Purposes of this Act, and the several other Acts relating to such Securities, shall be carried over by the said Accountant General and be placed to the said Account, intituled "The Suitors Fee Fund Account," and shall thereupon become Part of the Fund standing to such Account.

LIV. If at the End of any Year there shall be a Surplus Provision in standing to the Credit of the said Account, intituled "The case of Surplus or Deficiency Suitors Fee Fund Account," after Payment of the several of Suitors Fee Salaries and Sums of Money charged thereon by this Act or Fund. any former Act, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor by any Order to direct that such Surplus, or such Part thereof as to the Lord Chancellor shall seem fit, shall be invested in the Purchase of Parliamentary or Government Securities in the Name of the said Accountant General, to be placed to the Account intituled "Account of Monies placed out to provide for the Officers of the High Court of Chancery," and it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor in like Manner to direct the Investment of the Dividends or Interest to accrue from Time to Time on the Securities now or at any Time hereafter under this Act or any former Act to be placed to the said last-mentioned Account, or so much of such Dividends and Interest as he shall think fit, in the Purchase of Parliamentary or Government Securities in the Name of the said Accountant General, to be by him placed to the Credit of the said last-mentioned

Account,

Interpretation

Chancellor."

Account, and as often as there shall be a Deficiency in the said Account, intituled "The Suitors Fee Fund Account," at any of the Times appointed for Payment of any of the Salaries or Sums of Money charged thereon, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to direct the said Accountant General to make good such Deficiency by carrying over and placing to the said Account, intituled "The Suitors Fee Fund Account," such Sum as the Lord Chancellor may consider sufficient for that Purpose, out of the Interest and Dividends to arise from the Government or Parliamentary Securities standing to the said Account, intituled "Account of Monies placed out to provide for the Officers of the High Court of Chancery," or by a Sale of so much of the said Securities as may be necessary for that Purpose.

LV. In the Construction of this Act, unless such Meaning be of Term "Lord repugnant to or inconsistent with the Context, the Expression "Lord Chancellor" shall mean and include the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom for the Time being.

CAP. LXXXVIII.

An Act to remove Doubts as to the Constitution of the Bishopric of Christchurch in New Zealand, and to enable Her Majesty to constitute such Bishopric and to subdivide the Diocese of New Zealand.

6

[1st July 1852.]

W WHEREAS Her Majesty, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of Octo⚫ber One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the Fifth Year of Her Reign, did make, ordain, and constitute the Colony of New Zealand into a Bishop's See or Diocese, by the Name or Style of the Bishopric of New Zealand, and ⚫ did nominate and appoint George Augustus Selwyn Clerk to be Bishop and ordinary Pastor of the said See for the Term of his natural Life, subject to such Right of Resignation as in the " said Letters Patent is expressed: And whereas, by reason of the Extent of the said Diocese, it is expedient that Provision should be made for the Subdivision thereof: And whereas, in order to such Subdivision, the said George Augustus Selwyn hath, by an Instrument under his Hand and Seal, bearing Date the Ninth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty6 one, resigned and surrendered so much of the said See or Diocese of New Zealand as lies to the Southward of a Geographical Line drawn across the Middle Island, otherwise called New • Munster, at the Northern Boundary of the Canterbury Territory: And whereas Doubts are entertained as to the Validity

• of

of the said Instrument of Resignation:' 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:

I. The said Instrument of Resignation shall be deemed and Surrendered taken to be, and the same is hereby declared to be, valid and Portion of Dioeffectual in the Law for the Purpose of enabling Her Majesty

cese of New

Zealand erected

to erect and constitute the said surrendered Portion of the said into a distinct Diocese of New Zealand into a distinct See or Diocese. See.

INDEX

TO THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES,

15 & 16 VICTORIA,

Showing 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).
Wales exclusively.
Scotland.

W.

S.

I.

-

ABOLITION OF OFFICES.

See MASTER IN CHAN-
CERY. NISI PRIUS OFFICERS. SECRETARY OF BANK-

RUPTS.

ADMINISTRATION of Personal Estates of Intestates and others,
to which Her Majesty may be entitled in right of
Her Prerogative, or in right of Her Duchy of Lancaster
ADVANCES made to certain Districts, to amend the Acts
relating to the Repayment of
APPREHENSION OF DESERTERS FROM FOREIGN SHIPS; to
enable Her Majesty to carry into effect certain Arrange-
ments made with Foreign Powers for the Apprehension
of Seamen who desert from their Ships

APPROPRIATION OF SUPPLIES

ARMY; for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the
better Payment of the Army and their Quarters

B.

BANKRUPTS, to abolish the Office of Lord Chancellor's Secre-
tary of, and to regulate the Office of Chief Registrar
of the Court of Bankruptcy

[No. 44. Price 2d.]

X x

Cap. Relating to

3. U.K.

16. I.

26. U.K.

82. U.K.

7. U.K.

77. E.