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SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers.

SCHEDULE (A.)

Note for A.B. [insert Name and Designation.]

THE said A.B. humbly prays, that a Charter [or Precept, or other Deed, as the Case may be,] may be granted by Her Majesty [or the Prince and Steward of Scotland, as the Case may be,] in Terms of the Draft herewith lodged, and marked as relative hereto. C.D. (w.s.), Agent for the said A.B.

(Signed)

SCHEDULE (B.)

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith: Whereas by Decree of General Service or " of Special Service," as the Case may be, of A.B. [here insert the Name and Designation of the Heir], dated [here insert the Date of the Decree], and recorded in Chancery [here insert the Date of Registration], and other authentic Instruments and Documents, it clearly appears that C.D. [here insert the Name and Designation of the Ancestor], died last vest and seised as of Fee in [here describe the Lands, &c., and when there are Conditions of Entail here insert them, or make a competent Reference to them, and describe the Deed of Entail or other Deed of Provision by Date and Date of Registration, and insert the Destination, and where there are any other Burdens or Qualifications here insert or make a competent Reference to them, as directed in Schedule (C.)], and that in virtue of [here describe the Charter and Sasine, or Precept and Sasine, or other Deeds forming the last Investiture, by Dates, and Dates of Registration], and that the said A.B. is eldest Son and nearest lawful Heir of the said C.D. [or, whatever Relationship and Character of Heir the Party holds, here state it,] in the said Lands and others, and that the said Lands and others are holden of Us and Our Royal Successors [here state the Tenure, Blench Feu or other], for Payment [here state the Reddendo from the last Charter]; therefore We desire any Notary Public to whom these Presents may be presented to give to the said A.B., as Heir foresaid, Sasine of the Lands and others before described [if there are Conditions of Entail, &c. or other Burdens or Qualifications, here add, but always with and under the Conditions, Provisions, and Clauses prohibitory, irritant, and resolutive, or with and under the Burdens or Qualifications, as the Case may be, above specified or referred to, as the Case may be]. Given at Edinburgh, the Day of in the Year Signed by the Director of Chancery, or his Depute or Substitute.

Note to Schedule (B.)-When the Precept is to be granted by or on behalf of the Prince and Steward of Scotland it will be in similar Form, but will run in Name of the Prince, and Steward of Scotland, without adding his Highness's other Titles, or will run in Name of Her Majesty as his Administrator; and the Lands, instead of being described as holding of the Crown, will be described as holding of the Prince and Steward of Scotland.

SCHEDULE (C.)
No. 1.

Form of Crown Charter of Resignation.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith: We do hereby give, grant, and dispone, and for ever confirm, to A.B. and his Heirs and Assignees whomsoever (a), heritably and irredeemably, all and whole [here insert the Lands or other Heritages (b)], which Lands and others above written formerly belonged to C.D., holden by him immediately of the Crown, in Terms of [here state briefly the Titles of the last Vassal, whether a Precept and Sasine or Charter and Sasine, and so forth], and have been resigned by him into our hands by virtue of a Procuratory of Resignation contained in a Disposition of the said Lands and others granted by him in favour of the said A. B., dated [here insert the Date], to be holden, the said Lands and others, of the Crown, in Free Blench Farm (c) [or "in Feu Farm"] for ever, paying therefore a Penny Scots yearly of Blench Duty, if asked only [or if held in Feu, here specify the Feu Duty and other Services]. Moreover, We desire any Notary Public to whom this Charter may be presented, to give to the said A.B. or his foresaids Sasine of the Lands and others above described. In witness whereof We have ordered the Seal now used for the Great Seal of Scotland to be appended hereto of this Date and the same is accordingly appended at Edinburgh the Day of

[state the Day, Month, and Year].

(a) Or in case there be a Substitution of Heirs, here insert it at full Length.

(b) In case there be any Conditions of Entail, or any Real Burdens, Restrictions, or Qualifications of any Kind, proper to be inserted or referred to, insert them here, immediately after the Description of the Lands, &c., or refer to them stating Date and Date of Registration, as at length set forth in the Deed of Entail as recorded in the Register of Tailzies, or in some previous Instrument of Sasine, or of Resignation ad remanentiam, duly registered.

(c) If the Lands were held formerly in Ward, say here, "in Free Blench as in room of Ward," and in the Reddendo say, "a Penny Scots yearly, as in room of the Ward Duties."

No. 2.

First Form of Crown Charter of Confirmation.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith: We do hereby confirm for ever, to and in favour of A.B. and his Heirs and Assignees whomsoever (a), a Disposition granted by C.D. to the said A.B., and dated the Day of whereby the said C.D. disponed to the said A.B. and his foresaids, heritably and irredeemably, all and whole [here describe the Lands or other Heritages at length (b)], which Disposition contains an Obligation to infeft a me vel de me, and a Precept of Sasine, as also an Instrument of Sasine in favour of the said 4.B. following on the said Disposition, and recorded in the [here describe the Register in which the Instrument is recorded] on Day of [if there are more Documents than Two to be confirmed, here describe them consecutively, and, for the sake of Distinctness, the Description of each Document confirmed may be preceded with a Number, First, Second, &c.], or of whatever other Dates and Tenor the said several Writs may be, to be holden, the said Lands and others, of the Crown, in Free Blench (c) [or in Feu Farm] for ever paying therefor a Penny Scots yearly of Blench-Duty, if asked only [or if held in Fes Farm specify the Feu Duty and other Payments and Services]. In witness whereof we have ordered the Seal now used for the Great Seal of Scotland to be appended hereto of this Date, and the same is accordingly appended at Edinburgh, the Day of

the

[state the Day, Month, and Year].

(a) In case there be a Substitution of Heirs, here insert it at full Length.

(b) In case there be any Conditions of Entail, Real Burdens, Restrictions, or Qualifications of any Kind, either proper to be inserted or referred to, insert them here, immediately after the Description of the Lands, &c., or refer to them as above No. (1.)

(c) If the Lands were held formerly in Ward, say here, "in Free Blench, as in room of Ward."

No. 3.

Second Form of Crown Charter of Confirmation.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith: We do hereby confirm for ever, to and in favour of A.B. and his Heirs and Assignees whomsoever, heritably and irredeemably (@), all and whole [here insert the Lands or other Heritages to be confirmed] (b), and the following Deeds and Instruments [or other Writings], in so far as they relate to the Lands and others hereby confirmed [here describe the Deeds, Instruments, or other Writings to be specially confirmed], or of whatever other Dates and Tenor the said several Writs may be, to be holden, the said Lands and others, of the Crown, in Free Blench (c) [or “in Feu Farm" for ever, paying therefor a penny Scots yearly of Blench Duty, if asked only [or if held in Feu Farm, specify the Feu Duty and other Payments and Services]. In witness whereof, We have ordered the Seal now used for the Great Seal of Scotland to be appended hereto of this Date, and the same is accordingly appended at Edinburgh the Day of [state the Month and Year].

(a) Or in case there be a Substitution of Heirs, here insert it at full Length.

(b) In case there be any Real Burdens, Restrictions, or Qualifications of any Kind, either proper to be inserted or referred to, insert them here immediately after the Description of the Lands, &c., or refer to them as above (No. 1.)

(c) If the Lands were held formerly in Ward, say here "in Free Blench, as in room of Ward." If the party prefer it, he may insert the Tenendas at full Length from the last Crown Charter or Retour.)

General Note to Schedule (C.)—When the Charters Nos. 1, 2, and 3. are to be granted by or on behalf of the Prince and Steward of Scotland, they will be in similar Form, but will run in Name of the "Prince and Steward of Scotland," without adding his Highness's other Titles, or will run in Name of Her Majesty, as his Administrator in Law, and the Lands, instead of being described as holding of the Crown, will be described as holding of the "Prince and Steward of Scotland," and the Seal referred to in the Testing Clause will be the Prince's Seal.

CAP. LII.

AN ACT for the Correction of certain Abuses which have frequently prevailed at the Elections of Representative Peers for Scotland.

(25th June 1847.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. At future elections for Scotch peers certain titles not to be called by the Lord Clerk Register, nor oaths to be administered, until otherwise directed by the House of Lords.

2. If claim to vote be disallowed by the House of Lords, title of peerage not to be called over at any future election, if so ordered. 3. If at any maeting of peers a protest be made against any claim to vote, Lord Clerk Register to transmit a copy of proceedings te the House of Lords, &c.

4. Any peer or peeress having established their claim, and signified the same to the Lord Clerk Register, the vote of no other claimant to be admitted.

5. Nothing herein to affect the right of present or future claimants.

By this ACT,

After reciting that by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, intituled ‘An Act settling the Manner of electing the Sixteen Peers and Forty-five Commoners to represent Scotland in the Parliament of Great Britain,' certain Provisions were made for electing the said sixteen peers to represent the peerage of Scotland: And that by 6 Ann. c. 23. further provisions were made for the electing of the said sixteen peers: And that an authentic list of the peerage of the north part of Great Britain called Scotland, as it stood the 1st of May 1707, was returned to the House of Lords by the Lord Clerk Register for Scotland, attested by him, pursuant to an order of the House of Lords, the 22nd of December 1707, and entered into the Roll of Peers by order of the House of Lords on the 12th of February 1708, to which list sundry peerages of Scotland have since been added by order of the House of Lords at different times, which list of the said peerage is called at the election of a peer or peers to represent the peerage of Scotland in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And that divers of the peerages of Scotland have from time to time become dormant or extinct, and frequent abuses have prevailed by persons assuming peerages that have become dormant or extinct, and voting in respect thereof at such elections, to which peerages such persons had no right; and it is expedient in order to prevent such abuses to provide that no person shall be allowed to vote at such elections in right of any peerage now standing on the said roll which has been for some time dormant until his claim thereto shall have been admitted by the House of Lords, and to make further rules and regulations in regard to the proceedings at such elections:

It is Enacted,

1. That at all future meetings of the peers of Scotland assembled under any royal proclamation for the election of a peer or peers to represent the peerage of Scotland in Parliament the Lord Clerk Register, or the clerks of session officiating thereat in his name, shall not call the titles of any peerages now standing on the said roll, in right of which no vote shall have been received and counted since the year 1800, nor shall it be lawful for the said Lord Clerk Register or clerks of session to administer the oaths to any person claiming to vote in right of any of the before-mentioned peerages, or to receive and count the vote of any such person, or to permit any such person to take part in the proceedings of any such election, until otherwise directed by order of the House of Lords.

11. That if any vote or claim to vote in respect of any title of peerage on the roll called over at any such meeting shall be disallowed by the said House, upon any proceeding had in trial of any contested election, the House of Lords may, if they shall think fit, order that such title of peerage shall not be called over at any future election; and in the event of such order being made by the said House it shall not be lawful for the said Lord Clerk Register or clerk of session to call over the said title at any future election, or to administer the oaths to any person claiming to vote in respect of such title of peerage, or to receive or count the vote of any such person, or permit such person to take part in the proceedings of any such election, until such claimant or some other person shall have in due course established his right to such peerage.

III. That if at any such meeting, any person shall vote or claim to appear or to vote in respect of any title of peerage on the roll called over at such meeting, and a protest against such vote or claim shall be made by any two or more peers present whose votes shall be received and counted, the said Lord Clerk Register or clerks of session shall forthwith transmit to the clerk of the Parliaments a certified copy of the whole proceedings at such meeting; and the House of Lords, whether there shall be any case of contested election or not, may, in such manner, and with such notice to such parties, including the person so voting or claiming to appear or to vote in respect of such title of peerage and the persons protesting, as the said House shall think fit, inquire into the matter raised by such protest, and, if they shall see cause, order the person whose vote or claim has been so protested against, to establish the same before the said House; and if such party shall not appear, or shall fail to establish his claim, the said House may, if they shall think fit, order as is hereinbefore provided in respect to votes disallowed upon any proceeding had in trial of any contested election.

IV. That whenever any peer or peeress shall have established his or her right to any peerage, or his right to vote in respect of any peerage, and the same shall have been notified to the Lord Clerk Register by order of the House of Lords, the said Lord Clerk Register or clerks of session shall not during the life of such peer or peeress allow any other person claiming to be entitled to the same peerage to take part in any such election, nor shall it be lawful for the said Lord Clerk Register or clerks of session to receive and count the vote of any such other person till otherwise directed by the House of Lords.

v. Provided and enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall affect the right of any person claiming or who may hereafter claim any peerage, or shall prevent the right of any person voting or claiming to vote or having voted or claimed to vote at any election, being subject and liable to every objection to which the same would have been subject and liable before the passing of this Act.

CAP. LIII.

AN ACT to continue until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies.

(25th June 1847.)

By this ACT, 3 & 4 Vict. c. 110. is further continued to the 1st of October 1848, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament.

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CAP. LIV.

AN ACT to amend the Acts for rendering effective the Service of the Chelsea and Greenwich Out Pensioners.

(25th June 1847.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Provisions of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 70. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 95, and 9 & 10 Vict. cc. 9. & 10. to apply to all out-pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals who may reside in the Colonies, &c.-Only such Greenwich pensioners as have served in the marines liable. -Her Majesty may by warrant fix the number of men to be inrolled.

2. Persons registered for prospective Pensions liable to be inrolled, whether residing in the United Kingdom or the colonies.

3. Secretary of State, &c. empowered to issue warrants calling out pensioners or persons inrolled, &c. for a limited period.—Inrolled persons called out only by authority of a magistrate, &c., to be employed for twelve days only, unless in certain cases.

4. In case of actual invasion or riot, pensioners may be sent to any part of the United Kingdom.

5. Act may be amended, &c.

By this ACT,

After reciting that the provisions of the several Acts now in force for the payment and inrolment of the Chelsea and Greenwich out-pensioners have been found beneficial, and it is expedient to extend them to Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas:—

It is Enacted,

1. That the provisions of an Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 70, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Payment of OutPensioners of Chelsea Hospital,' shall extend to all Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas, and the provisions of an Act, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 95, intituled An Act for rendering more effective the Services of such Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital as shall be called out to assist in preserving the Public Peace,' and of two Acts, 9 & 10 Vict. cc. 9. & 10, severally intituled 'An Act for amending the Act for rendering effective the Services of the Chelsea Out-Pensioners and extending it to the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital,' and 'An Act for regulating the Payment of the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals,' and of this Act, shall apply to all out-pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals now residing or who may hereafter reside in any of Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas in which any officers shall have been or may be appointed pursuant to the said Act of the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty, for the payment and superintendence of the said out-pensioners: Provided always, that only such of the Greenwich pensioners as may have served in the royal marines shall be liable to serve as inrolled pensioners; and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, by warrant under the royal sign manual, to fix the number of men to be inrolled in every such colony and possession as a local force for the preservation of the peace in such colony or possession or in any district thereof, and to cause them to be armed and equipped, and called out for inspection or exercise, on such number of days, not exceeding twelve in each year, as the governor or person administering the government of such colony or possession for the time being shall direct, under the same penalties for non-attendance and other offences as are provided by the said Acts or any of them; and the number of men inrolled in any such colony or possession shall not be counted in the number of men authorized to be inrolled in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the said Acts or any of them.

11. That all persons whose claims for prospective or deferred pension shall have been registered in virtue of any warrant or warrants made or to be made by Her Majesty, or by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, shall be liable to be inrolled with and as part of the local force for the preservation of the peace under the authority of the Acts before recited, whether resident in the United Kingdom or in any of Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas.

And after reciting that by the Act herein before secondly recited it is provided, that one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, or in case of emergency, any person or persons bearing the warrant of the Secretary of State for that purpose, may call out the said inrolled pensioners in aid of the civil power, for preservation of the public peace, as by the said Act is directed, and by the Act hereinbefore thirdly recited similar powers were conferred on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland as regards the inrolled pensioners in that country; but such warrant, if applied for and issued after the emergency has arisen, cannot in many cases be obtained in time to meet such emergency, and it is therefore expedient to give further facilities in that behalf:—

It is Enacted,

III. That it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor of Ireland, and in Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas for the governor or other person administering the government of such colony or possession, to issue his warrant to the lord lieutenant of any county, or the mayor or other chief magistrate of any town or district, wherein such pensioners and persons having claims to prospective or deferred pensions are inrolled, authorizing him, in case of emergency, or anticipated emergency, whereby the public peace may be endangered, or on the requisition of any officer commanding Her Majesty's forces within such town or district, to call out the whole or such part of the persons so inrolled as he may consider necessary, for any term not exceeding twelve days, during which time they shall be liable to the provisions of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War, in the same manner in all respects as is provided in the first-mentioned Act; but no such inrolled person who shall be called out only by the authority of any such lord lieutenant of a county,mayor, or magistrate, for the preservation of the public peace, shall be employed on such duty for more than twelve

days, unless by a warrant from one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland from the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor of Ireland, or in any of Her Majesty's colonies and possessions beyond the seas from the governor or person administering the government, in case of their being employed in aid of the civil power, or by warrant of Her Majesty in case of their volunteering to serve in any of Her Majesty's forts, towns, and garrisons, as provided in the said Act.

IV. That in case of actual or apprehended invasion or riot it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by any proclamation to direct that the said inrolled pensioners, or such of them as Her Majesty shall think fit, may be sent, in aid of the defence of the realm, or for the suppression of riot and preservation of the peace, to any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland where their services may be required, and during the time for which their services shall be so required they shall be subject to all the provisions of any Act then in force for the punishment of mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their quarters.

v. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament.

CAP. LV.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to authorize a further Advance of Money for the Relief of destitute Persons in Ireland. (25th June 1847.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Treasury may cause a temporary advance to be made to Relief Commissioners acting in execution of recited Act. 2. Extending provisions of recited Act to this Act.

By this ACT,

After reciting the passing of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 7, and that it is necessary to authorize a further advance of money for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, in addition to the sum advanced by virtue of the said Act:

It is Enacted,

1. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any three or more of them, to cause to be issued as a temporary advance from time to time, at any time before the 1st of October in this year, as they may find necessary, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any sum or sums of money not exceeding 600,000l., by way of imprest, to the Relief Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act, to be by them applied for the purposes specified in the said Act, by way of loan on the security of the rates made or to be made in pursuance thereof, or of an Act, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56, intituled An Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland;' and all such sums of money shall be repaid to the said Consolidated Fund by the said Relief Commissioners, in such manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct, from and out of the rates to be levied in the union on behalf of which such loan shall have been made.

II. That all the clauses, provisions, matters, and things contained in the said recited Act shall be applied and extended to this Act, and to the sum hereby authorized to be advanced, in such and the like manner as if the said clauses, provisions, matters, and things had been repeated and re-enacted in this Act.

CAP. LVI.

AN ACT to make legal the Collection of certain Duties at Port Natal.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Duties levied under certain proclamations legalized.
2. Indemnity to persons acting under such proclamations.

(25th June 1847.)

By this ACT,

After reciting that under and by virtue of certain proclamations issued by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being of Her Majesty's Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and the territories and

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