THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, A 1 T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Fourth Day of November, Anno Domini 1852, in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of 'Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirtyfirst Day of January 1856; being the Fourth Session of the Sixteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ' and Ireland.' 6 mons. CA P. I. An Act to regulate certain Offices of the House of Com[28th February 1856.] WHEREAS under an Act of King George the Third, Chapter Eleven, intituled An Act to repeal an Act passed 52 G. 3. c. 11. in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Year of His present Majesty, for establishing certain Regulations in the Offices of the Ilouse of Commons, and to establish other and further Regulations in the said Offices, the Clerk of the House of Commons has the Power of Nomination or Appointment of all the Clerks in his 'Department, together with the Power of Suspension and Removal ' of all the Clerks so by him nominated or appointed: And whereas Sir Denis Le Marchant Baronet, on being appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, agreed that the Clerk Assistant and 'Second Clerk Assistant of the House should thereafter be ap'pointed by Her Majesty: And whereas Her Majesty has, on the Recommendation of the Speaker, signified Her Pleasure that Thomas Erskine May Esquire be appointed Clerk Assistant of the said House; but the Powers of Appointment under the 'said Act cannot be varied without the Authority of Parliament :' 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 Appointment of the said Thomas Erskine May shall be Appointment confirmed, and the Clerk Assistant and Second Clerk Assistant of Clerk of Assistant con, firmed, and future Clerks Assistant to be appointed by Her Majesty. Certain Part of House of Commons Offices. Metropolitan Police, of the House of Commons respectively shall hereafter be appointed by Her Majesty by Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, and every present and future Clerk Assistant and Second Clerk Assistant shall be removable only by Her Majesty, upon an Address of the House of Commons to Her Majesty for that Purpose. II. So much of the several Acts relating to the Offices of the Acts repealed. House of Commons as fixes the Salary of the Second Clerk Assistant, and charges such Salary on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, shall be repealed. CA P. II. 10 G. 4. c. 44. 2 & 3 Vict. c.47. One Com missioner of Police only to be appointed this Act. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Metropolitan W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Forty-four, "for improving 'the Police in and near the Metropolis," Provision was made for 'the Appointment of Two fit Persons as Justices of the Peace of 'the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and of all Liberties therein, to execute the Duties in the said 'Act mentioned: And whereas by an Act of the Session holden in the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Fortyseven, "for further improving the Police in and near the Metropolis," it was provided, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth to be 'Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Berkshire and Bucking'hamshire, and that the said Justices should be styled "The Com'missioners of Police of the Metropolis:" 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. There shall be appointed from Time to Time under the said Acts and be but One Commissioner of Police, who shall be styled "The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ;" and the Perafter passing of son who at the Time of the passing of this Act may be the surviving or continuing Commissioner appointed under the said Acts or either of them shall be such Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; and all the Provisions of the said Acts concerning the Removal and Appointment from Time to Time of the said Justices or Commissioners, or either of them, shall be applicable to the Removal and Appointment from Time to Time of "The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis." Power to appoint Two Assistant Com missioners of Police, who, by virtue of such Office, shall be II. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Warrant under Her Sign Manual, to appoint Two fit Persons to be during Her Majesty's Pleasure Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and upon every Vacancy in the Office of any such Assistant Commissioner in like Manner to appoint some other Person to such Office ; and every such Assistant Commissioner shall by virtue of and Metropolitan Police. during the Continuance of such Appointment be a Justice of the Justices of Peace of the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, Kent, certain CounBerkshire, and Buckinghamshire, and of all Liberties therein, and ties herein execute the Duties of a Justice of the Peace for the said several named. Counties and for all Liberties therein, although he may not have the Qualification by Estate required by Law in the Case of other Persons being Justices of the Peace for Counties: Provided always, that no such Assistant Commissioner shall act as a Justice of the Peace at any Court of General or Quarter Sessions, or in any Matter out of Sessions, except for the Preservation of the Peace, the Prevention of Crimes, the Detention and Committal of Offenders, and in carrying into execution the Purposes of this Act and the said recited Acts. Commissioners. III. There shall be paid to the Commissioner of Police of the Provision as to Metropolis such Salary not exceeding Fifteen hundred Pounds Salaries of such per Annum, and to each of the said Assistant Commissioners such Commissioner Salary not exceeding Eight hundred Pounds per Annum, as shall and Assistant be from Time to Time appointed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, such Salaries respectively to be deemed to include the Remuneration for all Duties which under the said Acts and this Act, or under any other Acts of Parliament, the said Commissioner of Police and Assistant Commissioners respectively are or may be required or appointed to perform, and such Salaries shall be from Time to Time paid out of such Monies as may be from Time to Time provided and appropriated by Parliament for the Purpose. IV. The said Assistant Commissioners of Police shall be within Assistant Comthe Provisions of the Act of the Session holden in the Fourth missioners to and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty- be within four, in like Manner as if their Offices were enumerated in the Provisions of Schedule to that Act. 4 & 5 W.4.c.24. in the Commissioners of Police under recited Acts V. All the Jurisdictions, Duties, Powers, and Authorities Powers vested which under the said Acts of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth and the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, or either of them, or under any other Act of Parliament, are vested in or imposed on, or should or might, if this Act had not been passed, have been performed or exercised by, the Commissioners by the sole of Police of the Metropolis, shall be vested in and imposed on and Commissioner. shall and may be performed and exercised by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; and all Enactments contained in the said Acts or any Act of Parliament having reference to the Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis shall be applicable to the said Commissioner, save where otherwise provided by this Act. VI. The Assistant Commissioners, and each or either of them, Duties of shall respectively, under the Superintendence and Control of the Assistant ComCommissioner of Police of the Metropolis, do and perform such missioners. Acts and Duties in execution of the Acts relating to the said Police as may be from Time to Time directed by any Orders and Regulations made by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, with the Approbation of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. By whom Matters now required to be done by One Commissioner may be done hereafter. In case of missioner or of sioner may act. Provision as to Commissioners to apply to Assistant Commissioners. Acts done by One Commissioner to be valid. Metropolitan Police. Joint Stock Banks (Scotland). VII. Where by any Act of Parliament the Provisions of such Act are required or authorized to be executed or any Things are required or authorized to be done by One of the Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis appointed in that Behalf by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, such Provisions and Things shall be executed and done respectively by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, or by One of the Assistant Commissioners nominated by the Secretary of State in this Behalf, as the Secretary of State shall direct. VIII. In case of any Vacancy in the Office of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, or in case of the Illness or Absence of any such Commissioner, it shall be lawful for such One of the said Assistant Commissioners as may be authorized by Writing under the Hand and Seal of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for this Purpose to do all such Acts as it would be competent for the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to do, and all Acts done by any Assistant Commissioner so authorized shall be as valid and effectual as if done by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis if the Office had not been vacant, or (as the Case may be) if the Commissioner had been present and acting. IX. The Provision of the firstly-recited Act for preventing any Justice of the Peace appointed by virtue of that Act from being elected or sitting as a Member of the House of Commons, or voting in certain Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, or indirectly interfering therein, shall apply to and include the said Assistant Commissioners to be appointed under this Act. X. All Acts which, during any Vacancy in the Office of One of the Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, have been done by the surviving or continuing Commissioner, shall be and be deemed to have been as valid and effectual as if there had been no such Vacancy, and such Acts had been done by both the Commissioners. CA P. III. An Act to extend the Period for which Her Majesty may 6 'pedient Joint Stock Banks (Scotland). Exchequer Bills Funding. pedient that Her Majesty should be empowered in certain Cases to grant such Letters Patent of Incorporation for a longer 'Period:' Now 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. That, notwithstanding anything in the said Acts contained, Extending it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to grant Letters Patent of Period for Incorporation under the said Acts to any Company of more than granting LetSix Persons in Scotland who were carrying on the Business of ters Patent of Bankers before the said Ninth Day of August One thousand eight to certain Joint Incorporation hundred and forty-five, either for a Term of Years or in per- Stock Banks in petuity, but so that the same shall be liable to be dealt with by or under the Provisions of any future Acts of Parliament in every respect as if this Act had not been passed. CA P. IV. An Act to apply the Sum of One million six hundred and thirty-one thousand and five Pounds One Shilling and Fivepence out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. [7th March 1856.] CA P. V. An Act for funding Exchequer Bills and raising Money by • Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and · Ireland in Parliament assembled, being desirous of making 'Provision to satisfy the Principal Sums contained in certain 'Exchequer Bills, to the Amount of Three Millions, and to raise the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty, have resolved that the Persons who had engaged to subscribe towards funding the Sum of Three Millions in Exchequer Bills should be entitled, in respect of the Principal 'Sums contained therein, to such Capital Stock in Annuities as ' is herein-after mentioned, subject to the Provisions of this Act :' We, your Majesty's most faithful Commons, do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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: Scotland. I. The several Persons, their Executors, Administrators, and All Subscribers Assigns, who have subscribed, in Books opened at the Bank of towards funding England for that Purpose, towards funding the Sum of Three Exchequer Millions in Exchequer Bills charged on Aids or Supplies dated Bills to be in December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, March, 1111. 2s. 2d. June, 3 per Cent. B 3 entitled to |