grow c. 80. Salaries, &c. to be paid quarterly out of the suitors' fee fund account. next after the same shall be so granted, be laid on 15& 16 Vict. the table of the House of Commons, if parliament shall be then assembled; or, if parliament shall not be then assembled, then within fourteen days after the meeting of the parliament then next following. XLVIII. Except as herein otherwise provided, all salaries under this act shall due from day to day, but shall be payable, under an order of the Lord Chancellor, on the third day of February, the third day of May, the third day of August, and the third day of November in every year, or on such other days as the Lord Chancellor shall from time to time by any order direct, and shall be paid to the parties entitled thereto, or their respective executors or administrators, out of the fund standing in the name of the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, to the account intituled "The Suitors' Fee Fund Account," but subject and without prejudice to the payment of all salaries and other sums of money by any former act or acts now in force directed or authorized to be paid thereout. to be terly out of ary securities. XLIX. Except as herein otherwise provided, all Payment of compensations under this act shall grow due from compensa day to day, but shall be payable on the third day made quarof February, the third day of May, the third day parliamentof August, and the third day of November in every year, or on such other days as the Lord Chancellor shall from time to time by any order direct, and shall be paid to the parties entitled thereto, or their respective executors or administrators, out of the interest and dividends of the government or parliamentary securities, now or hereafter to be placed in the name of the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, to the two 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," or either of them, by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, by virtue c. 80. 15&16 Vict. of any order or orders of the Lord Chancellor, to be made from time to time for that purpose, without any draft from the accountant-general, but subject and without prejudice to the payment of all salaries and other sums of money, by any former act or acts now in force directed or authorized to be paid thereout. On appoint to office or under retiring pen L. If at any time hereafter any of the masment of mas- ters in ordinary of the said court, or any of their ters or clerks chief or junior clerks, shall be appointed to and employment shall accept any office or employment connected crown, the with any court of law or equity, or under the crown, or in any public department under the crown, and if the salary attached to such office or employment, or any retiring pension or allowance in respect thereof, shall equal or exceed in amount the retiring pension or compensation payable to office or em- such master or such clerk under this act, such last sion or com pensation under this act to be re gulated by the salary, &c. of such ployment. Appropria tion of the fices in South masters' of ampton Buildings. mentioned retiring pension or compensation shall, during the continuance of such master or such clerk in such office or employment, or so long as he shall be in the receipt of any retiring pension or allowance in respect thereof, equal to or greater than his retiring pension or compensation under this act, cease to be payable to such master or such clerk, as the case may be; and if the salary attached to such office, or the retiring pension or allowance in respect thereof, shall be less than the amount of such master's retiring pension, or such clerk's compensation under this act, such retiring pension or compensation under this act shall be reduced by the amount of such salary or of such retiring pension or allowance, as the case may be. LÍ. Such of the masters' offices in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, as shall not be assigned by the Lord Chancellor as chambers for the Master of the Rolls and Vice-Chancellors respectively, or shall not be required for the masters, shall be appropriated to any other purposes connected with the Court of Chancery as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time direct, or the same may be let as chambers, and the rent thereof paid to the suitors' c. 80. fund; and when all the masters have resigned, died, 15& 16Vict. or have been released under this act, the offices may be sold by order of the Lord Chancellor, and the proceeds of such sale paid to the suitors' fund, in such manner and to such particular account as the Lord Chancellor shall by any order direct; and it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor by any order to direct that the premises so to be sold, and the fee simple and inheritance thereof, shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers of the same, his or their heirs or assigns, or as he or they shall direct; and such order shall have the effect of vesting the same accordingly, without any conveyance or other assurance from her Majesty, in whom the same are now vested by virtue of an act passed in the thirtysecond year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter forty-two. point a Vice successor to LII. And whereas by an act passed in the fifth Power to her year of the reign of her present Majesty, session Majesty to apone, chapter five, her Majesty was by section nine- Chancellor as teen empowered to appoint, by letters patent under sir G. J. Turthe great seal, two fit persons to be additional ner. judges assistant to the Lord Chancellor, in the discharge of the judicial functions of his office, each of such additional judges to be called Vice-Chancellors; and by section twenty-one it was provided, that nothing therein contained should authorize the appointment of a successor to the Vice-Chancellor, secondly appointed under the authority of the said act: and whereas by an act passed in the session holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter four, her Majesty was by section one empowered to appoint, by letters patent under the great seal, a fit person to be an additional judge assistant to the Lord Chancellor, in discharge of the judicial functions of his office, in the place of the Right Honourable Sir James Wigram, Knight, who was the Vice-Chancellor, secondly appointed under the authority of the said act of the fifth year of her Majesty, and who had resigned the office of Vice-Chancellor to which he had been so appointed: and whereas c. 80. 158 16Vict. the Right Honourable Sir George James Turner, Knight, is the Vice-Chancellor appointed under the said last-mentioned act: and whereas by section nine of the same act it was provided, that nothing therein contained should authorize the appointment of a successor to the Vice-Chancellor, appointed under the authority thereof: and whereas by virtue of this act additional duties will devolve upon the judges of the said court, and it is expedient that any vacancy which may occur in the said office of Vice-Chancellor, should be supplied: be it therefore enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty, from time to time, when and as any vacancy shall occur in the office of Vice-Chancellor, now held by the said Sir George James Turner, by the death, resignation, or removal from office of the said Sir George James Turner, or his successor for the time being, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent under the great seal of the united kingdom, to appoint a fit person, being or having been a barrister of fifteen years standing at the least, to supply such vacancy. Such ViceChancellor to have same power, &c. as Sir G. J. Turner has. Officers and attendants to the Vice LIII. The Vice-Chancellor to be appointed under this act shall have all the same powers and privileges, and the same rank, and shall be subject to the same provisions, duties and observances, as the said Sir George James Turner shall, at or immediately before his death, resignation, or removal from office, have or be subject to under the said act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of her present Majesty, chapter four, and this act, or any other act or acts then in force, excepting that, as between himself and the other Vice-Chancellors or Vice-Chancellor for the time being, he shall have rank and precedence next after the Vice-Chancellors or Vice-Chancellor, if any, who may be senior to him in appointment to office. LIV. Such Vice-Chancellor shall have a secretary, usher and trainbearer, to be from time to time Chancellor. appointed and removed by him at his pleasure; and the secretaries, registrars, and other officers appointed to attend the Lord Chancellor shall attend such Vice-Chancellor when sitting for the Lord . c. 80. Chancellor, and also when sitting in his separate 15&16 Vict. court or in chambers, as circumstances shall require, and as the Lord Chancellor shall order and direct. Vice-Chan as at present. LV. The salary of such Vice-Chancellor, and Salaries of the salaries of his secretary, usher and trainbearer, cellor and his shall be of the same amounts, and paid out of the officers to be same funds, and in like manner, as the salaries of the said Sir George James Turner, his secretary, usher and trainbearer respectively, shall be payable at or immediately before his death, resignation, or removal from office (d). (d) The salary of each Vice-Chancellor appointed under 5 Vict. c. 5, is 5000l. a-year, payable out of the interest of the suitors' fund. The following salaries were made payable out of the interest of the suitors' fund, free from taxes, viz. to the secretary of each additional Vice-Chancellor, 300l. a-year; to his usher, 2001. a-year, and to his trainbearer, 100l. a-year. (5 Vict. c. 5. s. 35.) The salary of the Vice-Chancellor appointed under 14 Vict. c. 4, and the salaries of his secretary, usher and trainbearer, are of the same amounts, and payable out of the same funds, as directed by the 5 Vict. c. 5. See 14 Vict. c. 4, s. 4. tiring pcn Chancellor so LVI. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by Her Majesty letters patent under the great seal of the united may grant rekingdom, to grant to any person executing the sion to Viceoffice of Vice-Chancellor in pursuance of this act, appointed. on his resignation of or his ceasing to execute his office, an annuity of the same amount, after the same period of service, under the same circumstances, subject to the same conditions, and payable out of the same fund, as the annuity authorized to be granted to each of the Vice-Chancellors appointed under the said act of the fifth year of her present Majesty, chapter five (e). (e) The crown is empowered to grant out of the consolidated fund to any additional Vice-Chancellor appointed under 5 Vict. c. 5, on resignation, an annuity for life not exceeding 3500l., free from taxes, if he shall have continued in office, or in the office of a judge of one of the superior courts, for fifteen years, or shall be afflicted with permanent infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his office. (5 Vict. c. 5, s. 36.) cellor may LVII. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor Lord Chanto appoint one or more person or persous, removable appoint court-keep ers. |
