except in Cases where Parties shall give Notice to determine

the same on the 5th April 1844.

Proviso in

43 G. 3. c. 99. restraining the putting in Suit Collectors

of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to determine on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, under the same Rules, Regulations, and Privileges as if such Compositions did not, by the Laws now in force, expire before the last-mentioned Day; and all the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating to or continuing such Compositions, or for collecting or enforcing Payment thereof, shall be extended and applied to the Contracts of Composition continued under this Act, to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been herein repeated and reenacted.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to the Contract or Composition of any Person who shall be desirous of determining the same on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and who shall, on or before the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, give Notice thereof in Writing to the Assessor or Collector of the Parish or Place, or to the Surveyor acting in the Execution of the Acts relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes for the District in which such Composition shall be payable.

III. And whereas by an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for consolidating certain of the Provisions contained in any 'Act or Acts relating to the Duties under the Management of the Bonds, repealed. Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, and for amending the same, it is enacted, that the Persons to be appointed Col lectors of the Duties under the Regulations of the last-recited Act shall, if required so to do, give good and sufficient Security, by a joint and several Bond, with Sureties, to and in the Names of Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for 'putting in execution the said Act, and with such Condition to the said Bond for the duly demanding, collecting, and paying ' over of the said Duties by the said Collectors as in the said lastrecited Act is mentioned; and it is also enacted, that every ❝ such Bond shall be prosecuted by the Commissioners to whom the same is given on any Failure or Default of the Collectors, 6 subject nevertheless to such Proviso as in the said last-recited Act is contained for restraining the putting in Suit of such Bond against the Sureties of the Collectors: And whereas 6 great Doubts and Difficulties have arisen with relation to the 'prosecuting of such Bonds upon the Failure or Default of the Collectors, and otherwise in the Execution of the said last• recited Act, and of other Acts granting Duties to be assessed, raised, and levied under the Regulations of the said Act; and it is expedient to remove such Doubts, and to facilitate the Execution of the said several Acts:' Be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said last-recited Act as provides that no such Bond as aforesaid shall be put in Suit against any Surety or Sureties for any Deficiency other than what shall remain unsatisfied after Sale of the Lands, Tenements, Goods,

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and Chattels of such Collector or Collectors, in pursuance and by virtue of the Directions and Powers given to the respective Commissioners by the said last-mentioned Act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

lectors and their

the Collectors.

IV. And be it enacted, That upon the Trial of any Action Evidence or Suit against the Sureties of a Collector of any of the Duties against Colaforesaid, or of the Duties arising from the Land Tax, upon Sureties of Sums any Bond entered into, either in pursuance of any Act relating collected and to the said respective Duties or otherwise, or upon the Ex- not paid over by ecution of any Writ of Inquiry of Damages in such Action or Suit, the Production of an Account in the Handwriting of such Collector, or signed by him, of any Sum or Sums of Money collected or received by him for or on account of the said respective Duties, or any of them, shall be sufficient Proof of the Receipt by such Collector of every such Sum and Sums of Money therein mentioned on account of the Duties given to him in charge for Collection; and that, as well in any such Action or Suit as aforesaid, as upon all other Occasions whatsoever, any Schedule delivered upon Oath by such Collector in pursuance of any such Act as aforesaid, and containing or purporting to contain the Names of Persons who have made default in Payment of the said respective Duties, or any of them, and of the Sums remaining in arrear, shall be sufficient Evidence to charge such Collector and his Sureties respectively with all other Sums of Money comprised in the Assessment or Assessments given to him in charge to collect, and not included in such Schedule or previously accounted for and paid over to the proper Officer for Receipt; and all such Sums not so included in such Schedule, or previously accounted for and paid over, shall be deemed to have been collected and received by such Collector, and to remain in his Hands unpaid and in arrear.

Costs awarded against Com

missioners in Actions or Suits

relating to Collectors Bonds to be raised by

V. And be it enacted, That where in any Action or Suit by the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said Acts, or of the Acts relating to the Land Tax, upon any Bond entered into, either in pursuance of any such Act or otherwise, the said Commissioners shall, without their own wilful Neglect or Default, fail to recover a Verdict against the Defendant or Defen- Assessment on dants in such Action or Suit, and Costs shall be awarded to the Parish. the said Defendant or Defendants, or where in case of any Suit in Equity being brought against the said Commissioners in relation to any such Bond, and they shall be adjudged to pay Costs to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such last-mentioned Suit, the said Commissioners shall not be personally liable to the Payment of any such Costs, but the same shall be defrayed by an Assessment upon the Inhabitants of the Parish or Place in relation to which the Bond which shall have been the Subject of such Action or Suit shall have been given, and which Assessment the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said respective Acts are hereby required and authorized to make, sign, and allow as soon as conveniently may be after such Costs shall have been awarded and ascertained; and the said [No. 18. Price 2d.] Commis

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Powers and
Provisions of

Duties to be

put in force for

Costs assessed on the Parish.

6 & 7 VICT. Commissioners shall cause such Assessment to be made, collected, levied, and recovered in the same Manner as other Assessments of Costs are by the said recited Act or this Act directed to be made, collected, levied, and recovered, and shall cause the same to be paid over to the Person or Persons entitled to such Costs.

VI. And be it enacted, That all the Authorities, Powers, Acts relating to and Provisions contained in any Act or Acts now in force rethe Recovery of lating to the Recovery of the Duties aforesaid, or any of them respectively, either under the Warrant of the Commissioners the Recovery of directed to the Collectors in their respective Districts, or by Process from Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, shall be construed and deemed to be applicable to, and shall be applied, enforced, and put in execution for the levying and enforcing the Payment of any Sum or Sums assessed by the said Commissioners for Costs, either under the Authority of this Act or of any other Act or Acts relating to the said Duties, or any of them respectively.

Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to direct where Parties shall be as. sessed to the Property and

Income Tax in certain Cases.

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VII. And whereas an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty "Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices, until the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and in the carrying of such Act into execution much Difficulty and Inconvenience is experienced by reason of Doubts as to the Districts, Parishes, or Places in 5&6 Vict. c. 35. which Corporations, Companies, Societies, and other Persons in certain Cases ought to be assessed for Profits under the ⚫ several Schedules of the said Act, and by reason of their being liable to be assessed for Profits under One or more of the said Schedules in several Districts, Parishes, or Places;' for Remedy whereof be it enacted, That in any Case where any Doubt shall have arisen or shall arise as to the District, Parish, or Place, or Districts, Parishes, or Places, in which any Corporation, Company, Society, or Person ought to be charged or assessed to the Duties granted by the said last-recited Act under any One or more of the Schedules of the said Act, and also in any Case where any Corporation, Company, Society, or Person shall have been charged or assessed, or shall be liable to be charged or assessed, to the said last-mentioned Duties, under any One or more of the said Schedules, in Two or more Districts, Parishes, or Places, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, or any Two or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in any of the several Cases aforesaid, to order and direct that such Corporation, Company, Society, or Person shall be charged and as sessed to the said Duties in such District, Parish, or Place, or Districts, Parishes, or Places, as shall appear to the said lastmentioned Commissioners to be most convenient and proper, and thereupon such Corporation, Company, Society, or Person shall be charged and assessed to the said Duties according to such Order, any thing in the said last-recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

VIII. And

to the Property

VIII. And for the Relief of Parties who may be doubly For the Relief charged or assessed to the said last-mentioned Duties, be it of Persons enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the Satisfaction of doubly assessed the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes that any Corpora- and Income tion, Company, Society, or Person hath been or shall have Tax. been, either by any Error, Mistake, or otherwise, assessed more than once to any of the said Duties for the same Cause and for the same Year, and either in the same District, Parish, or Place, or in different Districts, Parishes, or Places, it shall be lawful for the said last-mentioned Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, to order and direct that the whole or so much and such Part of such One or more of the said Assessments as shall appear to them the said Commissioners to be a double Charge or Overcharge as aforesaid shall be vacated and discharged, and thereupon the same shall be by such Order vacated and discharged accordingly.

IX. And be it enacted, That this 'Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of amended, &c.

Parliament.

CAP. XXV.

An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity
on Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta Caro-
line, eldest Daughter of His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge.
[27th June 1843.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the

Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having taken into consideration Your Majesty's most gracious Message, that Your Majesty's Consent has been given to a Marriage between Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta Caroline, eldest Daughter of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and His Royal Highness Frederick, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, do 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, That it shall be lawful for the Her Majesty Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under the may grant an Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 3,000l. to land, upon such Marriage taking place, to give and grant unto Her said Royal Highness the Princess Augusta Caroline, or to such other Person or Persons as Her Majesty shall think fit, to be named in such Letters Patent, and his, her, or their Heirs, to the Use of or in Trust for Her said Royal Highness, an Annuity of Three thousand Pounds, which shall begin and take effect from and after the Decease of His said Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in case Her said Royal Highness shall survive him; and the said Annuity shall continue thenceforth for and during the natural Life of Her said

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Royal

Annuity of

Princess Augusta Caroline, from the Decease of His Royal Highness Cambridge.

to take effect

the Duke of

The Millbank

used as a Prison

herein-after specified.

6 & 7 VICT. III. And be it enacted, That after the passing of this Act Prison shall be the said Penitentiary House shall be called "The Millbank for the Offenders Prison," and shall be used as a Prison for such Offenders as are herein-after specified, and shall be within the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late 5&6 W.4.c.38. Majesty, intituled An Act for effecting greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, and of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the better ordering of Prisons, and of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to amend the Laws concerning Prisons.

2&3 Vict. c. 56.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 98.

Prison to be exempt from Rates and Taxes.

Appointment of Officers.

Secretary of
State may re-

IV. And be it enacted, That the said Prison, and all the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments thereunto belonging, with the Appurtenances thereof, and all Persons in respect thereof, shall be wholly freed and discharged from all Taxes, Rates, Assessments, and Charges whatsoever.

V. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to appoint for the said Prison, and at his Pleasure to remove, a Governor, a Chaplain or Chaplains, (being Clergymen not having any other Cure of Souls), a Medical Officer, and a Matron, and so many other Officers and Servants as he shall deem to be necessary for the Service and Discipline of the Prison; and the several Persons who shall be the Governor, Chaplains, Surgeon or Apothecary, Matron, and other Officers of the said Penitentiary at the Time of the passing of this Act shall continue to hold the like Offices in the Millbank Prison until they shall die, resign, or be removed by the Secretary of State, and shall continue, as Officers of the Millbank Prison, to hold all Records, Books, and Papers which were in their Custody as Officers of the said Penitentiary House; and the Secretary of State, with the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, shall fix the Salaries to be paid to the said Governor, Chaplains, Medical Officer, Matron, and other Officers and Servants of the Prison: Provided always, that no Chaplain shall officiate at the said Prison unless he shall have obtained a Licence from the Bishop of the Diocese of London to officiate at the said Millbank Prison or at the said Penitentiary House, nor for any longer Time than while such Licence shall be in force; and Notice of every such Appointment of a Chaplain shall be sent to the Bishop by the Secretary of State within One Calendar Month next after such Appointment.

VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secrequire Security tary of State, if he shall deem it necessary, to require any fromany Officer. Person employed in the said Prison to give Security for the due Performance of his or her Duties, in such Sums, and with such collateral Securities, and in such Form as the Secretary of State shall direct.

For ousting dismissed Officers.

VII. And be it enacted, That every Person appointed to any Office or Employment in the said Prison who shall be removed from his or her Office or Employment shall quit the said Prison forthwith,

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