No. XLI.* 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 53. SCHEDULE (B). Describing the several Officers of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, who are to hold their Offices during good Behaviour; their Duties and Salaries respectively; and the Assistants and Clerks whom such Officers are required to employ, and for whom they are to be responsible respectively; and the Salaries payable to such Assistants and Clerks. Yearly Salaries. The PROTHONOTARY:-In addition to the general Superintendence which he is directed to exercise by the Act to which this Schedule is annexed, he is to have the Custody of Cognovits, Judgment Rolls, Judgment Books, and Memorials of Judgments; and he is also (by himself or his Assistant Clerks in that Behalf) to enter on the Record Assignments and Satisfactions of Judgments, and to make Searches for Judgments, and to give under his Hand Certificates positive and negative thereof, and to furnish and attest Copies of Judgments; and he is to have the Custody of all Records of the said Court, save only the Fines; and he is to prepare or cause to be prepared by the Three General Clerks herein-after mentioned, Transcripts of Records for the Court of Error, and all Inrolments of the Records of the said Court (save only the Fines), and all Judicial Writs, and all Records for Trial at Nisi Prius; and generally he is to do all official Business whatever in the said Court, which is not the proper Duty of any of the other Officers of the said Court to do Assistants to the said Prothonotary, to be appointed by him, viz.: Three General Clerks for making out all Judicial Writs, and all Records for Trial at Nisi Prius, and all Inrolments of the Re cords of the Court, and the Transcripts of Records for the Court of Error; and the said Three General Clerks are for that Purpose to be allowed the reasonable Assistance of copying writing and engrossing Clerks; the Remuneration of the said copying writing and engrossing Clerks to be paid and satisfied out of the Incidents of the said Court, in Manner provided for by the Act to which this Schedule is annexed; Salary to each of the said Three General Clerks The said Three General Clerks are not to make any charge under the Name of Agency or otherwise, either against the Suitor or Attorney, for or in relation to the preparing or making out any of the above-named Writs Records or Inrolments. A Principal Assistant Clerk to assist in all the other Business of the said principal Officer, and particularly in all Matters aforesaid relating to Judgments A second Assistant Clerk in the same Business £ 1,500 500 500 200 No. XLI.* 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 53. Yearly Salaries. One other General Clerk for conducting all Matters in the said Such General Clerk shall not make any other Charge, CLERK of the RULES:-He is to take down all Rules and One Assistant to the said Clerk of the Rules, to be appointed £. 500 800 100 FILACER and EXIGENTER: -Performing his present Duties. 500 100 CLERK of the PLEADINGS and AFFIDAVIT OFFICE:-Per- 400 CHIROGRAPHER, CUSTOS BREVIUM, and CLERK of KING'S 500 Assistant Clerk to ditto 100 SCHEDULE (C). Describing the several Officers in the Pleas or Common Law Side of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, who are to hold their Offices during good Behaviour; their Duties and Salaries respectively; and the Assistants and Clerks whom such Officers are required to employ, and for whom they are to be responsible respectively; and the Salaries payable to such Assistants and Clerks respectively. Yearly Salaries. CLERK of the PLEAS:-In addition to the general Superinten- £ 1,500 No. XLI.* Yearly Salaries. 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 53. Assistants to said Clerk of the Pleas, to be appointed by him; viz. Three General Clerks for making out all Judicial Writs, and all Records for Trial at Nisi Prius, and all Inrolments of the Records in the Pleas or Common Law Side of the said Court, and the Transcripts of the Records for the Court of Error; and for that Purpose the said Three General Clerks are to be allowed the reasonable Assistance of copying writing and engrossing Clerks, the Remuneration of the said copying writing and engrossing Clerks, to be paid and satisfied out of the Incidents of the said Court, in Manner provided for by the Act to which this Schedule is annexed; Salary to each of the said Three General Clerks The said Three General Clerks are not to make any A Principal Assistant Clerk to assist in all the other Business A Second Assistant Clerk in the same Business CLERK of the RULES:-He is to take down all Rules and Orders on the Pleas or Common Law Side of the said Court of Exchequer, whether those commonly called Judicial Rules, or of any other Nature whatsover; to enter transcribe and alphabet all such Rules, and to furnish Copies of them when required, and to do all such other Acts as properly belong to the said office One Assistant to the said Clerk of the Rules, to be appointed by him FILACER and CLERK of PLEADINGS:-He is to receive file and keep all Pleadings and all Affidavits (except those to ground marked Writs); and he is also to receive, file, and Keep all other Documents required to be filed in the Office, and not hereby expressly referred to any other Officer; and he is also to furnish and attest Copies, and give Certificates of all the said Matters respectively when required, and to to do all such other Acts as properly belong to the said Office CLERK of APPEARANCES and ATTACHMENTS CLERK of WRITS:-He is to enter engross and issue Writs of Capias ad Respondendum and Subpoena, and to receive and file Affidavits to ground marked Writs, and to enter in a Book to be kept by him for that Purpose all Writs issued from and returnable into the said Court, and to furnish Certificates, and to furnish and attest Copies of the said several Matters; and to do all such other Acts as properly belong to the said office 500 500 200 800 100 800 300 200 No. XLI. 1 & 2 G. IV. c. 53. SCHEDULE (D). Yearly Salaries of the several Officers therein mentioned : Yearly Salaries. £ s. d. 120 0 . 30 0 120 0 To the Crier of the Court of King's Bench To the Crier of the Court of Common Pleas A Seal Keeper and Registrar of Attornies Licences in the And in the Court of Common Pleas : 120 0 0 SCHEDULE (E). Fees to be taken by any Tipstaff, Pursuivant, or Serjeant at Arms: Fees. 1. For every Warrant which such Officer shall grant at the £ s. d. 2. For drawing and engrossing Bond of Indemnity of the 3. For the Journies performed in the Execution of the Duty 5. For drawing and engrossing Bail Bond for the appearance .0 16 1 2 9 1 2 9 6. For each Person arrested, from the Day of Arrest until The Fees No. 1. and 2., payable on granting a Special issue. Fees. No. XLI. £. s. d. 1 & 2 G. IV. 0 2 6 c. 121. [No. XLI.] 1 and 2 George IV. c. 121.-An Act to alter and abolish certain Forms of Proceedings in the Exchequer and Audit Office, relative to Public Accountants, and for making further Provisions for the purpose of facilitating and expediting the passing of Public Accounts in Great Britain; and to render perpetual and amend an Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of His late Majesty, for the effectual examination of the accounts of certain Colonial Revenues.-[11th July 1821.] c. 121. W WHEREAS it hath been found by experience that great inconve 1 & 2 Geo. IV. nience and much unnecessary labour expence and delay are occasioned in the passing of public accounts, by reason of certain forms and proceedings relating thereto, which are required by law, or by the ancient course and practice of various offices in the receipt and in the Court of his Majesty's Exchequer, and in the Audit Office, to the manifest injury as well of the public service as of the individual accountant; and it is expedient, for remedy thereof, that certain of the said forms and proceedings should be abolished, and that others of them should be rendered more efficient for the purposes for which they were designed: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 instead of the general imprest certificates of monies issued General imat the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, by way of imprest or upon prest certifiaccount, which have heretofore been made out and transmitted half- cates to be yearly to the commissioners for auditing the public accounts, general made out in imprest certificates of all monies so issued, shall, from and after the the Exchequer tenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, be four times a made out in the office of the Auditor of the said Exchequer, four times year, instead in each year, for the four quarterly periods ending the fifth day of Ja. of half-yearly; nuary, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the tenth day of October, in every year; and shall be signed by him or his chief clerk, and be examined in the office of the Clerk of the Pells, and be signed by his deputy; which said certificates shall respectively contain an and to distinaccount of all monies issued at the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, guish the date by way of imprest or upon account, during the preceding quarter, and and amount of shall specify and distinguish the date and amount of every such issue every issue; made within that period, and whether in money or in exchequer bills; and such quarterly general imprest certificates shall be transmitted to the aforesaid commissioners within thirty days after each of the said quarterly days respectively; and all such quarterly imprest certificates, which, from and after the said tenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be made out and transmitted to the said commissioners, shall be written in the English language, in a common legible hand and character, and the several sums of money expressed the sums in common numerals or figures. and shall be written in the English lan guage and in common cha racters, and |