18 Eliz. c. 12. 12 G. 1. c. 31. 24 G. 2. c. 18. $ 5. In Vacation next after Trinity Term 1 G. 4. and in any future Term with Party have left the Place where such Recruit was enlisted, or that such Recruit could not procure any Noncommissioned Officer belonging to such Party to go with such Recruit before the Justice of the Peace; and the Sum paid by such Recruit upon his Discharge shall be kept by the Justice of the Peace, and paid when demanded to any Person belonging to the Recruiting Party entitled thereto demanding the same: Provided always, that in every Case wherein any Person shall have received Enlisting Money, and shall have absconded, or have absented himself from the Party as aforesaid, so that it shall not be possible immediately to apprehend him, and bring him before a Magistrate, the Officer or Noncommissioned Officer commanding the Party shall produce to the Magistrate before whom the Recruit would regularly have been brought for Attestation, a Certificate of the Name and Place of Residence of such Person, and the Magistrate to whom the Certificate shall be produced shall, after satisfying himself that the Person who had absconded cannot be found and apprehended, transmit a Duplicate thereof to the Lords of the Admiralty or their Secretary, in order that in the Event of such Person being afterwards apprehended and reported as a Deserter, the Facts of his having received Enlisting Money, and having absconded, may be ascertained before he be finally adjudged to be a Deserter as having been duly enlisted. CAP. XXI. An Act to enable the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, or WHEREAS by virtue of several Statutes, made in the respective Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King George the First, and King George the Second, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the time being, or in his Absence or Default any other Judge of the same Court, hath Power to try at Nisi Prius all manner of Issues joined in the same Court, or in the Court of Chancery, which ought to be tried by an Inquest of the County of Middlesex, within any Term, or Four'teen Days next after the same, but only within the Hall commonly called Westminster Hall: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Chief Justice or Judge should be empowered, during the Vacation next after Trinity Term, in the First Year of 'the Reign of His present Majesty, and also in any other Term or Vacation hereafter, to try the same Issues, in the same manner as is provided by the said Statutes respectively, elsewhere than in the said Hall: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 it shall be lawful for the said Chief Justice of the King's Bench, or in his Absence any other Judge of the same Court, in the Vacation next after Trinity Term, in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, without any other Authority than this Act, and also in any may try Issues any other Term or Vacation hereafter, by and with the Consent Consent of of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to be signified under His Majesty, His or their Sign Manual, to try all Issues joined or to be joined Chief Justice of the King's therein, or in the Court of Chancery, wherein the Trial ought to Bench, &c. be in the said County of Middlesex, by an Inquest taken from the Body of the said County, either in the said Hall or in any in any Place in other fit Place in the City of Westminster, as to the same Chief the City of Justice shall from time to time appear convenient in that behalf, Westminster. for so many Days, and in such Manner and Form, as the same Issues or any of them might be tried by the said Chief Justice in the said Hall called Westminster Hall. be may II. And be it further enacted, That as well the Sheriff of the said County of Middlesex as all other Officers whatsoever, and also all Jurors, Parties, Witnesses or other Persons who required to attend or who ought to attend at or for the Trial of any such Issue to be so tried as aforesaid, if the same had been or should be tried in the said Hall, shall give his and their Attendance at and for the Trial thereof at the Place where the said Chief Justice, or in his Absence any other Judge of the said Court, shall be sitting for the Trial thereof, upon reasonable Notice to him or them in that Behalf, and shall be subject to such and the same Pains and Penalties for Nonattendance, and entitled to such and the same Fees and Remuneration for his and their Attendance, as if such Issue had been actually tried in the said Hall; and that all Writs, Process, Notices and other Proceedings, (other than and except a special Notice of the Place of Trial,) heretofore issued, made or had, or to be hereafter issued, made or had, for the Trial of any such Cause according to the Forms now in Use for the Trial of such Issues as aforesaid in the said Hall, shall be as good and available in the Law, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Issue had been actually tried in the said Hall; and that all Trials had at any such Place as aforesaid, in virtue of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to have been had, and may, in any Record, Process or other Proceeding, and also in any Indictment for Perjury, or other Offence committed at or in relation to any such Trial, be alleged and laid to have been had in the said Hall, in all Respects and to all Purposes as if such Trial had been actually had in the said Hall. CA P. XXII. An Act for raising a Loan of Twelve Millions from the • Most Gracious Sovereign, [30th June 1820.] Sheriff and other Officers, Jurors, and Witnesses, &c. to give their Attendance as in Cases of Issues tried in Westminster Hall. WHEREAS an Act passed in the Twenty sixth Year of the 26 G. 5. c. 51. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for vesting certain Sums in Commissioners at the End of every Quarter of a Year, to be by them applied to the Reduction of the National Debt: And Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament < assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies, have resolved, that the Sum of Twelve Millions be raised by Annuities in manner hereinafter mentioned: And Whereas the Commissioners 1 GEO. IV. ' under I Monies here tofore issued or directed to be ' under the said recited Act have agreed to subscribe the said Sum of Twelve Millions:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's issued to Com- 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 all the Monies which have heretofore been issued, or are re missioners, to continue to be issued and placed to their quired or directed by any Act or Acts of Parliament to be issued Account. 12,000,0001. by the Com missioners in Quarterly Payments of the Amount herein mentioned. to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, shall continue to be issued and placed to the Account of the said Commissioners as heretofore. II. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners to be advanced shall and they are hereby required, out of the Monies which shall be issued and carried to their Account after the passing of this Act, to order and direct their Agent or Agents, or proper Officers, to pay into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer on Account of the said Loan of Twelve Millions, so agreed to be subscribed and advanced by the said Commissioners, the Sum of Two millions nine hundred thousand Pounds within the Quarter of the Year ending on the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty, the Sum of Three millions five hundred thousand Pounds within the Quarter of the Year ending on the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, the Sum of Two millions five hundred thousand Pounds within the Quarter of the Year ending on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and the Sum of Three millions one hundred thousand Pounds within the Quarter of the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, in such Proportions, and at such Times in each of such respective Quarters, as the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them, for the time being, shall order and direct: Provided always, that no larger Sum in each Quarter than is before specified, and no further Sum in the Whole than Twelve Millions, shall be so paid and advanced by the said Commissioners. For every 1001. so advanced, Commissioners entitled to 1001. Reduced Annuities, 23 G. 2. c. 1. and 421. 4s. 3 per Cent. Consols; and the Divi- per III. And be it further enacted, That for every One hundred Pounds of the said Sum of Twelve Millions so paid, advanced and contributed by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, the said Commissioners shall be entitled to the Principal Sum of One hundred Pounds in Annuities after the Rate of Three Pounds per Centum, to commence from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty, and to be added to and made One Joint Stock with certain Annuities after the Rate of Three Pounds Centum, which were reduced from Four Pounds to Three Pounds per Centum by an Act made in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and to be payable and transferrable at the Bank of England at the same Time and in the same Manner, and subject to the like Redemption, as the said Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Annuities; and to the further Principal Sum of Forty two Pounds Four Shillings in Annuities after the Rate of Three Pounds per Centum, to commence from the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hun dred dred and twenty, and to be added to and made One Joint Stock with the Three Pounds per Centum Annuities consolidated by the Acts of the Twenty fifth, Twenty eighth, Twenty ninth, Thirty second and Thirty third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and by several subsequent Acts, and to be payable and transferrable at the Bank of England at the same Time and in the same Manner, and subject to the like Redemption, as the said Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated Annuities; which said respective Annuities shall be made Capital Stock in the Names of the said Commissioners; and the Dividends payable thereon shall be charged and chargeable upon, and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any other Duties and Revenues which shall be appropriated for that Purpose by any Act or Acts of this present Session of Parliament; and such Capital Stock and the Annuities arising therefrom shall be deemed Part of the Stock and Annuities applicable by the said Commissioners to the Purposes of the Sinking Fund, and Annual Sums shall be issued for the Redemption thereof, as a Sinking Fund, according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty second Year of 32 G.3. c. 55. the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to render more effectual an Act made in the Twenty sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for vesting ' certain Sums in Commissioners at the End of every Quarter of a Year, to be by them applied to the Reduction of the National 'Debt, and to direct the Application of an additional Sum to the Reduction of the said Debt in case of future Loans, and of another Act passed in the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Ma- 55 G. 3. c. 35. jesty, intituled An Act to alter and amend several Acts passed in His present Majesty's Reign, relating to the Redemption of the National Debt, and for making further Provision in respect thereof. IV. And be it further enacted, That when the whole of the said Sum of Twelve Millions, authorised to be raised by virtue of the Act of the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for raising a Loan of Twelve Millions from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, shall have been paid into the Exchequer by or on behalf of the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, the Auditor of the Exchequer shall grant a Certificate stating that the said Sum has been so paid, in which Certificate the Amount of the Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated and Reduced Annuities, to which the Commissioners upon Payment of the said Sum of Twelve Millions will become entitled, shall be specified; and when the whole of the further Sum of Twelve Millions, to be raised in pursuance of this Act, shall have been paid into the Exchequer by Bank the Comor on behalf of the said Commissioners, the said Auditor of the missioners shall Exchequer shall grant a similar Certificate; and upon the Produc- have Credit for tion and Deposit of each of the said Certificates with the Account- the Amount of ant General of the Bank of England, the Governor and Company be entitled to of the said Bank, shall thereupon cause the Amount of the Three the Dividends. Pounds per Centum Consolidated and Reduced Bank Annuities specified therein to be written and entered to the Credit of the Amount of the said Commissioners in the Books kept by the said Governor and Company for entering the Accounts of the said re I 2 spective When the 12,000,000l. authorised to be raised by 59 G. 5. c. 71. and the like Sum to be raised under this Act, shall have been paid into the Exchequer, Certificate shall be granted, on Production of which at the the Stock, and Application of the Money. 53 G. 3. c. 35. § 1. spective Annuities; and the said Commissioners shall, after the V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer of the said United Kingdom for the time being, to issue and apply from time to time all such Sums of Money as shall be so paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, to such Services as shall have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. CA P. XXIII. An Act to provide for the Charge of the Addition to the ther |