No. XXIX. the great seal shall direct, sit in a separate court, whether the Lord 53 Geo. III. Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the great seal, or c. 24. Rank and precedence. Secretary, trainbearer, and usher. May be removed. Oath. Fees not to be received. the Master of the Rolls shall be sitting or not; for which purpose the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the great seal respectively, shall make such orders as to them respectively shall appear to be proper and convenient from time to time as occasion shall require. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such Vice-Chancellor shall have rank and precedence next to the Master of the Rolls. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in and by such letters patent as aforesaid, or any other letters patent under the great seal of the United Kingdom, to direct that such Vice-Chancellor shall have a secretary, train-bearer and usher; and that the secretaries and deputy registers, and other officers appointed to attend the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the great seal, shall attend such Vice-Chancellor when sitting for the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners respectively, and also when sitting in his separate court, as circumstances shall require, and as the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners respectively shall order and direct. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to remove any such ViceChancellor from his office, upon an address of both Houses of Parlia ment. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Vice-Chancellor, previous to his executing any of the duties of his office, shall take the following oath, which the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the great seal, or the Master of the Rolls for the time being, are hereby respectively authorized and required to administer; videlicet, :I So help me God.' [VIII. Money of suitors in Chancery not exceeding 60,0007. lying unemployed at the Bank, placed out on Government, &c. security; and from interest, salaries of Vice-Chancellor, &c. to be paid quarteriy.] [IX. Changing securities.] [X. Money placed out, called in for answering the demands of suitors.] [XI. Costs, &c. paid from interest and dividends.] [XII. Additional sum of 25007. set apart and paid quarterly out of fees of Lord Chancellor, &c. and carried to account of aggregate fund.] XIII. And be it further enacted, That the said Vice-Chancellor and his officers respectively shall not take or receive, or demand any fee or reward whatsoever, over and above the salaries hereinbefore directed to be paid to them respectively, for or in respect of any business which shall be done by such Vice-Chancellor or his officers, by virtue of the powers and authorities given by this Act; but that all fees for such business shall be taken and received by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners for the custody of the great seal for the time being, or his or their proper officers, in such and the same manner as if such business had been done by such Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners respectively. [ No. XXX. ] 54 George III. c. 14.-An Act to provide that Property vested in the Accountant-General of the High Court of Chancery, as such, shall, upon No. XXX. his Death, Removal, or Resignation, vest from time to 54 Geo. III. time in those who shall succeed to the Office.-[6th December, 1813.] c. 14. cessor. V HEREAS it is expedient to provide by law as is hereinafter en- Onresignation, acted;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent &c. of AcMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and countant-GeTemporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and neral, property by authority of the same, That in all cases in which, by virtue of this to vest in sucAct or of any Act of Parliament, conveyance, assignment, transfer, obligation or security, any interest in real or personal estate, effects or property, hath been or shall be vested in, conveyed, assigned, transferred, made payable to, or secured to the Accountant-General of the High Court of Chancery as such Accountant-General, and in respect of his office as such, the same, upon the death, removal or resignation of each Accountant-General from time to time, and as often as the case shall happen, and the appointment of a successor, shall vest, subject to the same trusts as the same were before respectively subject to, in the succeeding Accountant-General by force of this Act, and without any act whatever to be done by the Accountant-General resigning or removed. or by the heirs, executors or administrators of any Accountant-General resigning, removed or dying, or any person or persons claiming under him, them or any of them, and notwithstanding any such interest may have been expressed to have been vested in, conveyed, assigned, transferred, made payable to, or secured to the Accountant-General, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, or any of them, and shall and may be proceeded upon in the name of such succeeding Accountant-General by any action or suit in law or equity, or in any other manner as the same might have been proceeded upon by or in the name or names of the heirs, executors or administrators of such former Accountant-General. any for Property here tofore vested in any former Accountant-General vested in II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases in which by virtue of any Act of Parliament, conveyance, assignment, transfer, obligation or security, any interests in any real or personal estate, effects or property have been heretofore vested in mer Accountant-General as Accountant-General, and in respect of his present Acoffice as such, and which may now remain vested in his heirs, executors countant-Ge or administrators, notwithstanding the same was vested in him as Ac- neral. countant-General in respect of such his office, all such interests shall, by force of this Act, from and after the passing thereof, be and the same are hereby vested in the present Accountant-General as Accountant-General, and shall and may be proceeded upon in the name of the present Accountant-General, or the Accountant-General hereafter for the time being in any action or suit in law or equity, or in any other manner as the same might have been proceeded upon by or in the name or names of the heirs, executors or administrators of such former AccountantGeneral. court valid. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts done by acts done or to be done by the present or any future Accountant-Gene- Accountantral, under any order or orders, decree or decrees of the Court of Chan- General under cery, touching any real or personal estate, property or effects, the in- any order of terest wherein respectively is by this Act vested or intended to be vested in the present Accountant-General, and in succeeding Accountants-General, shall by force of this Act be deemed and taken to be valid and effectual; and also, that all acts heretofore done by any AccountantGeneral for the time being, in obedience to any such order or orders, decree or decrees, touching any real or personal estate, effects or property, the interest wherein respectively might have remained at the time such acts were done in any former Accountant-General who had resigned or had been removed, or in the heirs, executors or administrators of any then deceased Accountant-General, shall by force of this Act be deemed and taken to be valid and effectual. No. XXXI. 57 Geo. III. [No. XXXI. ] 57 George III. c. 39. An Act to extend certain Provisions of the Acts of the thirty-sixth and fifty-second Years of the Reign of his present Majesty to Matters of Charity and Friendly Societies.-[20th June, 1817.] 90. c. 39. 52 George 3. c. 158. WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the relief, remedies, provisions, protections and indemnities made, given, and provided by the 36 George 3. c. Act for the Relief of Persons equitably and beneficially entitled to or interested in the several stocks and annuities transferable at the Bank of England; and by the Act intituled An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for the Relief of Persons equitably entitled to Stocks and Annuities transferable at the Bank of England; and of an Act passed in this present session, for the Relief of Infant Suitors entitled to the like Stocks and Annuities, to all other transferable Stocks and Funds to certain cases herein specified, and not provided for by the said two Acts, or by either of them: 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 from and after the passing of this Act the said Acts of Parliament, and all the relief and remedies, provisions, protections and indemnities thereby provided, shall extend and be deemed and taken to extend, and the same are hereby declared and enacted to extend to all cases of petitions on which the Court of Chancery, or the Lord High Chancellor, or commissioners of the great seal for the time being, or the Master of the Rolls, or the Vice-Chancellor of England for the time being, or the Court of Exchequer, are by law authorized and empowered to grant relief and make summary orders without suit, either in matters of charity, or relative to or for the better security, or for the application, receipt, payment or transfer of any of the funds thereof; or in matters relative to any benefit or friendly societies, or for the better security, or for the application, receipt, payment, or transfer of any of the funds thereof. Extending certain provisions of recited Acts to charity and friendly socie ties. [No. XXXII.] 4 George IV. c. 61.-An Act for the bet- No. XXXII. ter Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery 4 Geo. IV. in Ireland.-[10th July 1823.] WHEREAS it hath appeared, by reports, made to the King's most excellent Majesty from the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty, upon an address of the knights citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled, to inquire into the duties and emoluments of the officers clerks and ministers of justice in all temporal and ecclesiastical courts in Ireland, that the several ministerial offices of His Majesty's High Court of Chancery in Ireland require regulations for ensuring the more easy cheap and expeditious administration of justice in the said court: And whereas some of such regulations may be carried into effect by general orders of the said court, but certain other regulations are required, which cannot be carried into effect without the aid of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the fees to be taken by the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, or the Lord Keeper or the Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal, and by the several officers of the said court, should be ascertained and regulated by law: 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 from and after the commencement of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, or the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland, or the Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being, and for the deputy keeper of the rolls, registrars, six clerks, examiners, clerk of the hanaper, clerk of the crown, cursitor, and other officers, and their several and respective deputies and clerks, in of or belonging to the said Court of Chancery, mentioned and described in the several tables to this Act annexed, to ask, demand, have, receive, take, and accept, for and by reason and on account of the several acts matters and things to be done in or concerning the business of the several and respective offices, or of the several services to be performed touching or concerning such offices, the several fees, payments, and sum and sums of money in the said tables hereunto annexed respectively mentioned, and none other or greater fees or sums of money whatever; and that no officer or attendant of the said court, nor any deputy or clerk of any such officer, nor any person acting in any of the offices of the said court, or doing any part of the business thereof, shall ask, demand, or receive from any of the suitors of the said court, or from any person or persons whomsoever on their behalf, any fee or sum or sums of money whatever, on account of, or for the peformance of, or under pretence of performing any act matter or thing whatsoever, in anywise relating to the business of the said court, not mentioned in the said tables, or some or one of them, as payable for or in respect of such act matter or business, except under the provisions of this Act, any law usage or custom at any time heretofore made used or exercised to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and that the said tables, and all directions matters and things contained therein, shall be taken as part of this Act to all intents and purposes whatsoever. II. Provided always and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Chancellor in Ireland, or Lord Keeper or Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being, from time to time to vary and alter the amount of any of the fees aforesaid, by decreasing or increasing the same, or to abolish any of the said fees altogether; and also to direct and authorize the payment of any new or additional fee to the several officers and persons in the said tables mentioned, or any of them, or to any other persons for or in respect of any matters or things mentioned in the said tables or any of them, or of any other matters or things to be done in the execu tion of the duty of the office of such officers or persons respectively; VOL. IV. c. 61. Fees of Lord Chancellor and all other Officers of the Court of Chancery ascertained according to Tables annexed to this Act. Fees may be altered, or new Fees allowed, by Order of Lord Chancellor. No. XXXII. 4 Geo. IV. c. 61. Such Orders and all such fees the amount whereof shall be so altered, and all such new or additional fees which shall be so made payable, and also any order for the abolition of any fee shall be specified and set forth in a table or tables to be made by order of the said Court of Chancery, and signed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper or Commissioners as aforesaid; and such order shall specify the grounds and reasons upon which such shall be trans- fees shall have been altered abolished or made payable respectively; and a copy of every such order, signed as aforesaid, shall be transmitted by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper or Commissioners as aforesaid, to the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, who shall cause copies of the same to be laid before both Houses of Parliament immediately after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament, and thereupon every such fee shall be and be deemed and taken to be a legal fee according to the terms of such order, and payable and receivable as such, from and after the last day of such session of Parliament, as if the same had been included in any of the tables annexed to mitted to the Lord Lieutenant, who shall cause Copies thereof to be laid before Parliament. Lord Chancellor may alter Course of Pro ceedings in Suits in Chancery, and Stamp Duties shall be applied to Process so altered. Proviso for existing Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper to receive their usual Fees. Penalty on any Deputies or Clerks tak ing any Fees contrary to this Act, 100%. this Act. III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, or the Lord Keeper or Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal of Ireland for the time being, to make any such order or orders of the said Court of Chancery, for the altering or discharging any course of proceedings in suits pending or to be brought in the said court, and to direct that such process shall issue, and in such manner and course in all such suits as to the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Commissioners respectively, shall seem fitting and expedient, in the same manner, and with the same force and effect in all respects as if this Act had not passed; and that no clause matter or thing contained in any Act or Acts from time to time in force in Ireland, for the granting or regulating the payment of any stamp duty, or any process in any suit in the said court, shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent alter or affect the course of any such proceedings, or the issuing of any such process, or to warrant or authorize the receipt of any greater fee by the alteration of the number of words in any sheet of proceeding; and that the several stamp duties from time to time imposed or payable on any such proceeding or process shall be paid and payable upon the same as altered by the said court, or upon such proceeding or process as shall be substituted for any which may be abolished, such process or proceeding being by such order declared to be so substituted. IV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing contained in this Act, nor in the table (No. 10.) thereto annexed, shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent the clerk of the crown and clerk of the hanaper, and his deputy, during the tenure of the present possessor of the said office, from demanding or receiving the several fees which have been accustomed to be paid for and by reason and on account of all such acts matters and things done in and concerning the business of the said office, until the appointment of the successor of the present possessor of the said office: Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act shall extend or be taken to extend to authorize the said clerk of the crown and hanaper, or his deputy, to demand or accept any fee contrary to the provisions of any Act of Parliament, or otherwise contrary to law. V. And be it further enacted, That if any deputy or clerk, or other person whatever, employed in the several offices or places mentioned and specified in any of the tables to this Act annexed (other than the said deputy clerk of the crown and hanaper, as to such acts matters and things relating to which the said clerk of the crown and hanaper is by this Act to receive the lawful fees heretofore accustomed, during the tenure of the present possessor of the office of clerk of the crown and hanaper), shall, at any time after the commencement of this Act, ask or demand, or shall have, take, accept, or receive from any suitor solicitor or other person whomsoever, save and except only from the principal officer by and under whom any such deputy or clerk, or other person, shall be immediately employed, any gift, fee, reward, or remuneration, for or by reason |