account of the credits granted by him; and the said Governor and Company shall likewise weekly transmit to the Commissioners of the Treasury a statement specifying the sums of money paid within the preceding week to the drafts or orders of the several public accountants to whom credits shall have been granted by the said Governor and Company in pursuance of the warrants of the said Comptroller, distinguishing the payments on each account, and also a statement of the balance of money remaining in the Bank at the close of each such week on account of the Exchequer; all which several statements shall be authenticated by the signature of one of the cashiers or other officer of the Bank to be appointed for that purpose.

XXI. That no bill of exchange drawn on any public officer or department for the public service, and accepted payable at the Bank of England, nor any cheque, draft, or order for the payment of money drawn by any person or accountant authorized to draw for the public service, shall from and after the commencement of this Act be payable at the Bank of England at any time after three of the clock in any day.

And after noticing that by reason of the alterations by this Act directed to be made in the proceedings and practice of the Exchequer with respect to the receipt and issue of the public monies, it will be necessary that new regulations should be prescribed for the government of the several Receivers General and other collectors of the revenue in their transactions with the Bank of England :

It is Enacted,

XXII. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury from time to time to establish rules and regulations for keeping the accounts of the several respective departments of the revenue with the Bank of England, and for the payment of the public monies collected by such departments to the account of the Exchequer; which several rules and regulations shall be certified by the Commissioners of the Treasury to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England and to the several and respective departments of the revenue, and shall be of full force and authority, and shall be observed by all bodies and persons whatsoever in relation to all matters and things therein contained; anything in any Actor Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

XXIII. That from and after the commencement of this Act the Comptroller of the Exchequer shall, within one week next after the termination of each quarter in every year, transmit to the Commissioners for auditing the public accounts a statement of all payments made to the Bank on account of the Exchequer, and of all the credits for which warrants shall have been granted by him upon the Bank, during that quarter, together with a statement of all monies drawn by the said accountants during the course of the quarter, as certified to him by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and the said Comptroller shall also cause to be prepared and laid before each house of Parliament, on the 20th of April in every year, if Parliament shall be then sitting, and if not, then within seven days after the next meeting of Parliament, an account under his hand for such preceding year, ending on the 5th of April, shewing the amount of all monies received during that period to the account of the Exchequer, and distinguishing the same under the several and respective heads of public revenue, and shewing also the amount of all royal orders and Treasury warrants received by him, and the issues made from the Bank on credits given pursuant thereto, under the respective heads aforesaid, and stating the balance of monies remaining at the Bank to the account of the Exchequer at the close of each such year, which said account shall be accompanied by a certificate, under the hand of the principal cashier of the Bank of England, which such cashier is hereby required to give, of the sum which actually remained on the books of the Bank to the credit of the Exchequer on the said 5th of April.

XXIV. That the annual account made up on each quarter day, which, by an Act passed 10 Geo. 4, the Commissioners of the Treasury are required to cause to be prepared, of the actual receipt and expenditure of the United Kingdom, according to the actual receipt and issue of monies at the Exchequer, shall, from and after the commencement of this Act, so far as relates to Great Britain, be made out according to the actual receipt of money at the Bank, on the account of the Exchequer and of credits granted thereout by the warrants of the Comptroller; and the surplus directed by the said Act to be issued and applied towards the reduction of the national debt, being thereby ascertained, shall be issued and applied accordingly in the manner directed by the said Act.

And after noticing that the practice which has heretofore prevailed of taking or deducting monies, in the nature of fees, upon the issue of public monies to the several departments, has been found to be attended with expense and inconvenience :-

It is Enacted,

xxv. That from and after the commencement of this Act the fees heretofore charged and taken at the Exchequer upon the issues of money to and receipts of money from the several departments of or accountants to the Crown for the public service shall cease and be no longer payable; and that in all cases in which any payments made to individuals at the Exchequer have been heretofore chargeable with fees or deductions it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury and they are hereby required, from and after the commencement of this Act, to reduce all such payments to the several and respective net amounts heretofore received from the Exchequer by the several and respective parties.

XXVI. That from and after the commencement of this Act all Exchequer bills to be thereafter made out under the authority of any Act of Parliament shall be prepared, made out, and numbered in the office of the said Comptroller at such times and in such form as the Commissioners of the Treasury shall from time to time direct; and that the several regulations in relation to the making out, issuing, and paying off Exchequer bills which are established by an Act, 48 Geo. 3. c. 1, or by any other Act or Acts with respect to the issue and application of Exchequer bills under the authority of such Acts, shall continue in force, except in so far as the same shall be altered by any of the provisions of this Act, and that all such bills shall be signed by the said Comptroller, or in his name by his assistant, and shall be issued and applied to the public service at such times and in such manner as shall be directed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, or in such manner and upon such authorities as shall have been specially directed with respect thereto by any Act or Acts now in force, the said Comptroller taking care that such bills are made and issued according to law.

XXVII. That a return, setting forth all orders and regulations, and describing all books and forms of accounts and vouchers, which shall have been ordered and prescribed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, shall be laid before Parliament on or before the 5th of April 1835, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not then sitting, within six weeks from the day of the next ensuing meeting of Parliament.

XXVIII. That if any person shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or knowingly and willingly act, aid, or assist in forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any warrant, order for payment, or other document whatsoever by this Act directed or authorized to be issued or made, or shall utter or publish as true, or knowingly or willingly act, aid, or assist in uttering or publishing as true, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, any such warrant, order for payment, or other document whatsoever, with intent to defraud His Majesty, the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other person or persons, any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall upon conviction be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life.

And after noticing that it is just and reasonable that full compensation should be made to the several officers of the Exchequer at Westminster who now hold their offices for life or during good behaviour:

It is Enacted,

XXIX. That there shall be paid to Henry Earl Bathurst and to Spencer Perceval Esquire, two of the present Tellers of the Exchequer at Westminster respectively, during their respective lives, by quarterly payments, the amount of the annual salaries to which they are at present respectively entitled by virtue of their respective offices; and that there shall be paid to the Right Honourable Henry Ellis, the present Clerk of the Pells of the Exchequer at Westminster, the tenure of whose office is during good behaviour, the annual sum of 1,400l., being the amount of his present salary, by quarterly payments: Provided always, that a proportionate part of such several sums shall be paid to the executors or administrators of the several and respective parties in the event of the death of any of them during the course of any quarter.

And after noticing that the Most Noble John Jeffries Marquis Camden, one other of the present Tellers of the Exchequer, hath, in pursuance of a proposition made by him, and in consideration of the state of the country, paid in aid of the public revenue towards the exigencies of the state the surplus of the fees, perquisites, and emoluments of his office, after abating thereout the necessary charges and expenses of the establishment thereof, reserving to himself only the annual salary of a Teller authorized by an Act, 23 Geo. 3, for establishing certain regulations in the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer; which contribution has to the present time amounted to the sum of 244,4071. 10s. 11d.; And that in consideration of the said contribution so made to the public service, and of the voluntary surrender of the profits and emoluments accruing to him by law in right of his office, it is just and proper that the full rights and interests of the said Marquis Camden should not be impaired or altered by anything in this Act contained:

It is Enacted,

xxx. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to direct the payment to the said Marquis Camden, out of the Consolidated Fund, of such amount or sum of money quarterly and every quarter as shall be equal to the amount of the fees on the several quarterly issues made from the Exchequer for the public service, on which, prior to the passing of this Act, such fees would have attached, and become payable to the said Marquis Camden.

XXXI. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury to grant to the several other persons in the several offices of the present establishment of the Exchequer such annual allowances, by way of compensation for the suppression of their respective offices, as to the said Commissioners shall seem just.

XXXII. That no such compensation shall be paid to the present Clerk of the Pells or to any person holding an office on the present establishment of the Exchequer, save and except the two present Tellers of the Exchequer, who shall be appointed to an office of equal or greater emolument under the Crown; and that such compensation shall be reduced if any such officer, save and except as aforesaid, shall be appointed to an office of smaller emolument than that of the office he previously held, so as that the salary or emolument attached to the office to which he shall be so appointed, together with the compensation granted to him, shall not exceed the salary of the office previously held by him.

XXXIII. That the compensations hereby granted or authorized to be granted, and those which are at present charged on the Fee Fund of the Exchequer, amounting to the annual sum of 8,3231., and the salary and allowance to the said Comptroller, shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund, and that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury from time to time, by their warrant for that purpose, to direct the requisite sums of money to be credited by the said Comptroller to the paymaster or other officer to be appointed for payment of such compensations and salary.

XXXIV. That all powers given to or vested in the Commissioners of the Treasury by this Act may be executed by any three of such Commissioners for the time being; and that all enactments, matters, and things herein contained relating to public monies shall extend and be construed to extend to all bills, drafts, and notes as securities for money received to the use of the public.

xxxv. That nothing in this Act contained or authorized to be done shall extend to destroy or affect the validity of any deeds, powers of attorney, or other instruments which at the commencement of this Act shall be in force with respect to any monies theretofore receivable at the Exchequer under the authority of the same, but that all such deeds, powers of attorney, and other instruments shall continue of like validity with respect to any such payments to be thereafter made by the paymaster to be appointed under the authority of this Act.

XXXVI. That this Act shall commence and take effect on and from the 11th of October 1834; and that from and after the commencement thereof an Act, 8 & 9 Will. S. c. 28, for the better observation of the course anciently used in the receipt of the Exchequer; also an Act, 6 Geo. 2. c. 6, for obviating a doubt which might arise upon an Act made in the fourth year of His said Majesty's reign, as therein recited; so much of an Act, 25 Geo. 3. c. 82, as relates to the use of an indented cheque receipt to be made out by the Auditor, and as requires the custody of one of the keys to the Tellers' chests, the standard weights

and measures, and the standard pieces of gold and silver, to be committed to the Auditor; so much of an Act, 39 & 40 Geo. S. c. 54, as requires the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts to transmit a certain account to the Auditor of the Exchequer, and requires the Auditor to transmit to the said Commissioners quarterly accounts of monies paid into the Exchequer; an Act, 46 Geo. 3. c. 1, to empower the Auditor of the Exchequer to constitute a trustee for the execution of the said office in the case therein mentioned; so much of an Act, 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 121, as requires the transmission of general imprest rolls to the office of His Majesty's Remembrancer, and as relates to imprest certificates; and so much of the provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the office of the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer as are altered by this Act; shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

XXXVII. That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed in this present session.

CAP. XVI.

AN ACT to abolish the Office of Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer in Scotland. (22nd May 1834.)

By this Act,

After noticing that, by an Act, 6 Ann. c. 26, an Act, 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 103, and an Act, 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 112, a great part of the business of the office of Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in Scotland, has been transferred, together with the auditing the accounts, to offices in England; and that John Archibald Murray Esquire, the present Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in Scotland, who has a life interest therein, has signified his desire to surrender his interest in the said office without compensation; and the expediency of the said office being abolished, and other provisions made for the discharge of the duties thereof:

It is Enacted,

1. That from and after the 1st of January 1835, the office of Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer in Scotland shall cease and determine, together with all salary, fees, or other emoluments theretofore receivable in respect thereof.

11. That the powers and authorities now vested by law in the Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in Scotland shall, from and after the 5th of January 1835, be transferred and be vested in the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer of the Exchequer of Scotland for the time being, who is hereby required, from and upon that day, to perform all such duties as are now performed by the Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe.

111. That all public accounts, records, and other documents now belonging to the record of the great roll shall, on the 6th of January 1835, be delivered over to and placed under the custody of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in Scotland.

CAP. XVII.

AN ACT to indemnify Witnesses who may give Evidence before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal on a Bill for preventing Bribery and Corruption and illegal Practices in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Warwick.

(22nd May 1834.)

CAP. XVIII.

AN ACT to indemnify Witnesses who may give Evidence before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal on a Bill to exclude the Freemen of Liverpool from voting at the Election of Members of Parliament for that Borough. (22nd May 1834.)

CAP. XIX.

AN ACT to repeal certain Duties on Inhabited Dwelling Houses.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

(16th June 1834.)

1. Duties on inhabited houses under 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 39, repealed from 5th of April 1834.

2. Commissioners of Assessed Taxes to reduce compositions which include the above-mentioned duties. Reduction to take effect from same date.

3. Qualifications conferred by payment of said duties to remain with the occupiers of houses of the rent or value specified in recited Acts.

By this Act,

After reciting an Act, passed 48 Geo. 3. c. 55, intituled, An Act for repealing the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, and certain additional Duties to be consolidated therewith; and also for repealing the Stamp Duties on Game Certificates, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, to be placed under the Management of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes,' by which certain Duties of 1s. 6d., 2s. 3d., and 2s. 10d. in the pound respectively were granted and made payable yearly on all inhabited dwelling houses throughout Great Britain according to the value thereof as specified in Schedule (B.) to the said Act annexed; and an Act, 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 39, intituled, An Act to reduce certain of the Duties on Dwelling Houses, and to repeal other Duties of Assessed Taxes,' by which certain reduced duties were granted and made payable on inhabited dwelling houses, in certain cases in the said last-recited Act specified, in lieu of the duties so as aforesaid granted and made payable by 48 Geo.3: and stating the expediency of repealing the said duties on inhabited dwelling houses :

It is Enacted,

1. That from and after the 5th of April 1834 the said duties so as aforesaid granted and made payable on inhabited dwelling houses, and all compositions in lieu of the said duties, shall cease and determine, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as relates to any assessment of the duties of assessed taxes, or of compositions in lieu thereof, to be made for any year commencing from or after the said 5th of April 1834.

II. That where any contract of composition now in force for any of the duties of assessed taxes doth include the duty on any inhabited dwelling house or dwelling houses repealed by this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners acting in the execution of the several Acts relating to the said duties, in their respective districts, and they are hereby authorized and required, to cause the amount of the composition payable under such contract, and the assessments and duplicates relating thereto, for any year commencing as aforesaid to be reduced to the extent of the said duty hereby repealed and of the additional duty payable thereon by virtue of such contract, and such reduction shall commence and take effect from and after the said 5th of April 1834; and all such contracts shall be of the same force and effect for the recovery and enforcing payment of the reduced instalments of composition, to all intents and purposes, as if the full amount of the instalments compounded for had continued payable on such contracts.

111. That where under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force, in order to qualify or entitle any person to vote at the election of any Commissioner or Commissioners, or as a qualification for any other purpose, it is required that such person shall occupy a dwelling house assessed to the said duties on inhabited dwelling houses at a certain rent or value, it shall be sufficient to entitle any such person to vote on any such occasion, and it shall be deemed to be a sufficient qualification, or for any such purpose as aforesaid, if such person shall occupy a dwelling house which shall be bond fide of the rent or value specified or required in or by any such Act or Acts as aforesaid, without reference to any assessment of the said duties hereby repealed, provided such person shall be in other respects duly qualified for any such purpose as aforesaid; and in case of dispute such rent or value shall be ascertained and determined according to the rules and directions contained in the said Schedule (B.) annexed to the said recited Act, 48 Geo. 3.

CAP. XX.

AN ACT to explain and amend an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, to regulate the Conveyance and Sale of Fish at First Hand. (16th June 1834.)

By this Act,

After noticing that, by an Act passed 33 Geo. 2. c. 27, certain provisions were made for regulating the sale of fish at first hand in the fish markets of London and Westminster; and that it is by the said Act, amongst other things, enacted, that no live salmon, salmon trout, turbot, large fresh cod, half fresh cod, baddock, scate, fresh ling, soles, or whitings, shall at any time after the arrival thereof at the Nore, as therein mentioned, be unloaded or delivered out of any fishing ship, sloop, smack, or other fishing vessel or vessels, unless by retail, into any other vessel or boat after her arrival at the Nore, but into such vessel or vessels, boat or boats, as shall be employed to carry the fish directly to the market of Billingsgate or Westminster: And doubts have arisen whether the words of the said Act may not operate to prevent the bringing of fish to any market of London or Westminster which was not in existence or use as a public market at the time of the passing of the said Act, although the object of the legislature was to secure a supply of fresh fish to the cities of London and Westminster, and to prevent the forestalling of the same: And that it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to facilitate the conveyance of fresh fish to the legal markets of the metropolis :

It is Enacted,

That nothing in the said recited Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any person from unloading or discharging from any fishing ship, sloop, smack, or other fishing vessel or vessels any salmon, salmon trout, turbot, large fresh cod, half fresh cod, haddock, scate, fresh ling, soles, whitings, or other fish which may arrive at the Nore, or from putting the same into any other vessel or vessels, boat or boats, for the purpose of bringing the same for sale by first hand at any fish market or markets legally established within the cities of London and Westminster, but that every person shall be at liberty to unload or discharge such fish, and to put the same into other boats for the purpose aforesaid, without being subject or liable to any penalty or punishment for so doing, anything in the said recited Act, or in any other Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

CAP. XXI.

AN ACT for amending certain Provisions of an Act of the Thirty-sixth of George the Third, for regulating the buying and selling of Hay and Straw. (16th June 1831.)

By this Act,

After noticing that by an Act passed, 36 Geo. 3. c. 88, For regulating the buying and selling of Hay and Straw, &c.,' it is amongst other things enacted, that the markets for sale of hay and straw within the cities and limits aforesaid shall end at three of the clock in the afternoon of every market day between Lady Day and Michaelmas, and at two of the clock in the afternoon of every market day between Michaelmas and Lady Day, and that notices thereof shall be given by the clerk or toll gatherer, or his deputy, in the several markets or places for the sale of hay and straw within the cities and limits aforesaid, by ringing, on the usual market days, a large hand bell round each respective market or place for the sale of hay or straw, one hour before the expiration of the times above mentioned, and again at the expiration of the hours above mentioned, on pain of forfeiting for every such offence a sum of money not exceeding 10s. nor less than 5s.; and every person who shall sell any hay or straw in any market within the cities or limits aforesaid after the hours aforesaid shall forfeit for every bundle or truss of hay so sold the sum of 6d., and for every bundle or truss of straw so sold the sum of 3d.; and it is also by the same Act further enacted, that if any person having the care or direction of any waggon, wain, or cart used for the purpose of bringing hay or straw shall suffer the same to remain in any market or place for the sale of hay and straw within the cities and limits aforesaid, on the usual market days from Lady Day to Michaelmas after five of the clock in the afternoon, and from Michaelmas to Lady Day after three of the clock in the afternoon, in any year, every person so offending shall forfeit for every such waggon, wain, or cart so left as aforesaid a sum of money not exceeding 20s. nor less than 5s.: and that the said recited provisions were well calculated to prevent obstructions and inconvenience to the public in markets held for the sale of hay and straw in open or public streets or thoroughfares, but the same are unnecessary, and may become vexatious and oppressive, in other markets, and ought therefore to be partially repealed :

It is therefore Enacted,

That from and after the passing of this Act the several provisions of the said Act of the 36 Geo. 3. c. 88, which are hereinbefore recited, shall be and the same are hereby repealed so far as regards any market for the sale of hay, straw, and clover through which there does not exist by law any public right of way for carts and carriages; and that upon any complaint made or information laid for the recovery of penalties upon breach of any of the said recited provisions of the said Act it shall be incumbent upon the party suing for such penalty to shew by evidence that there does exist such public right of way for carts and carriages through the market in which the offence shall be charged to have been committed.

CAP. XXII.

AN ACT to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of King George the Second, respecting the Apportionment of Rents, Annuities, and other periodical Payments.

(16th June 1834.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Rents reserved on leases determining on the death of the person making them (though not strictly tenant for life), or on the

death of the tenant pur autre vie, to be considered as within the provisions of recited Act.

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