Sitting of Parliament, such Order, and the Returns and Certificates to which the same shall relate, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Calendar Month next after such Order shall be made, if Parliament shall continue sitting; or in case Parliament shall not continue sitting, until any such Order, Return and Certificate shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, then every such Order, Return and Certificate shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Calendar Month after the Commencement of the then next Session of Parliament; and no Issue of Money for Compensation as aforesaid shall be made from the Consolidated Fund until the same shall have been submitted in Parliament. clared valid. XI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That any Certificate Certificates and and any Payment of any Composition to any Officer of the said Payments alCourt, which may have been made at any Time before the passing ready made deof this Act, for the Year commencing on the First Day of Michaelmas Term One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, shall be and is hereby declared to be good, valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes whatever, any Thing in the said recited Act or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 6 'XII. And Whereas it is expedient that the Table marked Number Two, annexed to the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, relating to the Fees of the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, the Clerk of the Inrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the Rolls Office, should ' be amended;' Be it therefore further enacted, That from and after the First Quarter Day at the Rolls Office next ensuing the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, the Clerk of the Inrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the Rolls Office in Chancery, to demand, collect and receive the several Fees stated and set forth in the amended Table of Fees to this Act annexed, for and on account of the several Acts, Matters and Things therein particularly set forth; and that accordingly the Fees marked Seventeen, Twenty and Twenty four, shall be in lieu and instead of the Fees marked Seventeen, Twenty and Twenty four in the Table Number Two to the said recited Act annexed; and that the Fees marked Twenty eight, Twenty nine and Thirty, in the said Table to this Act annexed, shall be in addition to the several Fees contained in the Table Number Two annexed to the said recited Act; and that all such Fees, the Application of any Part whereof is specified and directed by the said Table to this Act annexed, shall be applied in Manner directed by the said Table; and the Amount of such Part of the said Fees, as by the said Table is directed to be credited to the Public, and the Amount of all other Fees in the said Table contained, the Application whereof is not specified and directed in and by the said Table, shall be paid and applied and accounted for in such Manner, and under such Regulations and Provisions, and for such Purposes, as is directed with respect to the Fees allowed to be taken by the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls or Clerk of the Inrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the Rolls Office, by the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, and as if the Regulations and Provisions in the said recited Act contained were repeated and 6 GEO. IV. re-enacted K Amendment of Table No.2. annexed to the relation to Fees to be collected at the Rolls former Act, in Office. Fees to be taken as herein described. of the Rolls re-enacted in this Act, and as if the Fees mentioned in the said Table to this Act annexed had been specified and set forth in the Table Number Two annexed to the said recited Act. XIII. And it is hereby declared and enacted, That the said Table annexed to this Act shall be deemed and taken as an Amendment and Addition and as Part of the said Table Number Two, to the said recited Act annexed; and that the Fees mentioned in the said Table Number Two, annexed to the said Act, with the Amendments and Additions contained in the Table to this Act annexed, shall be the Fees to be taken by the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls or the Clerk of the Inrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the said Rolls Office. XIV. And in order to effectuate the Recommendation of the said Commissioners of Inquiry on Courts of Justice in Ireland, in their First Report on the Court of Chancery, in relation to the Officers of the said Court, so far as the same relates to the Office of Deputy Keeper Clerk or Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, be it enacted, That the present Clerk or Deputy Keeper of the Rolls and Records in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and every Person hereafter to be appointed to the said Office, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, hold his said Office during his good Behaviour in the said Office, but nevertheless to be always removable from such Office by the Master of the Rolls for the Time being, for Misconduct or Neglect in the Discharge of the Duties of his said Office. shall hold his Office during good Behavi our. Proviso. Court of Chancery may appoint a Person to act for Deputy Keeper by Order, for a limited Time, ness or unavoidable Absence. XV. And Whereas it is expedient to provide for the Execution ' of the Duties of the said Clerk or Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, in 'the Event of his Inability from Sickness or Absence or unavoid'able Business, to discharge the same for a limited Time, in like • Manner as Provisions are made in similar Events in the said re'cited Act in relation to the Registrars and Chief Examiners of ‹ the said Court;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Court of Chancery, upon the Petition of the said Deputy Keeper, stating such Sickness or unavoidable Cause of Absence, to approve of a proper Person, to discharge the said Duties for a Time to be limited in the Order, either by fixing a precise Time, or by some general Words, or by reference to some in case of Sick- Matter capable of being distinctly ascertained, or in such other Manner as the Court shall think proper, which Order shall be entered in the Office of the Registrar; and such Appointment shall not continue for any longer Time than shall be mentioned and ascertained by such Order, but shall then cease; and if such Person so to be approved of for such limited Period shall act for any longer Period than mentioned in the said Order, he shall be deemed guilty of a Contempt and punished accordingly by the said Court; and upon such Order being made and entered in the Office of the Registrar, it shall and may be lawful for the Master of the Rolls for the Time being to authorize and appoint such Person so named in the said Order, by Instrument under his Hand and Seal enrolled in the said Court, to act for such Period mentioned in such Order pursuant thereto; and such Person so appointed shall have lawful Power and Authority to act during such Period, but no longer. Master of the Rolls to act upon Entry of such Order. XVI. And Whereas it is just and expedient that the Crier of . Salary of Crier of the Rolls Court increased to 1207. a Year; of the Rolls Court in Ireland, being employed for a larger Portion of each Year in the Business of the said Court than the Criers of the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer are in their respective Courts, and having no Fees or • Emoluments whatsoever other than his Salary, should be put upon an equal Footing with the Criers of the said Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer in Ireland;' Be it therefore enacted, That the Crier of the said Rolls Court shall receive an equal Salary with the Criers of the said Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer ; (that is to say,) the Sum of One hundred and twenty Pounds per Annum, to be paid quarterly to the Crier of the said Rolls Court by the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls in Ireland, in lieu and instead of the Salary of Fifty instead of 501. Pounds per Annum made payable to the said Crier by the said as under 40.4. recited Act of the Fourth Year of His Majesty's Reign, and under c.61. the Rules and Regulations in the said Act contained; and that the first Quarterly Payment of such increased Salary of One hundred and twenty Pounds a Year shall commence and be payable to the Crier of the said Rolls Court on the first Quarter Day next ensuing the passing of this Act. XVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the several Clerks or Examiners of the Masters of the said Court of Chancery, or any and every of them, within One Calendar Month next after the last Day of next Trinity Term in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and within the like Period after the last Day of Trinity Term in every succeeding Year, if and whenever any such Clerk or Examiner shall be desirous so to do, to transmit to the Office of His Majesty's Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts in Ireland, an Account, signed with the Name and in the proper Hand-writing of the Clerk or Examiner who shall respectively transmit the same, wherein shall be stated fully and truly all and every the Sum and Sums of Money, with the Dates and Particulars, thereof, received by any such Clerk or Examiner respectively, or by any Person or Persons for his Use, or by or under his Authority, or with his Privity or Permission respectively, or for which such Clerk or Examiner, or any Person or Persons in his Behalf, shall have given Credit for or on account or by reason of any Fees, Profits or Emoluments, direct or indirect, of, or by, or under colour of the Office of any such Clerk or Examiner respectively transmitting such Account, and including all Fees and Emoluments whatsoever under any Commission directed to any such Clerk or Examiner, or under any Proceeding in any Cause or Matter which shall pass through the Master's Office to which such Clerk or Examiner shall belong; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts in Ireland, or any Three of them, and they are hereby required, to examine everysuch Account so delivered respectively; and such Commissioners, or any Three of them, shall certify every such Account respectively to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, in such Form as to the said Commissioners shall seem fit and 'proper, upon the Examination on Oath of the Clerk or Examiner whose Name shall be signed to any such Account, and of such other Person or Persons, if any, as the K 2 said Master's Clerk or Examiner may deliver a his yearly Emoluments to Commissioners of Public Accounts, and on Lord Lieutenant may order Issue out of Consolidated Statement of their Certificate Fund to make up Amount of his Emoluments to 450l. said Commissioners may require to be produced before them, or any Three of them, for such Purpose, by such Clerk or Examiner, and which Oath such Commissioners or any Three of them are hereby authorized and empowered and required to administer; and such Certificate shall be filed in the Office of the Auditor General or Vice Treasurer in Dublin Castle; and thereupon, whenever it shall appear by such Account and Certificate that the whole Income received or receivable by any such Clerk or Examiner in any Year ending on the last Day of such Trinity Term shall be less than the Sum of Four hundred and fifty Pounds, after Payment or Allowance of the Sum of Seventy Pounds for One Assistant Clerk to such Master's Clerk or Examiner, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, to direct that such Sum or Sums as shall be sufficient to make the Profits and Emoluments of the Office of such Clerk or Examiner amount to the Sum of 701. for his As- Four hundred and fifty Pounds, and to pay the Sum of Seventy Pounds to his Assistant Clerk as aforesaid, shall and may be issued and paid to such Clerk or Examiner, out of the Produce of the Consolidated Fund arising in Ireland, free and clear of all Deductions, Taxes and Charges whatsoever: Provided always, that every such Clerk or Master's Examiner shall pay in each and very Year to such his Assistant Clerk the said Salary of Seventy Pounds per Annum. sistant Clerk, Proviso. On all Refer ences and Proceedings Summonses to be issued by Master for each Meeting. Clerks and Examiners of as to Matters to Perjury. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That in all References or Matters before any Master in Chancery, in which it has been therefore customary to issue Summonses for the Parties to attend such Master, the Master before whom any Proceeding on such Reference or Matter shall be had shall continue to issue Summonses from time to time, and shall not in any Case or under any Pretence whatever proceed on any such Reference or Matter, unless a Summons for the Meeting at which such Proceeding shall be required shall have been signed by him, and shall be produced before him at the Meeting for proceeding on such Reference or Matter. XIX. And be it enacted, That from and after the Commencement of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the several Clerks and Examiners of the Masters in Chancery in Ordinary, and all other Persons who may be hereafter appointed Clerks and Examiners to the present or any future Master in Chancery in Ordinary, while they shall respectively continue such Clerks and Examiners, and the said Clerks and Examiners are hereby fully authorized, empowered and directed to take Affidavits or Affirmations, Answers, Examinations or other Matters whatever,to be put in on Oath in the said Court of Chancery, or in Matters on Petitions in Cases of Bankrupts, Lunatics or Minors, and to administer the necessary Oaths and Affirmations for that Purpose; and all such Answers, Oaths, Affidavits or Affirmations shall be of the same Force, Validity and Effect, and shall and may be filed, used and acted upon respectively; as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and all Persons swearing same shall be liable to all such Penalties, Punishments and Consequences for any wilful and corrupt False Swearing or Perjury contained therein, as if the same had been sworn or affirmed before the said Court of Chancery, or all or any of the Masters in Ordinary thereof. TABLE TABLE to which this Act refers. AMENDED TABLE OF FEES which it shall be lawful for the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, the Clerk of the Inrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the Rolls Office in Ireland, to demand or accept, for or on account of certain Äcts, Matters and Things done in or concerning the Business at the Rolls Office. 17. For re-attesting all Copies of Pleadings and Records, for every Twenty Sheets of Seventy two Words which such Copy shall contain 20. Any one Fraction of Twenty Sheets to be charged as For every Search for and furnishing Certificate of the Plead- Such Fees to be thus applied by the Deputy Keeper: To be credited to the Public To be paid to the Clerks making out every such £ s. d. 01 0 026 S. d. 1 8 0 10 2 6 24. For every Decree given in Chancery, when inrolled 30. the other Fees 29. For Tipstaffs on the setting down of every such Cause, and A Fraction of a Sheet of such Copy to be charged as Such Fees to be thus applied by the Deputy Keeper of the To be credited to the Public To be paid to the Writing Clerks on cach Sheet to the Conducting Clerks S. d. 0 4 0 41 0 2 0 10A 06 0 05 5 011 0 0 10 |