Wares or Merchandize exported, or shipped to be exported, from Great Britain or Ireland respectively, to any Parts beyond the Seas, (except Debentures or Certificates for Bounty exempted Exception. from Stamp Duty by any Act or Acts of Parliament in force for granting a Bounty on the Exportation of Linen or Sail Cloth,) the Sum of Five Shillings. III. And be it further enacted, That the Duties hereby granted Duties under shall be under the Care and Management of the Commissioners Commissioners of Stamps. for the Time being appointed to manage the Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper in Great Britain and Ireland, or the major Part of them respectively; and the said Commissioners are hereby respectively empowered and required to provide proper and sufficient Stamps or Dies for expressing and denoting the several Duties hereby granted, on the Amount thereof, upon the Vellum, Parchment or Paper chargeable therewith, and to alter and renew such Stamps or Dies from time to time, as Occasion shall require, and also to employ such Officers and Persons under them, and to do all such other Acts and Things as shall be deemed necessary or expedient for effectually raising and collecting the Duties hereby granted, and for putting this Act into Execution, in the like and in as full and ample Manner as they or any former Commissioners respectively are or have been authorized to do for the raising and collecting of any former Stamp Duties, or for putting into Execution any Act or Acts of Parliament relating thereto. IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, if any Agent or other Person who shall be required by any Act of Parliament, or by the Direction of the Commissioners of Customs or Excise, or any of their Officers, to give or enter into any Bond for or in respect of any Duties of Customs or Excise, or for preventing Frauds or Evasions thereof, or for any Matter or Thing relating thereto, shall include in one and the same Bond any Goods or Things bona fide belonging to more Persons than one, not being Copartners, or Joint Tenants, or Tenants in Common, every such Agent or other Person shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds. V. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations and Directions, Fines, Forfeitures, Pains and Penalties contained in and imposed by the several Acts of Parliament relating to the Duties hereby repealed, and the several Acts of Parliament relating to any prior Duties of the same Kind or Description, shall be of full Force and Effect with respect to the Duties hereby granted, and to the Vellum, Parchinent and Paper, Instruments, Matters and Things charged or chargeable therewith, and to the Persons liable to the Payment of the said Duties, as far as the same are or shall be applicable, in all Cases not hereby expressly provided for, and shall be observed, applied, enforced and put in Execution for the raising, levying, collecting and securing of the said Duties hereby granted, and otherwise relating thereto, so far as the same shall not be superseded by and shall be consistent with the express Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted, with reference to the said Duties hereby granted. 03 САР. Agents unduly including in same Bord Goods of Persons. Powers of former Acts relating to Stamps to extend to this Act. CA P. XLII. 5 G.4. c.73. repealed, as herein mentioned. 1&2 G.4. c.72. Cases in which Societies of Persons more than Six in Number may be Bankers in Ireland, and issue Bills and Notes. WHE An Act for the better Regulation of Copartnerships of certain Every Member responsible. Notwithstanding 21&22G.3. c. 16. (I.) or 1&2G.4.c.72. ' < ' II. And Whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Par•liament holden in the First and Second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to establish an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, for advancing the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, Irish Currency, and to empower the said Governor and Company to increase the capital Stock or Fund of the said Bank to Three Millions, and it is expedient that the said last recited Act should be altered and amended;' Be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any Number of Persons, united or to be united in any Society or Copartnership in Ireland, consisting of more than Six in Number, and not having the Establishments or Houses of Business of such Society or Copartnership at any Place or Places less than Fifty Miles distant from Dublin, to carry on the Trade and Business of Bankers, in like Manner as Copartnerships of Bankers, consisting of not more than Six in Number, may lawfully do; and to borrow, owe or take up any Sum or Sums of Money on their Bills or Notes, payable on Demand, or at any Time after Date, or after Sight, and to make and issue such Notes or Bills accordingly at any Place in Ireland, exceeding the Distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, all the Individuals composing such Societies or Copartnerships being liable and responsible for the due Payment of all such Bills and Notes, in Manner hereinafter provided; any thing contained in an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty first and Twenty second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for establishing a Bank, by the Name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or in the hereinbefore recited Act of the First and Second Years of His Present Majesty's Reign, or in any other Act or Acts, or any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any such Society or Copartnership, from time to time to have, employ or appoint any Agent or Agents to do and transact, on Behalf of any such Society or Copartnership, all such Business, Matters and Things as such Society or Copartnership may lawfully do, and as are not contrary to any Act or Acts now in force, and to the Provisions of this Act. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to enable or authorize any such Society or Copartnership, either by any Member or Members thereof, or by their Agent or any other Person on Behalf of such Society or Copartnership, to pay, issue or reissue at Dublin, or within Fifty Miles thereof, any Bill or Note of such Society or Copartnership which shall be payable to Bearer on Demand, or any Bank Post Bill, nor to draw upon any Partner or Agent who may be resident in Dublin, or within Fifty Miles thereof, any Bill of Exchange which shall be payable on Demand, or which shall be for less Amount than Fifty Pounds, nor to borrow, owe or take up, in England or in Dublin, or within Fifty Miles thereof, any Sum or Sums of Money on any Promissory Note or Bill of any such Society or Copartnership payable on Demand, or at any less Time than Six Months from the borrowing thereof, or to make or issue any Bill or Bills of Exchange or Promissory Note or Notes of such Society or Copartnership, contrary to the Provisions of the said recited Acts of the Twenty first and Twenty second Years of King George the Third, or of the First and Second of his present Majesty, save as provided by this Act in that Behalf. Societies or Act not to allow issuing of Notes, or borrowing Money within certain Limits. Persons resident in Great Britain, &c. may be Members of such V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this Act or in any other Act or Acts shall extend or be construed to prevent any Person or Persons whatever, whether resident in Great Britain or Ireland, from being or becoming a Member or Members of any such Society or Copart- Copartnerships. nership in Ireland as aforesaid, or from being or becoming a Subscriber and Contributor, or Subscribers and Contributors, to the Stock and Capital of any such Society or Copartnership; and that any such Society or Copartnership which shall or may have been formed or begun to be formed under or by virtue of the Provisions contained in the hereinbefore recited Acts of the First and Second Years and the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and of which any Person or Persons shall be or shall become a Member or Members, or to which any such Person or Persons shall become a Subscriber or Subscribers, or Contributor or Contributors as aforesaid, shall be or be deemed and taken, to all Intents and Purposes, to be a Society or Copartnership of Persons united in Ireland, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; any Thing in this Act or in any other Act Such Banking deliver and re of Names of Public Officers thereof and other Particulars. or Acts of Parliament, or any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. VI. And be it further enacted, That between the Twenty fifth Day of March in any Year, and the Twenty fifth Day of March gister, at Stamp following, an Account or Return shall be made out by the SeOffice in Dub-cretary or some other Officer of every such Society or Copartlin, an Account nership, and shall be signed by such Secretary or other Officer, and shall be verified by the Oath of such Officer taken before any Justice of the Peace (and which Cath any Justice of the Peace is hereby authorized and empowered to administer), according to the Form contained in the Schedule Number One to this Act annexed; and in every such Account or Return there shall be set forth the true Name or Firm of such Society or Copartnership, and also the Names and Places of Abode of all the Partners concerned or engaged in such Society or Copartnership, as the same respectively appear on the Books of such Society or Copartnership, and the Firm and Name of and every Bank or Banks established or to be established by such Society or Copartnership, and also the Names of Two or more Individuals of such What Persons Society or Partnership who shall be resident in Ireland, each and every of whom shall respectively be considered as a Public Officer of such Society or Copartnership, and the Title of Office or other Description of every such Individual respectively, in the Name of any One of whom such Society or Copartnership shall sue and be sued, as hereinafter provided, and also the Name of every Town and Place where any such Bills or Notes shall be issued by any such Society or Copartnership, or by any Agent or Agents of any such Society or Copartnership; and every such Account or Return shall be produced at the Stamp Office in Dublin, and an Entry and Registry thereof shall be made in a Book or Books to be kept for that Purpose at the said Stamp Office, by some Person or Persons to be appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners of Stamp Duties; and if, after the passing of this Act, any such Society or Copartnership shall omit or neglect to deliver at the Stamp Office in Dublin such Account and Return as is by this Act required, such Society or Copartnership shall, for each and every Week they shall so neglect to make such Account and Return, forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds. considered as such Public Officers. Neglecting to deliver Ac count, Penalty. Stamp Office to give Certificates of Entry, to be in force to 25th March ensuing. VII. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Entry and Registry of the Firm or Name of any such Society or Copartnership shall be made at the Stamp Office, in Manner aforesaid, at any Time between the Twenty fifth Day of March in any Year, and the Twenty fifth Day of March following, a Certificate of such Entry or Registry shall be granted by the said Commissioners of Stamps, or by some Person deputed and authorized by the said Commissioners for that Purpose, to the Society or Copartnership by or on whose Behalf such Entry or Registry shall be made, and such Certificate shall be written on Vellum, Parchment or Paper, duly stamped with the Stamp required by Law for Certificates to be taken out yearly by any Banker or Bankers in Ireland; and a separate and distinct Certificate on a separate Piece of Vellum, Parchment or Paper, with a separate and distinct Stamp, Certificate. Stamp, shall be granted for and in respect of every Town and Place where any such Bill or Note shall be issued by any such Society or Copartnership, or by any Agent or Agents, for or on account of such Society or Copartnership; and every such Cer- Particulars to tificate shall specify the proper Firm, Style, Title or Name of be specified in such Society or Copartnership, under which such Notes are to be issued, and also the Name of the Town or Place, or the several Towns or Places where such Notes are to be issued, and the Christian and Surname and Place of Abode and Title of Office or other Description of the several Individuals named respectively, as the Public Officers of such Society or Copartnership in the Name of any One of whom such Society or Copartnership shall sue and be sued; and every Certificate shall be dated Certificate on the Day on which the same shall be granted, and shall have Evidence of effect and continue in force from the Day of the Date thereof, Appointment until the Twenty fifth Day of March following, both inclusive, and no longer, and shall be sufficient Evidence of the Appointment and Authority of such Public Officers respectively. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That any Entry or Registry made, and any Certificate which shall have been obtained before the passing of this Act, at any Time on or after the Twenty fifth Day of March, in pursuance of the hereinbefore recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, shall be deemed to all Intents and Purposes as an Entry, Registry and Certificate made and obtained under this Act, and shall have the like and the same Effect as every such Entry, Registry or Certificate, and no further Entry, Registry or Certificate shall be necessary in such Case before the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six. IX. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Secretary or other Officer of any such Society or Copartnership, as Occasion may require, from time to time, in the Year ending on the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, and in any succeeding Year, without obtaining any further Certificate for such Year, and without Payment of any further Stamp Duty for such Year, to make out upon Oath, in Manner hereinbefore directed, an Account or Return of the Name or Names of any new or additional Public Officer or Public Officers, and also the Name or Names of any Person or Persons who may have ceased to be Members of such Society or Copartnership, and also the Name or Names of any Person or Persons who may have become a Member or Members of such Society or Copartnership, either in Addition to or in the Place or Stead of any former Member or Members, in the Form expressed in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked Number Two; and such Accounts or Returns shall be from time to time produced and entered or registered at the Stamp Office in Dublin, in like Manner as is hereinbefore required with respect to the original Account or Return to be made for any such Year, in behalf of such Society or Copartnership. X. And be it further enacted, That all Actions and Suits, and also all Petitions to found any Sequestration, or any Commission of Bankruptcy, against any Person or Persons who may be at any Time indebted to any such Society or Copartnership, and all Proceedings of Officers. Entries and tained under remain valid 1826. Account and Registry of new Officers or any further Certificate. Societies or may sue and be |