ed in the same Person. XII. And be it further enacted, That for the Purpose of unit- Offices of Chief ing the Two Offices of Chief and Third Prothonotary in the same and Third ProOfficer, whoever shall be appointed to the First of those Offices thonotary vestthat shall become vacant after the passing of this Act shall, on the other of the said Offices becoming vacant, take upon himself and perform the Duties of the other of the said Offices, and shall receive the Fees accruing in respect of the said last mentioned Office, and shall retain, out of the Fees of the Office last becoming vacant, so much as the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court and the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, shall think a reasonable Compensation for his additional Trouble, and shall account for and pay the Residue of such Fees into His Majesty's Exchequer on the First Day of every Term; and the said Offices of Chief and Third Prothonotary shall, after such Union as aforesaid, be always executed by One Officer, who shall be called the Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, and who shall receive the Fees now payable in respect of the Fees. Offices of Chief and Third Prothonotary, and account for the same in such Manner as may be directed by the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being. XIII. And be it further enacted, That no Person who shall hereafter be appointed to the Office of Chief or Third Prothonotary, or shall hold the said Two Offices when united, shall appoint a Secondary, but the Secondary of such Prothonotary shall be appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court of Common Pleas; and all Secondaries so appointed shall hold their Offices during their good Behaviour, and shall receive such a Proportion of the accustomed Fees of the said Office as the Lord Chief Jus- Fees. tice of the said Court, and the Lord High Treasurer or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, shall think reasonable, and shall account for and pay the Residue into His Majesty's Exchequer on the First Day of every Term. XIV. And be it further enacted, That the Person who shall first be appointed Secondary under the Provisions of this Act shall, when the Office of Secondary to the other Prothonotary appointed by virtue of this Act shall become vacant, take upon himself and perform the Duties of both of the said Secondaries, and receive the Fees, and retain out of the same so much as the said Lord Chief Justice of the said Court, and the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, shall think a reasonable Compensation for his additional Trouble, and shall account for and pay the Residue of such Fees into His Majesty's Exchequer on the First Day of every Term. · XV. And Whereas the Offices of Filacers of all the Counties in England would be executed better and at less Expence by One Person; and as such Offices are now holden by many different Persons, and the whole of such Offices are not likely soon to 'become vacant, that they may, when the present Interests in them shall expire, be all given to some one fit and proper Person; Be it enacted, That when the Office of Filacer of any County or Counties shall become vacant, the Person to be ap pointed Secondary to Chief Prothonotary to be appointed by Lord Chief Justice. Secondary first appointed, in Vacancy of the other, to perform the Duties and receive Compensation. Filacers to be appointed dur Lord Chief Justice. ing Pleasure of pointed to discharge the Duties of such Office shall only receive an Appointment during the Pleasure of the Lord Chief Justice; and that when all the present Interests shall have vacated those Offices by Death or otherwise, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas shall revoke the Appointments made during Pleasure, and appoint some one fit and proper Person to hold the united Office of Filacer of all the Counties of England, during his good Behaviour in the said Office. Chief or Third Prothonotary resigning, to receive from Person holding the Office an annual Sum by Quarterly Payments. How far Prothonotary not accountable to Crown for Fees, while liable to Payment to Predecessors. Fecs paid into XVI. And be it further enacted, That if either of the Persons who now hold the Office of Chief or Third Prothonotary shall, after the passing of this Act, be desirous of resigning his or their Office or Offices, or either of the Persons who now hold the Office of Secondary to the Chief or Third Prothonotary, or shall hereafter be appointed to the Office of Secondary by either of the Persons now holding the Office of Chief or Third Prothonotary, shall, after the Death or Resignation of the Prothonotary to whom such Secondary now belongs, or by whom he shall be hereafter appointed, be desirous of resigning his or their Office or Offices, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court, by Order under his Hand and Seal, to direct that any Person holding either of the Offices so resigned, during the Life of the Person resigning such Office, shall pay to such last mentioned Person such annual Sum by Quarterly Payments, and a proportionate Sum for the Time that shall intervene between the last Quarter Day and the Day of the Death of such last mentioned Person, as the said Lord Chief Justice shall, under all the Circumstances of the respective Cases, think proper; and all Orders of any Chief Justice for the Payment of Money to such retired Prothonotaries or Secondaries, shall be made Rules of the Court of Common Pleas ; which Court may enforce the Payment of any Money due to any such retired Prothonotary or Secondary, if such Money shall remain unpaid for the Space of One Month after the same shall be payable, by Attachment. XVII. And be it further enacted, That no Person who shall be appointed either a Prothonotary or Secondary, in consequence of the Resignation of either of the present Chief or Third Prothonotaries or of their present Secondaries, or of any Secondary appointed by the present Chief or Third Prothonotaries, shall be accountable to the Crown for any of the Fees of their Offices, whilst such Prothonotaries or Secondaries, so appointed as aforesaid, are liable to pay the Sums ordered to be paid to their respective Predecessors under the Directions of this Act. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That upon every Appointment to the Office of Second Prothonotary hereafter to be made, the Fees which have been heretofore paid to the Lord Chief Justice and other Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas, on the Appointment of a Second Prothonotary, shall, before any such Appointment shall be made, be paid, by the Person to be appointed to such Office, into His Majesty's Exchequer for the Use of His Majesty. CAP. CA P. LXXXIV. An Act to provide for the augmenting the Salaries of the Master of the Rolls and the Vice Chancellor of England, the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and the Puisne Judges and Barons of the Courts in Westminster Hall; and to enable His Majesty to grant an Annuity to such Vice Chancellor, and additional Annuities to such Master of the Rolls, Chief Baron and Puisne Judges and Barons, on their Resignation of their respective Offices. WHE [5th July 1825.] HEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Master of 'the Rolls and Vice Chancellor of England, of the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and of the Puisne Judges and Justices in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Barons of the Coif in the Court of Exchequer at Westminster ; and that the total Amount of the annual Salaries to be payable to the said Chief Baron, and Puisne Judges and Barons, should be in lieu of all Fees and Emoluments whatsoever receivable by them immediately before the passing of this Act:' We Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, do most humbly beseech 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 so much and such 39 G. 3. c.110. Parts of an Act made in the Thirty ninth Year of the Reign of § 3. His late Majesty King George the Third, among other Things for the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts in Westminster Hall, as relates to the Amount of the Sums to be issued in Augmentation of the Salary of the Master of the Rolls; and also so much of an Act made in the Forty ninth Year of 49 G.3. c.127. His said late Majesty's Reign, among other Things for further § 2. to 5. augmenting the Salaries of certain of the Judges of the Courts in Westminster Hall, as relates to the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and to the Puisne Judges and Justices in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and to the Barons of the Coif in the Court of Exchequer, shall be and the same are here- repealed. by repealed. II. ‘And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, there shall be issued and paid and payable out of, and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum and Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts of Parliament to be paid out of the same, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon or payable out of the same Fund,) to the several Persons hereinafter mentioned, as an Augmentation of their respective Salaries, so much Money as will make up their respective Salaries and pecuniary Profits Salaries of up out of Con- Master of the 23 G.2. c.25. 1 G.4. c.107. Vice Chancellor. 53 G.3. c.24. Chief Baron. The Puisne Salaries paid Quarterly, and proportionably until Death or Resignation. Tax free. A.D. 1825. Profits belonging to the said respective Offices, to the several annual Sums hereinafter respectively mentioned; (that is to say,) To the Master of the Rolls of the Court of Chancery in England such Sum as, with the Sums now payable to the said Master of the Rolls in pursuance of an Act made in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, among other Things for augmenting the Income of the Office of Master or Keeper of the Rolls, and in pursuance of an Act made in the First Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for appropriating to the Use of the Master of the Rolls for the Time being the Rents of the Rolls Estate, and the Dividends of the Funds in the Court of Chancery arising from the surplus Rent of that Estate, and with the other Fees and Emoluments of the said Office, will make up the Salary of the said Office to the annual Sum of Seven thousand Pounds: To the Vice Chancellor of England such Sum as, with the Sums now payable to the Vice Chancellor in pursuance of an Act of the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to facilitate the Administration of Justice, will make up the Salary of the said Office to the Amount of Six thousand Pounds: To the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer such Sum as, with the Sums now payable to the said Chief Baron out of the Revenues of His Majesty's Civil List, after deducting all Land Tax, Pension Duty and other Duties and Fees charged thereon, or on the said Chief Baron in respect of his Office, and the Costs of all Books, Rolls and Records by him provided in respect thereof, will make up the Salary of the said Office to the Amount of Seven thousand Pounds: To each of the Puisne Judges and Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and to each of the Barons of the Coif in the Court of Exchequer, such Sum as, with the Sums now payable to the said Puisne Judges, Justices and Barons of the Coif respectively, out of the Revenues of His Majesty's Civil List, after deducting all Land Tax, Pension Duty and other Duties and Fees charged thereon, or on the said Judges and Barons in respect of their Offices, will make up the Salaries of the said Puisne Judges, Justices and Barons of the Coif respectively, to the Amount of Five thousand five hundred Pounds. III. And be it further enacted, That the said several Sums of Money to be issued in pursuance of this Act shall from time to time be payable and paid quarterly, free and clear from all Taxes and Deductions whatsoever, on the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October in each and every Year, by equal and even Portions; the First Payment thereupon to be made on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and that if any Person having such Office of Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor, Chief Baron, Puisne Judge or Justice, or Baron of the Coif respectively, shall die or resign such Office, the Executors or Administrators of the Person so dying, or the Person so resigning such Office, shall be entitled to such proportionable Part of the Salary of such Offices respectively as according to the Rates above mentioned shall have accrued during the Time that such Person Person shall have executed any such Office respectively as aforesaid; and that the Successor of any such Person so dying or resigning shall be entitled to have and receive such Salary as shall arise and become due from the Death or Resignation of his Predecessor, in like Manner as if his Patent had borne Date on the Day next subsequent to the Day of the Death or Resignation of his Predecessor. Annuities to c.110. and on Resignation. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by any Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to give and grant unto any Person who may or shall have executed the Office of Master of the Rolls, or Chief Baron of the Exchequer respectively, and who shall respectively have resigned the same, an Annuity or yearly Sum of Money not exceeding the Sum of Four hundred and fifty Pounds; and to any Person who may or shall have executed the Office of a Puisne Judge or Justice of the Court of King's Bench or Common Pleas, or of a Baron of the Coif of the Court of Exchequer, and who shall have resigned the same, an Annuity or yearly Sum of Money not exceeding the Sum of Nine hundred Pounds; and the said several and respective Annuities shall be in Addition to and in Augmentation of the respective Annuities or yearly Sums allowed to be given and granted to such Persons respectively, under the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Thirty ninth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, and under an Act of the Fifty third Year of His said late Majesty's Reign for enabling His Majesty to grant additional Annuities to the Judges of the Courts in Westminster Hall, on their Resignation of their Offices; and in like Manner to commence from and after the Period when the Person-to whom any such Annuity or yearly Sum of Money shall be granted as aforesaid shall have resigned his said Office, and to continue for and during the natural Life of the Person to whom the same shall be granted as aforesaid; and every such Annuity or yearly Sum of Money shall be issued and payable out of, and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund next in order of Payment to, and after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum or Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, and as by this Act are hereinbefore directed to be paid out of the same, but with Preference to all other Payments whatsoever, and shall be payable and paid quarterly, free and clear from all Taxes Tax free. and Deductions whatsoever, by even and equal Portions, at the like Periods, and together with and in the same Manner as the Annuities and yearly Sums which may be given and granted under the said recited Acts, and under and subject to the like Rules, Regulations and Restrictions (so far as the same are applicable), as are contained and prescribed in the said recited Act of the Thirty ninth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, in relation to the Annuities or yearly Sums of Money therein allowed to be given and granted. V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His His Majesty Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by any Letters Patent under empowered to the Great Seal of Great Britain, to give and grant unto any Per- grant Annuity son executing the Office of Vice Chancellor of England for the cellor on his Time being, an Annuity or Yearly Sum of Money not exceeding Resignation, the 6 GEO.IV. I i to Vice Chan |