TABLE (B.) Registrations Visa of Passport Valuation of Goods 1 2 Dollars. 2 Dollars. 1 Dollar. 1 Dollar. Dollar. 1 per Cent. Attending Sales, per Cent. where there has been a Charge for valuing; otherwise 1 per Cent. Attendance out of Consular Office at a Shipwreck, Five Dollars per Diem for his personal Expences, over and above his travelling Expences. Do. on opening a Will Management of Property of British Subjects dying Intestate 5 Dollars. 2 per Cent. The Dollars mentioned in the preceding Tables are in all Cases to be paid by the Delivery of Dollars, each of which is to be of the Value of Four Shillings and Sixpence Sterling, and no more, according to the Rate of Exchange prevailing at the Place where such Payment is made. An Act to make Provision for the Salaries of certain Bishops, W Patent has been graciously pleased to direct and appoint appointings WHEREAS His Majesty by His several Royal Letters Letters Patent deacons and Islands. 'that the Island of Jamaica, the Bahama Islands and the Settle- Bishops, Arch‹ments in the Bay of Honduras, and their respective Depen- Ministers for dencies, should be and become a Bishoprick, and the Diocese the Dioceses of and See of a Bishop of the United Church of England and Ire- Jamaica, and of · land as established by Law, to be called The Bishoprick of Barbadoes and Jamaica;' and that there should be One Bishop of the said the Leeward Diocese, and that there should also be One Archdeacon and Seven Ministers of the Gospel in and for the said Diocese; and in like Manner that the Islands of Barbadoes, Grenada, Saint Vincent's, Dominica, Antigua and Mountserrat, Saint Christopher's, Nevis and the Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Tobago and Saint Lucie, and their respective Dependencies, should be and 'become a Bishoprick, and the Diocese and See of a Bishop, to < be called The Bishoprick of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands,' and that there shall be One Bishop of the said last mentioned 'Diocese, and that there should also be One Archdeacon in and for the Island of Barbadoes, and One Archdeacon in and for the • Island of Antigua, and that there should be Thirteen Ministers of the Gospel and Three Catechists within the said last men'tioned Diocese ; and it is expedient that Provision should be • made L1 3 Salaries to be payable to Bishops, &c. Bishops. Archdeacons. Ministers. Catechists, Tax free. Treasury may issue Money out of Consolidated Fund, to provide for Payment of said Salaries. His Majesty empowered to grant Annui ties to Bishops retiring after Ten Years. 'made for the Payment of yearly Salaries to such Bishops, Archdeacons, Ministers and Catechists respectively, and also to enable His Majesty to grant to such Bishops respectively yearly Pen⚫sions or Annuities on their retiring from their Dioceses;' 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 the Persons who shall from time to time exercise and enjoy the several Dignities and Offices hereinafter mentioned, under or by virtue of His Majesty's Letters Patent or Authority, shall receive the several Salaries or annual Sums hereinafter respectively specified and set forth; that is to say, the Bishop of the Diocese of Jamaica, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies, the Salary or annual Sum of Four thousand Pounds each, of lawful Money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Archdeacon of the Island of Jamaica, and the Archdeacon of the Island of Barbadoes, and the Archdeacon of the Island of Antigua, the Salary or annual Sum of Two thousand Pounds each, of the like lawful Money; the Seven Ministers of the Gospel in the Diocese of Jamaica, and the Thirteen Ministers of the Gospel in the Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, the Salary or annual Sum of Three hundred Pounds each, of the like lawful Money; the Three Catechists in the said Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, the Salary or annual Sum of One hundred Pounds each, of the like lawful Money; and that all the said several Salaries and annual Sums shall be paid and payable free and clear from all Taxes and Deductions whatsoever. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and required from time to time, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands, to direct the proper Officer of the Exchequer to issue and pay, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to such Person or Persons as may be appointed to receive the same, all and every such Sums and Sum of Money as may from time to time be necessary for the Payment of all or any of the several Salaries or annual Sums made payable by this Act, which may have accrued respectively at any Time before the passing of this Act, or which may from time to time accrue and become due and payable at any Time after the passing of this Act. III. 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 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to give and grant unto any Person who may or shall execute the Office of Bishop of the Diocese of Jamaica, or the Office of Bishop of the Diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands respectively, and who shall resign the same respectively, an An 20 nuity nuity or yearly Sum of Money not exceeding the Sum of One. nation as aforesaid of the said Office: Provided always, that no Proviso. ' IV. And Whereas it is expedient that the Charge to be created by the Salaries or Pensions which may from time to time be payable under the Authority of this Act to the Bishops, Archdeacons, Ministers or Catechists appointed or to be appointed by His Majesty as aforesaid, should be charged upon the Duties of Four and a Half per Centum payable to His Majesty in the West Indies, whenever the said Duties, after Payment of the prior Charges thereon, shall afford the Means of defraying the Whole or any Part of such Salaries or Pensions;' Be it therefore enacted, That the said Salaries and Pensions shall become and be a Charge upon the said Duties of Four and a Half per Centum next in Priority after the Salaries of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors and other public Officers, payable out of those Duties after the Termination of any other Charges now existing thereupon, and that any and every Surplus which shall at any Time arise out of the Produce of those Duties after defraying all such other Charges now existing thereupon, or by reason of the Cessation of any of those Charges, shall go and be applied in the first Instance to defray the Charges of the Salaries and Pensions to be granted under the Authority of this Act accordingly. Salarics and Pensions to be a Charge on the Letters Patent 25 Car.2, and 29 Car.2. Treasury may agree for Pur chase of Fees, &c. of certain Offices in Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas by Annuities. Annuities to be paid to Persons entitled to such Fecs, &c. WHEREAS by CAP. LXXXIX. An Act to authorize the Purchase of the Office of Receiver II. And be it further enacted, That the said Annuity or Annuities so to be granted shall go and be paid from time to time to such Person or Persons as would have been entitled to the Fees, Profits and Advantages of the said Offices respectively under the said Letters Patent, in case this Act had not been passed. CAP. CA P. XC. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty seventh Year of His HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty seventh Year of 57 G.3. c.65. What Officers deemed comprized in 1st Class of Ofsaid Act. fices of the • His Majesty to recompense the Services of Persons holding or ་ CA P. |