paffed in the Forty fixth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty,

Treafury may

• intituled, An Att to extend the Time for purchafing the Legal Quays 46 G. 3. c. 118. and Warehoufes in the Port of London, and for authorizing the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury to purchase Somer's and Lyon's Quays in the faid Port: And whereas another A&t paffed in the Forty feventh Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad to give further Time for purchafing the 47 G.3. Seff. 2. Legal Quays and Warehouses, in the Port of London: And whereas c.60. it is expedient that the Powers, Authorities and Provifions, in the 'faid Acts contained, for purchafing Legal Quays, fhould be revived and further continued and extended: May it therefore pleafe Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all the Powers, Authorities, Provifions, Regulations, Directions, Claufes, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters and Things therein mentioned and contained, relating to the purchafing of Legal Quays, Warehoufes, Buildings or other Works, or obtaining Poffeffion thereof, fhall be, and are by this Act revived, and fhall be applied and extended, and fhall operate and be in force, for the Purpofe of enabling the faid Lord High Treafurer, or the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury, to make and complete Purchafes of any Legal Quays, Warehouses, Buildings or Works, or any Dwelling Houfes, Warehoufes, Buildings or other Premifes, fituate adjoining thereto, which the faid Lord High Treafurer, or Lords Commiffiorers of the Treafury, may deem it neceffary or expedient or proper to purchase at any time within Two Years after the paffing of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the fame Powers, Authorities, Provifions, Regulations, Directions, Claufes, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters and Things, were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this A&.

make Purchases of Quays, &c.

Notice to
Owners, &c. of
Quays, &c. of

Purchafe.

II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That no Company, or any other Perfon or Perfons whomfoever, who may hereafter become the Owners, Leffees or Occupiers of any fuch Legal Quays, fhall not be compelled to part with their Eftate and Intereft therein, unless Twelve Months previous Notice in Writing fhall have been given to the faid Company, or any other Perfon or Perfons as aforefaid, by the faid Lord High Treafurer, or Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury for the time being, of their Intention fo to purchase the faid Eftate and Intereft in fuch Quays, Warehouses, Buildings, and other Works aforefaid; and for the Purpofes aforefaid, all the Powers, Provifions, Authorities, Regulations, Directions, Claufes, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters and Things, in the faid recited Act of the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Ma- 39 & 40 G. 2. jefty contained, relating to any fuch Legal Quays, Warehoufes, c. xlv. Buildings, or other Works, or the purchaling thereof, or in an Act paffed in the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Year of His prefent Majefty, therein referred to, authorizing and empowering Bodies Poli tic, Corporate or Collegiate, or Corporations Aggregate or Sole, Tenants for Life or in Tail, or other Perfons having qualified or partial Eftates or Interefts, or Hufbands, Femes Coverts, Guardians, Trustees and Feoffees in Truft for Charities or other Purpofes, Committees, Executors, or Adminiftrators, or any other Perfons

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what.

whatever under any Incapacities or Inabilities, on Behalf of themfelves or others, to treat and to compel any fuch Corporations or Perfons to treat and agree for the Sale of any Houfes, Buildings, Lands, Tenements or Premifes, or in any wife relating thereto, or for afcertaining the Value of any fuch Premifes, in cafe of any Refufal or Inability to treat, or for completing any fuch Purchases or obtaining Poffeffion of any fuch Premifes, or any other Matter or Thing relating thereto, thall, as far as the fame are applicable, or can be applied, extend and be conftrued to extend to this present Act, and fhall operate and be in force in refpect to this Act, for the Purposes of enabling the Lords Commiffioners of His Majesty's Treafury to complete the Purchases of the faid Quays, Warehoufes, Buildings or Works, aforefaid, or any Dwelling Houfes, Warehoufes, Buildings, or other Premises adjoining thereto, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Fu pofes, as if the fame Powers, Authorities, Provifions, Regulations, Directions, Claufes, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters and Things, were particularly repeated and re-enacted in Body of this A&.

CA P. XXIII.

An Act for granting Annuities to discharge certain Exchequer
Bills.
[6th April 1810.]

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

WE

E, Your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom, in Parliament affembled, being defirous of making Provifion to fatisfy the Principal Sums contained in certain Exchequer Bills, now outstanding, to the Amount of Eight Millions Sterling, have refolved, that all Persons interested in or entitled unto certain Exchequer Bills, fhould be entitled in refpect of the Principal Sums contained therein, to fuch Capital Stock in Annuities as are hereinafter mentioned, fubject to the Provifions of this Act; We, Your Majefty's most faithful Commons, do therefore moft humbly beleech Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That every Perfon interested in or intitled unto any Exchequer Bill or Bills dated between the Twentieth Day of Februto receive Centiary One thoufand eight hundred and nine, and the Sixteenth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and ten, bearing Intereft at the Rate of Three pence halfpenny per Centum per Diem, who fhall, between the Twentieth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and ten, and the Twenty feventh Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and ten, both inclufive, have carried the fame to the Office of the mount of Ex-Paymafters of Exchequer Bills, and every Perfon interested in or chequer Bills exchanged.

In what Cafe

Holders of Exchequer Bills

ficates.

entitled unto any Exchequer Bill or Bills dated as aforefaid bearing Intereft at the Rate of Three pence Farthing per Centum per Diem, who fhall between the Twenty fecond Day of March One thousand eight hundred and ten, and the Twenty feventh Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and ten, both inclufive, have carried the fame to the faid Office, unless the faid Principal Sum of Eight MilKous Sterling fhall have been sooner fubfcribed at the faid Office, in

fuch

fuch Exchequer Bills, fhall be refpectively paid the Intereft that shall have become due thereupon to the Ninth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and ten, in Money, as soon after the said Ninth Day of April One thoufand eight hundred and ten, as can conveniently be done, and fhall have in exchange for fuch Exchequer Bills from fuch Paymasters, Certificates to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, entitling the Holders of fuch Exchequer Bills, in refpect of the Amount of the Principal Sums contained therein, to the Sum of One hundred and three Pounds Five Shillings Capital Stock in Annuities after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, to commence from the Fifth Day of January One thoufand eight hun dred and ten, for each One hundred Pounds contained in fuch last mentioned Certificates, and fo in proportion for any greater Sum; and that all Perfons interested in or entitled unto fuch Exchequer Bills as aforefaid fhall, by having delivered the fame between the refpective Days aforefaid, into the faid Office of Paymafters of Exchequer Bills, be deemed to have accepted of the aforefaid Terms; which faid Annuities fhall be paid and payable at the Bank of England, at the Times and in the Manner herein mentioned: Provided always, that the Amount of the Principal Sums contained in fuch Exchequer Bills, to be exchanged for Certificates in pursuance of this Act, fhall not exceed the Sum of Eight Millions Sterling.

II. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful to ExchequerOffice and for the proper Officer or Officers, at the Office of the Pay- to cancel Exche mafters of Exchequer Bills for the time being, to take in and receive quer Bills. from all and every Perfon and Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who is, are or fhall be poffeffed of, interested in, or entitled unto any fuch Exchequer Bills, all the faid Exchequer Bills, to the Amount of Eight Millions Sterling, as aforefaid, which any fuch Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, fhall, between the refpective Days aforefaid, have delivered to fuch Officer or Officers; and the faid Paymasters of Exchequer Bills are hereby authorized and required, upon Receipt of any fuch Bills, to mark and cancel the fame, and to pay the Intereft that fhall have become due thereupon to the faid Ninth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and ten, and to make forth and fign the Certificates herein directed to be made out, in lieu of the Principal Sums contained in the faid Bills, and to deliver the fame to the Parties entitled thereto, as foon after the paffing of this Act as conveniently can be done; and the faid Paymasters of Exchequer Bills are hereby authorized and required to deliver to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England the Cheques or Counterfoils of fuch Certificates.

herein mention

ed.

III. And be it further enacted, That all and every Perfon and Certificates to Perfons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, who fhall have delivered any entitle to certain fuch Exchequer Bill or Bills as aforefaid, upon producing fuch Cer. Annuities pay tificates as are hereby directed to be made forth by the faid Payable at the Tunes mafters of Exchequer Bills, in lieu of the Principal Sums contained in fuch Bill or Bills, fhall, for every Sum of One hundred Pounds contained therein, and fo in proportion for any greater Sum, have and be entitled to the Capital Stock in Annuities, hereinbefore mentioned, which shall be in lieu of fuch Exchequer Bills and the Annuities thereon shall be payable half yearly at the Bank of England, on the Fifth Day of July and the Fifth Day of January in every Year the First Payment to become due on the Fifth Day of July Oon thoufand

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A.D.1810. thoufand eight hundred and ten, and that all Perfons and Corporations entitled to any fuch Annuity or Annuities aforefaid, and his, her and their Adminiftrators, Succeffors and Affigns refpectively, and all Perfons and Corporations lawfully claiming under him, her or them, fhall have good, fure, abfolute and indefeasible Eftates and Interests in the faid Annuities, according to the true Tenor and Meaning of this Act, until the Redemption thereof, in the manner herein directed; and fhall be poffeffed thereof as of a Personal Estate, which fhall not Foreign attach- be defcendible to Heirs, nor liable to any Foreign Attachment by the Cuftom of London, or otherwife; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary notwithstanding.

mert,

Annuities payable out of Confolidated Fund.

Certificates affignable before

August 1, 1810.

Pank on receiving Certificates to give Credit for Capital Stock

Stock may be transferred.

Exchequer to iffue Money to Bank for Payment of Annuities.

IV. And be it further enacted, That all the faid Annuities shall be charged and chargeable upon and payable out of the Confolidated Fund of Great Britain, after paying or referving fufficient to pay all fuch Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts of Parliament; and fhall be fubject to Redemption by Parlia ment, in Manner hereinafter mentioned.

V. And be it further enacted, That all fuch Certificates as shall be delivered in Manner herein before mentioned, fhall be affignable by Indorfement thereupon, made at any Time before the First Day of August One thoufand eight hundred and ten, and no longer, and no fuch Certificate or Affignment thereupon fhall be charged with any Stamp Duties whatever.

VI. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Succeffors, or fuch Perfon or Perfons as they fhall appoint for that Purpose, and he and they is and are hereby refpectively authorized and required to take in and receive all and every of the Certificates to be made out in lieu of the faid Bills as aforefaid, in purfuance of the Directions of this Act, and upon the Receipt of every fuch Certificate fhall, and he and they is and are hereby requir. ed, in refpect of every Sum of One hundred Pounds contained in fuch Certificates fo brought to him or them as aforefaid, and fo in proportion for any greater Sum, forthwith to give Credit in a Book or Books, to be prepared for that Purpofe, for the Capital Stock hereinbefore mentioned, in the faid Annuities of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, and the Perfons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, to whofe Credit fuch Capital Stock fhall be entered in the faid Book or Books, his, her or their Executors, Adminiftrators or Affigns, fhall and may have Power to affin and transfer the fame, or any Part, Share or Proportion thereof, to any other Person or Perfons, Bodies Politic or Corporate what foever, in other Books to be prepared and kept for that Purpofe; and the faid Governor and Company for the time being fhail alfo, on or before the Fifth Day of January One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, tranfmit an attested Duplicate, fairly written on Paper, of the faid Book or Books firft hereinbefore mentioned, into the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer, there to remain for ever.

VII. And, for the more eafy and fure Payment of the Annuities eftablished by this Act, it is hereby further enacted, That the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Succeffors, fhall from time to time appoint and employ One or more fufficient Perfon or Perfons within their Office, in the City of London, to be their Chief or firft Cashier or Cashiers, and One other Perfon or -Per

fons

fons within the fame Office to be their Accountant General, and that fo much of the Monies from time to time being in the Receipt of the Exchequer of the faid Confolidated Fund, by this Act made applicable for that Purpose, as shall be fufficient to anfwer the faid Annuities, fhall, by the Order of the Commiffioners of the Treafury, or any Three or more of them, or the High Treasurer for the time being, without any further or other Warrant to be fued for, had or obtained in that Behalf, from time to time, at the refpective Days of Payment in this A&t appointed, be issued and paid at the faid Receipt of the Exchequer, to the First or Chief Cashier or Cashiers of the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Succeffors, for the time being, by way of Impreft and upon Account for the Payment of the faid Annuities, and that fuch Cashier or Cathiers to whom the faid Monies fhall from time to time be issued, fhall from time to time, without Delay, apply and pay the fame accordingly, and render his or their Accounts thereof according to the due Course of the Exchequer.

VIII. And it is hereby alfo enacted, That the faid Accountant Accountant Ge General for the time being fhall from time to time infpect and ex- neral to examine amine all Receipts and Payments of the faid Cashier or Cafhiers, and Cafhier's Açthe Vouchers relating thereto, in order to prevent any Fraud, Ne- counts, gligence or Delay.

IX. And be it further enacted, That all the Monies converted inte Annuities after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, by virtue of this Act, or intended fo to be, fhall be deemed, reputed and taken to be One Capital or Joint Stock, and fhall be added to and made Part of the Joint Stock of Annuities with, and fhall be redeemable at the fame time, and in like manner as the Annuities carrying an Intereft after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, established by the Acts of the Twenty fourth, Twenty fifth, Thirty fourth, Thirty fifth, Thirty fixth, Thirty feventh, Forty eighth and Forty ninth Years of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, for granting Annuities to fatisfy certain Navy, Victualling and Tranfport Bills, Ordnance Debentures and Exchequer Bills, and that all and every Perfon or Perfons, and Corporations what foever, in proportion to the Money to which he, fhe or they fhall become entitled as aforefaid by virtue of this Act, fhall have, or be deemed to have, a proportional Intereft and Share in the faid Stock of Annuities at the Rate aforefaid.

Money convert-
ed into Five per
Cent. Annuities
to be added to

Joint Stock of
Five per Cent.

already eftablifa

ed.

X. And be it further enacted, That the faid Capital or Joint Stock, Mode of tranfor any Share or Intereft therein, and the proportional Annuities at- ferring Stock. tending the fame, fhall be affignable and transferable as this A&t directs, and not otherwise; and that there fhall conftantly be kept in the Office of the faid Accountant General `for the time being, within the City of London, a Book or Books wherein all Affignments or Transfers of the faid Capital or Joint Stock, or any Part thereof, and the proportional Annuities attending the fame, at the Rate aforefaid, fhall be entered and registered, which Entries fhall be conceived in proper Words for that Purpofe, and fhall be figned by the Parties making fuch Affignments or Transfers, or if any fuch Party or Parties be abfent, by his, her or their Attorney or Attornies thereunto lawfully authorized by Writing under his, her or their Hands and Seals, to be attefted by Two or more credible Witneffes, and that the Perfon or Perfons to whom any fuch Transfer fhall be made D 4 fhall