4. Whenever any vacancy takes place in the office of clerk of assize the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may revise the salary attached to such office and fix another salary in lieu of the former salary, having regard to the nature of the duties and responsibility of such office.

5. A clerk of assize who is paid by salary shall not take any fee for his own use; and if he is authorized by any Act passed or hereafter to be passed to take any fee for any duty performed by him, he shall take (by stamps or otherwise) and account for and pay over such fee in such manner as may be directed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

6. Every person who is appointed after the passing of this Act to be clerk of assize shall hold his office subject to such provisions and regulations as may thereafter be enacted by Parliament respecting the same, and shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of the emoluments of his office in case any alteration is made in the duties thereof, or the same is abolished by authority of Parliament.

7. Any person employed by any clerk of assize and paid any salary or allowance out of moneys provided by Parliament shall not be removed from his office or employment without the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

8. In this Act the term "clerk of assize" includes clerk of the Crown and associate on circuit, and any other office the duties of which are at the passing of this Act or may hereafter be performed by the clerk of assize.

PART II.

FEES ON ORDERS UNDER 30 & 31 VICT. c. 35. s 5.

9. This part of this Act shall be construed as one with the recited Act of the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-five, which may be cited as The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867.

10. Where the officer of the court who in pursuance of section five of The Criminal Law

Amendment Act, 1867, makes out an order for the payment of expenses and compensation to witnesses is paid by salary, or is for the time being allowed under the table of fees relating to his office to take one fee only of fixed amount in respect of his several duties relating to the prosecution of an offender, such officer shall make out and deliver such order without taking any fee for the same, and the said section shall be construed as if all mention of the sum or fee of sixpence were omitted therefrom.

11. Where the fee of sixpence is, in pursuance of section five of The Criminal Law Amendment

Act, 1867, as amended by this Act, taken by a clerk of the peace or other officer, the amount of such fees received by him during any year after the passing of this Act shall be included in the total amount of fees in criminal prosecutions received by him, which is to be ascertained under section eighteen of the Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-six, "for diminishing expense and delay "in the administration of criminal justice in "certain cases," and shall be included in every return or account of fees made or rendered by such clerk of the peace or other officer.

WHEREAS it is expedient to continue for limited times some of the Acts herein-after specified, and to repeal others:

Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1. The Acts specified in the first schedule annexed hereto shall be repealed on and after the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

2. The Acts specified in the second schedule annexed hereto shall expire at the time in that behalf mentioned in "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1868."

3. The Acts specified in the third schedule annexed hereto shall be repealed on and after the date in that behalf mentioned in "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1868.”

4. The Acts specified in the fourth schedule annexed hereto shall continue in force until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides.

5. The Acts specified in the fifth schedule annexed hereto shall be repealed on and after the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides.

6. All other Acts now in force for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any turnpike road in Great Britain which will expire at or before the end of the next session of Parliament or which but for the passing of this Act would otherwise be repealed by the thirty-first and thirty-second Victoria, chapter ninety-nine, shall

continue in force until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides.

7. Whereas by an Act of the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter eighty, intituled "An Act requiring the annual State"ments of Trustees or Commissioners of Turn"pike Roads to be transmitted to the Secretary "of State, and afterwards laid before Parliament,' and the several enactments contained in previous Acts therein referred to, and by an Act of the session of the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eightyseven, intituled "An Act to continue certain

Acts of Parliament relating to turnpike trusts have expired during the last five years, and doubts have arisen whether the said Acts and the enactments therein referred to apply after the expiration of such local Acts: Be it enacted, that where any local Act of Parliament relating to any turnpike trust has expired within the period of five years preceding the date of the passing of this Act, or may hereafter expire, the said Acts of the sessions of the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth, chapter eighty, and the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-seven, and the enactments therein referred to, shall be deemed in the same manner, as if such local Act had not expired, to apply in the case of such trust, and the officers thereof, until such information may have been furnished to the said Secretary of State as will in his opinion enable him to elucidate the statement and make the abstract thereof and prepare his observations thereon, and to lay the same before Parliament as required by the said Acts or one of them.

8. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1869."