Pounds for the life of the said Hugh Baron Gough; BE it Enacted, That, in the event of the said grant being made, and so long as and during the time that the said annuity of Two thousand Pounds shall be paid by the said East India Company to the said Hugh Baron 5 Gough, no more than One-half of the said annual payment or allowance of Two thousand Pounds, granted by this Act, shall be paid to the said Hugh Baron Gough. And be it Enacted, That the said annual payment or annuity of Two thousand Pounds shall be and the same is by this Act vested in the 10 said Hugh Lord Gough and the Two next succeeding heirs male of the body of the said Hugh Lord Gough, to whom the said title of Lord Gough shall descend, and the same, or any part thereof, shall not at any time or times hereafter be aliened, conveyed, disposed, charged or encumbered by the said Hugh Lord Gough, or by either of the Two next succeeding heirs male of the body of the said Hugh Lord Gough, on whom the said title shall descend, for any greater or larger estate or time than during the natural life of the person so aliening, conveying, disposing, charging or encumbering the same, so as to prevent the same from descending to the next or succeeding heir male of the body of the said Hugh Lord Gough to whom the said title of Lord Gough shall descend, according to the limitation aforesaid. 15 (Ireland.) A BILL To exempt from Stamp Duty Bonds and Warrants to [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parlia- Preamble: ment holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to 6 & 7 W. 4, consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public c. 116, s. 148. Money by Grand Juries in Ireland," it is amongst other things enacted, that no person shall act as High Constable or Collector, unless he shall have given security at the Assizes before the Grand Jury by whom he shall have been appointed, or before the Justices of the Peace at the Sessions, if such High Constable or Collector 10 shall have been appointed at Sessions, by Two sufficient sureties joining with him in executing a Bond and Warrant of Attorney, without Stamp, to confess Judgment to the Treasurer of the county, conditioned for his duly collecting and paying to such Treasurer on or before the first day of the next Assizes all such public money 15 as he is or shall be required by him to collect: And whereas under and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to assimilate the Stamp Duties in Great Britain 5 & 6 Vict., and Ireland, and to make Regulations for collecting and managing the same until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred c. 82. 500. and 8. & 9 Vict., c. 2. 1. Bonds and Warrants given by Collectors of Grand Jury Sureties, con- the due collection of such Cess, from Stamp and Forty-five," and of another Act of the last Session of Parliament And whereas it is expedient that such Bonds and Warrants of Attorney should be exempted from Stamp Duty, in like manner as they were before the passing of the said last-mentioned Acts; BE it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and 10 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 from and after the First day of July in this present year, all Bonds or Warrants of Attorney to confess judgment, executed or to be executed by any High Constable or 15 Collector, or his or their sureties, conditioned for duly collecting or paying any such public money as aforesaid, or any Grand Jury Cess, under the provisions of the said recited Act of the sixth and seventh to be exempt years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, or any Act amending the same, or under the provisions of a certain 201 other Act of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws for the Regulation of Grand Jury Presentments in the County of Dublin," shall be and they are hereby declared to be exempted from all Stamp Duties; and any such Bond or Warrant of Attorney executed before 25 the said First day of July, without being duly stamped, pursuant to the provisions of the said Acts of the fifth and sixth years and of the eighth and ninth years of Her present Majesty's reign, or of any other Act or Acts, shall and may, notwithstanding the want of such stamp, be admissible and received in evidence in any Court as if the same 30 had been duly stamped: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any judgment, decree, rule or order heretofore made by any Court or Judge. Duty. 7 & 8 Vict., c. 106. Such instruments heretofore executed, to be admissible in evidence, as if duly stamped. 2. Act may be amended, &c. this Session. any And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by |