5 10 15 for Her Majesty in Council to provide for the payment of a proper stipend, either out of the sum of money payable to the Archbishop or Bishop to be so removed or suspended either wholly or partially, or to require the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners to make such payment as shall by any such Order of Council be expressed: Provided always, That it shall not be necessary for Her Majesty, in case of the suspension of any such Archbishop or Bishop, to order the withholding any part of his stipend, if Her Majesty in Council shall so determine. clause. 14. And be it Enacted, That the word "County" shall for the purposes of Interpretation this Act extend to include every Riding, Division, County of a City, Liberty, Franchise, extra parochial parts or places, and every portion whatever comprised within the geographical boundary of a County; and that the word "Person" shall be taken to mean every body politic, corporate, collegiate or otherwise; and that the words "Land" and 66 Property" shall comprise all hereditaments, tenements, tithes, oblations, fees, and all descriptions of profit or advantage accruing to or connected with episcopal property or persous. 15. And be it Enacted, That, save so far as this Act expressly interferes Act not to repoal therewith, the provisions of the said Statute of the sixth and seventh of Statutes. 20 WILLIAM the Fourth, chapter Seventy-seven, all the powers and provisions contained in that Act, or any other Act relating to ecclesiastical persons and affairs, shall remain in full force. 16, And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be amended any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. this Session. (Ireland.) Α BILL For the further Regulation of certain Offices attached to the [Note.-The Words and Clauses printed in Italics, are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W HEREAS under the provisions of an Act passed in the Preamble: sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Offices of the 6 & 7 Vict. Chief and Second Remembrancers of the Court of Exchequer in c. 78. 5 Ireland," the duties to be discharged by the said Chief and Second Remembrancers have been duly regulated: And whereas in the office of the Second Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer, fees are now payable in certain proceedings to the same amount as the Stamp Duties payable on similar proceedings in the office of the Chief 10 Remembrancer, and it is expedient to convert such Fees into Stamp Duties of an equal amount; and to render the proceedings in the office of the Second Remembrancer conformable to those in the office' of the Chief Remembrancer; Be it therefore 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, THAT from and after the First day of October One thousand eight hundred aud Forty-six, all and every the stamp duties imposed by an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty 20 King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to grant additional Stamp Duties on certain Proceedings in the Court of Chancery and in the Equity Side of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland," and the Schedule thereto annexed, shall be collected and enforced, as fees. to the several documents and every of them therein mentioned, when 4 Geo.4, c.78. 15 1. Proceedings in the office of Second Re to be upon Stamps, as in membrancer the office of the Chief Re membrancer, and not upon payment of 625. A transacted c. 55. transacted as part of the business of the Second Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, as fully and effectually as if the said last-mentioned Act were enacted and expressly applied to the said documents and each of them when so transacted, and as if the said Second Remembrancer had been expressly named 5 | in the said Act and Schedule; and thereupon and from thenceforth the several fees enacted and provided in an Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM 5 & 6 Will. 4, the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for facilitating the Appointment of Sheriffs in Ireland, and for the more effectual audit and passing of their 10 Accounts, and for the more speedy Return and Recovery of Fines, Fees, Forfeitures, Recognizances, Penalties and Deodands, and to abolish certain Offices in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and to amend the Laws relating to Grants in Custodium and Recovery of Debts in Ireland, and to amend an Act of the second and third years of his 15 present Majesty, for transferring the Powers and Duties of the Commissioners of Public Accounts in Ireland to the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts in Great Britain," and by the Second Schedule thereto annexed, shall cease and determine, and be no longer legally receivable by the said Second Remembrancer, or any person 20 for him or on his behalf. 2. Salaries of brancers, Clerks and other persons to be fixed, and power for Second Re- to appoint an 3. Examiner may be appointed. AND whereas since the passing of the said recited Act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, the business of the offices of the Chief and Second Remembrancers has been greatly increased; BE it therefore Enacted, That the Commissioners 25 of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, are hereby authorized and empowered by their warrant to make such addition to the existing salaries or income of the said Chief and Second Remembrancers respectively, as the said Commissioners may think expedient and reasonable; and the Lord Chief 30 Baron of the said Court of Exchequer and any Three or more of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to regulate the establishments of the said offices of the Chief and Second Remembrancers respectively, and to fix the Salaries of the Clerks and other 35 persons whom it may be necessary to employ in the said respective Provided always, and be it Enacted, That if the Lord Chief to 5 to the office of the said Second Remembrancer, he is hereby authorized and empowered to sanction in writing the appointment of such an officer by the Second Remembrancer, and from the time of such appointment the Examiner in the Chief Remembrancer's office shall cease to be the Examiner of the Second Remembrancer. And be it Enacted, That the said Second Remembrancer and the Examiner in his office, shall have all such and the like powers, as to the examination of witnesses in any cause or matter, inquiry or account depending before or in the office of the said Second Remem10 brancer, and as to the taking affidavits, as is now by law, or by any statute in that behalf, or any rule or order of the said Court, possessed by the said Chief Remembrancer or his Examiner respectively. 15 And be it Enacted, That the fees payable to the Examiner to the Chief Remembrancer of the said Court, under the said Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, and the First Table therein named, shall and may be demanded and taken by the Examiner of the Second Remembrancer, for or by reason or on account of the several acts, matters and things therein mentioned, when done in or concerning the business of the office of the Second 20 Remembrancer. And be it Enacted, That so long as Thomas Steele, Esquire, the present Examiner to the Chief Remembrancer, shall hold the office of Examiner either to the present or any future Chief Remembrancer, it shall be lawful to and for the Chief Remembrancer to 25 determine and regulate the proportion of the gross receipts of the said two officers of Examiners to the Chief and Second Remembrancers, or any fixed sum, by way of salary, out of the produce thereof, which, in his judgment, should be paid to each of the said two officers respectively, and to any other clerks or clerk in the said offices, having regard 30 to the duties performed by them respectively, and also having regard any loss of income which the said Thomas Steele would otherwise sustain in relation to the past average receipts of his office, if the entire fees received by or in the office of the Examiner of the Second Remembrancer were retained by said Examiner of the Second Re to 35 membrancer, or appropriated solely to his office. And be it Enacted, That from and after the time that the said Thomas Steele shall cease to hold said office of Examiner to the present or any future Chief Remembrancer, each of the said Examiners shall be entitled to the emoluments, fees and profits received in the office of which he is Examiner, but subject as hereinafter provided; (that is to say) that from and after the said period it shall be lawful for the Chief ་ 625. A 2 and |