is not for the time being required for the purposes of a burial ground, in such manner and on such terms as such board may see fit, but so nevertheless that power shall be reserved to such board to resume any such land which may be required for the purposes aforesaid upon giving six months' notice. 18. In every case in which any Order in Council has been or shall hereafter be issued for the discontinuance of burials in any churchyard or burial ground, the burial board or churchwardens, as the case may be, shall maintain such churchyard or burial ground of any parish in decent order, and also do the necessary repair of the walls and other fences thereof, and the costs and expenses shall be repaid by the overseers, upon the certificate of the burial board or churchwardens, as the case may be, out of the rate made for the relief of the poor of the parish or place in which such churchyard or burial ground is situate, unless there shall be some other fund legally chargeable with such costs and expenses. 19. Nothing in this act contained shall in anywise abridge, lessen, or defeat any power, right, or privilege of any local board of health, being the burial board of a borough created or to exist under or by virtue of any local act of Parliament. 20. Any local board of health acting as or created a board under or by virtue of the powers of any local act of Parliament shall and may have and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges which by this act or by the secondly-recited act are or can or may be had, enjoyed, or exercised by any burial board therein named. 21. The said acts of the 15 & 16 Vict., 16 & 17 Vict., and 17 & 18 Vict., and this act shall be read and construed together as one act. CAP. CXXIX. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund and the Surplus of Ways and Means to the Service of the Year 1855, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. [11th August, 1855.] CAP. CXXX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seven Millions by Exchequer Bills and Exchequer Bonds, for the Service of the Year 1855. [14th August, 1855.] CAP. CXXXI. An Act to render more secure the Conditions upon which Sect. 1. Sale, &c. of premises in respect of which grant of money has been made not to be valid without consent of Secretary of State, &c. 2. Purchasers not to be affected without notice. Whereas it is expedient that greater security should be afforded for the due application of money advanced in certain cases to the trustees or managers of schools by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Parliamentary grant for the promotion of education in Great Britain: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows: Sect. 1. Where any grant hath been made or shall hereafter be made out of any sums of money heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted by Parliament for the purposes of education in Great Britain, under the advice of any Committee of the Council on Education for the time being, to the trustees, managers, or other persons applying on behalf of any school, with the consent of the trustees or persons holding the legal estate thereof, for or towards the purchase of the site or the erection, enlargement, or repair of the school, or the residence of the master or mistress, or the furnishing such school or residence, no sale, exchange, or mortgage of the premises in respect of which such grant hath been or may hereafter be made, in exercise of any power contained in the conveyance or other deed relating thereto, or under any other legal authority, shall be valid unless either the consent of the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the time being, in writing under his hand, be given to the same, or the amount of the grant which shall have been made as aforesaid shall be repaid to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being; and whenever any grant as aforesaid shall be hereafter made, a memorandum, to be signed by one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, 'shall be indorsed upon some one of the title deeds relating to the school, certifying to the M fact of the grant having been made upon such application, and for some such purpose as aforesaid, and referring to this act; and in any case in which any grant as aforesaid shall have been already made, so soon as such memorandum shall have been indorsed and signed on any such deed, all bonds, covenants, or other personal obligations heretofore given or entered into to prevent the exercise of any such power of sale, exchange, or mortgage without such consent as aforesaid, shall, so far as they relate to such exercise, but no further, be annulled. 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice, nor be deemed to apply to any school in respect of any such grant heretofore made without any such bond, covenant, or other personal obligations or conditions, as to sale, exchange, or mortgage, having been entered into by the trustees or persons holding the legal estate in such schools and the Committee of Council on Education. CAP. CXXXII. An Act for facilitating the Erection of Dwelling-houses for the Labouring Classes. [14th August, 1855.] Sect. 1. Short title. 2. Power to form company. 4. Certificate of incorporation. 5. Stat. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 16, incorporated with this act. 6. Purpose of company. 7. Regulation as to dwellings. 8. Permissive rights of the company. 9. Power to mortgage given in certain cases. 10. Rules as to demises by the company. 11. Power to company to purchase interests of lessees. 12. Penalty on misappropriation of funds. 13. Penalty in case dwellings are not sufficiently drained &c. 14. Penalty on obstructing inspector. 15. Certain provisions of the 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18, incorporated with this act. 16. Recovery of penalties. 17. Extent of act. Whereas it is expedient that facilities should be afforded for the erection of healthful and commodious dwellings for the "The labouring classes: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:Sect. 1. This act may for all purposes be cited as Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1855." Constitution of Company. 2. Any number of persons not less than six may, by subscribing articles of association, or a schedule thereto, form themselves into a company for the purposes hereinafter mentioned the articles shall be in the form set forth in the schedule hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances permit: there shall be set opposite to the name of each subscriber the sum subscribed for by him in the capital of the company, and his subscription shall be deemed to imply a covenant on the part of himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay to the company the amount so subscribed for. 3. The articles shall be registered by the registrar of jointstock companies, who shall charge in respect of such registration such fees as may from time to time be directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and plantations, hereinafter called the Board of Trade; and upon such registration being made, the subscribers, together with such other persons as may from time to time become members of the company, shall be a body corporate by the name prescribed in the articles of association, having a perpetual succession and a common seal; but no such registration shall be made until it is proved to the satisfaction of the said registrar that threefourths of the proposed capital has been subscribed for, and that 107. per cent. upon such capital has been paid up. 4. The said registrar shall grant a certificate stating the date of the incorporation of the company, and such certificate shall in all cases be primâ facie evidence of the fact of such incorporation. 5. The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815, shall be incorporated into and form part of this act, with the exception of the provisions relating to the recovery of damages, and to the provision to be made for affording access to the special act; and in the construction of the said Companies Clauses Act the articles of association shall be deemed to be the special act, and the date of the incorporation of the company, as certified in manner aforesaid, shall be deemed to be" the time of the passing of the special act;" and whenever the term "prescribed" is used in this or in the said incorporated act, it shall mean "prescribed by the articles of association." Rights and Obligations of Company. 6. Every company incorporated under this act, and hereinafter referred to as "the company," shall be established for the purpose of providing dwellings for the labouring classes, with or without private gardens, or with or without common gardens or places of common recreation for the use of the inmates of such dwellings, and for no other purpose whatever; and for the above purpose the company shall have power to accept grants and leases of and to purchase and hold land, to erect thereon dwellings for the labouring classes, and to let such dwellings to lodgers by the week or month, or to demise the same to lessees for any estate or interest not greater than a term of twenty-one years, upon such terms of remuneration as they think fit; subject to this proviso, that the company shall not be entitled to hold at any one time more than ten acres of land, except with the license of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade. 7. The following regulations shall be made respecting any dwellings provided by the company; that is to say, (1). All such dwellings shall, as respects drainage, ventilation, supply of water, and necessary conveniences, be constructed and provided in such manner as may be approved by the General Board of Health, and shall be maintained by the company in good and sufficient repair : (2). Any person appointed by the General Board of Health may at all reasonable times inspect any such dwellings as aforesaid. place in pursuance of the said Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or as near thereto as circumstances admit; and the clauses of such last-mentioned act with respect to the transfer or transmission of shares shall, with the necessary alterations, be held to apply to the transfer or transmission of the interests of any such lessees as aforesaid. 11. The company may purchase the interest of any registered lessee, and upon such purchase being made such interest shall be deemed to be extinguished, and the company may demise the premises so purchased in the same manner as if no previous lease thereof had ever before been made. 12. If any funds of the company are advanced to any person by way of loan, or are, with a view of gaining profit, appropriated to any purpose other than the purpose for which the company is hereby declared to be established, every director of the company shall, in addition to any other liabilities he may be under to replace any such funds, be liable, at the suit of any shareholder or other person, whether implicated or not in such loan or misappropriation, to pay to such shareholder or other person, to be applied by him to his own use, in respect of each such advance or misappropriation, a sum by way of penalty not greater in amount than the sum so advanced or misappropriated, and not less than half such sum. 13. If any dwelling belonging to the company is insufficiently drained or ventilated, or insufficiently supplied with water or necessary conveniences, or is in a bad state of repair, the General Board of Health may, by order left at any office of the company, or served on any director of the company, require the company, within a reasonable time, to be specified in such order, sufficiently to drain, ventilate, and supply with water and necessary conveniences, or put in a good state of repair, such dwelling; and if default is made in compliance with the requisitions of such notice, the company shall incur a penalty not exceeding 51. for every day during which such default continues; and it shall be lawful for any justices by other-whom such penalty is imposed, if they think fit, to order the whole or any part thereof to be laid out in executing the works in respect of which the penalty is incurred; and in addition to the above remedy the said General Board may themselves do the works required by such notice, and recover from the company in a summary manner the expenses of so doing the same; but any order made by the General Board in pursuance of this section may be appealed against, and, on application by motion, be set aside or otherwise modified by any of her Majesty's superior courts of law at Westminster. 8. The following matters and things may be prescribed by the articles of association, and if so prescribed, but not wise, shall be binding; that is to say, (1). That the capital of the company may, with the approval of the Board of Trade, and subject to such condition as they may impose, be increased by the issue of a prescribed number of shares, and of a prescribed amount: (2). That no premium is to be taken in respect of any lease granted by the company : (3). That the interest granted to any lessee is not to exceed the prescribed term, such term being less than twenty one years: (4). That the interest of a lessee is not to be disposed of without the consent of the directors: But no power hereby given shall be exercised in such manner as to prejudice any right under any subsisting lease, or contract for a lease. 9. In cases where it is prescribed by the articles of association that the dwellings belonging to the company are to be let only to lodgers by the week or month, and not for any greater interval, the company may, as soon as half the subscribed capital is paid up, borrow on the security of their property to the prescribed amount, such amount not to exceed one-third of such subscribed capital; but no mortgagee shall have power to eject any tenant before the expiration of his tenancy; and in no other case shall the company have power to borrow money. 10. The following rules shall be observed with respect to demises and letting made by the company : (1). The dwellings provided by the company, with the private gardens (if any) appurtenant thereto, shall be divided into such parcels as may be conveniently held in distinct occupations: (2). The parcels shall be numbered in arithmetical progression, beginning with the figure one, each parcel being distinguished by a separate number: (3). The interests of the lessees, other than monthly or weekly tenants, in the property of the company, shall be deemed to be shares in a capital consisting of the dwelling-houses of the company, with their appurtenances; and in all cases where such interests are not restricted to the original lessee, the transfer or transmission of such interests shall take place in manner in which the transfer or transmission of shares takes Board of Health in the inspection of any dwelling belonging to 14. If any person obstructs any inspector of the General the company, he shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding 51. Miscellaneous. 15. The provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, with reference to the purchase of lands by agreement, shall be incorporated with this act, and shall apply to the purchase of land by the company in pursuance of this act. 16. All penalties imposed by this act, or by any bye-laws made in pursuance of this act or of any act incorporated here. with, and all sums of money hereby directed to be recovered in a summary manner, may be recovered in a summary manner before two justices, as directed by an act passed in the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, intituled "An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary Convictions and Orders." 17. This act shall not extend to Scotland. 1. The name of the company shall be "The Company." 2. The capital of the company shall be pounds, divided into shares of pounds each. 3. The first ordinary meeting of the company shall be held days after the date of the incorporation of the company. 4. The number of directors shall be ; but the company may reduce such number to any number not less than and may increase it to any number not exceeding · 5. The first directors of the company shall be the following persons; that is to say, [insert names of directors]. CAP. CXXXIII. An Act for limiting the Liability of Members of certain Jointstock Companies. [14th August, 1855.] Sect. 1. Mode of obtaining limited liability by future companies. 2. Mode of obtaining limited liability by companies now or hereafter registered. 3. Mode of obtaining limited liability by existing companies constituted under private acts of Parliament. 4. Regulations to be observed on complete registration with limited liability. 5. Penalties to be inflicted for non-observance of such regulations. 6. Every increase in the nominal capital to be regis. tered, under a penalty. 7. Members of certificated companies to be free from personal liability. 8. Effect of execution against company. 9. If dividends be made and corporation insolvent, each director consenting thereto liable. 10. Notes of shareholders not receivable in payment of calls: liability of each officer consenting to a loan to shareholders. 11. Rights of creditors of existing companies preserved. 12. Change in the name of a company under the act not to affect the rights of the company or other parties. 13. Companies to be dissolved and wound up when threefourths of the capital lost. 14. Auditors to be appointed, subject to approval Board of Trade. 15. Recovery of penalties. 16. Act to be taken as part of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110. of 17. Provisions of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 111; 11 & 12 Vict. c. 45; and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 108, to apply to this act. 18. Act not to apply to Scotland. 19. Short title. Whereas it is expedient to enable members of joint-stock companies to limit the liability for the debts and engagements of such companies to which they are now subject: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows: Sect. 1. Any joint-stock company to be formed under the act of the 8 Vict. c. 110, (other than an assurance company), with a capital to be divided into shares of a nominal value not less than 107. each, may obtain a certificate of complete registration with limited liability upon complying with the conditions following, in addition to doing all other matters and things now required in order to obtain a certificate of complete registration; that is to say, (1). The promoters shall state on their returns to the office for provisional registration that such company is proposed to be formed with limited liability: (2). The word "limited" shall be the last word of the name of the company: (3). The deed of settlement shall contain a statement to the effect that the company is formed with limited liability: (4). The deed of settlement shall be executed by share holders, not less than twenty-five in number, holding shares to the amount, in the aggregate, of at least three-fourths of the nominal capital of the company, and there shall have been paid up by each of such shareholders, on account of his shares, not less than 201. per centum: (5). The payment of the above per-centage shall be acknowledged in or indorsed on the deed of settlement, and the fact of the same having been bonâ fide so paid shall be verified by a declaration of the promoters, or any two of them, made in pursuance of the act made in the 6 Will. 4, c. 62: And upon such conditions being complied with, and such other matters and things done, the registrar of joint-stock companies shall grant a certificate of complete registration with limited liability to such company. 2. Any joint-stock company, except as aforesaid, now or hereafter completely registered under the said act of the 8 Vict. [c. 110], may obtain a certificate of complete registration with limited liability, in manner and subject to the condition following; that is to say, The directors of such company may, with the consent of at least three-fourths in number and value of its shareholders who may be present, personally or by proxy, at any general meeting summoned for that purpose, make such alteration in the name, nominal value of shares, and deed of settlement of the company as may be necessary for enabling it to comply with the conditions hereinbefore mentioned with respect to joint-stock companies seeking to obtain certificates of complete registration with limited liability; and upon compliance with such conditions, the registrar, after the affairs of the company shall at the expense of the company have been audited by some person appointed by the Board of Trade, and on certificate from the said board that the complete solvency thereof has been established on such audit to its satisfaction, shall grant to such company, by its new name, a certificate of complete registration with limited liability; and thereupon all privileges and obligations hereby attached to companies with limited liability, their shareholders, directors, and officers, shall attach to the company named in such certificate, its shareholders, directors, and officers. 3. Any joint-stock company, except as aforesaid, constituted under any private act of Parliament, whereof it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade, after the affairs of the company shall at the expense of the company have been audited by some person appointed by the Board of Trade, that the said company is perfectly solvent, and that not less than 201. per centum of three-fourths of the nominal capital of such company has been paid up, may obtain a certificate of complete registration with limited liability, in manner and subject to the condition following; that is to say, The directors of such company may, with the consent of at least three-fourths in number and value of its shareholders who may be present, personally or by proxy, at any general meeting summoned for that purpose, make such alteration in the name and nominal value of shares as may be necessary for enabling it to comply with the condition in that behalf hereinbefore mentioned with respect to jointstock companies seeking to obtain certificates of complete registration with limited liability; and upon compliance with such condition, the registrar, on receipt of a certificate of the solvency of the company, and of the payment of capital as before mentioned, shall grant to such company, by its new name, a certificate of complete registration with limited liability; and thereupon all privileges and obligations hereby attached to companies with limited liability, their shareholders, directors, and officers, shall attach to the company named in such certificate, its shareholders, directors, and officers. 4. Every company that has obtained a certificate of complete registration with limited liability shall paint or affix, and shall keep painted or affixed, its name on the outside of every office or place in which the business of the company is carried on, in a conspicuous position, in letters easily legible, and shall have its name engraven in legible characters on its seal, and shall have its name mentioned in legible characters in all notices, advertisements, and other official publications of such company, and in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, orders for money, bills of parcels, invoices, receipts, letters, and other writings used in the transaction of the business of the company. 5. If such company do not paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed, its name in the manner aforesaid, each of the directors thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 57. for not so painting or affixing its name, and for every day during which such name is not so kept painted or affixed; and if any director or other officer of the company, or any person on its behalf, use any seal purporting to be a seal of the company whereon its name is not so engraven as aforesaid, or issue or authorise the issue of any notice, advertisement, or other official publication of such company, or of any bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque, order for money, bill of parcels, invoice, receipt, letter, and other writing used in the transaction of the business of the company, wherein its name is not mentioned in the manner aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty of 50%., and shall further be personally liable to the holder of any such bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque, or order for money, for the amount thereof, unless the same shall be duly paid by the company. 6. No increase to be made in the nominal capital of any company that has obtained a certificate of complete registra tion with limited liability shall be advertised or otherwise treated as part of the capital of such company until it has been registered with the registrar of joint-stock companies; and no such registration shall be made unless a deed is produced to the registrar, executed by shareholders holding shares of the nominal value of not less than 107. to the amount in the aggregate of at least three-fourths of the proposed increased capital of the company, nor unless it is proved to the registrar, by such acknowledgment and declaration as hereinafter mentioned, that upon each of such shares there has been paid up by the holder thereof an amount of not less than 201. per centum; and if any such increase of capital as aforesaid be advertised or otherwise treated as part of the capital of the company before the same has been so registered, every direc tor of such company shall incur a penalty of 501.; and the payment of the above per-centage shall be acknowledged in or indorsed on the deed so produced, and the fact of the same having been bonâ fide so paid shall be verified by a declaration of the directors, or any two of them, made in pursuance of the said act made in the 6 Will. 4, c. 62. 7. The members of a joint-stock company which has so obtained a certificate of complete registration with limited liability, after such certificate is granted, notwithstanding the provisions contained in the said act of the 8 Vict. [c. 110], shall not be liable under any judgment, decree, or order which shall be obtained against such company, or for any debt or engagement of such company, further or otherwise than is hereinafter provided. such company, but every such creditor or other person shall be entitled to all such remedies against the company in its corporate capacity, and against every person then being or having been a member of such company, as he would have been entitled to in case such certificate had not been obtained. 12. No alteration made by virtue of this act in the name of any company shall prejudice or affect any right which previously to such alteration has accrued to such company as against any other company or person, or which has accrued to any other company or person as against such company, but every such company as against any other company or person, and every other company or person as against such company and the members thereof, shall be entitled to all such remedies as they or he would have been entitled to if no such alteration had been made; and no such alteration shall abate or render defective any legal proceeding pending at the time when such alteration is made. 13. In the case of any company which has obtained a certificate of limited liability, whenever, on taking the yearly accounts of such company, or by any report of the auditors thereof, it appears that three-fourths of the subscribed capital stock of the company has been lost, or has become unavailable in the course of trade, from the insolvency of shareholders, or from any other cause, the trading and business of such company shall forthwith cease, or shall be carried on for the sole purpose of winding up its affairs, and the directors of such company shall forthwith take proper steps for the dissolution of such company, and for the winding up of its affairs, either by petition to the Court of Chancery, or by exercise of the powers of the deed of settlement, or by such other lawful course as they may think most fit. 8. If any execution, sequestration, or other process in the nature of execution, either at law or in equity, shall have been issued against the property or effects of the company, and if there cannot be found sufficient whereon to levy or 14. In cases where a certificate of registration with limited enforce such execution, sequestration, or other process, then liability has been obtained, when one auditor only shall have such execution, sequestration, or other process may be issued been appointed under the 38th section of the 8 Vict. c. 110, against any of the shareholders to the extent of the portions that single auditor, and when two or more such auditors shall of their shares respectively in the capital of the company not have been so appointed, then one of such auditors, shall be sub. then paid up, but no shareholder shall be liable to pay, in satis-ject to the approval of the Board of Trade, and such board, in faction of any one or more such execution, sequestration, or case the auditor submitted to them for approval shall for any other process, a greater sum than shall be equal to the portion reason appear unfit or objectionable, shall appoint another in of his shares not paid up: provided always, that no such exe- his place. cution shall issue against any shareholder except upon an order of the court, or of a judge of the court, in which the action, suit, or other proceeding shall have been brought or instituted, and such court or judge may order execution to issue accordingly, with the reasonable costs of such application and execution, to be taxed by a master of the said court; and for the purpose of ascertaining the names of the shareholders, and the amount of capital remaining to be paid upon their respective shares, it shall be lawful for any person entitled to any such execution, at all reasonable times, to inspect the register of shareholders without fee. 9. If the directors of any such company shall declare and pay any dividend when the company is known by them to be insolvent, or any dividend the payment of which would to their knowledge render it insolvent, they shall be jointly and seve rally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted, so long as they shall respectively continue in office; provided that the amount for which they shall all be so liable shall not exceed the amount of such dividend; and that if any of the directors shall be absent at the time of making the dividend, or shall object thereto, and shall file their objection in writing with the clerk of the company, they shall be exempted from the said liability. 10. No note or obligation given by any shareholder to the company whereof he is a shareholder, whether secured by any pledge or otherwise, shall be considered as payment of any money due from him on any share held by him, and no loan of money shall be made by any such company to any shareholder therein; and if any such loan shall be made to a shareholder, the directors who shall make it, or who shall assent thereto, shall be jointly and severally liable to the extent of such loan and interest for all the debts of the company contracted before the repayment of the sum so lent. 11. Where any company completely registered under the said act of the 8 Vict. [c. 110], or any company constituted under any act of Parliament, shall obtain a certificate of complete registration with limited liability, the grant of such certificate shall not prejudice or affect any right which previously to the grant of such certificate has accrued to any creditor or other person against the company in its corporate capacity, or against any person then being or having been a member of 15. Every pecuniary penalty imposed in pursuance of this act shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown, and shall be recoverable accordingly. 16. This act shall, so far as is consistent with the contents and subject-matter thereof, be taken as part of and construed with the said act of the 8 Vict. c. 110, and the 11 Vict. c. 78; and all the provisions of the said acts, save in so far as they are varied by this act, shall apply to persons and companies applying for or obtaining a certificate of complete registration with limited liability. 17. The provisions of the act of the 8 Vict. c. 111, and of the Joint-stock Companies Winding-up Act, 1848, and of the Joint-stock Companies Winding-up Amendment Act, 1849, shall apply to persons and companies obtaining a certifi cate of complete registration with limited liability, subject only to such variations as may be occasioned by the provisions of this act. 18. This act shall not apply to Scotland. 19. This act may be cited for all purposes as "The Limited Liability Act, 1855." Whereas, for the prevention of delays and inconveniences in the carrying on of such portion of the business of the High Court of Chancery as is transacted by the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors respectively sitting at chambers, it is requisite that an addition to the number of junior clerks attached to the courts of the said judges respectively should be forthwith made, and a further like addition may hereafter be come necessary: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:- 1. It shall be lawful for the Master of the Rolls and every of the Vice-Chancellors to appoint forthwith after the passing of this act one additional junior clerk to each of their respective chief clerks, and for the Master of the Rolls and the Vice 1 Chancellors for the time being respectively to fill up from time to time such vacancies as may occur in the respective offices of the junior clerks so appointed. 2. Such of the provisions contained in the sections numbered respectively 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 44, and 45 of the act, intituled "An Act to abolish the Office of Master in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and to make Provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the said Court," passed in the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, as relate to the removal from office, striking off the rolls, tenure of office, attendances, duties, prohibitions, prosecutions, penalties and punishments, salaries and annuities, of and respecting the junior clerks by the same act authorised to be appointed, are hereby extended and applied to and in the case of the junior clerks to be appointed under this act. 3. Lord Chancellor may increase salaries of chief clerks. 4. Salaries of junior clerks may be apportioned among them. 5. The office of Master of Reports and Entries shall be and the same is hereby abolished from the first occurrence of a vacancy therein after the passing of this act, or from such other period before the occurrence of a vacancy as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls, may by order direct. cellor is hereby required to continue the said James Thomas Fry as an officer of the Court of Chancery for the performance of the duties hereinbefore mentioned, or such other duties as aforesaid, after and notwithstanding that the abolition of the said office may have taken effect under this act. 10. Provision for continuance of the present Master's salary. 11. Additional salary to present Clerks of Records and Writs in certain cases. 12. Salaries of the clerks in the Report-office. 13. Power to Lord Chancellor to grant retiring allowance to Alexander M'Kean. 14. How salaries, compensations, &c. to be paid. 15. If any person shall wilfully take or make any false oath, affirmation, or declaration before any solicitor authorised as in the act of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78, is mentioned, such person shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury, whether the same oath, affirmation, or declaration shall or shall not have been taken or made at a place at which, under the provisions of the said last-mentioned act, the same oath, affirmation, or declaration might lawfully be taken or made; but every solicitor before whom any oath, affirmation, or declaration shall be taken or made under the last-mentioned act shall state truly in the jurat or attestation at what place the same oath, affirmation, or declaration has been taken or made. 16. And whereas, by divers acts of Parliament, the Court of Chancery is empowered to make orders in respect of the dispo 6. From and after the time when such abolition shall take effect, the business of the Report-office (except such part thereof as is transacted by the entering clerks) shall be conducted and carried on under the superintendence, direction,sition of trust funds, and other matters under its jurisdiction, and control of the Clerks of Records and Writs, who shall thenceforth discharge all such duties relative to the Reportoffice as may then belong to the office of the Master of Reports and Entries, as far as the same may be from time to time cessary or proper to be discharged; and such part of the business of the Report-office as is transacted by the entering clerks shall be conducted and carried on by such entering clerks (who shall be thenceforth styled "the Entering Clerks to the Registrars") under the superintendence, direction, and control of the senior registrar for the time being, subject nevertheless, as to all and every part of the business now transacted in the Report-office, to such rules and regulations as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls, may from time to time think fit by order to make concerning the same. upon petition presented or motion made in a summary way, without bill, but such orders cannot be made in respect of the same matters upon application at chambers: be it therefore ne-enacted, that the business to be disposed of by the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors respectively while sitting at chambers shall comprise such of the matters in respect of which the Court of Chancery is so as aforesaid empowered to make orders in a summary way, as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors, or of any two of them, may by any General Order direct. 7. The provision contained in sect. 29 of the act intituled "An Act for the Relief of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery," passed in the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, directing that the duties of the Clerk of Reports (whose office was before by the same act abolished) should be performed by such person or persons as the Lord Chancellor should appoint for that purpose, and providing for his or their salary or salaries, shall be and the same is hereby repealed, without prejudice, nevertheless, to any appointment already made under the same provision. 8. The offices of the two clerks appointed under the lastmentioned provision to perform the duties of the Clerk of Reports shall be continued under this act, and upon any vacancy in either of those offices it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to fill up the vacancy; and if and when the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls, shall deem the appointment of more than two persons to be requisite for the due performance of the duties of the Clerk of Reports, or otherwise for the due despatch of the business of the Report-office, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to appoint from time to time, in addition to such two clerks and their successors as aforesaid, so many clerks of and in the Reportoffice as occasion may require, and the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance last aforesaid, may direct, and from time to time to fill up all or any of the vacancies which may occur in the offices of the clerks so appointed in addition as aforesaid. 9. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to repeal or alter, as far as regards James Thomas Fry, the present Master of Reports and Entries, any of the provisions contained in the sections numbered respectively 34, 35, and 36 of the said act "for the Relief of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery," relating to the countersigning by the Master of Reports and Entries of notes or cheques drawn by the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery upon the Bank of England, and the payment thereof by the same Bank, and directing that the Master of Reports and Entries should also perform all such duties (as well as the duties in the same act mentioned) as the Lord Chancellor should from time to time by any order direct, and the same provisions shall respectively continue in full force as far as regards the said James Thomas Fry, and the Lord Chan 17. Repeal of sect. 51 of the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80. 18. The ground and buildings vested in the Lord Chancellor in trust. 19. Power of leasing. 20. Power of sale. 21. Power to vest the ground, &c. in a purchaser. LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, DECLARED PUBLIC, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED. 18 & 19 VICTORIE.-SESSION 1854-55. CAP. i. An Act to amend the Pudsey Gas Act, 1845, and to enable the Company thereby incorporated to raise a further Sum of Money. CAP. ii. An Act for incorporating the Woolwich, Plumstead, and CAP. iii. An Act to enable the Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Company to raise further Money. CAP. iv. An Act to enable the Taunton Gas-light and Coke Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes. CAP. v. An Act for erecting and maintaining a Bridge over the River |