of Stock or Exchequer Bills in lieu of giving Security by Bond to the Postmaster General and Commissioners of Land Revenue, Customs, Excise, Stamps, and Taxes, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons or for any Bodies Corporate from whom any such Security is required, and who may be desirous of adopting the Provisions of that Act in lieu of giving the same by Bond, by and with the Consent of the Commissioners of His then Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to transfer into the Name of the Postmaster General, or of the Chief Commissioner of His said Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, or of the Chairman for the Time being of the • Commissioners of that Department of the Revenue in respect of which such Security is required, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, so much of any Public Stock standing in the said Books in the Name or Names of such Person or Persons or Bodies Corporate, or to deposit in the Bank of England in the Name of the said Postmaster General or Chief Commissioner, or of such Chairman, such an Amount of Exchequer Bills as shall be, in the Judgment of the said Commissioners of His said Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, a sufficient Security and Indemnification against all Contraventions of the Duty or Purpose for the due Performance of which such Security was required: And whereas it is further enacted, that when any Stock shall be transferred or any Deposit of Exchequer Bills shall be made in pursuance of that Act the said Stock shall be transferred into, and the said Exchequer Bills shall be deposited in, the Name of His said Majesty's Postmaster General, the said Chief Commissioner, or the Chairman of the Board of Customs, Excise, or Stamps and Taxes, as the Case may be; and the Account into which such Stock shall be transferred, or in which such Deposit shall be made, shall be so headed in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England: And whereas it is by the said Act further enacted, that the Dividends upon ⚫ all such Stock so transferred, and the Interest upon all Exchequer Bills so deposited, shall be paid to the Receivers • General of the respective Revenues therein mentioned, and the Receipts of such Receivers General shall be a sufficient Discharge for the same; and the Dividends upon all Stock so transferred, and the Interest upon all such Exchequer Bills, shall be paid to the respective Parties transferring such Stock or depositing such Exchequer Bills by the respective Receivers General, upon the Production of an Order for that Purpose from the Postmaster General, or such Chief Commissioner, or the Commissioners of the respective Revenues, or any Two of them, with whom such Deposits have respectively been made: And whereas Delays and Inconveniences may sometimes arise to the Person or Persons or Bodies Corporate who may have made such Transfers or Deposits as aforesaid by reason of the Absence or Illness of the said Receivers Gene ral:' transferred into Officer and ral For Remedy whereof 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 any Public Stock standing in the said Books of Stock, &c. dethe Governor and Company of the Bank of England in the posited as SecuName of the said Postmaster General, or of the said Chief rity may be Commissioner, or of the said Chairman for the Time being, joint Names of and any Exchequer Bills so deposited as aforesaid, and any the publi Stock or Exchequer Bills which shall at any Time hereafter Depositor, who be required to be transferred or deposited by way of Security may receive in pursuance of the said Act or this Act, may be transferred Dividends. in the said Books into or deposited in the Name of such Postmaster General, or of such Chief Commissioner, or of such Chairman for the Time being, and into and in that of any Person or Persons or Body Corporate from whom such Security has been or may be required, or into the Name of any Person appointed by him or them; and that the Dividends upon all Stock so transferred, and the Interest upon all Exchequer Bills so deposited, may be received by such Person or Persons in whose Name such Stock may be standing or in whose Name such Exchequer Bills may be deposited jointly as aforesaid, or by any other Person or Persons duly authorized by Letter of Attorney executed by such Person or Persons or Body Corporate; and that so much of the said Act herein-before recited as enacts that such Dividends and Interest upon such Exchequer Bills shall be paid to such Receivers General shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 6 be sold on Certificate of II. And whereas by the said Act it is enacted, that it shall Stock, &c. may be lawful for the said Postmaster General, upon the Certificate of the Accountant General of the Post Office, and for such public Officer. • Chief Commissioner, and for such Chairman as aforesaid, < upon the Certificate of any Two or more of the Commis⚫sioners of such Department of the Revenue that the Revenue has been damnified by any Act done or any Payment or Duty omitted in contravention of the Duty or Purpose for the due Performance of which such Security was required as therein-before mentioned, and they and each of them are thereby required to sell so much of such Stock or of such Exchequer Bills as shall be necessary to make good any Loss so occasioned, and to pay the Proceeds thereof to the Receiver General of that Department of Revenue in respect of which such Loss has been sustained;' be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent or restrain the Sale of any Stock or Exchequer Bills so transferred as aforesaid upon such Certificate as is herein lastly above recited; but every such Certificate shall specify the Names in which the Stock or Exchequer Bills intended to be sold is standing or deposited; and upon the Production of any such Certificate the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall permit the Postmaster General, such Chief Commissioner, or Chairman, as the Case may be, to sell, assign, or transfer Kk 2 Stock, Provisions of recited Act and this Act to extend to Parties giving Bonds Duties in Offices under the Crown, &c. 1 & 2 VICT. Stock, or shall deliver to such Postmaster General, Chief Commissioner, or Chairman, Exchequer Bills to the Amount in such Certificate specified from the Account therein mentioned, notwithstanding such Stock or such Exchequer Bills shall have stood in the said Books in the Names of such Postmaster General, Chief Commissioner, or Chairman, and some other Person or some Body Corporate jointly. III. And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provision of the said Act so as to enable all Parties whatsoever who in respect of their Offices are required to give Security by Bond for the proper and faithful Discharge of the Duties of their for the due Dis-several Offices to make Deposit of Stock or Exchequer Bills charge of their in lieu of giving such Security by Bond;' be it therefore enacted, That all or any of the Provisions of the said Act and of this Act shall be and they are hereby extended to all Persons who are or shall be required to give Bond for the proper and faithful Discharge of the Duties of any public Office under the Crown, and it shall be lawful to and for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant under their Hands to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, as the Case may be, to appoint the Officer or Officers in whose Name or Names such Stock or Exchequer Bills shall be deposited, and to make such Regulations as may be necessary for extending the Provisions of the said recited Act and of this Act to such other Cases as are hereby authorized. 11 Ann. (I.) CAP. LXII. An Act to enable Masters of the Court of Chancery WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act to enable Guardians and others to renew Leases for Lives, it was amongst other things enacted, that where any Person or Persons, who by Covenant or Agreement were 'obliged to make Renewal of Leases for Lives of Lands, Tene6 ments, or Hereditaments in the Kingdom of Ireland, were or should be disabled to renew by reason of being beyond the Seas, it should and might be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor or Commissioner or Commissioners of the Great • Seal of that Kingdom for the Time being, upon Petition or Complaint Complaint made to him or them in the High Court of Chancery, upon Payment of the Fine and such other Sum or Sums of Money as ought to be paid upon such Renewal, for the Use of the Person or Persons entitled to the same, and upon the Lessee or Lessees doing and performing all and every such Matters and Things as by the said Covenants or Agreements in the said Lease or Leases ought to be done or performed by him or them previous to such Renewal, to order or appoint such Renewal or Renewals to be made by One of the Masters of the said Court of Chancery, to be nominated and appointed by the said Lord Chancellor or Commissioner or Commissioners of the Great Seal for the Time being, such Master so nominated and appointed to make and execute such Deed of Renewal in the Name of the Person who ought to have renewed the same; such Deed or Deeds of Renewal so made and executed by the said Master or Masters, Counter'parts thereof being duly perfected by the Lessee or Lessees, for the Use and Benefit of the Person or Persons having the Reversion and Inheritance of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments comprised in such Deed or Deeds, to be as ' good and effectual in Law or Equity to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Person or Persons under such Disability had 'not been so disabled, and had executed the same: And whereas by an Act past in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for 11 G. 4. & • consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Property belonging 1 W. 4. c. 65. . to Infants, Femes Covert, Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons of unsound • Mind, after reciting the said last-mentioned Act, and that it 6 6 was expedient that the Provisions thereof which had been so long in force in Ireland should remain unaltered, it was enacted, that the Clauses and Provisions contained in the said therein recited Act should be and continue in force in the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Clauses and Provisions and every Part thereof had been repeated and re-enacted in the said Act; and that none of the other Provisions in the said Act contained for authorizing any 'Surrenders to be accepted, or any new Lease to be made or executed, for or on behalf of any Person who in pursuance of any Covenant or Agreement for Renewal in any Lease con'tained or to be contained ought to make such new Lease or 'Leases, should extend or be construed to extend to Lands in Ireland: And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, • intituled An Act to extend to Ireland certain Provisions of an 5&6 W.4.c.17. Act made and passed in the First Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Property belonging to Infants, Femes Covert, Lunatics, and Persons of unsound Mind,' the said recited Act of the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and so much of the said Act of the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty as re-enacted the Provisions in the said lastmentioned Act contained were thereby repealed, and the Kk 3 • Powers 6 any 1 & 2 VICT. Powers given by the same, in respect to Persons being beyond the Seas, were not continued or extended: And whereas it is expedient that the Powers given by the said recited Acts of the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Queen Anne and of the First Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth to the Court of Chancery in Ireland should be continued to the 'said Court in the Case of Persons not within its Jurisdiction, or not amenable to its Process, and should be extended to Renewals of Leases for Terms of Years or Years dependent upon Lives' 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 where any Person, who in pursuance of any Covenant or Agreement in Writing might, if within the Jurisdiction and amenable to the Process of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, be compelled to execute a Renewal of Lease made or to be made, for the Life or Lives of One or more Person or Persons, or for any Term or Number of Years absolutely or determinable on the Death of One or more Person or Persons, shall not be within the Jurisdiction of or not amenable to the Process of the said Court, it shall be lawful to and for the said Court of Chancery, by an Order to be made upon the Petition of any Person or any of the Persons entitled to such Renewal (whether such Person be or be not under any Disability), upon Payment of the Fine, and such other Sum or Sums of Money as ought to be paid upon such Renewal, for the Use of the Person or Persons entitled to the same, and upon the Lessee or Lessees doing and performing all and every such Matters and Things as by the said Covenants or Agreements in the said Lease or Leases ought to be done or performed by him or them previous to such Renewal, to order or appoint such Renewal or Renewals to be made by one of the Masters of the said Court of Chancery, to be nominated by the said Court for such Purpose; and such Master so nominated shall make and execute such Deed of Renewal in the Name of the Person or Persons who ought to have renewed the same, which Deed or Deeds of Renewal so made and executed by the said Master or Masters, Counterparts thereof being duly perfected by the Lessee or Lessees, for the Use and Benefit of the Person or Persons having the Reversion and Inheritance of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments comprised in such Deed or Deeds, shall be as good and effectual in Law and Equity, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Person in whose Name the same shall be made had executed the same; but in every such Case it shall be in the Discretion of the said Court of Chancery in Ireland, if under the Circumstances it shall seem requisite, to direct a Bill to be filed to establish the Right of the Party seeking the Renewal, and not to make the Order for such new Lease or Renewal, unless by the Decree to be made in such Cause, or until after such Decree shall have been made. |