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[ Year ] Twenty-one Days after date, I promise to pay to A. B., of [Place ] for value received by

the sum of

or his order,

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Witness, G. H.

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Pay the contents to J. K., of
Witness, L. M.

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A. B.

(Ireland)

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BILL

To regulate the Issue of Bank Notes in Ireland, and to regulate the Repayment of certain Sums advanced by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland for the Public

Service.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

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HEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of his Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act for establishing a Bank, by the Name of the Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, it should not be lawful for any body politic or corporate, erected or to be erected other than the Corporation thereby intended to be created and erected into a National Bank, or for any other persons whatsoever united, or to 10 be united in covenants or partnership exceeding the number of Six persons, to borrow, owe or take up any sum or sums of money on their Bills or Notes payable at demand, or at any less time than Six Months from the borrowing thereof, under a penalty or forfeiture by such persons, bodies politic or corporate, of Treble the sum or 15 sums so to be borrowed or taken upon such Bill or Bills, Note or Notes, One moiety thereof to be paid to the informer, and the other to the use of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint or information in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin: And whereas in pursuance of the 20 powers in the said Act of Parliament contained, a Charter of Incorporation was granted to certain persons, by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland:

Preamble:

21 & 22 Geo.
3 (Ireland),
c. 16.

1 & 2 Geo. 4,

c. 72.

6 Geo. 4, c. 42.

1 Will. 4, c. 32.

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And whereas by an Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, " An Act to establish an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, for advancing the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, Irish Currency, and to empower the said Governor and Company to enlarge the Capital Stock or Fund of the said Bank to Three million Pounds," it was enacted, that it might be lawful for any number of persons in Ireland, united or to be united in Society or Partnership, and residing and having their establishments in houses of business at any place not less than Fifty Miles distant from 10 Dublin, to borrow, owe or take up any sum or sums of money on their Bills or Notes payable on demand, and to make and issue such Notes or Bilis accordingly, payable on demand at any place in Ireland, exceeding the distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, the individuals composing such Societies or Partnerships being liable 15 and responsible for the due payment of such Bills or Notes; but nothing therein contained was to extend or be construed to extend to authorize any persons exceeding Six in number, or any bodies politic or corporate, residing or having their establishments, a house of business within the distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, to make 20 or issue any Bill or Bills of Exchange, or any Promissory Note or Notes, contrary to the provisions of the said in part recited Act of the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of King GEORGE the Third:

And whereas by another Act passed in the sixth year of the reign 25 of his Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation of Copartnership of certain Bankers in Ireland," and by another Act passed in the first year of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to explain two Acts of his present Majesty, for establishing an Agree- 30 ment with the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, for advancing the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, Irish Currency, and for the better Regulation of Copartnerships of certain Bankers in Ireland," such Copartnerships of Bankers established at places beyond the distance of Fifty Miles from Dublin, were authorized to 35 transact certain matters of business by agents in Dublin, or within the distance of Fifty Miles thereof:

And whereas the said Governor and Company at different times advanced for the Public Service to his Majesty King GEORGE the Third, the several sums of Six hundred thousand Pounds, Five hun- 40 4C dred thousand Pounds, and One million two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, late Irish currency, and in respect thereof the said Governor and Company were entitled to certain annuities payable at the receipt of the Exchequer in Dublin:

And

c. 103, s. 10.

And whereas by an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of the 48 Geo. 3, reign of his said Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act for further extending the Provisions of several Acts for establishing the Bank of Ireland, and for empowering the Governor and 5 Company of the said Bank to advance the Sum of One million two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, Irish Currency, towards the Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and Eight," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that at any time after the First day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 10 and Thirty-seven, upon Twelve Months' notice, to be published in the Dublin Gazette by order of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, the said Corporation of the Bank was to be dissolved, and upon repayment by Parliament to the said Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or their successors, 15 of the said several sums of Six hundred thousand Pounds, Five hundred thousand Pounds, and One million two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, and also of all arrears of the several annuities payable in respect of the said three several capital sums, if any such arrear should then be due, or at any time previous to the said First day of 20 January One thousand eight hundred and Thirty-seven, upon like repayment by and with the desire and consent of the said Governor and Company, to be signified by them, by their petition in writing, sealed with their common seal, and addressed to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, 25 then and in such case the said several annuities should from and after the expiration of Twelve Months after such notice published, cease and determine, and the said Corporation should be dissolved:

c. 72.

And whereas in pursuance of the said recited Act passed in the 1 & 2 Geo. 4, first and second years of the reign of his Majesty King GEORGE the 30 Fourth, intituled, "An Act to establish an Agreement with the

Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, for advancing the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, Irish Currency, and to enlarge the Capital Stock or Fund of the said Bank to Three Millions," the said Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland advanced for 35 the Public Service, to his Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, the sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, late Irish Currency, at interest, making with the said three several sums of Six hundred thousand Pounds, Five hundred thousand Pounds, and One million two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, late Irish currency, previously advanced, 40 the sum of Two million eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, equal to Two million six hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine Pounds Four Shillings and Eight-pence, sterling money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: