3 & 4 Vict. c. 94.

Provision for certain expenses and

salaries.

being, or any two of them, by any order to remove any of the officers holding office during good behaviour (except a Master in ordinary) for some sufficient cause in such order to be expressed; and that any officer, clerk or messenger appointed under the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 94, shall be removed at the pleasure of the Lord Chancellor with the like concurrence.

Sect. 50. That out of the interests and dividends of the funds standing to the credit of the Suitors' Fund there be paid the salaries and sums following, viz. such sums as the Lord Chancellor shall think reasonable to be paid to such persons as he shall in any order in that behalf name for work done, or monies expended in transferring the accounts to the books of the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, and also the yearly salaries of 40l. to each person to be appointed to keep order in the Courts of the Vice Chancellors; and also such sum or sums, not exceeding 50007., as the Lord Chancellor shall think reasonable for expenses to be incurred in alterations or improvements of the offices of the registrars, accountant-general and Masters of the said Court of Chancery, or any of the other offices of the same Court for the purpose of rendering the same fit for the convenient reception and occupation of the several additional officers to be appointed

under the Act; and also such annual sum or sums as the Lord Chancellor shall think reasonable for the rent of any buildings or rooms which may be taken for any officers of the Lord Chancellor or of the Court of Chancery.

tain provi

4 W. 4, c. 94.

Sect. 51. That so much of the Act of 4 Will. 4, Repeal of cerc. 94, as directs the payment of salaries to the sions of 3 & registrars and clerks to the registrars of the said Court of Chancery, shall, after the 15th of October, 1841, be repealed.

registrars,&c.

of the Suitors'

Sect. 52. That out of the fund standing to Salaries to the credit of "The Suitors' Fee Fund" there be to be paid out paid to the several officers named in the third Fee Fund. schedule to the Act the several salaries or yearly sums set opposite to their respective names or titles in such schedules.

Sect. 53. That out of the same funds there Allowance to registrars for be paid to each of the registrars of the said copying, &c. Court of Chancery (other than the present six registrars), in addition to their respective salaries, the yearly sum of 1007. so long as such registrar shall be liable to the expense of copying the decrees and orders of the Court and the minutes of such decrees and orders; and to Frank Mylne, so long as he shall hold the office of the ninth clerk to the registrars, or either of

Power to
Lord Chan-

cellor to

order retirin g

Mr. Richards

cessors.

the offices of eighth clerk or seventh clerk to the registrars, the yearly sum of 2007. in addition to his salary as such clerk.

Sect. 54. That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor by any order or orders to order an annuities to annuity, not exceeding 1500l. per annum, to and his suc- be paid out of the interest and dividends of the funds standing to the credit of the Suitors' Fund to the said Richard Richards, or any of his successors in the office of Master in ordinary of the Court of Chancery, if and when the said Richard Richards or any of his successors shall be afflicted with some permanent infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his office, and shall be desirous of resigning the

Officers

whose offices

may make

claims for compensation.

same.

Sect. 55. That it shall be lawful for any offi are abolished cer of the Court of Exchequer, whose office will be abolished or affected by the Act, to make a claim for compensation within six months after the passing of the Act, to the Commissioners of the Treasury and the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court for the time being, who are authorised to fix the amount of the annual compensation which shall seem to them to be just and reasonable for the loss sustained by any such claimant.

Lord Chan

order retiring

annuity to

registrars.

Sect. 56. That it shall be lawful for the Lord Power to Chancellor to order the payment of an annuity cellor to to be paid to any registrar, not exceeding two third parts of the yearly salary which such person shall under the Act be entitled to, if and when such person shall be afflicted with some permanent infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his office, or shall have continued in the office of registrar and the office of clerk to the registrars for 40 years, and shall be desirous of resigning the same.

of Compensa

tion to Hon.

to cease when

Sect. 57. That every sum awarded by way compensation or otherwise under the Act to the Mr. Scarlett Hon. Robert Campbell Scarlett, shall cease to he shall be payable when he shall succeed to the dignity peer. of a peer of the united kingdom.

become a

case of sur

ciency of

Sect. 58. That if at the end of any year there Provision in shall be a surplus standing to the credit of plus or defi"The Suitors' Fee Fund Account," after pay- Fee Fund. ment of the several salaries or sums of money charged by the Act, or by the said Act of 4th Will. 4, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to direct that the same shall be invested in the purchase of parliamentary or government securities, in the name of the accountant-general, and placed to an account, intituled, "An Account of Monies placed out to provide for the Officers of the High Court of Chancery;" and

Investment of surplus interest.

Money
placed out, if
required to
answer de-
mands of
suitors, to be
called in.

Accountantgeneral of

Court of

Chancery to

in case there shall be a deficiency, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to order the said accountant-general to make good such deficiency by carrying over a sum sufficient for the purpose out of the interest and dividends of the funds standing to the credit of the Suitors' Fund.

Sect. 59. That the surplus interest and annual produce of the Suitors' Fund, beyond what shall be sufficient to answer the purposes of this and the several other Acts relating to such fund, shall be invested in the purchase of government or parliamentary securities, and placed to the credit of the said fund.

Sect. 60. That if at any time the whole or any part of the monies placed out on account of the Suitors' Fund shall be wanted to answer any of the demands of the suitors of the said Court of Chancery, the Court may direct the whole or any part of such monies to be called

in.

Sect. 61. That the annual sum of 1507. being the average amount of brokerages received by pay over 1507, the accountant-general of the Court of ExcheSuitors' Fund. quer, be paid by the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery to the credit of the Suitors' Fund.

yearly to