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strates at the several Quarter Sessions for the Remuneration of the Appraisers and Arbitrators appointed under this Act for the Execution of their Duty, to be paid either by the Plaintiffs or Defendants, as such Magistrates shall think fit, in the several Matters of Dispute, and to issue their Warrant to compel Payment accordingly.

Quarter
Sessions,

Proviso for
Notice and
Security.

IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall Appeal to and may be lawful for any Person who shall think himself aggrieved by any Order or Decision of such Magistrates to appeal final. against their Decision to the next Quarter Sessions of the County, and such Appeal shall be tried and finally determined at such Quarter Sessions accordingly; and the Justices of Peace at such Sessions may affirm or reverse any such Order or Decision of such Magistrates, with such Costs as they shall think proper: Provided always, that Notice in Writing of such Appeal shall be given to the Magistrates before whom such Conviction or Decision shall be had, at the Time of their Decision upon the particular Case; and that sufficient Security conditioned for duly prosecuting such Appeal shall be given and entered into before such Magistrates at the Time of the making such Appeal; and whenever such Appeal shall be made, and such Security given as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for such Magistrates to issue their Warrant for levying of any Penalty or Sum of Money in such particular Case.

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An Act to amend the Laws in force in Ireland relating to
Conveyances and Transfers of Estates and Funds vested in
Trustees.
[26th May 1826.]

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HEREAS an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland, 2 G.1. (I.) in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act to enable Infants who are seised or possessed of Estates in Fee, in Trust or by way of Mortgage, to make Conveyances of such Estates: And Whereas an Act was passed in

the Parliament of Ireland, in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King 5 G.2. (I.) George the Second, intituled An Act to enable Idiots and Lunatics who are seised or possessed of Estates in Fee or for Lives or Terms of Years, in Trust or by way of Mortgage, to make Conveyances, Surrenders or Assignments of Estates, and to prevent Delays where Trustees are not found: And Whereas it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the facilitating the Conveyance and Transfer of Estates and Funds in Ireland, vested in Trustees;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 when and so often as any Person or Persons seised or possessed of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or other Property in Ireland, or any Estate or Interest therein, upon any Trust or Trusts or by the Jurisdiction way of Mortgage, shall be out of the Jurisdiction of or shall not of the Court, or be amenable to the Process of the Court of Chancery or Exche- refuse to conquer in Ireland, or it shall be unknown or uncertain whether vey, &c. the such Person or Persons be living or dead, or such Person or Persons shall refuse to convey or otherwise assure such Lands,

Tenements,

Where Trustees or Mortgagees

of Lands in Ireland are out of

Court of Chancery or Exchequer there may

son to convey.

appoint a per- Tenements, Hereditaments or Property, or Estate or Interest, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto, or as such Person or Persons shall direct, or to a new Trustee or Trustees duly appointed by virtue of some Power or Authority, or by the said Court of Chancery or Exchequer, either alone or together with any continuing Trustee or Trustees, as Occasion shall require, then and in every or any such Case, it shall be lawful for such Court of Chancery or Exchequer to appoint such Person or Persons as to such Court shall seem meet, on behalf and in the Name or Names of the Person or Persons seised or possessed as aforesaid, to convey, surrender, release, assign or otherwise assure such Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments or Property, or Estate or Interest, to such Person or Persons, and in such Manner as such Court shall think proper and direct; and every such Conveyance, Release, Surrender, Assignment or Assurance shall be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Person or Persons being out of the Jurisdiction or not amenable to the Process of such Courts, or not known to be alive, or having refused, had, by himself, herself or themselves, executed the same.

Court of Chan

cery or Exche

quer may appoint Persons to transfer Stock in the Bank of Ireland, &c.

II. And be it further enacted, That when and so often as any Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities transferable in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or of any other Company or Society established or to be established in Ireland, shall be standing in the Name of or otherwise vested in any Person or Persons, as a Trustee or Trustees, or the legal per sonal Representative of a Trustee or Trustees, who shall be out of the Jurisdiction of or not amenable to the Process of the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland, or it shall be unknown or uncertain whether such Person or Persons be living or dead, or such Person or Persons shall refuse to transfer such Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities, or to receive and pay over the Dividends thereof to the Person or Persons entitled thereto or as such Person or Persons shall direct, or to a new Trustee or Trustees, duly appointed by virtue of some Power or Authority, or by the said Court of Chancery or Exchequer, either alone or together with any continuing Trustee or Trustees (as Occasion shall require), then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the said Court of Chancery or Exchequer to appoint such Person or Persons as to such Court shall seem meet, being an Officer of such Company or Society, to transfer or join with the other Trustee or Trustees, or Representative or Representatives (if any), in transferring such Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities to or into the Name or Names of such Person or Persons, and in such Manner as such Court of Chancery or Exchequer shall think proper and direct; and also to order any Person or Persons appointed as aforesaid to receive and pay over the Interest, Dividends or Annual Produce of such Stocks, Funds, Annuities and Securities, in such Manner as such Court of Chancery or Exchequer shall direct; and every such Transfer, Receipt and Payment shall be as valid and effectual as if the Trustee or Trustees, Representative or Representatives, had, by himself, herself or themselves, transferred, received and paid such Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities, or Interest, Dividends and Annual Produce.

III. And

III. And be it further enacted, That every Direction, Order or Appointment to be made in pursuance of this Act, by the Court of Chancery or Exchequer, shall be signified by an Order to be made upon the Petition of such Person or Persons as hereinafter is mentioned; (that is to say,) if the same shall relate to a Conveyance or other Assurance or Transfer to any Person or Persons beneficially entitled, then upon the Petition of the Person or Persons beneficially entitled to the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Stocks, Funds, Annuities, Securities or Property, or Estate or Interest, to be conveyed, assured or transferred; and if the same shall relate to a Conveyance or other Assurance or Transfer, in order to vest any Lands, Rents, Hereditaments, Property, Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities, in a new Trustee or Trustees duly appointed by virtue of some Power or Authority, or by the Court of Chancery or Exchequer, either alone or together with any continuing Trustee or Trustees, then upon the Petition of the Trustee or Trustees in whom the same shall be proposed to be vested, or some or One of them; and if the same shall relate to the Conveyance or other Assurance of an Estate in Mortgage, then upon the Petition of the Person or Persons entitled to the Equity of Redemption thereof, or some or One of the Person or Persons entitled to the Monies thereby secured, or some or One of the Guardian or Guardians of the Person or Persons entitled to such Monies, if an Infant or Infants.

IV. And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall be appointed by virtue of this Act, shall and may be empowered and compelled, by the Order to be obtained as hereinbefore is mentioned, to make such Conveyance or Conveyances, or other Assurance or Assurances, or Transfer or Transfers, or Payment or Payments as aforesaid, in like Manner as Trustees of full Age and of sane Mind, Memory and Understanding, are compellable to convey or otherwise assure or transfer and pay over their Trust Estates or Funds.

V. And be it further enacted, That the several Provisions hereinbefore contained shall extend and be construed to extend to Cases in which a Trustee or Trustees may have some beneficial Estate or Interest in the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Property, Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities vested in him, her or them as aforesaid, and also to Cases in which the Trustee or Trustees may have some Duty or Duties to perform, so as to enable Conveyances and other Transfers to be made, in order to vest any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Property, Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Securities, in a new Trustee or Trustees duly appointed in the Place of such Trustee or Trustees, by virtue of some Power or Authority, or by the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland, either alone or jointly with any continuing Trustee or Trustees, as the Case may require.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the Provisions hereinbefore contained shall extend and be construed to extend to all Cases of Petitions in which the Court of Chancery or the Court of Exchequer in Ireland are by Law authorized and empowered to grant Relief and make summary Orders without Suit, either in Matters of Charity, or relative to or for the better Security, or for the Application, Receipt, Payment or Transfer of any of the Funds

thereof,

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Indemnity to the Bank and other Companies.

Costs may be directed to be paid.

thereof, or in Matters relative to any Benefit or Friendly Societies. or for the better Security, or for the Application, Receipt, Par ment or Transfer of any of the Funds thereof.

VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be and is hereby declared to be a full and complete Indemnity and Discharge to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, and all other Companies and Societies, and their Officers and Servants. for all Acts and Things done or permitted to be done pursuant thereto; and that such Acts and Things shall not be questioned or impeached in any Court of Law or Equity to their Prejudice of Detriment.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland may order the Costs, Charges and Expences of and relating to the Petitions, Orders, Appointments, Conveyances or other Assurances and Transfers to be made in pursuance of this Act or any of them, to be paid and raised out of or from the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Stocks, Funds, Annuities and Securities, or the Rents, Issues, Dividends and Annual Produce, in respect of which the same respectively shall be made, in such Manner as such Court shall think proper.

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CA P. XLIV.

An Act to allow, until the Tenth Day of October One thousand
eight hundred and twenty six, the Enrolment of certain
Articles of Clerkship; to prevent Attornies and others from
being prejudiced in certain Cases by the Neglect to take
out their Annual Certificates; to prohibit the stamping
Articles of Clerkship after a certain Time; and to extend
the Period for taking out Certificates after Matriculation at
the Universities.
[26th May 1826.]

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HEREAS many Persons who may have paid the proper Stamp Duties, either before or within Six Months after the Execution of the Contracts in Writing entered into by them to serve as Clerks to Attornies or Solicitors, Scriveners or Notaries Public, in Great Britain, have omitted to cause Affdavits to be made, and afterwards to be filed in the proper Office, of the actual Execution of such Contracts, and the Indentures thereof to be enrolled within the Time in which the same ought to have been done, and many Infants and others may thereby incur certain Disabilities:' For preventing thereof, and relieving such Persons, be it enacted by the King'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 every Person who shall have, either before or within Six Months after the Execution of such Contract or Indenture, paid the proper Stamp Duty in that Behalf, and who at the passing of this Act shall have neglected or omitted to cause any such Affidavit or Affidavits as aforesaid to be made and filed, or such Contract or Indenture to be enrolled, and who on or before the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty six shall cause such Contract or Inserve as Clerks denture to be enrolled with the proper Officer in that Behalf, and

Indemnity as herein men

tioned to Persons who shall have paid Duties within Six Months after Execution of Indentures to

to Attornies,

One

LV

One or more Affidavit or Affidavits to be made, and afterwards to be filed, in such Manner as the same ought to have been made and filed, in due Time, shall be and is hereby indemnified, freed and discharged from and against all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities and Disabilities, in or by any Act or Acts of Parliament mentioned, and incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of such Neglect or Omission; and every such Affidavit and Affidavits so to be made, and which shall be duly filed on or before the said Tenth Day of October next, shall be as effectual to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been made and filed within the respective Times the same ought, by the Laws now in being for that Purpose, to have been made and filed; and it shall be lawful for the respective Officer or Officers who ought to receive, enrol, register, make and file every such Contract or Indenture and Affidavit respectively, and such Officer or Officers respectively are hereby authorized and required to receive, enrol and register, and to make and file every such Contract, Indenture or Affidavit respectively, at any Time on or before the said Tenth Day of October next; any Thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

II. And be it further enacted, That in case any Action, Suit, Bill of Indictment or Information, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be brought, carried on or prosecuted against any Person or Persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated or restored, for or on account of any Forfeiture, Penalty, Incapacity or Disability whatsoever, incurred, or to be incurred by any such Neglect or Omission to enrol such Contracts or Indentures as aforesaid, such Person or Persons may plead the` General Issue, and upon their Defence give this Act and the Special Matter in evidence upon any Trial to be had thereupon.

but shall have neglected to cause the necessary Affidavits

to be filed.

Persons indemnified may neral Issue. plead the Ge

Attornies, &c. who may have omitted to take

III. And Whereas many Solicitors, Attornies, Writers to the Signet, Notaries, Proctors, Agents, Procurators and others in 'Great Britain, may have omitted to take out Annual Certificates, or to enter the same in the proper Office or Offices within the Time in which the same ought to have been done, by means whereof such Persons are rendered incapable to maintain or pro'secute any Action or Suit in any Court of Law or Equity for the Recovery of any Fees or Disbursements on account of Business done without such Certificate:' For relieving such Persons, be it enacted, That every Person in Great Britain, who shall have neglected to take out a Certificate at the Time and in the Manner by Law directed, and who at the Time of the passing of this Act, or before the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, shall have regularly obtained a proper Certificate, rendered capaduly stamped, shall be and is hereby rendered capable to maintain ble in certain or prosecute any Action or Suit in any Court of Law or Equity Cases of suing for the recovering of any Fee, Reward or Disbursement, on ac- for Fees, &c. count of prosecuting, carrying on or defending any Action, Suiting 37 G.3. or Proceeding, or any Matter or Thing relating thereto, without c.90. § 30. a proper Certificate; any Thing in an Act made in the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Stamp Duties on the several Matters therein mentioned, and for better securing the Duties on Certificates to be taken out by Solicitors,

Attornies

out annual Certificates

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