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Authority to deposit.

Payment of
Deposit.

of Money paid under the Provisions of the said Act shall be dealt with in all respects as if this Act had not been passed.

II. And be it enacted, That in all Cases in which any Sum of Money is required by any Standing Order of either House of Parliament, either now in force or hereafter to be in force, to be deposited by the Subscribers to any Work or Undertaking which is to be executed under the Authority of an Act of Parliament, if the Director or Person or Directors or Persons having the Management of the Affairs of such Work or Undertaking, not exceeding Five in Number, shall apply to One of the Clerks in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments with respect to any such Money required by any Standing Order of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, or to One of the Clerks of the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons with respect to any such Money required by any Standing Order of the Commons in Parliament assembled, to be deposited, it shall be lawful for the Clerk so applied to, by Warrant or Order under his Hand, to direct that such Sum of Money shall be paid in manner hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say,) into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in England, if the Work or Undertaking in respect of which the Sum of Money is required to be deposited is intended to be executed in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, or into any of the Banks in Scotland established by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter, in the Name and with the Privity of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, at the Option of the Person or Persons making such Application as aforesaid, in case such Work or Undertaking is intended to be executed in that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, or into the Bank of Ireland, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, in case such Work or Undertaking is intended to be made or executed in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland; and such Warrant or Order shall be a sufficient Authority for the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in England, the Queen's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, and the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, respectively, to permit the Sum of Money directed to be paid by such Warrant or Order to be placed to an Account opened or to be opened in his Name in the Bank mentioned in such Warrant or Order.

III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons named in such Warrant or Order, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, to pay the Sum mentioned in such Warrant or Order into the Bank mentioned in such Warrant or Order in the Name and with the Privity of the Officer or Person in whose Name such Sum shall be directed to be paid by such Warrant or Order, to be placed to his Account there ex parte the Work or Undertaking mentioned in such Warrant or Order, pursuant to the Method prescribed by any Act or Acts for the Time being in force for regulating Monics paid into the said Courts, and pursuant to the general Orders of the said Courts respectively, and without Fee or Reward; and every such Sum so paid in, or the Securities in or upon which the same may be invested as

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herein-after mentioned, or the Stocks, Funds, or Securities authorized to be transferred or deposited in lieu thereof as herein-after mentioned, shall there remain until the same with all Interest and Dividends, if any, accrued thereon, shall be paid out of such Bank, in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act: Provided always, that in case any such Director or Person, Directors or Persons, having the Management of any such proposed Work or Undertaking as aforesaid, shall have previously invested in the Three per Centum Consolidated or the Three per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, Exchequer Bills or other Government Securities, the Sum or Sums of Money required by any such Standing Order of either House of Parliament as aforesaid to be deposited by the Subscribers to any Work or Undertaking which is to be executed under the Authority of an Act of Parliament, it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons named in such Warrant or Order, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, to deposit such Exchequer Bills or other Government Securities in the Bank mentioned in such Warrant or Order in the Name and with the Privity of the Officer or Person in whose Name such Sum shall by such Warrant or Order be directed to be paid, or to transfer such Government Stocks or Funds into the Name of the Officer or Person; and such Transfer or Deposit shall be directed by such Clerk of the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, or such Clerk of the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, as the Case may be, in lieu of Payment of so much of the Sum of Money required to be deposited as aforesaid as the same Exchequer Bills or other the Government Stocks or Funds will extend to satisfy at the Price at which the same were originally purchased by the said Person or Persons, Director or Directors as aforesaid, such Price to be proved by Production of the Broker's Certificate of such original Purchase.

IV. And be it enacted, That if the Person or Persons named Investment of in such Warrant or Order, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, Deposit. desire to have invested any Sum so paid into the Bank of England or the Bank of Ireland, or any Interest or Dividend which may have accrued on any Stocks or Securities so transferred or deposited as aforesaid, the Court in the Name of whose Accountant General the same may have been paid may, on a Petition presented to such Court in a summary Way by him or them, order that such Sum or such Interest or Dividends shall, until the same be paid out to the Parties entitled to the same in pursuance of this Act, be laid out in the Three per Centum Consolidated or Three per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, or any Government Security or Securities, at the Option of the aforesaid Person or Persons, or the Survivor or Survivors of them.

V. And be it enacted, That on the Termination of the Session Repayment of of Parliament in which the Petition or Bill for the Purpose of Deposit. making or sanctioning any such Work or Undertaking shall have been introduced into Parliament, or if such Petition or Bill shall be rejected or finally withdrawn by some Proceeding in either House of Parliament, or shall not be allowed to proceed, or if the Person or Persons by whom the said Money was paid or Security deposited shall have failed to present a Petition, or if an Act be passed authorizing the making of such Work or Undertaking, and

if in any of the foregoing Cases the Person or Persons named in such Warrant or Order, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, or the Majority of such Persons, apply by Petition to the Court in the Name of whose Accountant General the Sum of Money mentioned in such Warrant or Order shall have been paid, or such Exchequer Bills, Stocks, or Funds shall have been deposited or transferred as aforesaid, or to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, in case such Sum of Money shall have been paid in the Name of the said Queen's Remembrancer, the Court in the Name of whose Accountant General or Queen's Remembrancer such Sum of Money shall have been paid, or such Exchequer Bills, Stocks, or Funds shall have been deposited or transferred, shall by Order direct the Sum of Money paid in pursuance of such Warrant or Order, or the Stocks, Funds, or Securities in or upon which the same may have been invested, and the Interest or Dividends thereof, or the Exchequer Bills, Stocks, or Funds so deposited or transferred as aforesaid, and the Interest and Dividends thereof, to be paid or transferred to the Party or Parties so applying, or to any other Person or Persons whom they may appoint in that Behalf; but no such Order shall be made in the Case of any such Petition or Bill being rejected or not being allowed to proceed, or being withdrawn or not being presented, or of an Act being passed authorizing the making of such Work or Undertaking unless upon the Production of the Certificate of the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords with reference to any Proceeding in the House of Lords, or of the Speaker of the House of Commons with reference to any Proceeding in the House of Commons, that the said Petition or Bill was rejected or not allowed to proceed, or was withdrawn during its Passage through one of the Houses of Parliament, or was not presented, or that such Act was passed, which Certificate the said Chairman or Speaker shall grant on the Application in Writing of the Person or Persons, or the Majority of the Persons named in Granting Cer- such Warrant, or the Survivor or Survivors of them: Provided tificate, &c. not always, that the granting of any such Certificate, or any Mistake or Error therein or in relation thereto, shall not make the Chairman or Speaker signing the same liable in respect of any Monies, the same liable. Stocks, Funds, and Securities which may be paid, deposited, invested, or transferred in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act, or the Interest or Dividends thereof.

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CAP. XXI.

An Act to enable the Right Honourable Henry Viscount
Hardinge to receive the full Benefit of an Annuity of Five
thousand Pounds granted to him by the East India Com-
pany.*
[18th June 1846.]

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"Lord Hardinge empowered to receive his full Salary as Governor General, notwithstanding the Grant of Five thousand Pounds per Annum by the East India Company.'

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*See post, C. 31.

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CA P. XXII.

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An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of

Corn.

[26th June 1846.]

HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament

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held in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her 5&6 Vict. c. 14. 'present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for the Importation of Corn: And whereas it is expedient that the 'Duties now payable upon the Importation and Entry for Home Consumption in the United Kingdom and in the Isle of Man ' respectively of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour should be altered, ' and that the Act herein-before recited should be amended as ' herein-after is expressed :' 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 After the passfrom and after the passing of this Act, in lieu of the Duties now ing of this Act, payable upon the Entry for Home Consumption in the United till 1st Feb. Kingdom, and upon the Importation into the Isle of Man, of 1849, the DuCorn, Grain, Meal, and Flour, there shall be levied and paid unto the Schedule Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, on all Corn, Grain, Meal, shall be payable and Flour already or hereafter to be imported into the United upon all Corn, Kingdom or the Isle of Man from Parts beyond the Seas, and &c. imported. entered for Home Consumption after the passing of this Act, the Duties set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, until the First Day of February which will be in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; and on, from, and after the said First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine the following Duties; (namely,)

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On and after 1st Feb. 1849

the Duties herein named

Upon all Wheat, Barley, Bear or Bigg, Oats, Rye, Pease, and shall be paid. Beans,

For every Quarter

and so in proportion for a less Quantity:

Upon all Wheat Meal and Flour,

One Shilling;

Barley Meal,

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II. And be it enacted, That the several Duties hereby imposed, and leviable in the United Kingdom, shall be levied, collected, paid, and applied in such and the same Manner in all respects as that in which the Duties imposed by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign 8&9 Vict. c.90. of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting Duties of Customs, are directed to be levied, collected, paid, and applied. III. And be it enacted, That the several Duties hereby imposed, and leviable in the Isle of Man, shall be levied, collected, paid,

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Duties payable in the Isle of

Man shall be

levied pursuant
to 8 & 9 Vict.
c. 94.

Average Prices

to continue to
be made up
according to
5 & 6 Vict. c. 14.,

and Duties

under this Act

to be regulated thereby.

Repeal of Part of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 14.

Act may be amended, &c.

and applied in such and the same Manner in all respects as that in which the Duties imposed by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for regulating the Trade with the Isle of Man, are directed to be levied, collected, paid, and applied.

IV. And be it enacted, That the average Prices, both weekly and aggregate, of all British Corn, shall continue to be made up, computed, and published, and the Certificates of the aggregate average Prices shall continue to be transmitted, at the Times and in the Manner required by the said herein-before recited Act for amending the Laws for the Importation of Corn; and the Rate and Amount of the Duties set forth in the Schedule to this Act shall be regulated and governed, according to the Scale in the said Schedule contained, by the aggregate average Prices so to be made up, computed, published, and transmitted, in the same Manner as the Rate and Amount of the Duties imposed by the said hereinbefore recited Act are by that Act directed to be regulated and governed; and at each of the several Ports in the United Kingdom and in the Isle of Man the aggregate average Prices, the Certificate of which shall have been last received previously to the passing of this Act by the Collector or other chief Officer of Customs at such Port as by the said herein-before recited Act is directed, shall be taken to be the aggregate average Price by which the Duties hereby imposed shall be governed and regulated at such Port, until the Certificate of some other aggregate average Price shall have been received by the Collector or other chief Officer of Customs at such Port.

V. And be it enacted, That so much of the said Act hereinbefore recited as prohibits the Importation into the United Kingdom for Consumption there of any Corn ground shall be repealed.

VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

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