Commissioners authorized to advance to Commissioners under 53 G.3. c.121. any Sum not exceeding 300,0001. On such Advance made, Commissioners under to make an In strument in Writing acknowledging their Receipt, and charging same on Land Revenues. Expences thereof charged on Commissioners under 53 G. 3. c. 121. Pounds, and upon the Credit of the said Land Revenues: And 'Whereas the said Sum of Three hundred thousand Pounds, with Interest as aforesaid, still remains due on the Credit of the said 'Land Revenues: And Whereas it is expedient that the Commis'sioners for the Execution of the first recited Acts and this Act 'should be authorized to advance unto the Commissioners of the 'said recited Act of the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, any Sum or Sums of Money in Exchequer Bills, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of Three hundred thousand Pounds, repayable with Interest at and after the Rate of Four • Pounds per Centum per Annum, for the Purpose of being applied in the Repayment of the said Sum of Three hundred thousand Pounds so borrowed from the Corporation of the Royal Exchange 'Assurance as aforesaid;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners for the Execution of the said first recited Acts and this Act, and they are hereby authorized and required, on Application being made to them by the said Commissioners for executing the said recited Act of the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, to advance to them the said last mentioned Commissioners, or as they may direct or appoint, any Sum or Sums of Money in Exchequer Bills, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of Three hundred thousand Pounds, upon the Terms and Conditions hereinafter mentioned. LVI. And be it further enacted, That upon the said Commissioners for the Execution of the said first recited Acts and this Act making such Advance to the said Commissioners for executing 13 them in Account accordingly; and a Minute or Extract thereof shall be entered and preserved in the Office of the said last mentioned Commissioners, and also in a Book to be kept for that Purpose by the Clerk to the said Commissioners; and every such Instrument in Writing, when so given, executed and enrolled as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be conclusive Evidence of the Advance of such Loan in Exchequer Bills, and of the Day or Time of the making such Advance. LVII. And be it further enacted, That this Act, or any of the Act may be Provisions thereof, may be amended, altered or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this Session of Parliament. CA P. LXXXVII. An Act to enable His Majesty's Court of Exchequer to sit, HEREAS the Court of Exchequer is about to be rebuilt, able the said Court of Exchequer to be held, and the Chief Baron of the same Court to sit, elsewhere than in the Place where the Court has been commonly kept in the County of Middlesex, during the Period of the rebuilding of the said Court:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 it shall be lawful for the Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and in his Absence for any Two or more of the other Barons of the same Court, without any other Authority than this Act, from time to time during the rebuilding His said Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and until a new Court shall be made fit and ready for the Dispatch of Business, to order and direct that His Majesty's Court of Exchequer shall be held in any convenient Place within the County of Middlesex, specified in any such Order, for the Dispatch of any Business of or in the said Court; and that it shall be lawful for the Lord Chief Baron of the same Court, or any other Baron sitting for him, to try all Issues joined or to be joined in the same Court, wherein the Trials ought to be in the City of Westminster, or in the said County of Middlesex, in the Place specified in any such Order as aforesaid, and that all Business of or in the said Court may in every such Case be heard, decided and dispatched, and all such Issues may be tried, wherever the said Court shall be so directed to be held, in like Manner and Form, and shall be of the like Force and Effect, as if the said Court had been held during such Periods in the Place where the Court of Exchequer has been commonly kept in the said County of Middlesex. altered, &c. this Session, While the new Court of Exchequer is building, Chief Baron, &c. may order Court to sit in any convenient dlesex, for Place in Mid Dispatch of II. And be it further enacted, That as well the Sheriff of the Sic. said County of Middlesex as all other Officers whatsoever, and Sheriff, &c. also all Jurors, Parties, Witnesses or other Persons who may Jurors, Parties required to attend, or who ought to attend † at or for the Dispatch to attend at be of and Witnesses, Place so appointed on Notice. Non-attendance, &c. Penalty. Proceedings heretofore issued, valid. Exception. And may in any Record, &c. be alleged to have been had in the usual Place of Sitting. of any Business whatsoever of or in the said Court or for the Trial of any such Issue to be so tried as aforesaid, if the same had been heard, dispatched, or tried in the Place where the said Court of Exchequer is commonly kept in the said County of Middlesex, shall give his and their Attendance at and for the Trial thereof at the Place where the said Lord Chief Baron, or in his Absence any other Baron of the said Court, shall be sitting for the Trial thereof, upon reasonable Notice to him or them in that Behalf, and shall be subject to such and the same Pains and Penalties for Non-attendance, and entitled to such and the same Fees and Remuneration for his and their Attendance, as if such Business had been heard or dispatched, or such Issue had been actually tried, in the usual Place where the said Court of Exchequer hath been commonly kept as aforesaid; and that all Writs, Process, Notices and other Proceedings (other than and except a Special Notice of the Place of Trial) heretofore issued, made or had, or to be hereafter issued, made or had, in any such Business, or for the Trial of any such Issue according to the Forms now in use, shall be as good and available in the Law, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Business or such Issue had been actually heard, dispatched or tried in such usual Place as aforesaid; and that all Business and Trials dispatched and heard at any such Place as aforesaid, in virtue of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to have been had, and may in any Record, Process or other Proceeding, and also in any Indictment for Perjury or other Offence committed at or in relation to any such Trial, be alleged and laid to have been had in the usual Place where the said Court of Exchequer hath been commonly kept, in all Respects and to all Purposes as if such Business and Trial had been there actually dispatched and had. W CAP. LXXXVIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Land and Asssessed Taxes, and to regulate the Appointment of Receivers General in England and Wales. [29th July 1822.] HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws relating to the Land Tax and Assessed Taxes, and Compositions for 'Assessed Taxes, so far as respects the Receipt and Payment of the Monies arising therefrom by the Receivers General in England and Wales: 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 so much and such Parts of the several Acts relating to the said Taxes and Compositions for Assessed Taxes, or either of them, which allow a Compensation to each Receiver General in England and Wales by a Pound Rate on the Sums by him respectively paid As to Pound- into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, or which require age to Receiver the said Receivers General to appoint sufficient Deputies to receive the said Taxes, shall, from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, in respect of the Assessments of the said Taxes and the Contracts of Compositions thereafter made, be and the same are hereby repealed. 48 G. 3. c. 55. § 7. 59 G.3. c.51. $18. 43 G.3. c.99. § 48. General to cease. Receivers and other Persons II. And be it further enacted, That every Person who, after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, shall to observe the shall be appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or to be appointed by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United under this Act, Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, or any Rules herein Three or more of them, to be Receiver General of the said Taxes, mentioned. or either or any of them, and any other Taxes or Sums of Money under the Care and Management of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes; and every other Person to be appointed by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, to do or perform any Part of the Duty of any such Receiver General; and the several Officers appointed or to be appointed by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, now or for the time being, or any Three or more of them, for the Survey and Inspection of any of the said Taxes; and all other Persons appointed or to be appointed by the respective Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said Acts, in the several Counties, Divisions, Cities, Towns, Parishes, Wards and Places within England or Wales, shall severally and respectively observe and be subject to the Rules and Regulations set forth in this Act, and the Penalties therein contained; which Rules and Regulations shall be deemed a Part of this Act, as if the same had been severally inserted herein under special Enactments. No. I.-RULES and Regulations touching the Office of Receiver General. Salary to Receiver General not to exceed 600l. per Ann. First. Every Receiver General to be appointed as aforesaid shall be entitled to such annual Salary, payable Half yearly by equal portions, as the said Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, shall appoint, not in any case exceeding the Sum of Six hundred Pounds per Annum, to be allowed to him out of any Monies in his hands of the said Taxes, by virtue of the Warrant of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes for the time being, or any Two or more of them. Second. Every Receiver General to be appointed as aforesaid First Appointshall be, on his first Appointment, charged with the Stamp Duty ble to Stamp ment only liapayable by Law on the Bond to be given in such case, and every Duty. renewed or succeeding Appointment of the same Person shall be free of Stamp Duty; but such Receiver General shall not be required to renew his Bond under each or any new or succeeding Appointment, except in the Case of any Change in his Security, or under Circumstances that may render any such renewed Bond necessary, under the Directions of the said Commissioners of the Treasury, which renewed Bonds shall also be free of Stamp Duty; and such Receiver General shall not in any case be liable to or charged with any Fee or Gratuity on his Commission, Warrant or other Instrument to be obtained or had, either on his first Appointment or on any renewed or succeeding Appointment to the said Office, nor to any Fee or Gratuity for any Matter or Thing incident to the Execution of his Office, or for auditing or passing his Accounts either in His Majesty's Treasury, the Office for Taxes, or in any Office of the Court or Receipt of Exchequer, Third. Every Receiver General to be appointed as aforesaid Not to appoint shall execute the Duties of the said Office in Person, without a Deputy without Consent of Deputy or Deputies, unless he shall be required or authorized, in Treasury, &c. Cases of Illness or other temporary or sufficient Cause, to appoint a Deputy or Deputies with the Approbation of the said Commis3 GEO. IV. LT any sioners Rouet for Re Allowances for pences. When an Of sioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, Fourth. Every Receiver General to be appointed as aforesaid ceipt of Taxes. shall attend at such Places, and observe such Route in proceeding from Place to Place, for the Receipt of the said Taxes from the several Collectors of the Parishes, Wards or Places within the Limits assigned to him, and at such Times, and from time to time, as shall be settled with him, and approved by the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to allow every such Receiver General an Allowance not exceeding Two Shillings per Mile, and One Guinea per Day, for his Travelling Expences when absent from Home upon his quarterly or Half yearly Receipt; and also a like Allowance if travelling upon an extraordinary Occasion, by the Direction of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes: Provided also, that whenever the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall require any Receiver General to keep open an Office daily or weekly, or on Two or more Days in each Week, except Sundays and Christmas Day, for the Receipt of the Taxes of his District or any Part thereof, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to assign an additional Salary and Allowance for the Expences incident to his said Office, over and above the Salary and Allowance herein limited, to be paid out of the said Taxes in manner herein before directed: Provided always, that an Account of the Salaries, Allowances or other Emoluments, in any manner accruing to the several Receivers General of the Taxes under this Act, shall be annually laid before both Houses of Parliament within Twenty Days after the Meeting thereof. fice is required to be kept, an additional Salary, &c. allowed. Proviso. Treasury may tracts with Persons to receive and remit Monies. Fifth. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the authorise Con- Treasury to contract or to authorize the said Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes to contract with any Receiver General, or any other Person or Persons, to remit the Taxes collected and received, and paid to the Receiver General or his Deputy, authorized as aforesaid, to be by such Person or Persons paid or caused to be paid, into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, at such time or times and in such manner as shall be specified in such Contract; and also to contract in like manner with the same or any other Person or Persons, to receive from the Collectors residing within the Limits specified in their respective Contracts, all such Taxes as shall remain in the Hands of any Collector or Collectors, or shall have been collected by him or them since the last Circuit of Receipt of the Receiver General or his Deputy, or to be collected by any Collector or Collectors aforesaid, at any time or times in the same or succeeding Quarter of the Year after the last Half yearly Circuit of Receipt, by any Receiver General or his Deputy, upon such Terms and Conditions as shall be specified in such Contracts respectively, of which Contract or Contracts the respective Commissioners shall have Notice, and from time to time shall make such Order or Orders for the Payment of the Monies from time to time collected or received by the respective Collectors aforesaid, as by this Act is directed. Sixth. It shall be lawful for every Receiver General who shall not contract to remit the Taxes by him received into the Re Receivers not remitting, to |