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my articles, is it necessary that the same perOn assigning the residue of the term of

son should witness the execution of the assign

Law of Attorneys.-Aggregate Meeting of Solicitors at Leeds.-Correspondence. when they were not affected with the malady, SEPARATE ATTESTATIONS OF Articles of they were, to all intents and purposes, amenable to justice. So long as they could distinguish good from evil, so long would they be answerable for their conduct. There was a third species of insanity, in which the patient fancied the existence of injury and sought an opportunity of gratifying revenge by some hostile act. If such a person was capable, in other respects, of distinguishing right from wrong, there was no excuse for any act of atrocity which he might commit under this description of derangement. The witnesses who had will be sufficient.-ED.] been called to support this extraordinary de

ment by all parties, or will it be sufficient if one affidavit shows the execution by the first attorney, and a separate affidavit by another person of the execution by the second attorney and the clerk.

T.

[We have no doubt that separate affidavits

fence had given a very singular account, in AGGREGATE MEETING OF SOLICI

order to show that at the time of the commission of the crime the prisoner was insane. What might have been the state of his mind some time ago was perfectly immaterial. The single question was, whether at the time this act was committed, he possessed a sufficient degree of understanding to distinguish good from evil, right from wrong, and whether murder was a crime not only against the laws of God, but the law of his country."

LAW OF ATTORNEYS.

RENEWAL OF ANNUAL CERTIFICATE.

I was admitted in 1822, and practised until the year ending in November, 1849, when I discontinued in consequence of ill health. Must I undergo another examination before being permitted to renew my certificate?

F.

[We think no examination will be required. There is no instance of such examination, where the attorney has practised several years, and has ceased only during the last five years. -ED.]

TOWN OR COUNTRY CERTIFICATE DUTY.

By the 53 Geo. 3, c. 184, the certificate duty payable by every solicitor residing within the limits of the twopenny-post in England was 127. By the recent Act of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, the certificate duty payable by a solicitor, if he shall reside within the distance of 10 miles from the General Post-office in the city of London, is to be 91., and if he shall reside elsewhere it is to be 61. My place of business is within 10 miles of London, but more than 10 miles from the General Post-office. To which rate of duty shall I be liable under the present Act.

B.

TORS AT LEEDS.

YORKSHIRE LAW SOCIETY.

AT a Meeting of the Committeee of Manage ment, held at the Law Library, Minster Gates, York, on Monday, the 18th of September ult., Henry Newton, Esq., the President, in the Chair, it was resolved :

That a Deputation be appointed to attend the Aggregate Meeting of Solicitors, to be held at Leeds, on the 18th October next, and that such deputation consist of Henry Newton, Esq., the President of this Society, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (George Leeman, Esq.), the Vice-President, Mr. Alderman Seymour, Mr. Alderman Richardson, the Undersheriffs of the County and City of York (William Gray, Esq., and E. R. Anderson, Esq.), James Richardson, Esq., and Thomas Hodgson, Esq., the Secretary of this Society.

SELECTIONS FROM CORRE-
SPONDENCE.

LAWYERS' HALF-HOLIDAY. SIR,-A short time since you told your readers, that 300 of the most eminent solicitors in London, had memorialised the Incorporated Law Society to take steps, to secure to them and their clerks, the advantages accruing from the Saturday half-holiday movement; and that this Society in compliance with their request, had applied to the Lord Chancellor, that his order might be obtained, to close the Law Offices at two o'clock on that day. Unfortu nately the application was not made till the commencement of Vacation: another term must commence before the required order can be

[It appears clear that the lesser duty of 67. will be sufficient, if the attorney does not prac-made. tice within the 10 miles for more than 40 days in the year. The usual place of business being beyond 10 miles, we presume the attorney will not be liable to a penalty for occasionally transacting business within the 10 miles.ED.]

Under these circumstances, your readers will hear with pleasure, that some solicitors, relying on the favourable opinion expressed by the the Vacation, have anticipated the order and Judges, and taking advantage of the leisure of commenced giving the half-holiday.

S.

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COSTS OF TAXATION.

447 of Assessed Taxes; and to authorise Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oaths required in Matters relating to Income Tax.

2. An act to supply the Sum of 8,000,000%. out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the year 1854.

3. An act for raising the Sum of 1,750,000l. by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year

1854.

4. An act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

5. An act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade.

6. An act for the Regulation of her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 7. An act for extending the Time limited for putting into execution the Act of the 14th & 15th years of her present Majesty, for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales.

SIR,-There is a grievance which, as it appears to me, might be redressed with great advantage to the Profession. A short time since I obtained the common order for the delivery and taxation of a solicitor's bill and delivery up of papers. The bill was not delivered within the time limited, and I moved for a four day order, which was granted, and then the bill was delivered. On taxing the petitioner's costs of taxation, the Master disallowed the costs of the motion for the four day order, and, I believe, according to the practice, he was right, for I recollect a case before Lord Eldon, 30 years ago, in which an order was made upon a solicitor for payment of a sum of money. He refused to pay. A second order was made to pay in a certain time. He refused. A third order was made to pay in a certain time or stand committed. He refused. A fourth order was made for his committal, but before it could be drawn up he tendered the money without costs, and upon an application being made to Lord Eldon on 9. An act to authorise the Inclosure of certhe subject, contended that he was right, according to the practice of the Court. I re-tain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and member Lord Eldon saying, that if that was Wales. the practice of the Court it was high time it was altered, but I believe it never has been altered. In my case, the trifling sum certified to be due to the solicitor was immediately paid, but not a paper will he give up, and unless the Master of the Rolls can be induced to make a special order for the costs of proceeding to get him into contempt for this new disobedience of the order, he will also escape

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COMMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT..

In an ordinary running down case, will it be open to the plaintiff to bring an action for a mandamus, under the new Common Law Procedure Act, to obtain a specific reparation of the injury done to the defendant's barge, ship, &c., instead of an action for damages in the usual way?

W.

8. An act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland.

10. An act for granting to her Majesty additional Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices.

11. An act to amend the Laws relating to Ministers' Money, and the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act.

12. An act for raising the Sum of 16,024,100%. by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year

1854.

13. An act to amend the Acts relating to the Malitia of the United Kingdom.

14. An act to continue her Majesty's Commission for building new Churches.

15. An act to empower the Commissioners of the Admiralty to construct a Tunnel between her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport and her Majesty's Steam Factory Yard at Keyham, and to acquire certain Property for her Majesty's service.

16. An act to amend the Act of the 13th & 14th Victoria, chapter 61, and the Act of the 15th & 16th Victoria, chapter 54.

17. An act to make further Provision for defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, Half Baronies, Parishes, Town Lands, and other Divisions and Denominations of Land in Ireland for Public purposes.

18. An act for the Encouragement of Seamen and the more effectual Manning of her Majesty's Navy during the present War.

19. An act for facilitating the Payment of her Majesty's Navy, and the Payment and Distribution of Prize, Bounty, Salvage, and other Monies to and amongst the Officers and Crews of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of LIST OF PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. War; and for the better Regulation of the Ac

17 & 18 VICT.

CAP. 1. An act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session relating to the Duties

counts relating thereto.

20. An act to repeal an Act of the 53rd year of King George the Third, chapter 72, and an Act of the 8th year of her present Majesty,

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chapter 21; and for making Provision for the 40. An act to continue an Act of the last Appointment and for Remuneration of a Sti- Session of Parliament, for extending for a pendiary Justice for the Division of Manches- limited time the Provision for Abatement ter in the County of Lancaster, and of Clerks of Income Tax in respect of Insurance on to such Justices and the Justices for the Lives. Borough of Salford; and for other purposes. 21. An act to apply the Sum of 8,000,000%. out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the year 1854.

22. An act to enable the Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay by the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey, and for future Repairs thereof, and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over the said River.

23. An act for raising the Sum of 6,000,000l. by Exchequer Bonds and Exchequer Bills.

24. An Act for granting to her Majesty an increased Rate of Duty on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades and Offices.

25. An act to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies' Act, 1852.

26. An act to assimilate the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in Ireland to the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in England.

27. An act for granting certain additional Rates and Duties of Excise.

28. An act to alter and amend certain Duties of Customs.

29. An act to alter the Duties of Customs on Sugar, Molasses, and Spirits.

30. An act for granting certain Duties of Excise on Sugar made in the United Kingdom. 31. An act for the better Regulation of the Traffic on Railways and Canals.

32. An act to facilitate the Apportionment of the Rent when Parts of Lands in Lease are taken for the Purposes of the Church Building Acts.

33. An act to place Public Statues within the Metropolitan Police District under the Control of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings.

34. An act to enable the Courts of Law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to issue Process to compel the Attendance of Witnesses out of their Jurisdiction, and to give effect to the Service of such Process in any Part of the United Kingdom.

35. An act to repeal certain Provisions of an Act of the 5th and 6th years of her present Majesty, concerning the holding of Assizes for the County of Warwick.

36. An act for Preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels.

37. An act for establishing the Validity of certain Proceedings in her Majesty's Court of Vice-Admiralty in Mauritius.

38. An act for the Suppression of Gaming Houses.

39. An act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kidgdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those purposes respectively.

41. An act to continue the Poor Law Board. 42. An act to continue certain Acts for re⚫ gulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland.

43. An act to continue an Act of the 17th year of her present Majesty, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon the Common Fund.

44. An act for regulating and maintaining the Harbours of Holyhead, and for vesting them in the Admiralty.

45. An act to amend the Dublin Carriage Act, 1853.

46. An act to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland.

47. An act to alter and improve the Mode of taking Evidence in the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Wales.

48. An act to authorise the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

49. An act for the Settlement of Claims upon and over the New Forest.

50. An act to continue an Act of the 12th year of her present Majesty, for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland; and to authorise Friendly Societies to invest the whole of their Funds in Savings Banks.

51. An act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the 15th year of her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls.

52. An act to continue an Act for authorising the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads.

53. An act to confirm Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health for the Districts of Plymouth, Haworth, Aberdare, Bishop Auckland, Willenhall, and Over Darwen.

54. An act to guarantee the Liquidation of a Loan or Loans for the Service of the Colony

of Jamaica.

55. An act for the Registration of Bills of Sale in Ireland.

56. An act to make further Provisions in relation to certain Friendly Societies.

57. An act to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of Returning Officers in certain

Cases.

58. An act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to make further Provisions concerning Turnpike Roads in England.

59. An act to allow Verdicts on Trials by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland to be returned although the Jury may not be unanimous.

60. An act to amend an Act of the 12th and 13th years of her present Majesty for

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the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

61. An Act to authorise the Application of a Sum of Money out of the forfeited and unclaimed Army Prize Fund in enlarging and improving the Royal Military Asylum.

62. An act to extend the benefits of two Acts of her Majesty relating to the Constitution, Transmission, and Extinction of Heritable Securities in Scotland.

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81. An act to make further Provision for the good Government and Extension of the University of Oxford, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint Mary, Winchester.

82. An act further to improve the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

83. An act to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties.

84. An act to extend the Provisions of the

63. An act to continue the Poor Law Com-Acts for the Augmentation of Benefices. mission for Ireland.

64. An act to amend an Act of the last Session, for extending the Public Libraries Act, 1850, to Ireland and Scotland.

65. An act for further continuing certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England.

66. An act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor.

67. An act to facilitate the Purchase of Common, Commonable, and other Rights, by the Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance.

85. An act for better securing the collecting and accounting for the Land Tax, Assessed Taxes, and Income Tax, by the Collectors thereof.

86. An act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain.

87. An act to make further Provision for the Burial of the Dead in England beyond the Limits of the Metropolis.

88. An act to render valid certain Marriages of British Subjects in Mexico.

89. An act to amend the Laws for the better

Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons, and for the Suppression of Illicit Distillation, in Ireland.

68. An act to provide for the Application of certain Stock purchased with Moneys which 90. An act to repeal the Laws relating to arose from the Sale of Part of the Land Re-Usury and to the Enrolment of Annuities." venues of the Crown in Ireland. 91. An act for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland.

69. An act to indemnify Local Boards of Health as regards rating for the Repair of 92. An act to continue an Act of the 11th Highways under the Public Health Act, 1848. year of her present Majesty, for the better Pre70. An act to enable the Trustees of Port-vention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts land Chapel, Oxford Chapel, and Welbeck of Ireland. Chapel, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, to augment the Salaries of the Ministers of the said Chapels.

71. An act to amend the Law concerning the making of Borough Rates in Boroughs not within the Municipal Corporation Acts.

72. An act to provide for Payment of the Salaries of the Sheriff and Sheriff Clerk of Chancery in Scotland.

73. An act to amend the Acts for the Regulation of Joint Stock Banks in Scotland.

74. An act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.

75. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the due Acknowledgment of Deeds by Married Women in certain Cases.

76. An act for the Formation, Regulation, and Government of Convict Prisons in Ireland. 77. An act to provide for the Mode of passing Letters Patent and other Acts of the Crown relating to India, and for vesting certain Powers in the Governor General of India in Council.

78. An Act to appoint Persons to administer Oaths, and to substitute Stamps in lieu of Fees, and for other purposes, in the High Court of Admiralty of England.

79. An act for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other Liquors on the Lord's Day. 80. An act to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland.

93. An act for the Exchange of the Office in Somerset House of the Duchy of Cornwall for an office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions of the Crown.

94. An act to alter the Mode of providing for certain Expenses now charged upon certain Branches of the Public Revenues and upon the Consolidated Fund.

95. An act to make better Provision for the Administration of the Laws relating to the Public Health.

96. An act for allowing Gold Wares to be manufactured at a lower Standard than that now allowed by Law, and to amend the Law relating to the assaying of Gold and Silver Wares.

97. An act to amend and extend the Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land.

98. An act to regulate the Salaries of the Parochial Schoolmasters of Scotland.

99. An act to provide for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin.

100. An Act to make further provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the High Court of Chancery.

101. An act to continue and amend the Acts now in force relating to Friendly Societies.

102. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Bribery, Treating, and undue

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Influence at Elections of Members of Parlia-Amendment of the Laws and Duties of Customs.

ment.

103. An act to make better Provision for the paving, lighting, draining, cleansing, supplying with Water, and Regulation of Towns in Ireland.

104. An act to amend and consolidate the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping.

105. An act to amend the Laws relating to the Militia in England and Wales.

106. An act for amending the Laws relating to the Militia, and raising a Volunteer Force, in Scotland.

107. An act to amend the Laws relating to the Militia, and for raising a Volunteer Militia Force, in Ireland.

108. An act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom.

123. An act to render any Dealing with Securities issued during the present War between Russia and England by the Russian Government a misdemeanor.

124. An act to settle the Contribution to be made by certain Baronies in Roscommon and Galway and the County of the Town of Galway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company.

125. An act for the further Amendment of the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham.

109. An act to defray the Charge of the LIST OF LOCAL AND PERSONAL Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great

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Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in Declared Public, and to be Judicially Noticed. certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates, and SerjeantMajors of the Militia; and to authorise the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.

110. An act to provide for the repayment of Moneys advanced from the Exchequer to the county of Mayo for Public purposes.

111. An act to continue and amend the Metropolitan Sewers' Acts.

112. An act to afford greater Facilities for the Establishment of Institutions for the Promotion of Literature and Science and the Fine Arts, and to provide for their better Regulation. 113. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Administration of the Estates of deceased Persons.

114. An act to extend the Rights enjoyed by the Graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in respect to the Practice of Physic to the Graduates of the University of London.

115. An act to amend the Law relative to the Removal of Prisoners in Custody.

116. An act to continue and amend an Act to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England. 117. An act to facilitate the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies. 118. An act to empower the Legislature of Canada to alter the Constitution of the Legislative Council for that Province, and for other

purposes.

119. An Act for regulating Appointments to Offices in the Court of Bankruptcy, and for amending the Laws relating to Bankrupts.

120. An act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and to continue certain Provisions in the said Acts.

121. An act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund and certain other Sums to the Service of the year 1854, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

122. An act for the further Alteration and

1. AN act for better supplying with Gas the town of Middleton and the neighbourhood thereof in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

2. An act to enable the London Life Association to increase the amount authorised by their Deed of Settlement to be assured upon a single Life in the said Society.

3. An act for granting further powers to "The Radcliffe and Pilkington Gas Company."

4. An act to enable the Leeds New Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money; to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Company; and for other purposes.

5. An act for enabling the Brighton, Hove, and Preston Constant Service Waterworks Company to purchase the undertaking of the Brighton, Hove, and Preston Waterworks Company; and for granting to the first-named Company all necessary powers for supplying with water the parishes of Brighton, Hove, and Preston in the County of Sussex.

6. An act for incorporating and extending the powers of the Hastings and Saint Leonards Gas Company.

7. An act for enabling the Norwich Equitable Fire Assurance Company to sue and be sued in that name, and for other purposes.

8. An act for the Improvement of the bo rough of Warrington; and for enabling the Council thereof to erect a covered Market and for other purposes.

9. An act to warp and improve certain Land in the Level of Hatfield Chase.

10. An act for enabling the Nottingha Waterworks Company to raise a further Su of Money; and for amending some of t Provisions of the Act relating to such Con pany.

11. An act to consolidate the Stock a Powers of the Corporation of "The Royal E change Assurance of Houses and Goods fro Fire," with the Stock and Powers of the C

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