< for the necessary incidental Expences in each Court, there should be payable out of the Consolidated Fund, to the Prothonotaries in the Civil Side of the Court of King's Bench, and in the Court ' of Common Pleas, and to the Clerk of the Common Pleas in the ' Court of Pleas in the Exchequer, such Sums as should in each and every Quarter be certified in Writing, under the Hands of not less than Two Judges, to have been respectively incurred, as and for certain Costs and Expences in the said Acts speci'fied and set forth: And Whereas it has been found in some Instances, that the Clerks authorized by the said Act to be appointed for the Discharge of the said Duties in the said < Offices are insufficient for the Purpose; and Doubts have been entertained whether, according to the true Construction of the said last recited Clause in the said Act, the said Officers are ‹ entitled to be reimbursed for the Expences which they may have been put to by the Employment of additional Clerks in their respective Offices, except so far as they may have been employed in writing, engrossing and copying only; and it is reasonable to provide such additional Assistance for the Discharge of the Business of the said Offices, and also of the Business of the taxing Officers appointed under the said Act, as to the Judges of the said respective Courts shall, upon due Enquiry, appear to be necessary, and also to remunerate such Clerks as have been already employed, for their additional Labour and Trouble in the Offices of the said Prothonotaries, and Clerk ' of the Common Pleas in the said Exchequer;' 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 from and after the passing of this Act there shall be payable, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Prothonotaries in the Civil Side of the said Court of King's Bench, and in the said Court of Common Pleas, and to the Clerk of the Common Pleas in the said Court of Pleas in the Exchequer, being the Three principal Officers employed in the Business of the said Courts respectively, any such Sum or Sums as at any Time within the Term next after the passing of this Act shall be certified in Writing, under the Hands of the Judges of the Court respectively to which such principal Officers belong, to have been necessarily incurred for the Employment of any additional Clerk or Clerks for the Performance of the Duties of or in the Offices of any of the said Courts, at any Time previous to the Fifth Day Application by of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; and that each and every such principal Officer shall be at liberty, at any Time after the First Day of such Term, to apply from time to time by Petition, to the Judges of the Court of which he shall be an Officer, requesting that an Enquiry may be made by such Judges into the Necessity of employing additional Clerks in any such Offices, and what Salary it may be reasonable and necessary to allow such Clerks, and also what further and increased Payment it may be reasonable to make in future to the Clerks by them employed, at any Time since the Commencement of the said recited Act; and that the Two taxing Officers in Common any Allowance certified by the Judges, for additional Clerk employed in any Office of the Courts, may be paid up to 5th April 1824. Petition may may be made by Offi. cers to Judges of the Court, as to future Pay ments and Ne cessity for Employment of Clerks; 18 Law Law Business, appointed by virtue of the said recited Act, may in like Manner at any Time after the First Day of the said Term, from time to time apply, by Petition, to the Judges of the said Court of King's Bench, requesting that an Enquiry may be made by such Judges into the Necessity of employing One Clerk in the Office of such taxing Officers, and what Salary it may be reasonable and necessary to allow to such Clerk; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for the said Judges, and they are hereby required from time to time to make such Enquiry, and to certify under their Hands the Number and Description of such additional Clerks in the Office of any such principal Officer, and what Salaries shall appear to such Judges to be reasonable for Remuneration of such Clerks, and also what further and increased Payment to the Clerks heretofore employed by any such principal Officer shall appear to such Judges to be reasonable, and also what Salary shall appear to such Judges to be reasonable for the Remuneration of such Clerk in the Office of such taxing Officers; and that thereupon there shall be payable, out of the said Consolidated Fund, to the said Two Prothonotaries, and to the said Clerk of the Common Pleas in the said Court of Pleas in the Exchequer, and to such taxing Officers, on each and every Fifth Day of July, Tenth Day of October, Fifth Day of January, and Fifth Day of April, in every Year, such Sum or Sums as shall, in each and every Quarter ending on the said Days respectively, be certified in Writing, under the Hands of the Judges of the Court respectively to which such Three principal Officers respectively belong, to have been necessarily incurred, as and for the Costs of the Employment of any such additional Clerk or Clerks in such Quarter of a Year, for the Performance of the Duties of or in the Offices of any of the said Courts respectively, and also such further or increased Payment to any Clerk Clerks heretofore employed as shall be so certified by such Judges as aforesaid, and also such Sum or Sums as shall be certified by the Judges of the said Court of King's Bench as and for the Salary of the Clerk in the Office of such taxing Officers; and that all and every such Sums and Sum shall be payable out of the said Consolidated Fund, over and above any Sum or Sums of Money made payable under the said recited Act; and every such Certificate shall be given on an Examination on Oath of the principal Officer of each Department in or for which any such Payment shall be required, and of such other Person or Persons, if any, as such Judges respectively shall think proper, or as shall be produced before them for that Purpose. CA P. V. or An Act for enabling a Conveyance to be made of Part of a Quarterly Allowance to be paid in future, on like Certificate of Judges. Certificate given on Examination on Oath of principal Of ficer of each Department. HEREAS by Indentures of Lease and Release, bearing Indentures Date respectively the Thirtieth and Thirty first Days of dated 30th and May One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, the Release 31st May 1789. being made or expressed to be made between Philip Bowes B 4 • and and John Godbolt of the one Part, and the Right Honourable Henry Frederick Lord Carteret of the other Part, a certain Messuage situate in Lombard Street in the Parish of Saint Mary Woolnoth in the City of London, of which the Apartments over the Archway leading from Lombard Street to the Post Office, 'contracted to be sold as hereinafter is mentioned, formed Part, were conveyed unto and to the Use of the said Henry Frederick Lord Carteret, his Heirs and Assigns for ever: And 'Whereas by a Deed Poll under the Hand and Seal of the said Henry Frederick Lord Carteret (who was then His Majesty's 'Postmaster General), bearing Date the First Day of June One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, the said Henry Frederick Lord Carteret declared that his Name was made Use of in the said Indenture in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs • and Successors, for the Benefit of the Public: And Whereas in consequence of Alterations made in the Buildings used as the Post Office, the Four Rooms being Part of the Messuage comprised in the said Indentures of Lease and Release, which were over the said Gateway leading from Lombard Street afore'said, were no longer wanted for the Purposes of the Post Office: And Whereas some Time in the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield and the Right Honourable George Earl of 'Leicester (then His Majesty's Postmaster General), with the Consent and Approbation of the then Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, sold the Four Rooms, Part of the Messuage comprised in the said Indentures of Lease and • Release, and then used as Part of the Post Office, which were 'situate over the Ceiling Floor of the Entrance Gateway near • Lombard Street, extending from North to South Thirty eight • Feet Six Inches of Assize (little more or less), the same being measured from the outside Face of the Front Wall forming the Line of Houses on the South Side of Lombard Street aforesaid, Nine Feet Seven Inches of Assize (little more or less) 'from East to West, the same being measured from the Centre of the Party Wall separating the same Rooms from that Part of the Post Office then and now used as Offices by the Super'intendent of Mail Coaches, with their Appurtenances, and the Fee Simple and Inheritance thereof: And Whereas the Pos'session of the said Four Rooms was given up, and the said Sale was completed in all respects, except the Execution of the Conveyance of the said Rooms: And Whereas the said Four Rooms sold as aforesaid have been taken down, and Part of a Capital Messuage or Tenement, the other Part 'whereof is situate in Lombard Street on the East Side of the said Gateway, and Four Rooms have been erected on the Site • thereof: And Whereas a good Title cannot be made of such • Part of the said Messuage as is erected over the said Gateway on the Site of the said Four Rooms sold as aforesaid, until a Conveyance thereof hath been executed in pursuance of the said Šale; but as such Conveyance cannot be completed ' without the Authority of Parliament:' 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 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 said Henry Frederick Lord Carteret, at the Request and by the Direction of His Majesty's Postmaster General for the Time being, at the Costs and Charges of the Person or Persons entitled thereto, well and effectually to convey and assure such Part of the said Messuage or Tenement as is situate over the said Gateway, and erected in the said Place or Site of the said Four Chambers, Apartments or Rooms, and Hereditaments hereinbefore described and agreed to be conveyed in Exchange as aforesaid, with their and every of their Appurtenances, unto and to the Use of such Person or Persons as are now entitled thereto by virtue of or under the Sale made thereof as aforesaid, or as he or they shall direct or appoint; and that after such Conveyance shall be made, the said Part of the said Messuage, and all and singular the Hereditaments thereby conveyed, shall be held by the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be conveyed, and his and their Heirs and Assigns, for his and their own Use and Benefit, freed and discharged of and from every or any Trust for or for the Benefit of His Majesty, or His Successors, or of the Public, and of and from every Claim and Demand in respect or on Account thereof. Power to convey certain Premises formerly belonging to the Post Office, and which were vested in Lord Carteret in Trust for His Majesty, free from such Trust. CAP. VI. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom [This Act is the same as 4G.4. c.1. except as to Dates and WHEREAS divers Persons, who, on account of their Offices, Places, Employments or Professions, or any other Cause or Occasion, ought to have taken and subscribed the Oaths or Assurance respectively appointed to be by such Persons taken and subscribed in and by an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First of glorious Memory, intituled An Act for the further Security of His Ma- Persons who jesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown have omitted to in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; selves agreeably qualify them• and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of to 1G.I. st.2. Wales, c.13. 12 C.2. c.23. 12 C.2.c.24. 13 C.2. st. 2. c.1. 25C.2. st.2. c 2. 30 C.2. st. 2. 8 G. 1. c. 6. 6 6 'Wales, and his open and secret Abettors; or to have qualified 'themselves according to Two Acts made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, the one, intituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for the Increase of His Majesty's Revenue, during his Life; and the other, intituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof; or to have qualified themselves according to an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for the well governing • and regulating of Corporations; or to have qualified themselves according to another Act made in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for preventing the Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants, by receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, according to the Usage of the Church of England, and making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation therein mentioned; or according to another Act, made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament; or according to another Act made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for granting the People called Quakers such Forms of Affirm•ation or Declaration as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under; or according to another Act made in the • Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for indemnifying Persons who have • omitted to qualify themselves for Offices within the Time limited by 'Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; and for amending so much of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as requires Persons to qualify themselves for Offices before the End of the next Term or Quarter Sessions; and also for enlarging the Time limited by Law for making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation, and for allowing a further Time for Enrolment of Deeds and • Wills made by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers, • Devisees and Lessees; or according to another Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the 'Peace;' or according to another Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, ar16G.3.c.53. ‹ intituled An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the 'Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act made in the • Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, 'intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms,' as, after the Time therein limited, requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason; have, through Ignorance of the Law, Absence or some unavoidable Accident, omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and As 9 G.2. c.26. 18 G. 2. c. 20. |