brancer may viva voce or by Affidavit. inquire into the Matter of any Account or into any Question arising upon any Account of any Person, Body Corporate, or Board intrusted with the Care or Application of Application of any Public Money in Ireland, and to report to the said Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury his Opinion thereupon; and the said Remembrancer is hereby required to inquire and report accordingly. XL. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Chief Chief RememRemembrancer in proceeding such Reference as aforesaid, or upon the Evidence any of the Matters herein-before mentioned, to examine all such Parties and Persons as he shall deem proper upon Oath, and to take Evidence vivá voce, or by Affidavit, or upon written Interrogatories, to be exhibited by his Examiner or any Commissioner to be by him appointed for that Purpose, and to issue Process to compel the Attendance and Examination of Parties and Witnesses, and the Production of Books, Papers, or Writings, before him, or such Commissioner or Examiner as aforesaid, and to that end to exercise all Powers vested for such Purposes in the said Court. XLI. And be it enacted, That every Order made by the said Chief Remembrancer in proceeding upon any of the Matters aforesaid shall be entered by his Secondary, and shall be deemed and taken to be an Order of the said Court, and shall be executed as such: Provided always, that every such Order may be reversed, varied, or altered by the Chief Baron and the other Barons of the said Court, upon Motion or Petition, provided that such Motion or Petition be made or presented within the Term ensuing the Time at which the Party complaining shall have Notice of the Order complained of, and otherwise that such Order shall be final and conclusive. Order of Chief Remembrancer the Court, but may be reversed, varied, or altered to be Order of by the Barons. XLII. And be it further enacted, That such Fees as are speci- Fees for Second fied in the Second Schedule to this Act annexed, and as shall be Remembrancer. ordained and authorized by any Order or Orders to be for that Purpose made by the said Court of Exchequer, and no other, shall be taken by the said Second Remembrancer; and it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court, and the Lord High Treasurer or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, and they are hereby required, by some Writing under their respective Hands, to ascertain for and allow to the said Second Remembrancer such annual Salary thereout as to them shall seem reasonable; and such Salary shall be paid and payable to him quarterly, (that is to say,) on every Fifth Day of January, Fifth Day of April, Fifth Day of July, and Fifth Day of October in every Year; and he shall keep One or more Book or Books, and shall cause all Fees by him received to be duly and regularly entered therein, and shall submit the same to the Inspection of the said Lord Chief Baron and of the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, or such Person as they shall appoint for that Purpose, whenever he shall be thereto required; and shall also within One Week after each of the Quarter Days aforesaid render a true and faithful Account in Writing (to be verified on Oath if required) to the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being of all Fees by him received and retained in the Quarter immediately preceding the rendering of such Account; and shall also within the same Officers of the Equity Side of the Exchequer disqualified to sit in Parliament. Elections of such Persons to Parliament void. Commencement of Act. Period pay over the Balance of such Account (if any) into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Dublin: Provided always, that if upon the Examination of any such Account it shall appear to the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners aforesaid that any unreasonable or improper Charge or Deduction has been made therein, the same shall be disallowed by the Treasurer or Commissioner; and the Amount of all and every Sum of Money so disallowed shall, within Ten Days after such Disallowance thereof shall be notified to the said Second Remembrancer, and be paid by him into the said Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer; and the said Treasurer or Commissioners shall cause Copies of all such Accounts to be laid before each House of Parliament at the Commencement of the Session of Parliament next after the rendering thereof; and all Sums so paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall be carried to the Credit of the Consolidated Fund, a separate Account being kept thereof: Provided also, that the said Second Schedule and every thing therein contained shall be deemed and be Part of this Act. XLIII. And whereas by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His late Majesty it is enacted, that the said Chief Remem'brancer and every other Officer of the Equity Side of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland shall respectively execute the Duties ' of his Office in Person, except only in case of Sickness or necessary Absence;' be it therefore enacted, That no Person holding the said Office of Chief Remembrancer or the said Office of Second Remembrancer, or any other Officer on the Equity or Review Side of the said Court of Exchequer, shall be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons. 6 XLIV. And be it further enacted, That if any Person holding any of the said Offices shall be returned as a Member to serve in Parliament such Election and Return are hereby declared to be void; and if any Person so declared incapable of being elected and so returned shall presume to sit or vote as a Member of the House of Commons, every such Person so sitting and voting shall thenceforth be incapable of taking, holding, or enjoying any Office of Honour or Profit under His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and shall forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds for every Day in which he shall sit or vote in the said House of Commons to such Person or Persons as shall sue for the same in any of His Majesty's Courts of Westminster; and the Money so forfeited shall be recovered by the Person or Persons so suing, with full Costs of Suit, in any of the said Courts, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in which no Essoign, Privilege, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, and only One Imparlance. XLV. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from the First Day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SCHEDULES to which this Act refers. FIRST SCHEDULE. BY the LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL and GENERAL GOVERNOR of IRELAND. WHEREAS We have been pleased to nominate and appoint you To A. B. of for and to be Sheriff of the County of during His Majesty's Majesty's Pleasure: These are therefore to require you to take the Custody and Charge of the said County, and duly to perform the Duties of Sheriff thereof during His Majesty's Pleasure, and whereof you are duly to answer according to Law. Dated this hundred and Day of One thousand eight By His Excellency's Command, C. D. [When the Appointment shall be by any other or others than the Lord Lieutenant the Form shall be altered accordingly.] SECOND SCHEDULE. A TABLE of all FEES which it shall be lawful for the Second Re- On every Certificate at the Foot of any Bill of Where the Amount, as furnished or claimed by such Bill, shall not exceed the Sum of Where such Amount shall exceed the Sum 0 13 0 0 6 6 - 0 10 6 10 RECOGNIZANCE.-Any Recognizance taken or acknow. 69 - 0 3 0 0 6 6 1 0 Under Decretal Order pronounced in a long Cause NOTICES.-Any Notice, Advertisement, or Posting to sell Lands pursuant to any Decree, or to set Lands pursuant to any Order or Decree LEASES and DEEDS.-Any Lease, and any Counterpart Any Lease, and any Counterpart thereof, where 3&4 W. 4. c. 55. Rules established by recited Act for ascertaining Tonnage repealed. The Rule by which Tonnage of Vessels is to be ascertained. An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of the Tonnage of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the registering ' of British Vessels, certain Rules are established for ascertaining the Tonnage of Ships as well on shore as afloat, and of Vessels pro'pelled by Steam; and the Account of such Tonnage, whenever ⚫ the same shall have been ascertained according to the Rules therein prescribed (except in the Case of Ships admeasured afloat); it is thereby enacted shall be deemed the Tonnage of such Ships, and 'shall be repeated in every subsequent Registry of such Ships, unless any Alteration shall have been made in their Form and Burthen, or unless it be discovered that the Tonnage had been erroneously computed: And whereas it is considered that the • Capacity of a Ship is the fairest Standard by which to regulate its Tonnage, that internal Measurements will afford the most accurate and convenient Method of ascertaining that Capacity, and that the Adoption of such a Mode of Admeasurement will tend to the Interests of the Ship Builder and the Owner, as well as to the proper Collection of the Dues which by Law are payable on Tonnage; and it is expedient to alter and amend the Law in this respect: 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 Commencement of this Act so much of the said recited Act as establishes Rules for ascertaining the Tonnage of Ships shall be and the same is hereby repealed so far as respects the Merchant Shipping of the United Kingdom to be thereafter registered. 6 II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Commencement of this Act the Tonnage of every Ship or Vessel required by Law to be registered shall, previous to her being registered, be measured and ascertained while her Hold is clear, and according to the following Rule; (that is to say,) Divide the Length of the Upper Deck between the Afterpart of the Stem and the Forepart of the Stern-post into Six equal Parts. Depths: At the foremost, the middle, and the aftermost of those Points of Division, measure in Feet and Decimal Parts of a Foot the Depths from the under Side of the Upper Deck to the Ceiling at the Limber Strake. In the Case of a Break in the Upper Deck, the Depths are to be measured from a Line stretched in a Continuation of the Deck. Breadths: Divide each of those Three Depths into Five equal Parts, and mea sure sure the Inside Breadths at the following Points; videlicet, at One Fifth and at Four Fifths from the Upper Deck of the foremost and aftermost Depths, and at Two Fifths and Four Fifths from the Upper Deck of the midship Depth. Length: At Half the midship Depth measure the Length of the Vessel from the Afterpart of the Stem to the Forepart of the Stern-post; then to Twice the midship Depth add the foremost and the aftermost Depths for the Sum of the Depths; add together the upper and lower Breadths at the foremost Division, Three Times the upper Breadth, and the lower Breadth at the midship Division, and the upper and Twice the lower Breadth at the after Division, for the Sum of the Breadths; then multiply the Sum of the Depths by the Sum of the Breadths, and this Product by the Length, and divide the final Product by Three thousand five hundred, which will give the Number of Tons for Register. If the Vessel have a Poop or Half Deck, or a Break in the Upper Deck, measure the Inside Mean Length, Breadth, and Height of such Part thereof as may be included within the Bulkhead; multiply these Three Measurements together, and dividing the Product by 92-4, the Quotient will be the Number of Tons to be added to the Result as above found. In order to ascertain the Tonnage of open Vessels, the Depths are to be measured from the upper Edge of the upper Strake. be entered on III. And be it further enacted, That the Tonnage or Burthen Tonnage, when of every Ship belonging to the United Kingdom, ascertained in the ascertained, to Manner herein-before directed, shall, in respect of any such Ship Register. which shall be registered after the Commencement of this Act (except as herein-after excepted), be inserted in the Certificate of the Registry thereof, and be taken and deemed to be the Tonnage or Burthen thereof for all the Purposes of the said recited Act. of Steam IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in each of Mode of ascerthe several Rules herein-before prescribed, when applied for the taining Tonnage Purpose of ascertaining the Tonnage of any Ship or Vessel pro- Vessels. pelled by Steam, the Tonnage due to the Cubical Contents of the Engine Room shall be deducted from the Total Tonnage of the Vessel as determined by either of the Rules aforesaid, and the Remainder shall be deemed the true Register Tonnage of the said Ship or Vessel. The Tonnage due to the Cubical Contents of the Engine Room shall be determined in the following Manner; that is to say, measure the Inside Length of the Engine Room in Feet and Decimal Parts of a Foot from the foremost to the aftermost Bulk-head, then multiply the said Length by the Depth of the Ship or Vessel at the midship Division as aforesaid, and the Product by the Inside Breadth at the same Division at Two Fifths of the Depth from the Deck taken as aforesaid, and divide the last Product by 92.4, and the Quotient shall be deemed the Tonnage due to the Cubical Contents of the Engine Room. Room to be V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Tonnage Length and due to the Cubical Contents of the Engine Room and also the Cubical ConLength of the Engine Room shall be set forth in the Certificate of tents of Engine Registry as Part of the Description of the Ship or Vessel, and that any set forth in Alteration of such Tonnage due to the Cubical Contents of the Engine Room or of such Length of the Engine Room, after Registry, shall be deemed to be an Alteration requiring Registry de novo within the Meaning of the said Act for the registering of Ships or Vessels. VI. And Description of |