as the deficiency of the fuitors money thereby, and by the faid former act directed and appointed to be answered and paid, and all money to be borrowed on the credit of the fame, if neceffary, fhould have been fully paid and fatisfied; then, and from thenceforth, all the furplus money which should have been raised out of the faid duties, given, granted, and continued by the faid above-mentioned acts, over and beyond what should be fufficient for answering fuch deficiency, and money lent, fhould be referved for the benefit of the publick, and should not be applied to any other ufe or uses than fuch as should be thereafter directed by parliament: and whereas the faid deficiency, and all the money provided and directed to be paid by the faid former acts, or either of them, by and out of the fund thereby appropriated for that purpose, have been fully paid and fatisfied, and there now remains in the bank of England as a furplus of the said fund unapplied, the fum of thirteen thousand fix hundred ninety eight pounds, one filling, and eleven pence, fubject to the difpofition of parliament: and whereas the office of keeper or clerk of the Hanaper in Chancery is a very ancient office, held and enjoyed by grant from his Majesty's royal prede-` cefors, Kings and Queens of this realm; and the yearly revenue thereof, confifling of feveral certain yearly rents or fums, referved upon grants made by the crown of the feveral offices, commonly called the Seal or Green Wax Office, the Alienation Office, and the Sixpenny Writ Office, in Chancery (the grant of which last-mentioned office is now expired and determined) and alfo of fees paid upon grants, commiffions, and other patents paffing under the great feal, which are uncertain and contingent, hath conftantly been iffued and applied in and for the payment of feveral ancient fees, falaries, and allowances, belonging to the lord chancellor, or lord keeper of the great feal, the mafter of the rolls, the masters in Chancery, clerk of the parliaments, and other officers attending the parliament and great seal, and of feveral bills and disbursements always paid and allowed out of the revenues of the Hanaper office: and whereas the office of master or keeper of the rolls, is an office of great trust and confequence to the publick, and the revenue belonging thereto is not adequate to the trouble, dignity, and importance of the faid office: and whereas the income or revenue of the faid office of the Hanaper, hath not for several years last past been fufficient to answer and pay the feveral fees, falaries, allowances, and disbursements, iffuing and payable out of the fame; and there remained due and in arrear, at Michaelmas, one thousand feven hundred and forty nine, to the feveral perfons claiming and intitled to fuch fees, falaries, allowances, and disbursements reSpectively, feveral fums of money, amounting together to the sum of ten thousand five hundred ninety pounds, twelve shillings, and eleven pence; and as the revenue of the Hanaper office will, in all probability, ftill continue to be deficient, not only the prefent debt upon the faid office will be loft, but the fervices to which the fame for the future are to be applied, will remain unprovided for: wherefore, and in order to make a provifion for the payment of the faid debt, and arrears incurred upon the Hanaper office; be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in

this

J

Js. 11d. fur

ed,

10,590 l. 128. 11d. is to be paid to the creditors of

the Hanaper,

as the court

of Chancery fhall direct.

this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the Out of the fum fame, That out of the said sum of thirteen thousand fix hundred of 13,698 1. ninety eight pounds, one fhilling, and eleven pence, now replus unappli maining in the bank of England, as the furplus unapplied, of the fund given and granted by the faid former acts of parliament, for the purposes therein mentioned, and fo referved for the difpofition of parliament as aforefaid, there fhall be iffued and paid fuch fums of money, not exceeding in the whole the faid fum of ten thousand five hundred and ninety pounds, twelve fhillings, and eleven pence, herein before-mentioned, to be due and in arrear at Michaelmas, one thousand seven hundred and forty nine, to the creditors upon the office of keeper or clerk of the Hanaper as aforefaid, when, and as the court of Chancery thall order and direct, in fatisfaction of the faid debt, and arrears to the feveral perfons intitled to the fame refpectively; and as often as the accomptant general of the faid court fhall, in pursuance the draughts of any fuch order of the faid court, give a draught upon the for payment bank of England, for any of the faid debts or arrears, certificates ted to the clerk thereof from the faid accomptant general (which certificates he of the Hana- is hereby requited to make without fee or reward) fhall be tranfper, &c. mitted to the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper, together with proper vouchers of the payment of the faid debts and arrears, specifying to whom fuch payments fhall have been made, and to what time the fame fhall extend, to the end the fame may be brought into the account of the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper, to be by him paffed before one of the auditors of the faid revenue; and all fuch certificates fhall, from time to time, be filed in the faid office of keeper or clerk of the Hanaper, and the vouchers to be tranfmitted therewith, are to be delivered over to the faid auditor

Certificates of

to be tranfmit

Certificates to

be filed, and the vouchers delivered to the auditor.

II. And your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament affembled, being defirous to provide for and fupply any future deficiency of the income and revenue of the faid Hanaper office, to answer the feveral services aforefaid, and to difcharge the feveral fees, falaries, and allowances, iffuing and payable out of the faid revenue; and being alfo defirous to augment the revenue of the office of mafter or keeper of the rolls; do give and grant unto your Majefty, for the purposes aforefaid, the feveral duties granted by the faid first recited act, upon the feveral writs and law proceedings therein mentioned, to be refpectively applied and disposed of, in the manner, and for the purposes herein after-mentioned, expreffed, and declared; and therefore do moft humbly befeech your Majefty, that it may be enacted; and be it further enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the Duties payable fame, That the faid duties granted by the faid act of the twelfth upon writs, year of the reign of his late Majefty, for the term of fixteen &c. granted by 12 Geo. 1. years, and continued by the faid act of the ninth year of the continued for reign of his prefent Majefty, for the farther term of four

ever;

years,

and

and which expired in the month of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred and forty fix, shall be, and the fame are hereby revived, and fhall by virtue of this act be payable and paid upon the feveral writs and law proceedings in the faid former acts mentioned, from the twenty fourth day of June, which shall be in the to commence from 24 June, year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, for 1750. ever; and that all the penalties, powers, remedies, provifions, and directions in the faid former acts provided and contained, for and concerning the raifing, levying, collecting, fecuring, and managing the fame, and defraying the expences thereof, fhall be revived, and be, from time to time, and at all times from thenceforth, applied, exercised, practifed, and executed, as fully to all intents and purposes, as if the fame had been or were in this act repeated, and again particularly enacted.

III. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, officers to That all and every the officer and officers, who fhall be con- keep distinct cerned in the raifing, levying, collecting, receiving, managing, accounts of the duties, and applying the duties arifing by virtue of and under this act, and to pay the fhall and do keep feparate and diftinct accounts thereof, and pay fame into the the fame into the receipt of his Majefty's exchequer at Westmin- exchequer fter, weekly on every Wednesday, unless it be an holy-day; and weekly. in that cafe on the next day after which fhall not be an holy

day.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Books to be That there shall be provided and kept in the said exchequer a kept for enterbook or books, wherein a separate and diftinct account of all the ing the monies arifing by the money to be paid in weekly in pursuance of this act, fhall be duties. entered and kept, and that out of the money arifing and to be produced, by and from the duties granted by this act, and hereby directed to be paid into the faid receipt of exchequer as aforefaid, there fhall be iffued and paid unto the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper office for the time being, or his deputy, a yearly fum not exceeding the fum of three thousand pounds of lawful 3,000l. to be money of Great Britain, by equal half-yearly payments, at or paid yearly on the twenty fifth day of March, and twenty ninth day of Sep- out of the tember, in every year, the first payment thereof to begin and to clerk of the be made, at or on the twenty ninth day of September, which will Hanaper, be in the year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and fifty half-yearly. (for the iffuing of which yearly fum, no fee or gratuity whatfoever fhall be demanded or taken) and that the receipt or receipts of the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, or his deputy, fhall from time to time, be a fufficient and effectual discharge for the fame.

fame to the

vernment fecurities;

V. And be it further enacted, That the refidue of the faid Refidue to be thirteen thousand fix hundred ninety eight pounds, one fhilling, put out at inand eleven pence, furplus cafh in the bank of England, after fa- tereft, on gotisfaction of the faid debt, due from the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper in Chancery, at Michaelmas one thoufand seven hundred and forty nine, as aforefaid, fhall be placed out at interest on government fecurities, under the direction of the faid court of Chancery, in the name and with the privity of the accomptant

general

general of the faid court, and placed to the account of the keepthe intereft to er or clerk of the Hanaper in Chancery, and that the interests or be paid to the dividends, and yearly proceed arifing therefrom, be, from time

clerk of the

Hanaper.

as part of the

Hanaper;

to time, paid to the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, or his deputy, in order to be applied in aid of the faid revived duties, to make good the said annual sum of three thoufand pounds, granted to his Majefty out of the faid duties as aforefaid, and that the receipt or receipts of the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, or his deputy, fhall, from time to time, be a fufficient and effectual discharge for the fame.

The faid yearVI. And it is hereby further enacted, That the faid yearly ly fums and fum of three thousand pounds, fo to be paid to, and received by intereft, to be the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, or his accounted for deputy as aforefaid, and also the yearly intereft, dividends, and revenue of the proceed, which thall arife or be produced from the furplus cath in the bank of England, as aforefaid, fhall, from time to time, as the fame shall come in and be received, be iffued, paid, applied, and accounted for, together with and as part of the ordinary income and revenue of the Hanaper office, to and for fuch and the fame ends, intents, and purposes, and in fuch and the fame manner, as the income and revenue of the said office hath, from time to time, been iffued, paid, applied, and accounted for; and alfo for the payment of the yearly sum of twelve hundred pounds, to the mafter or keeper of the rolls for the time being, by equal half-yearly payments, at or on the twenty fifth day of March, and the twenty ninth day of September in every year, the first payment thereof, to begin and be made at or on the twenty ninth day of September, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty.

and 1,2001. to the mafter of the rolls.

Clerk of the Hanaper to account for furpluffes.

the

VII. And be it further enacted, That in cafe the yearly income and revenue of the said office of keeper or clerk of the Hanaper augmented by virtue of this prefent act, fhall, at any time or times hereafter be more than fufficient to answer and pay faid yearly fum of twelve hundred pounds to the mafter or keeper of the rolls for the time being, and also the several fees, falaries, and allowances paid and payable out of the fame as aforefaid, then, and in fuch cafe, the faid keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, fhall be accountable for fuch overplus, and upon a certificate thereof from one of the auditors of the imprest (which certificate fuch auditor is hereby authorized and required, from time to time, in every fuch cafe, to make and tranfmit to the lord high treasurer, or commiffioners of the treasury for the time being) fuch overplus fhall, from time to time, as often as it shall so happen, be carried on to the account of the fubfequent year of the faid keeper or clerk of the Hanaper, who hall ftand charged therewith, in fuch fubfequent account, and only fo much of the faid yearly fum of three thousand pounds fhall be paid to the faid keeper or clerk of the Hanaper, or his deputy, for and towards the next fubfequent payment or pay

ments,

ments, as with fuch overplus to be afcertained by fuch certificate as aforefaid, will be fufficient to answer and pay the faid yearly fum of twelve hundred pounds to the master or keeper of the rolls for the time being, and the feveral fees, falaries, and allowances paid and payable out of the fame.

VIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That in cafe the year- Deficiencies in ly income and revenue of the faid office of keeper or clerk of the the Hanaper Hanaper, augmented by virtue of this prefent act as aforefaid, office, how to fhall, at any time or times hereafter, fall fhort or prove deficient be made good. to answer and pay the faid yearly fum of twelve hundred pounds, to the master or keeper of the rolls for the time being, and the several fees, falaries, and allowances paid and payable out of the fame as aforesaid, then and in such case, from time to time, as it fhall so happen, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the lord high treasurer, or commiffioners of the treasury, or any three of them for the time being, out of any money that is or thall be in the exchequer, that hath arifen or fhall arife, by and from the faid revived duties granted and directed to be paid by this act, not otherwise applied by parliament, to direct fuch fum and fums of money not exceeding what fhall have been faved in former years, by lefs having been paid to the faid keeper or clerk of the Hanaper or his deputy, than the annual fum of three thousand pounds as aforefaid, to be iffued and paid unto the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper for the time being, or his deputy, as fhall be neceffary for the answering and supplying such deficiency, so from time to time happening, to be afcertained by a certificate from one of the auditors of the impreft, to be directed to the lord high treasurer or commiffioners of the treasury in that behalf, in the manner aforefaid, and that the receipts of fuch keeper or clerk of the Hanaper or his deputy, fhall be a good and fufficient difcharge for all fuch fum and fums of money as fhall be fo iffued and paid as aforesaid.

out of the fur

IX. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, Deficiencies of That in cafe the faid revived duties, and the intereft or yearly one year to be proceed of the faid furplus cath in the bank of England, fhall made good in any one year produce lefs, and in another more than the pluffes of an fum of three thoufand pounds, then, and in fuch case, from other year. time to time, as it fhall fo happen, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the lord high treasurer, or commiffioners of the treafury, or any three of them, for the time being, to order fuch deficiencies to be made good out of fuch furpluffes, fo as the whole money to be iffued, paid, and applied to the keeper or clerk of the Hanaper or his deputy, out of the faid monies arifing from the faid revived duties, and the intereft and yearly proceed of the faid furplus cafh in the bank of England, do not one year with another, exceed the yearly fum of three thousand pounds, defigned to be provided for the faid office by this act.

X. And it is hereby further enacted, That all the refidue and The furplus furplus of the money arifing by the duties and other provifions, of the duties given, granted, made, or directed by this act, which thall, from to be difpoled of by parlia time to time remain after, and shall not be issued and applied ment. in