Intent and Meaning of the Succession Duty Act, 1853, have been required by Our Commissioners of Inland Revenue to render an Account, pursuant to the said Act, and have made default therein. Now We command you that (all Excuses ceasing) within Fourteen Days from the Service of this Writ, or a Copy thereof, you do deliver to the said Commissioners of Inland Revenue an Account, upon Oath, of all the Property to which, or to the Income whereof, became beneficially entitled as Successor on the Death of deceased, by reason of the Disposition thereof made by and that you do, within the same Time, pay the Duty chargeable on the said Succession and the Costs of these Proceedings; or that you the said do within the same Time appear before the Barons of Our said Exchequer at Westminster, and show Cause why you make default in the Premises, and this you are in nowise to omit upon pain of Process of Contempt issuing against your Person for your Neglect therein. at Westminster, the Witness Day of in the (E.) For Accounts and Payment by Executor, being also Successor. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, To Greeting: Whereas We have been given to understand, in Our Court before Our Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster, that you, being accountable Part within the true Intent and Meaning of the Succession Duty Act, 1853, and the Legacy Duty Acts, have been required by Our Commissioners of Inland Revenue to render an Account pursuant to the said Acts, and have made default therein. Now We command you that (all Excuses ceasing) within Fourteen Days from the Service of this Writ, or a Copy thereof, you do deliver to the said Commissioners of Inland Revenue an Account, upon Oath, of all the Legacies and of all the Property of the said deceased paid or to be paid or administered by you as such Executor as aforesaid, and also an Account of all the Property to which, or to the Income whereof, you have become beneficially entitled as such Successor deceased Succession as aforesaid upon the Death of the said Witness Day of in the (F.) For Payment of Succession Duty when assessed. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, To Greeting: Whereas We have been given to understand, in Our Court before Our Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster, that you, being accountable Part within the true Intent and Meaning of the Succession Duty Act, 1853, have, as required by the said Act, delivered to Our Commissioners of Inland Revenue an Account of the Property for the the Duty whereon you are accountable, and that the said Commissioners have, in pursuance of the said Act, assessed the Duty on such Account, but that you have made default in Payment of the same, or some Part thereof. Now We, having been likewise given to understand in manner aforesaid that there has been no Appeal from the said Assessment, and no Notice of disputing the Liability to the same, command you that (all Excuses ceasing) within Fourteen Days from the Service of this Writ, or a Copy thereof, you do pay to the said Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or their proper Officer, the said Duty so assessed, or such Part thereof as shall at the Time of such Service be by Law due and payable, and the Costs of these Proceedings; or that you the said do within the same Time appear before the Barons of Our said Exchequer at Westminster, and show Cause why you make default in the Premises, and this you are in nowise to omit upon pain of Process of Contempt issuing against your Person for your Neglect therein. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, To Greeting: Whereas We have been given to understand, in Our Court before Our Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster, that you, having taken possession of and administered some Part or Parts of the Personal Estate and Effects of deceased, have not obtained Probate of the Will (or Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects) of the said deceased within the Time required by Law. Now We command you that (all Excuses ceasing) within Fourteen Days from the Service of this Writ, or a Copy thereof, you do deliver to Our Commissioners of Inland Revenue an Account, upon Oath, of the Estate and Effects of the said deceased, and of the true Value thereof, and that you do within the same Time pay to the said Commissioners of Inland Revenue such Duty as would have been duly payable on such Probate (or Letters of Administration) as aforesaid if the same had been duly obtained by you, and the Costs of these Proceedings; or that you the said do within the same Time appear before the Barons of Our said Exchequer at Westminster, and show Cause why you make default in the Premises, and this you are in nowise to omit upon pain of Process of Contempt issuing against your Person for your Neglect therein. at Westminster, the Witness Day of in the CA P. CV. An Act to continue the Poor Law Board for a limited Period. [5th July 1865.] WHEREAS by the Act of the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and nine, Provisions were made for the Constitution and Appointment ' of Commissioners for administering the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in England, and for the Appointment of other Officers, which Provisions have been continued until the Twenty-third Day of July last and the End of this Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that such Provisions should be further continued for a limited Period :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Continuance of Board for One Year. and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. That the Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty the Queen, or to be appointed by the Poor Law Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, under the Authority of the said Act, together with every Person by the said Act constituted by virtue of his Office such Commissioner, and every Officer and Person appointed or to be appointed by the Commissioners under the Provisions of the said Act, shall be empowered, unless he shall previously resign or be removed, to hold his Office and exercise the Powers thereof until the Twenty-third Day of July One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and until the Expiration of the said last-mentioned Period it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, from Time to Time, at Pleasure, to remove the Commissioners for the Time being appointed by Her Majesty, or to be appointed by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and upon every Vacancy in the Office of such Commissioner to appoint, as in the said Act is mentioned, some other fit Person to the said Office. Short Title. Interpretation of Terins. Treasury may issue not exceeding 300,000l. to Account of Admiralty. Account of and Sums to be carried to said Account. Loans for Docks to be CA P. CVI. An Act to authorize Loans in aid of the Construction of Docks in British Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 1. This Act may be cited as The Colonial Docks Loans Act, 1865. 2. In this Act The Term "the Admiralty" means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom The Term "Dock" includes Basin or other Work for the Reception of Vessels: " The Term Person" includes any Authority, and any Body, corporate or unincorporate. 3. For the Purposes of Loans under this Act, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may from Time to Time, by Warrant under the Hands of any Two or more of them, cause to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing Produce thereof, to the Account of the Admiralty, any Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three hundred thousand Pounds. 4. The Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall open in their Books an Account with the Admiralty under the Title of "The Lord High Admiral or Commissioners "of the Admiralty for the Time being on account of Colonial Docks." 5. All Money from Time to Time issued under this Act out of the Consolidated Fund shall be carried to the Credit of the said Account. 6. Out of the Money for the Time being standing to the Credit of the said Account, the Admiralty may from Time to Time, if and as it seems fit, with the previous Approval in in each Instance of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, lend such Sums of out of Money Money as may be required to any Person forming or enlarging any Dock in any Colony, issued. and being willing to make the same of Dimensions sufficient to meet the Requirements of Her Majesty's Naval Service, on such Terms and Conditions as may be agreed on between the Admiralty and the Borrower, subject nevertheless and according to the following Provisions: (1.) The Money lent shall not exceed the Sum of Twenty thousand Pounds, nor shall it exceed the estimated Cost of increasing the Dimensions of the Dock beyond those required for commercial or other private Purposes: (2.) The Amount agreed to be lent shall be made payable by Instalments as the Works connected with the Formation or Enlargement of the Dock progress: (3.) The Money lent shall bear Interest at not less than Four Pounds per Centum per Annum. (4.) All and every Part of the Money_lent shall be made repayable by Instalments within a Period not exceeding Twenty-one Years from the respective Dates of the Payments on account of the Loan: (5.) The Borrower shall give Security to the Satisfaction of the Admiralty and of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Mortgage of the Dock where practicable, or otherwise, for Payment of Interest and Repayment of Principal. Powers of 7. By virtue of this Act, any Loan may be made, and any Security may be given, by Loan not way of Mortgage or otherwise, on any Dues, Rates, Tolls, Revenues, or Property of the restricted as to Borrower, notwithstanding the Absence of any Power in the Borrower so to borrow or Borrower. give Security, except by virtue of this Act, and notwithstanding any Limitation of the Amount authorized to be raised under any Borrowing Power. under this 8. Every Mortgage or other Security in respect of a Loan under this Act shall have Priority of Priority to all other Securities and Charges whatever on or affecting the Dues, Rates, Mortgages Tolls, Revenues, or Property comprised in such Mortgage or other Security, except to a Security or Charge of prior Date and Execution, securing Money actually lent before the Date of the Agreement for the Loan under this Act. Act. 9. In any Agreement, Deed, or Instrument made or executed under this Act, the Style of Admiralty may be styled "The Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Admiralty in "Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral," without any Name being expressed. Deeds, &c. 10. Any such Agreement, Deed, or Instrument signed or executed by Two of the Signatures, Commissioners of the Admiralty shall be as valid and effectual as if signed or executed by &c. of Two the Commissioners for the Time being. Commis sioners. 11. All the Estate, Interest, Rights, and Powers of the Admiralty under any Mortgage Mortgaged or other Security in respect of a Loan under this Act shall by virtue of this Act go to Property to and vest in the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Time being miralty, &c. in succession. vest in Ad Repayment 12. All Interest from Time to Time payable, and all Principal Money from Time Payment of to Time repayable, in respect of any Loan under this Act, shall be paid, under the Interest and Direction of the Admiralty, to the Cashiers of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Principal. of England, and when so paid shall be carried to the Credit of the Account kept by them with Her Majesty's Exchequer. Consolidated Fund. 13. Any Money for the Time being standing to the Credit of the Account opened with Transfer the Admiralty may from Time to Time, under the Direction of the Commissioners of back to Her Majesty's Treasury, be transferred by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to the Account kept by them with Her Majesty's Exchequer, and when so transferred shall be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom. 28 & 29 VICT. 3 P 14. Every Agreements for Loans to be laid before Parliament. Agreements before passing of this Act confirmed. 14. Every Agreement for a Loan under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Thirty Days after the making thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not then within Thirty Days after the next meeting of Parliament. 15. Any Agreement made before the passing of this Act by the Admiralty, and approved by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for a Loan for such a Purpose as aforesaid, is hereby confirmed; and any Money may be lent, and all Interest agreed for shall be paid, and all Instalments of Principal Money agreed for shall be repaid, as nearly as may be in all respects as if the Agreement were made under this Act. Continuance of Acts, CAP. CVII. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain. [5th July 1865. 1. The Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed shall continue in force until the First Day of November One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and no longer, except 7 G. 4. unless Parliament in the meantime continues the same; but every other Act now in force c. lxxxv. 66 66 for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any Turnpike Road in Great Britain which will expire at or before the End of the next Session of Parliament shall continue in force until the First Day of November One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, except an Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, "for repairing the Roads from Spalding High "Bridge to the Market Place in Donington, and from the Tenth Milestone in the Parish "of Gosbertown to the Eighth Milestone in the Parish of Wigtoft in the County of "Lincoln;" an Act of the same Year, Chapter One hundred and twenty-five, "for more "effectually repairing and improving certain Roads in the Counties of Kent and Surrey, commonly called 'The New Cross Turnpike Roads ';" an Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of King George the Fourth, Chapter Seven, "for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from the North-west Parts of the County of Lincoln, through "Nettleham Fields, Wragby Lane, and Baumber Fields, to the North-east Part of the "said County, and other Roads therein described in the said County and in the City " of Lincoln;" an Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and eight, "for repairing, improving, and maintaining in repair the Turnpike "Roads from Wat's Cross to Cowden, and from Sevenoaks Common to Crockhurst Hatch "Corner, and from Penshurst Town to Southborough, in the County of Kent;" an Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Eight, "for repairing the Road leading from Dartford to Sevenoaks in the County of Kent;" an Act of the Third Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-three, "for repairing and maintaining the Road "from Stone Street Hatch at Ockley in the County of Surrey to Warnham in the County "of Sussex;" an Act of the same Year, Chapter Sixty-one, "for repairing and improving "the Road between the Towns of Ross and Abergavenny, by Broad Oak and Skenfrith, and "certain Roads connected therewith leading to Grosmont and other Places, and for making "and maintaining certain Branches of Road to communicate therewith, all in the Counties "of Hereford and Monmouth;" An Act of the Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter One hundred, " for continuing certain Powers to the Trustees of the "Road from Kentish Town to Upper Holloway in the County of Middlesex;" an Act of the Second Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Fourteen, "to extend, alter, and amend "the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His "late Majesty King George the Fourth, relating to the New Cross Turnpike Roads in the "Counties 66 |