and take part and vote in the election thereat. The said Collector or principal Officer shall supply a copy of such list on the occasion of the first meeting to the said Thomas Carr Lietch, and of each such annual meeting to the Clerk of the Commissioners, who shall respectively cause a sufficient number of copies thereof to be printed, and shall supply a copy thereof to every person requiring the same on payment of the sum of 6d. for every 100 words of such copy, and copies of such list shall be fixed by the said Thomas Carr Lietch and the said Clerk of the Commissioners respectively on the outer doors of the Town Hall of the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne two days at least before the day appointed for the first and each such annual meeting: (6.) At the first and each such annual election each registered Shipowner of Newcastle-upon-Tyne shall be entitled to one vote and no more for each Commissioner then to be elected : (7.) The election of Commissioners at the first and each such annual meeting shall be made by the majority of registered Shipowners of Newcastle present at the meeting: (8.) Every person elected as a Commissioner by the registered Shipowners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne shall be required to have the following qualification; namely, to possess, in his own right, shipping registered in his own name at the Custom House of the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 31st day of December next before the day of election of not less than 200 tons register burthen: (9.) Such one of the Commissioners elected by the registered Shipowners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the first meeting as is named last on the list of persons elected shall go out of office at the second meeting, but shall be re-eligible; such one of them as is named second on the list shall go out of office at the third meeting, but shall be re-eligible : (10.) Each Commissioner elected by the registered Shipowners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the annual meeting shall go out of office at the second meeting after his election, but shall be re-eligible : (11.) Section nineteen of The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847, shall apply in the case of Commissioners elected under the present clause. 6. With respect to the election of Commissioners by the registered Shipowners of North Shields, the provisions of the last foregoing clause shall apply in that case as if those provisions were here repeated, with the substitution only of the registered Shipowners of North Shields for the registered Shipowners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the substitution of the Borough of Tynemouth for the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 7. With respect to the election of Commissioners by the registered Shipowners of South Shields, the provisions of the last-mentioned clause shall apply in that case as if those provisions were here repeated, with the substitution only of the registered Shipowners of South Shields for the registered Shipowners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the substitution of the borough of South Shields for the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8. The costs, charges, and expenses of and preliminary and incidental to the several first and annual elections aforesaid shall be paid by the Commissioners out of money coming to their hands under this Order. 9. The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847, as far as the same is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, shall be incorporated with this Order (this Order being deemed "the Special Act," and the execution of the powers of this Order being deemed "the undertaking"), and shall, as far as the nature and circumstances of the case will admit, apply to the Commissioners collectively and severally, subject to the following provisions: (1.) No person shall be capable of acting as a Commissioner (other than a person appointed to be a Commissioner by the Board of Trade or elected by Pilots or by Shipowners) unless he is seised or possessed of property to the value or amount of 500l.: (2.) Sections twenty-three to thirty-five, both inclusive, of the last-mentioned Act shall not be incorporated with this Order: (3.) With reference to section thirty-six of the same Act, the first meeting of the Commissioners shall be held within seven days after the completion of the several first elections under this Order: (4.) With reference to section thirty-nine of the same Act, the prescribed number (constituting a quorum) of the Commissioners shall be seven: (5.) With reference to section forty of the same Act, the annual meeting of the Commissioners shall be held on or within one week after the 1st day of October in each year: (6.) Section fifty-four of the same Act shall not be incorporated with this Order: (7.) With reference to section ninety of the same Act, it shall not be obligatory on the Commissioners to cause such statement and account as therein mentioned to be printed: (8.) With reference to section ninety-two of the same Act, the Commissioners shall from time to time appoint a permanent auditor of the accounts of the Commissioners: (9.) With reference to the provisions of the same Act with respect to the making of by-laws, licensed pilots under this Order shall be deemed officers of the Commissioners; all by-laws shall be printed, and copies shall be always obtainable by purchase; any by-laws shall not have effect unless and until they are approved by the Board of Trade. 10. The pilotage district of the Tyne shall, for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to include the whole of the river Tyne, and to extend seaward over a radius of seven miles. 11. The jurisdiction in pilotage matters within the district aforesaid now vested in the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne shall be and is hereby transferred to and vested in the Commissioners incorporate d by this Order. 12. All Pilots licensed for the Tyne or its entrance by the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the commencement of this Order shall be entitled to continue to act as such Pilots under the Commissioners incorporated by this Order for one year after the commencement of this Order, without further licence or payment in respect of that year, but in all other respects shall become and be subject to the authority of the Commissioners and the provisions of this Order, as if they had been severally licensed originally under this Order. 13. The Commissioners shall examine every person who applies to them for a Pilot licence, for the purpose of ascertaining his skill, knowledge, and experience in relation to the navigating, piloting, and conducting of vessels into, out of the, and within the said district, or any part or parts thereof, and may, if they think fit, license and authorize by writing any person examined and found qualified to act in the capacity of Pilot for navigating, piloting, and conducting vessels as aforesaid, provided he has served five years in the pilot service. 14. Every Pilot to be licensed under this Order shall, on receiving his licence from the Commissioners, pay to them, or to their Clerk for the time being for their use, the sum of forty shillings for such his licence; and every Pilot licensed for the district aforesaid, or any part thereof, by the Trinity House of Newcastle-uponTyne at the commencement of this Order, or to be licensed under this Order, shall annually pay to the Commissioners, or to their Clerk for the time being for their use, the sum of ten shillings for the renewal of his licence; provided that the Commissioners may from time to time increase or diminish the said licence and renewal fees, or either of them, subject to the approval of the Board of Trade. 15. The following Pilotage rates shall be paid, namely,— From and including the 1st day of April to the 1st day of October in each year, one shilling and threepence for every foot of water which any ship or vessel shall draw, and from and including the 1st day of October to the 1st day of April in each year, one shilling and sixpence for every such foot of water; And such Pilotage dues shall be paid to the Commissioners or to the Pilot performing such Pilotage duty within five days after the performance thereof; provided that the Commissioners may from time to time increase or diminish the said Pilotage dues, subject to the approval of the Board of Trade. 16. Nothing in this Order shall extend to oblige the Owner or Master of any vessel to employ or make use of any Pilot in piloting or conducting such vessel into or out of the said district or within any part thereof, if he is not desirous so to do, or to pay any Pilotage dues when not employing or making use of a Pilot. 17. All money standing in the books of the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the credit of or lawfully applicable to the Tyne Pilotage District hereby transferred to the Commissioners, and also all money held by the said Trinity House for or on behalf of the said Sea Pilots or the River Pilots of the said District, at the commencement of this Order, shall be paid to the Commissioners incorporated by this Order. 18. The costs, charges, and expenses of the promoters of this Order, and of the Master Pilots and Seamen of the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in relation to this Order, and of the proceedings consequent thereon in Parliament, including the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the application for and obtaining the Order of the Board of Trade, and the proceedings relating thereto in the last Session of Parliament, shall be paid by the Commissioners out of the first monies coming to their hands under the provisions of this Order. 19. All compensation money payable by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the provisions of section 12. of the 24 & 25 Viet. c. 47, to the said Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for differential dues for pilotage payable in respect of the said district, shall, after the commencement of this Order, be paid to and received by the Commissioners. 20. If the services of any persons at the commencement of this Order permanently employed by the Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on duties connected with the pilotage within the Tyne Pilotage district are not continued by the Commissioners, the Commissioners shall grant compensation to such persons out of the monies to come into their hands 'by virtue of this Order, such compensation not to be granted except under such circumstances and to such an amount as might be granted under the Act or Acts for the time being in force with respect to compensation for abolition of office in the public Civil Service. 21. The first meeting of the Commissioners shall be held at such place as the Board of Trade shall appoint, and all subsequent meetings at such time and place as the Commissioners shall from time to time appoint. 22. Nothing in this Order shall exempt the Commissioners or the Pilotage district aforesaid from the provisions of any general Act of Parliament, now in force or hereafter to be passed, relating to Pilotage or Pilotage dues, or to merchant shipping, or to ports, harbours, or docks, or to dues on shipping, or on goods carried therein, or from any future revision and alteration, under the authority of Parliament, of the Pilotage dues authorized by this Order, or of the limits of the district defined by this Order. CAP. XLV. An Act to provide for the Collection by means of Stamps of Fees payable in the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, and in the Offices belonging thereto. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. (19th June 1865.) 1. From and after December 31, 1865, all fees payable in superior Courts to be collected by stamps. 3. General Rules to be made by Treasury. 4. Documents not properly stamped to be invalid. 5. Nothing to interfere with powers of Treasury, &c. for alteration of fees, &c. 6. Payment of salaries, &c. out of money received for stamps. 7. Accounts to be laid before Parliament. 8. Repeal of enactments in Second Schedule. 9. Short title. By this Act, it is Enacted as follows :— 1. From and after the 31st of December 1865, or from and after such earlier time as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justices of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas and of the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, by notice published in the London Gazette, appoint, the following fees shall be collected by stamps; namely, -all fees for the time being payable in the several courts, and offices, or to the several officers, or in respect of the several matters, specified in the First Schedule to this Act, whether under the several enactments therein specified, or otherwise, and all fees whatever for the time being payable under any of those enactments. 2. All or any stamps to be used under this Act shall be impressed or adhesive, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from time to time direct. 3. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justices and Lord Chief Baron, may from time to time make such rules as seem fit for regulating the use of stamps under this Act, and particularly for prescribing the application thereof to documents from time to time in use or required to be used for the purposes of such stamps, and for insuring the proper cancellation of adhesive stamps and keeping accounts of such stamps. 4. Any document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act shall not be of any validity unless and until it is properly stamped; but if any such document is through mistake or inadvertence received, filed, or used without being properly stamped, a Judge of one of the said Courts may, if he thinks fit, order that the same be stamped as in such order may be directed, and on such document being stamped accordingly the same and every proceeding relative thereto shall be as valid as if such document had been properly stamped in the first instance. 5. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the exercise by any of the Judges of the said Courts, or by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or by any other authority, of any power of altering or otherwise regulating the amount of any fees comprised in this Act, or of any salaries or other charges for the time being by law payable thereout or charged thereon, or of directing that any fees comprised in this Act shall cease to be applicable to any charges or payments charged thereon or payable thereout, and shall be from time to time paid into the receipt of the Exchequer, and be carried to and form part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom. 6. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall keep a separate account of all money received in respect of stamps under this Act; and, subject to the deduction out of the money so received of any expenses incurred by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in the execution of this Act, and to the payment or discharge thereout, in such manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from time to time direct, of salaries or other charges for the time being by law charged on or payable out of any fees comprised in this Act, the money so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, be carried to and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund. 7. The account so kept by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for every year ending the 31st of March, together with an account for every such year, prepared under the direction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, shewing the salaries and other charges now or formerly charged on or payable out of any fees comprised in this Act, and for the time being in pursuance of any Act paid out of the said Consolidated Fund, or out of money provided by Parliament, and also shewing all other charges in respect of the said Courts and their several offices for the time being paid out of the said Consolidated Fund or out of money provided by Parliament, by way of salary, compensation, or otherwise, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within one month after the termination of such year of account, if Parliament is then sitting, or if not, then within one month after the next meeting of Parliament; and the second of such yearly accounts and every subsequent account shall shew the items for two consecutive years, and the increase or decrease of any of those items in the second of those years as compared with the first. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 73. s. 10. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 126. s. 20.) 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. s. 15. (23 & 24 Vict. c. 54.) 17 & 18 Vict. c. 36. ss. 3, 4, 5. 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 74. s. 89. 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 82. s. 6. 8. From and after the time appointed for the commencement of the collection of fees by means of stamps under this Act, the Acts described in the Second Schedule to this Act shall be repealed to the extent in that Schedule specified. 9. This Act may be cited as the Common Law Courts (Fees) Act, 1865. The FIRST SCHEDULE. The Superior Courts, and their several Offices, Crown Office, Queen's Bench. Registration of Certificates, &c. of Acknowledgments of Deeds of Married Women, &c., Common Pleas. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 67. s. 36. 25 & 26 Vict. c. 96.) 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110. s. 19. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11. ss. 2, 4, 7, 8, 9. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 75. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 15.-as to Common Pleas. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 115. s. 2. (3 & 4 Vict. c. 82. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 35. s. 17. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107. ss. 195-7.-as to England. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35. s. 22. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 38. s. 4. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 86. s. 4. (22 & 23 Vict. c. 21. ss. 1-4.) Registration of Judgments, Crown Debts, &c., Common Pleas. Queen's Remembrancer's Office. An Act for abolishing certain Offices on the Revenue Section Five. brancer in that Court. An Act for abolishing certain Offices on the Crown Section Twelve. An Act to regulate the Receipt and Amount of Fees Section One. An Act to make Provision for a permanent Establish- Sections Fourteen and CAP. XLVI. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom. (19th June 1865.) CAP. XLVII. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, and Surgeons Mates of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commis sioned Officers. (19th June 1865.) CAP. XLVIII. An Act to supply Means towards defraying the Expenses of providing Courts of Justice and the various Offices belonging thereto; and for other Purposes. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. (19th June 1865.) Preliminary. Provision of Funds for Works. Repayment of Power to redeem Chancery Compensations out of Capital, and Indemnity of the Chancery Cash Balance. Saving of Jurisdiction on Removal of Courts. Transfer of Property now used for Offices. 1. Short title. 2. Definition of terms. 3. Advances to be made by the Paymaster General. 4. Plan of building and arrangements for care and maintenance of the building. { 5. By this Act, Repayments to the account of the Paymaster General to be carried to and be made part of the Consolidated Fund. 6. Mode of repayment of advances to Consolidated Fund. 7. 200,000l. to be contributed out of money to be provided by Parliament as the value of courts and offices transferred, and of relief from rent, to the public. 8. 1,000,000l. stock to be contributed by the Surplus Interest Fund. 9. Contribution of suitors other than of Chancery to be ascertained and discharged by a redemption annuity. 10. Mode of ascertaining amount chargeable on the suitors. 11. Apportionment amongst suitors other than those of the Court of Chancery of their contribution. 12. Mode of levying contribution. 13. Annual adjustment of suitors redemption annuity. 14. Cessation of rent of courts fee. 15. Power of Treasury to make regulations. 16. Chancery compensations may be redeemed or paid out of the capital of court funds. 17. Indemnity against loss by appropriation of Surplus Interest Fund. 18. Saving of jurisdiction of Courts. 19. Forms of writs to be altered by Order in Council. 21. Power to try Middlesex causes in the new courts. After reciting that a bill has been or is about to be introduced into Parliament in the present session by the short title of "The Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act, 1865," 28 Vict. c. 49, and the purposes intended to be carried into effect by |