THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 34 VICTORIA. CHAP. 1. An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, having taken into consideration Your Majesty's most gracious message, that Your Majesty has agreed to a marriage proposed between Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta and John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, commonly called the Marquess of Lorne, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: nuity of 6,000l. to Her Royal Highness the Caline Al berta for life. Princess Louise 1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by letters patent under Power to Her the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Majesty to Ireland, to grant unto Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise grant an an Caroline Alberta, or to such persons as Her Majesty thinks fit to be named in such letters patent, in trust or for the use of Her Royal Highness, an annuity of six thousand pounds, to be settled on Her Royal Highness for life, in such manner as Her Majesty thinks proper, such annuity to commence from the date of the marriage of Her Royal Highness with John Douglas Sutherland Campbell aforesaid, to be free from all taxes, assessment, and charges, and to be paid quarterly on the fifth day of January, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the tenth day of October; the first payment to be made on such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the said marriage, of such portion of the said annuity as may have accrued between the date of such marriage and such quarterly day, and a proportionate part to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day of payment to the day of the determination thereof. Annuity to be charged on Consolidated Fund. Section 22 of 33 & 34 Vict. 2. The above annuity shall be charged on and be payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the growing produce thereof, after paying or reserving sufficient to pay such sums as may have been directed to be paid out of the said fund by former Acts of Parliament, but with preference to all other payments which may hereafter be charged on the said fund. CHAP. 2. An Act to repeal Section Twenty-two of "The Juries BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by 1. From and after the passing of this Act the twenty-second c. 77. repealed. section of "The Juries Act, 1870," shall be repealed. Proviso. 33 & 34 Vict. Provided, that nothing in this Act, or in the Juries Act (1870), shall affect any claim, right, or title to payment which any juror would have had in case neither of the said Acts had been passed. CHAP. 3. An Act to empower Committees on Bills confirming or giving effect to Provisional Orders to award costs and examine witnesses on oath. [28th February 1871.] BE E it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: 1. The Act of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth Victoria, . 1. repealed. chapter one, is hereby repealed. Power to mittees on Bills award costs. Power to Com mittees of the House of Com mons to exa mine witnesses on oath. 2. Any Select Committee of either House of Parliament to which any Bill for confirming or giving effect to Provisional Orders has been referred, in relation to any Provisional Order therein contained, may award costs, in like manner and under the same conditions under which costs may be awarded by any Select Committee under the Act of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth Victoria, chapter twenty-seven; and the provisions of the said Act, so far as they are applicable, shall have effect accordingly. 3. Any Select Committee of the House of Commons to which any Bill for confirming or giving effect to Provisional Orders has been referred, in relation to any Provisional Order therein contained, may examine witnesses upon oath upon any matter relating to such order, and for that purpose may administer an oath to any such witness. 4. For the purpose of this Act, the words "Provisional Interpretation Order" shall include provisional certificates, schemes, and of "Proviorders in the nature of Provisional Orders, made under the authority of any statute, and requiring to be confirmed, sanctioned, or carried into effect by Act of Parliament. CHAP. 4. An Act to amend "The Stamp Act, 1870," in relation sional Order." 1. Sections 113 and 114 of "The Stamp Act, 1870," are Sections 113 hereby repealed, and that Act shall be read and construed as and 114 of if the second and third sections of this Act had been therein c. 97. repealed. inserted and enacted in lieu of the said sections. 33 & 34 Vict. security." 2. The term "foreign security" means and includes every Interpretation security for money by or on behalf of any foreign or colonial of term “foreign state, government, municipal body, corporation, or company, bearing date or signed after the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two (except an instrument chargeable with duty as a bill of exchange or promissory note), (1.) Which is made or issued in the United Kingdom; or Penalty on is suing, &c. any foreign security not duly stamped 201. As to stamp duty on certain d. proxy papers. “The 8. 3. Every person who in the United Kingdom makes, issues, assigns, transfers, or negotiates any foreign security not being duly stamped, shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. 4. In lieu of the stamp duty now payable under Stamp Act, 1870," there shall be charged upon-Letter or power of attorney, or commission, £ factory, or mandate, or other instrument in the nature thereof, for the sole purpose of appointing or authorising a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more 5. In lieu of the stamp duty now payable under "The As to stamp Stamp Act, 1870," there shall be charged uponMortgage of any stock or marketable security : - 0 0 1 duty on mortgages of stock, &c. s. d. - 0 10 0 For every 5,000l. and also for any fractional £ And no release or discharge of any such mortgage shall be Act to be con 6. This Act and "The Stamp Act, 1870," shall be read and strued with construed together as one Act. A 2 33 & 34 Vict. c. 97. |