c. 62. 57 Geo. 3, tively become vacant, wholly abolished; and after the offices of the said commissioners shall become vacant, it shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being, in concurrence with the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his majesty's treasury for the time being, to make such arrangement, by the appointment of one or more officer or officers, as shall provide for the efficient execution in person of all duties connected with the superintendence of the public buildings now under the charge of the said board of works, at such reasonable rate of salary or salaries as shall be sufficient for the purpose; and an account of every such appointment and rate of salary shall be laid before parliament in like manner as by this act is required with respect to the regulation of other officers under this act."-Sect. 9 provides for the savings thereby to go to the consolidated fund. Persons beJonging to the said offices when regulated, the house of commons. (41 Geo. 3. c. 52.) Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, That every office and appointment belonging to and making part of the establishment of any of the said offices respectively, when so regulated as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a new office within the true intent and meaning of an act passed in the forty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for declaring what persons shall be disabled from sitting and voting in the house of commons of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and also for carrying into effect part of the fourth article of the union of Great Britain and Ireland, by providing in what cases persons offices or places of profit under the crown of Ireland shall be incapable of being members of the house of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom; and every person holding any such office shall be incapable of sitting or voting as a member of the house of commons; and every such officer who shall sit or vote in the house of commons shall be liable and subject to the penalties and forfeitures con tained in the said recited act with respect to such person or persons as shall be disabled or incapacitated by the holding or accepting of any office, employment, or place of profit, in the said act enumerated and particularized. No. LX. The stat. 57 Geo. 3. c. 63. An Act to regulate the Offices of Clerks of the Signet and After terexisting interests, offi mination of WHEREAS it is expedint that the respective offices of clerks of the signet, and of clerks of the privy seal, should be regulated; be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual aud temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, "That from and after and upon the respective terminations of the respective existing interests in each of the said offices of clerks of the signet and privy seal respectively, and as each of the said offices shall become vacant, upon the termination of such present existing and interests, the duties of the said offices respectively shall performed be executed and performed by the several and respective persons who shall be appointed to execute the same, in person." The sections 2, 3, 4 provide for the future establishment and regulation of the offices, and the appropriation of the savings thereby; and by section 5 it ces of clerks to the siguet and privy in person. is further enacted, "that every office and appointment Persons bebelonging to and making part of the establishment of the said any of the said offices respectively, when so regulated as aforesaid under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed and taken to be a new office within the true intent and meaning of an act passed in the sixth year of the reign of her late majesty queen Anne; and every person hold offices, when regulated, incapable of sitting or voting as members of the house of commons. ing any such office shall be incapable of sitting or voting as a member of the house of commons; and every such officer who shall sit or vote in the house of commons shall be liable and subject to the penalties and forfeitures contained in an act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of his late majesty king George the second, inti(15 G. 2. tuled, An Act to exclude certain officers from being members of the house of commons. c. 22.) (22 G. 3. c. 82.) No. LXI. The stat. 57. Geo. 3. c. 66. The following Statute declares that the office of Vice President of the Board of Trade shall not be deemed a new office. WHEREAS an act passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for enabling his majesty to discharge the debt contracted upon his civil list revenues, and for preventing the same from being in arrear for the future, by regulating the mode of payments out of the said revenues, and by suppressing' or regulating certain offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the revenues of the civil list: And whereas it is expedient to make provision for enabling his majesty to grant a competent salary to the person holding the office of vice president of the committee of council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, in consideration of the duties and responsibility attached to the said office; be it therefore enacted, &c. "That it shall be lawful for his majesty, by any order or warrant under his royal president of sign manual, countersigned by the lord high treasurer, or by the commissioners of his majesty's treasury of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any three or more of them for the time being, to order and Salary of 2000l. to the vice the board of trade; direct that the vice president of the committee of council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, for the time being, shall have a salary not exceeding two thousand pounds, to be paid and payable out of the fee fund of the council office; and such office shall not, by reason of such salary being 'annexed thereto, be deemed a new office Provided always, that no such order or warrant, or receipt of salary under the same, by the person holding such office at the time of passing this act, shall make void the election of any such person, nor shall any new writ issue for a new election in consequence of any such order or warrant, or receipt of salary under the same, any thing in any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding." but not to ed a new be consider office. No. LXII. An Act to regulate the offices of His Majesty's Exchequer in England and Ireland respectively. 57. G. 3. c. 84. WHEREAS the offices of Auditors and Tellers of his majesty's Exchequer in England and Ireland respectively, and of clerks of the Pells in England and Ireland respectively, are offices with respect to which it is expedient that a more economical execution of the duties thereof respectively, after the termination of the present existing interests therein respectively, should be adopted: May it therefore please your majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted, "That the several and respective duties of the several and respective offices of certain auditor, and of each of the four tellers of his majesty's exchequer, and clerk of the pells in England, and of auditor and of teller of his majesty's exchequer, and clerk of the pells in Ireland, shall, from and after and upon the respective terminations of the respective present existing Duties of offices, after expiration of existing interests, to ed in per be perform son. c. 84. 57 Geo. 3, interests in each of the said offices respectively, and as each of the said offices shall become vacant upon the termination of such present existing interests, be regulated under the provisions of this act, and thereafter be executed and performed by the several and respective persons appointed to execute the same in person.' offices when regulated, incapable of sitting or voting as The intervening sections 2, 3, 4, make further provision for the future establishment and regulation of the offices, and for the savings thereby to go to the conPersons be- solidated fund. And by sect. 5, it is further enacted, longing to "That every office and appointment belonging to and the said making part of the establishment of any of the said offices respectively, when so regulated as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a new office within the members of true intent and meaning of an act passed in the sixth the house of year of the reign of her late majesty queen Anne; and every person holding any such office shall be incapable of sitting or voting as a member of the house of commons; and every such officer who shall sit or vote in the house of commons shall be liable and subject to the Penalties. penalties and forfeitures contained in an act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of his late majesty king (15 Geo 2, George the second, intituled, An act to exclude certain €. 22.) officers from being members of the house of commons." commons. No. LXIII. An Act for the better Regulation of Polls, and for making other Provisions touching the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for places in Ireland.* 57 Geo. 3. c. 131. WHEREAS it is necessary to amend the laws for regulating the election of members to serve in parliament * Soon after the decision of the Rochester case, 1817, a bill for further regulating the duration of polls in England, and in some respects similar to the present, was brought in by Mr. Wynn, and passed the house of commons, but was lost in the lords. |