Lists of Loans and Securities with Clerk of the Peace within Three Months. in possession of any Monies heretofore belonging or accruing from the Monies belonging to the Corporation, and vested in Her Majesty by this Act, to be sent to the Secretary to the Loan Fund Board in Dublin; and such List, Description, or Specification so sent shall have the same Force and Effect as the List, Description, or Specification which by the said Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty was required to be sent by the said Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution to the said Secretary of the Loan Fund Board in Dublin. VIII. And be it enacted, That within Three Months after to be deposited the passing of this Act all such Trustees as aforesaid in and for any County, and all such local Committees, Associations, or other Parties acting under any such Trustees, holding Securities for any such Funds or Monies lent as aforesaid, except such as shall have been lent by the Trustees to Associations or to Parties to re-lend, shall and are hereby required to deposit with the Clerk of the Peace for such respective County within which such Loans have been made Duplicate Lists of all such Loans and Securities, and the Amount then due thereon respectively, according to the Form marked (C.) in the Schedule annexed to this Act; and the said Trustees, local Associations, or other Parties acting under such Trustees as aforesaid, making Loans after the passing of this Act, with the Sanction of the Governors, or of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or with the Sanction of the Parties who may be appointed as aforesaid by the said Commissioners, shall and are hereby required to transmit to the Clerk of the Peace, within Seven Days from the granting of such Loans, Duplicate Lists of such Loans, according to the same Form, so far as the same is applicable; and all such Duplicate Lists as aforesaid shall be duly certified by the Inspector to such Trustees; and in every Case such Clerk of the Peace is hereby required to take charge of and retain one of such Lists, and to transmit the other of such Lists, within Two Days after the Receipt thereof, to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury: Provided always, that all Loans and Monies to be recovered in manner herein-before provided shall be included in such Lists as aforesaid respectively. County Trustees, on receiv ing back Loans advanced to local Committees, to notify the same to the Clerk of the Peace. IX. And be it enacted, That when any such County Trustees as aforesaid shall have advanced any such Funds or Monies as aforesaid to any local Committee, Association, or Party acting under them, for the Purpose of re-lending the same, and shall have received back from such local Committee, Association, or Party the Monies so advanced, the said Trustees shall, within Forty-eight Hours after the Receipt thereof, notify in Writing to the Clerk of the Peace of such County such Receipt, and the Discharge of such Debt or Advance as mentioned in any such Certificate marked (B.) in the said Schedule annexed to this Act; and such Clerk of the Peace, on Receipt of such Notification, shall forthwith notify the same in Writing to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and also to the Justices of of the Peace at the Petty Sessions for the District or Districts next adjoining the Place where such local Committee, Association, or Party has been acting as aforesaid. any Certificate un X. And be it enacted, That any Person, not being a Trustee, Penalty on Per who shall as a Trustee sign any such Certificate as aforesaid, sons giving false and such Trustee or Trustees as aforesaid giving any false der this Act. Certificate under this Act, or not giving Notice as aforesaid to the respective Clerk of the Peace of the Payment and Discharge of any such Loan or Advance made to any such local Committee, Association, or Party acting under such Trustees, shall be liable to forfeit Four Times the Amount of the Sum specified in such Certificate, one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to Her Majesty, and to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, or by Proceedings in a summary Way before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, in like Manner and subject to like Provisions as any Penalty or Forfeiture may be recovered under the said recited Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of Her Majesty. any XI. And be it enacted, That if any Trustee or Trustees, or Member or Members of any local Committee or Association or Party acting under any such Trustees as aforesaid, shall proceed to recover any Monies lent out by them respectively beyond the Amount of the aggregate Sum advanced to them by any such County Trustees as aforesaid, and the Accumulations by the Profits derived from the Interest, Fines, and Charges paid thereon by Borrowers thereof, and for such Purpose shall use any Certificate or other Evidence of Connexion with the said Corporation, or any such Certificate of a Trustee or Trustees as in this Act provided, every such Trustee or Trustees or Member of a local Committee or Association or Party, so offending, shall forfeit the Amount of such Demand so sought to be recovered, and shall likewise be subject to the further Penalty of Four Times the Amount of such Demand, One Half thereof to be paid to the Informer, and One Half to Her Majesty, and such Penalty to be recovered in the Manner herein-before provided as to Penalties above mentioned; provided that such Penalty hereby inflicted shall not exonerate such Party or Parties from any Penalties he or they may incur to be paid to the Loan Fund Board in Ireland. Penalty for using Certificate for Recovery of Sums beyond the Amount County Trus advanced by ances to Officers XII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Treasury may Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, out of the Monies make Allowvested in Her Majesty by this Act, to allow any Secretaries or of the Trustees other Persons heretofore employed by the said Trustees such Allowance in respect of Length of Service or other meritorious Cause, and also to pay to such Persons as may be from Time to Time employed by or with the Sanction of the said Commissioners, in collecting, managing, and applying, or otherwise in relation to the Funds hereby vested in Her Majesty, such Salaries or Allowances as the said Commissioners shall think fit. XIII. And be it enacted, That after the Expiration of Three Dissolution of Calendar Months from and after the passing of this Act the said Irish ReproducCorpor- Institution. 3 Q3 tive Loan Fund Accounts to be made up annually, and laid before both Houses of Parliament. Public Act. Act may be amended, &c. Corporation of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution shall be dissolved to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. XIV. And be it enacted, That an annual Account showing the Receipts and Disbursements under this Act shall be made up to and for the Thirty-first Day of December in every Year, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Ten Days of their next Sitting by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. XV. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and shall be taken notice of as such in all Courts whatsoever. XVI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers. SCHEDULE (A.) FUNDS and PROPERTY of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund PART I. SUMS now constituting the Fund appropriated for defraying £3,058 5s. 6d. Cash. £7,457 9s. 8d. £3 5s. per Cent. Annuities. PART II. OTHER FUNds. £22,893 10s. 5d. £3 per Cent. Annuities. SCHEDULE (B.) WE, the undersigned Trustees for the Funds heretofore be longing to the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution in County and now vested in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by an Act [insert the Title of this Act, certify that A.B. of C.D. of and E.F. of an Association at in County in County fore lending Monies advanced by us, and now hold the Amount of £ from us. (Signed) Trustees as abore described. Signed in the Presence of me, Inspector to the above Trustees in County SCHE SCHEDULE (C.) STATEMENTS of AMOUNTS due on the at 184 Day of by Borrowers from the local Association under the Trustees to the late Irish Repro ductive Loan Fund Institution in County SCHEDULE (D.) STATEMENT of FUNDS appropriated by the Relief Committee of 1822 to the Trustees for the several Counties of Ireland, with the Sums since repaid by them to the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution. ' CAP. CXVI. An Act for carrying into effect the Treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of the Equator for the Abolition of the Traffic in Slaves. [4th September 1848.] HEREAS on the Twenty-fourth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one • a Treaty was concluded and signed at Quito between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of the Equator, for the Abolition of the Traffic in Slaves, whereby it was agreed as follows: ARTICLE I.-Great Britain and the Republic of the Equator declare the Traffic in Slaves abolished for ever; and in order to avoid any Doubts that may hereafter occur from any Circumstance proving prejudicial to the Interests of Commerce and Navigation for Want of a proper Explanation of the real Spirit of the Phrase "Traffic in Slaves," do here mutually declare to be understood by such Traffic such only which is carried on in Negroes brought from Africa in order to transport them to other Parts of the World for Sale, but in no Manner whatever the conveying from one Port or Place to another belonging to the Republic the Slaves existing within it, be such undertaken either with the Object of selling them or ' with any other not prohibited by the Laws. • ARTICLE |