N.B. In the return from Bristol are two convicts sentenced to death, which sentence was commuted to transportation for fourteen years. From Chester is one convict, against whom sentence of death was recorded. From Dover is one convict sentenced to death. From King's Lynn is one convict, against whom sentence of death was recorded ; which sentence was commuted to transportation for life. From Oxford is one convict, against whom sentence of death was recorded, SUBSTANCE of Returns by the several Clerks of Assize, Clerks of the Crown, and Clerks of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, of the Number of Persons committed for Trial, indicted, convicted, acquitted, discharged by Reason of no Bill being found against them, and discharged by Reason of no Prosecution; with the Sentences of such as were convicted, and the Number of those capitally convicted who have been executed: 1824. COURTS OF JUSTICE PATRONAGE. A RETURN of all Places and Offices in the Gift or at the Disposal of the Lord High Chancellor of England; with the Names of the Persons by whom they are now filled. Sub or deputy registers..... Francis Paul Stratford, esq. Thomas Walker. esq. Henry Burrows, esq. Manner of appointment and tenure. Appointed by the court, by virtue of the stat. 12 Geo. I. c. 32, to hold such office during the pleasure of the court. By parol; of which a constat or certificate of the appointment is enrolled. To hold for life. By stat. 45 Geo. III. c. 75, it is enacted, That all appointments which from time to time during any vacancy of the office of register and keeper of the registers in the court of Chancery, shall be made by the lord chancellor, of sub-registers or deputy-registers, filer, and keeper of reports and certificates, or entering clerks, or to hold any office or place, the nomination or appointment to Francis Benjamin Bedwell, esq. which might be made by the re gister, shall be valid. These appointments are made under certain regulations as to succession. The four sub or deputy registers have each two articled clerks, who, according to ancient custom, succeed (if no valid objection exist) to the offices or places mentioned, as vacancies occur in them, according to priority of date in their articles. Manner of appointment and tenure. Queen Elizabeth, by charter of incorporation, 4th September, in the 15th year of her majesty's reign, granted and ordained that there should be 24 cursitors of the Court of Chancery, to be cursitors for their lives, to be from time to time elected, appointed, and admitted by the chancellor of England, or keeper of the great seal for the time being, for the divisions and limits as here stated; and that they and their clerks, in their names and steads, should write and expedite all writs, as therein mentioned. By the laws in force relating to bankrupts, the lord chancellor is authorised to issue commissions under the great seal, and to name, assign, and appoint commissioners. The practice under this authority has been, the nomination by the lord chancellor of a number of persons (now seventy), with directions for the insertion by rotation of five of the persons so nominated, in each commission to be executed in London. Four lists of five each were nominated in 1796, with directions for one of the four to be inserted in each of such commissions, as should be executed at or within twenty miles of Birmingham; but the vacancies which have occurred in such lists have not since been filled up. All other commissions, to be executed more than forty miles from London, are directed to persons nominated by or on the behalf of each petitioning creditor; each commissioner deriving authority from the particular commission issued to him, and no further. The commissioners for each list for London commissions are now as under stated: Lists. 1. William Gould, esq. Hon. James Abercromby. John Turner, esq. Sir George Hampson, bart. John Beames, esq. 2. John Mitford, Francis Charles Parry, 3. Burton Morice, William Roberts, George Bankes, John Raithby, esqrs. Hon. William Lennox Bathurst. 4. Henry Revell Reynolds, Robert Joseph Chambers, 5. John Reeves, Richard Wilson, Thomas Hall Plumer, Anthony Hart Rawlings, esqrs. Lists. 6. Robert Talbot, John Samuel Martin Fonblanque, 7. John Beauclerk, Jefferies Spranger, esqrs. 8. William Welfitt, 9. James Trebeck, John Samuel Hudson, Edward Grose Smith, gents. 10. Thomas Evance, Bryan Blundell Hollinshead, Thomas Farrer, John Newland, Clement Tudway Swanston, esqrs. 11. Peter Johnston, Henry Hall, Basil Montague, Nathaniel Ellison, esqrs. 12. John Calthorpe Gough, George Dale Collinson, 13. George Daniel Harvey, George Roots, Robert George Cecil Fane, William Brent Brent, esqrs. 14. Archibald Elijah Impey, Montague Farrer Ainslie, William Villiers Surtees. Robert Grant, Charles Bathurst, esqrs. Clerk of the letters patent...... Hon. William Henry John Scott. and confirmation thereof by his The other officers of the court are appointed by his majesty by letters patent, or by the master of the rolls. The vice chancellor as to his personal officers; or by the heads of the several departments, as to officers and clerks acting in their several departments, and not by the lord chancellor. Certified by order of the Lord Chancellor, J. PENSAM. A RETURN of all Places and Offices, in the Gift or at the disposal of the Master of the Rolls; and the Names of the Persons by whom those Places and Offices are now filled. |