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forfeit and pay for every fuch Offence the Sum of Fifty Pounds.

fioner to act

No Commif
in London,
St. Martin-le-

Grand, or

without tak

ing Oath;

XXVII. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to au- Weminster, thorize any Perfon to act as a ing the followCommiffioner in the Execution of this Act, or any of the Powers herein contained, within the City of London, and Liberty of Saint Martin-le-Grand, nor within the City and Liberty of Westminster, without taking the Oath, or making and fubfcribing the Affirmation, of his Qualification, in the Form following; (that is to fay),

IA. B. do fwear, [or affirm, as the Cafe may require], That truly and bona fide, I have fuch an Eftate, confifting of [fpecifying the fame of the clear Value of Two thoufand Pounds, over and above what will fatisfy and difcharge all my Debts.

So help me GOD.

Which

which may be

administered

by any Com

miffioner of those Dif trics.

Penalty of

2001. for act ing without taking the Oath

Which Oath or Affirmation any One of the Perfons qualified and appointed to act as a Commiffioner within the City of London, the Liberty of Saint Martin-le-Grand, or within the City and Liberty of Westminster refpectively, is hereby authorized to adminifter, although the faid Perfon adminiftering the fame hath not himfelf previously taken the fame Oath, or made or fubfcribed the fame Affirmation; and if any Perfon fhall, from and after the faid Fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and ninetyeight, prefume to act as a Commiffioner in the Execution of this Act, or any of the Powers hereincontained, within the City of London and Liberty of Saint Martin-le-Grand, or within the City and Liberty of Westminster, (except in adminiftering the faid Oath or Affirmation last mentioned), before he fhall have taken fuch Oath, or made such Affirmation, as is before directed, he thall forfeit for every

fuch

fuch Offence the Sum of Two hundred Pounds.

and

ac

If the Charge
in a Cafe
or Surcharge,

of

a Justice, &c.

tranfmitted to

in

firmed, the

thall be conParty hall

XXVIII. Provided always, be it further enacted, That if, cording to the Opinion of any the Juftices, Judges, or Barons, of the Courts at Westminster, or any in the Court of Seffion or Court of pay 40s. Cofts to His MajefExchequer in Scotland, to whom ty. any Cafe hath been or fhall, at the Request of the Appellant or Appellants, be tranfmitted in purfuance of any of the Directions contained in the faid Acts, or any of them, the Charge or Surcharge upon which the Queftion contained in fuch Cafe shall have arifen, fhall, after the paffing of this Act, be confirmed and established, the Perfon or Perfons fo charged or furcharged fhall, for the Cofts and Charges attending the fame, pay, to the Ufe of His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, the Sum of Forty Shillings, in Addition to the Charge or Surcharge, or the Part thereof, fo confirmed and

established

Commiffion. ers may have the Opinion of

any of the Judges, &c. in Matters of

Law arifing on any Ap

peal, on ftating

the Cafe fpecially, with

out fubjecting

the Parties to Cofts.

established as aforefaid; and which Cofts fhall be added to fuch Affeffment, and levied and collected therewith, and as Part of the Rates and Duties fo affeffed.

XXIX. Provided alío, and be it further enacted, That if the Commiffioners before whom any Appeal fhall be depending, fhall, previous to their Determination thereupon, be defirous of obtaining the Opinion of any of the faid Juftices, Judges, or Barons, in any Matter of Law arifing upon fuch Appeal, it fhall be lawful for the faid Commiffioners to ftate fpecially, after communicating to the Party complaining, fuch intended Statement, and fign the Cafe upon which the Doubts of the faid Commiffioners arofe; and the faid Commiffioners are hereby required to adjourn thẻ Determination of fuch Appeal until the Opinion of fuch Juftice, Judge, or Baron, fhall be obtained; and every fuch Juftice, Judge, or Baron, is hereby required, with all convenient

convenient Speed, to return an Answer to fuch Cafe so transmitted, with his Opinion fubfcribed thereto, which Opinion so certified fhall have the Force and Effect of a Determination in a Court of Record, and the faid Commiffioners, nor the Party appealing, shall not be fubject to any Cofts in refpect of the Cafe fo transmitted.

XXX. And whereas by divers of the faid Acts for granting feveral of the faid Duties hereby repealed, it was provided, that during the Space of Ten Years then next enfuing, there fhould be provided and kept, in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer, a Book or Books, in which all the Monies arifing from the faid refpective Duties fhould, together with fuch other Duties which were refpectively granted for the Purpofes of making a permanent Addition to the Publick Revenue, and of defraying any increafed Charge ocá cafioned by certain Loans made, and

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