ment of such annuity or annuities accordingly; and from and immediately after the advancing of the monies for the purchase, or granting of fuch life annuity or annuities as aforefaid, into the hands of the treasurer or treasurers, to be appointed by the authority of this act, and the delivery of fuch order or orders for the payment of fuch annuity or annuities as aforesaid, fuch annuity or annuities fhall ftand, and be charged and chargeable upon, and fhall be paid and payable out of the faid monies, to arife from the said additional sumns by this act charged upon the faid fees, in fuch manner and form as, by fuch order or orders for payment thereof, fhall be expreffed or directed, and the fame fhall be free from all taxes and deductions whatsoever.

indorsement.

V. And be it further enacted, That all and every the faid Annuities annuity or annuities may be affigned by the perfon or perfons affignable by entitled to the fame, or his, her, or their executors, administrators, or affigns, by indorsement, upon the back of the faid order or orders, to any perfon or perfons whomfoever.

VI. And, for enabling the faid commiffioners to pay and Commiffioners enabled to discharge the said annuity or annuities, be it enacted by the audifcharge the thority aforefaid, That, from and after the paffing of this act, annuities. there shall be paid, into the hands of the treasurer or treasurers to be appointed by the authority of this act, for every summons which fhall be iffued out of the faid court, the fum of two-pence, and for every hearing in the said court, the fum of one penny, over and above the fees received, or to be received, by the clerks of the faid court, for every fuch fummons and hearing respectively, by virtue of, or under the authority of this or the faid former act; which faid additional fums, hereby charged upon the said several fees, fhall from time to time be applied in payment of the said annuity or annuities fo to be granted or ordered as above mentioned, and the arrears thereof, during and until the fame fhall be fully paid off and discharged.

cease on the

VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That, from Additional and after the death of the perfon or perfons, upon whofe life or fums added to lives fuch annuity or annuities fhall be granted, and from and the fees to after the discharging of fuch annuity or annuities, and all ar- death of anrears thereof, the payment of the faid feveral additional fums of nuitants. money, charged upon the faid fees by virtue of this act as aforefaid, and each and every of them, fhall ceafe and determine, and thall be no longer paid or payable.

ers may con-
tract for the

VIII. And be it further enacted, That the faid commiffion- Commissioners, or any feven or more of them, at any general meeting or meetings, to be held as by this act is directed, may, and are building a hereby directed to contract with any perfon or perfons for the court-house, building and finishing of the faid court-houfe, and other con- &c. veniencies hereby authorized to be built, and fuch contract fhall specify the particular works to be done, and the prices to be paid for the fame, and the time or times when fuch works thall be compleated, and the penalties to be paid or fuffered in cafe of nonperformance thereof, and the lame fhall be executed by feven or more of the faid commiffioners, and alfo by the perfon

or

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Commiffioners to order

payment of annuities, and

all monies due

or perfons contracting to perform fuch works refpectively; and, previous to their entering into fuch contract, fourteen days notice at least fhall be given, in one or more of the publick newspapers, circulated within the bills of mortality, expreffing the intention of fuch contract, and the time and place of meeting of the commiffioners to receive proposals for entering into the fame.

IX. And for the better regulating the payment of the faid annuity or annuities, and of the money which may be expended in the building and finishing the faid court-house and offices, be it further enacted, That the faid commiffioners, or any feven or more of them, at for building. any fuch general meeting or meetings as aforefaid, thall (by warrant, in writing under their hands, directed to fuch perfon or persons as fhall be chofen treasurer or treasurers by the authority of this act) order or direct the payment of the faid annuity or annuities, and also all fuch monies as fhall be due and payable for the building and finishing of the faid court-house and offices, to the perfon or perfons intitled to receive the fame refpectively, as the fame thall become due; and fuch treasurer or treasurers fhall, upon receipt of fuch warrant or warrants, forthwith pay the fame out of the monies which fhall be in his or their hands as aforefaid, by virtue of, or under this act, and fuch warrants when paid thall be allowed in account to such treasurer or treafurers, upon the fettling or auditing of his or their accounts with the faid commiffioners, in manner as directed by this act.

For recovering money

belonging to

fuitors of the court now in

the hands of

clerks, &c.

X. And whereas there are in the hands of the prefent and former clerks of the faid court, and of the representatives of clerks deceased, divers and confiderable fums of money, which were paid into the faid court for the use of the fuitors thereof, but have not yet been called for or claimed by the perfons intitled to receive the fame, although the fame have been fo paid in for the space of fix years and upwards: and the faid commiffioners being defirous that the faid money should be laid out and invested in fome government fecurity, that the fame may be forth-coming to the feveral fuitors in the faid court, who are entitled thereto, when they fall demand the fame respectively; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid commiflioners, or any leven or more of them, at any general meeting to be held after the paffing of this act, to demand the monies fo in the hands of any of the faid prefent or former clerks of the faid court, and alfo the faid monies in the hands of or due from the reprefentatives of any clerk of the faid court who is deceased; and if, upon fuch demand, the fame or the payment thereof shall be refused, it thall be lawful for the faid commiffioners, or any feven or more of them, at any fuch general meeting, to fue for and recover the fame by action or actions upon the cafe, in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, in the name of the treasurer or treasurers to be appointed by the authority of this act, in which action or actions it shall be fufficient for the faid treasurer or treasurers to declare that the defendant or defendants is or are indebted

indebted to such treasurer or treasurers, in the sum of money which shall be fo demanded of fuch defendant or defendants respectively, for fo much had and received, for the ufe of the commiffioners of the court of requests for the Tower Hamlets; and if the plaintiff or plaintiffs fhall recover in such action or actions, he or they fhall be intitled to his or their full costs, and shall have the like remedy for the fame by law as plaintiffs have for recovery of cofts in other cafes.

XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Bonds entered That upon payment or recovery of the monies which fhall be into by the clerks, and fued for, or due from the faid clerks, or from the reprefentative their fureties, or representatives of any deceased clerk or clerks, in manner as to be delivered aforefaid, the bond or bonds which was or were entered into by up and canfuch clerk or clerks, and their refpective fureties, to the faid celled, when the money in commiffioners, upon his or their being chofen fuch clerk or the hands of clerks of the faid court, fhall be, and is and are hereby declared the faid clerks to be void and of no effect, and thall be delivered up to be can- is recovered. celled; and fuch clerk and clerks, and the feveral other obligors or fureties in the said bonds mentioned respectively, thall thereupon be fully and abfolutely releafed and difcharged from their faid refpective bonds or obligations, and of and from all claims and demands by the fuitors, or any other perfon whatfoever, for or on account of the monies so recovered or paid as aforefaid.

XII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That when Money now and fo foon as the faid monies, or any part thereof, thall be in the hands of clerks, &c. recovered as aforefaid, the faid commiffioners thell, and are belonging to hereby required to lay out and inveft the fame in three per the fultors, centum confolidated bank annuities, or in fome other govern- thall (when ment fecurity, in the name of any three perfons to be chofen, recovered) be by the faid commiffioners, or the major part of them, at any placed out on fuch general meeting, as trufees for that purpose; and fuch three trustees, and their fucceffors, to be appointed as by this act is directed, shall stand and be poffeffed of the fame for the ules and purposes hereinafter mentioned.

government fecurity.

it is to invest

XIII. And be it farther enacted by the authority aforefaid, If the fuitors That if any perfon or perfons intitled to any of the money fo demand their already paid into the faid court upon the account aforesaid, and money after which is directed to be laid out and invested in manner above- ed, the treamentioned, thall at any time after the pathing of this act demand furer to pay the fame of the faid commiffioners, or any three or more of it, and to fell them, when in court, the fame fhall be a charge upon the as much stock as will replace faid money so laid out and invelted in manner as aforelaid; and the fame. the faid commiffioners, or any three or more of them, thall, and are hereby required to order the moncy which fhall be fo demanded to be paid to the perfon or perfons intitled to receive the fame, immediately after fuch demand (hall be made, and the fame fhall thereupon be paid to fuch perfon or perfons accordingly, by the treasurer or treasurers appointed or chofen as aforesaid, from any fum or fums of money in his or their hands; and the laid commiffioners fhall, and are hereby required to direct fo much flock to be fold, as fhall be neceffary

government

fecurity:

ration of fix

to replace the fame, from time to time, as the faid commiffioners fhall think fit.

XIV. And as to all fuch money as shall or may be hereafter paid If the money into the faid court for or on account of the fuitors thereof, (and which which shall be shall not be claimed and taken out of the faid court, within the space hereafter paid into court is of fix years after the same shall have been so paid in,) be it enacted not claimed by the authority aforefaid, That the faid commiffioners fhall, by the fuitors and are hereby required, at the expiration of the faid fix years within fix next after such monies fhall have been fo paid in as aforefaid, years after it is paid in, the to lay out and invest the fame from time to time in the purchase commiffioners of three per centum consolidated bank annuities, or some other may place it on government fecurity, in the name of any three perfons, to be chofen by the faid commiflioners, in manner as by this act is directed with refpect to the faid monies which have been already paid into the said court; and their fucceffors to be in like manbut if claimed ner chofen or appointed as trustees for that purpose; and if any by fuch fuitors perfon or perfons intitled to any of the money which shall be fo after the expi- hereafter paid into the faid court upon the account aforefaid, and which shall not have been demanded until after the expirapaid to them tion of fuch fix years, fhall at any time afterwards demand the immediately. fame of the faid commiffioners, or any three or more of them, when in court, the faid commiffioners, or any three or more of them, fhall, and are hereby required to order the money which shall be so demanded, to be paid to the person or perfons intitled to receive the fame, immediately after fuch demand shall be made, and the fame fhall thereupon be paid to fuch perfon or perfons accordingly, by the faid treasurer or treasurers, from any fum or fums of money in his or their hands; and the said commiffioners fhall, and are hereby required to direct fo much of the money, fo to be laid out and invefted after the expiration. of fuch fix years, to be fold, as fhall be neceffary to replace the fame, from time to time, as the faid commiffioners fhall think fit, until the whole thereof fhall be fo applied and disposed of; any thing in this or the faid former act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

years, shall be

The interest

fioners fhall be
applied
towards the
reparation,
&c. of the
court-houfe.

XV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authoand dividends rity aforefaid, That the intereft and dividends, as well of the of the money faid money already paid into the faid court, and hereby authoplaced out by the commif rized to be fued for and invefted as aforefaid, as of all fuch other money as fhall or may at any time hereafter be paid into the faid court upon the account aforefaid, (and which fhall be laid out and invested in any government fecurity, at any time after the expiration of fix years from the time of paying in the fame, as by this act is directed), or fo much thereof as thall remain unclaimed by the faid fuitors of the faid court, as aforefaid, thall from time to time be paid and applied in repairing, and keeping in repair, the faid court-house and offices hereby authorized to be built as aforefaid, and for infuring the fame, and defraying all taxes and other expences attending the faid court-house and offices, in fuch manner as they the faid commiflioners, or the major part of them at any general meeting

or

or meetings to be held as by this act is directed, shall from time to time judge neceffary for those purposes refpectively.

whose names

the money

others.

XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, In cafe the That when and as often as any one or more of the faid three Trustees, in trustees in whom or in whose name the faid monies shall by the authority of this act be laid out and invested refpectively as shall be placed aforefaid, fhall happen to die, the faid commiffioners, or any out at intereft, feven or more of them, at any general meeting to be held as by fhall die, the this act is directed, fhall, and are hereby required, by writing commiffioners under their hands and feals, to appoint one other perfon or to appoint persons to be a trustee or trustees, in the room of him or them fo dying, and thereupon fuch new trustee or truflees fhall, together with the furvivor or furvivors of the said trustees first chofen, and their fucceffors, ftand and be poffeffed of the faid monies, fo placed out and invefted, upon the trufts and for the purposes above-mentioned of and concerning the fame, and whenever any one of the faid three trustees fhall happen to die, the first or original number of three thall from time to time be filled up in manner as aforesaid.

a treasurer.

XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, CommiffionThat the faid commiffioners, at any general meeting to be held ers may choofe as aforefaid, or the major part of thein affembled at such meeting, shall and may, and are hereby required to elect and choose one or more perfon or perfons to be treasurer or treasurers for the receipt of the faid additional fums of money, hereby charged upon the several fees above particularly mentioned, and of all monies which shall, at any time after the paffing of this act, be paid for or on account of the purchase of any annuity or annuities, and other the purposes of this act; and the faid treasurer or treasurers fhall continue in his or their office, until another hall be chofen in his or their room.

commiffioners

XVIII. And be it further enacted, that the clerks of the Clerks to acfaid court hall account to the faid commiffioners, or any feven count to the or more of them,' once in every year, or oftener, if they thall for additional be required fo to do by the faid commiflioners, or any seven or fums to the inore of them, at any fuch general meeting or meetings as fees, and for aforefaid, for all the faid additional fums charged upon the faid monies paid into court by fees, and for all monies which fhall be fo paid into the faid the fuitors. court as aforefaid; and thall from time to time pay all the faid monies, (except the fum of one hundred pounds, which hall always be left in the hands of the faid clerks, to answer the claims of the faid fuitors), and the faid additional fums upon the faid fees, to the faid treasurer or treasurers, whenfoever they fhall be required fo to do by the said commiffioners, at any fuch general meeting or meetings as aforefaid, or by any feven or more of them affembled at any fuch meeting or meetings.

XIX. And be it further enacted, That the faid commiffion- Commiffion. ers affembled at any fuch general meeting or meetings as afore- ers to take security of the faid, or any feven or more of them, thall and may, and are treasurer; hereby required to take fufficient fecurity of fuch treasurer or treasurers fo to be elected and chofen as aforefaid, by bond, or VOL. XXXII.

Cc

otherwise,