Standard Pound Avoir dupois. Provisions of Copies of the Old Standards to continue to be legal. Weights and Measures hereafter duly veri fied to be deemed legal. Provision for Standards in case of Loss, Weights and Measures. of Sixty-two Degrees by Fahrenheit's Thermometer) shall be and be deemed to be the Imperial Standard Yard. III. The said Weight of Platinum marked P.S. 1844, 1 lb., deposited in the Office of the Exchequer as aforesaid, shall be the legal and genuine Standard Measure of Weight, and shall be and be denominated the Imperial Standard Pound Avoirdupois, and shall be deemed to be the only Standard Measure of Weight from which all other Weights and other Measures having Reference to Weight shall be derived, computed, and ascertained, and One equal Seven Thousandth Part of such Pound Avoirdupois shall be a Grain, and Five thousand seven hundred and sixty such Grains shall be and be deemed to be a Pound Troy. IV. All the Provisions of the said Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth now in force, and not hereby repealed, and all other Enactments now in force in relation to Weights and Measures, shall continue in force and be applicable to the Standards of Weight and Measure hereby established, as if the same Standards had been established by the said Act of King George the Fourth instead of the Standard Yard and Standard Pound Troy so destroyed as aforesaid, and as if the Pound Troy of Five thousand seven hundred and sixty Grains had been established as a derivative Standard computed with Reference to the Pound Avoirdupois. V. All Weights and Measures, and Copies of Weights and Measures, which have been compared and verified or authenticated according to Law as Copies of the Imperial Standard Weights and Measures, shall remain and be legal Weights and Measures for the same Time, for the same Purposes, and in like Manner as if this Act had not been passed. VI. All Weights and Measures which shall be hereafter verified and authenticated by Comparison with the said Imperial Standards of Weight and Measure, in such Manner as Her Majesty shall by any Orders in Council from Time to Time direct and appoint, shall be deemed and taken to be legal Secondary Weights and Mea sures. VII. If at any Time hereafter the said Imperial Standard Restoration of Yard and Standard Pound Avoirdupois respectively, or either of them, be lost, or in any Manner destroyed, defaced, or otherwise injured, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may cause the same to be restored by Reference to or Adoption of any of the Copies so deposited as aforesaid, or such of them as may remain available for that Purpose. &c. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 77. CA P. LXXIII. An Act to extend the Period for applying for a Sale under the 6 Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Acts Continuance. 'the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in Ireland: And 'whereas a certain other Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign ' of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to continue the Powers 15 & 16 Vict. of applying for a Sale of Lands under the Act for facilitating c. 67. the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in Ireland: And 'whereas a certain other Act was passed in the Session of Parlia'ment holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the 'Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for continuing 16 & 17 Vict. and amending the Act for facilitating the Sale and Transfer c. 64. ' of Incumbered Estates in Ireland: And whereas the extended 'Period within which such Applications under said Acts as are ' mentioned in Section Eleven of said lastly-recited Act might 'be made was limited to Two Years from the Twenty-eighth 'Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three: And ' whereas it is expedient that said Period should be further ex'tended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: All such Period for ApApplications under the said recited Acts or any of them as are plications for mentioned in Section Eleven of the said lastly-recited Act, and Sale further which are by said Section authorized to be made within Two Years from the Twenty-eighth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, may be made within Three Years from the said Twenty-eighth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three; and all Orders and Proceedings by the said Acts or any of them authorized, and which might be made, had, or taken upon any Application made within the said Period of Two Years, may be made, had, and taken within the further Period authorized by this Act. CA P. LXXIV. An Act to enable Grand Juries of Counties in Ireland to present for Payment of Expenses in certain Cases. [30th July 1855.] WHEREAS it is expedient in certain Cases to enable Grand Juries in Ireland to present any necessary and proper • Expenses which may have been incurred, with the Sanction of such respective Grand Juries, in making any Applotment of Grand Jury Cess, for Payment of which Expenses no Provision is now made by Law: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: extended. penses incurred I. When the Treasurer or other Officer of any County, with Grand Jury the Sanction of the Grand Jury, or in the County of Dublin may present for with the Sanction of the Finance Committee, shall have incurred certain Exor shall incur any necessary and proper Expenses in making any by Treasurers Applotment of Grand Jury Cess for Payment of which no Pro- of Counties. vision is made by Law, it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury Continuance of Treasurers of Counties (Ireland). of such County, without previous Application to Presentment Sessions, to present to be raised off by such County all such necessary and proper Expenses as aforesaid as such Grand Jury may deem reasonable. II. This Act shall continue in force for Two Years from the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. CA P. LXXV. An Act to continue certain temporary Provisions concerning [17 & 18 Vict. c. 65. continued until 1st August 1856, and to the CA P. LXXVI. An Act to continue an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of CA P. LXXVII. An Act to give Effect to a Convention between Her [30th July 1855.] HEREAS a Convention was concluded between Her Majesty and the United States of America, and signed at 'London on the Eighth of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, of which the Ratifications were exchanged at London on the Twenty-sixth of July One thousand eight hun'dred and fifty-three: And by the said Convention it was agreed that all Claims on the Part of Corporations, Companies, or private Individuals, Subjects of Her Majesty, upon the Govern'ment of the United States, and all Claims on the Part of Corporations, Companies, or private Individuals, Citizens of the United States, upon the Government of Her Majesty, which might have been presented to either Government for its Interposition with the other since the Signature of the Treaty of • Peace and Friendship concluded between Great Britain and the • United States of America at Ghent on the Twenty-fourth of December One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and which yet remained unsettled, as well as any other such Claims which might be presented within the Time specified therein-after, should be referred to Two Commissioners, to be appointed in the following Manner, that is to say, One Commissioner should be named by Her Majesty, and One by the President of the United States; and it was thereby provided, that the Commissioners should, before proceeding to any other Business, name some Third Person to act as an Arbitrator or Umpire in any Case or 6 6 'Cases 6 6 Convention with United States. 'Cases on which they might themselves differ in Opinion: And by the said Convention Her Majesty and the President of the United States of America solemnly and sincerely engaged to consider the Decision of the Commissioners conjointly, or of the Arbitrator or Umpire, as the Case might be, as absolutely final and conclusive upon each Claim decided upon by them or him respectively, and to give full Effect to such Decisions without any Objection, Evasion, or Delay whatsoever: And it was thereby stipulated, that every Claim should be presented to the Commissioners within Six Months from the Day of their First Meeting, unless in any Case where Reasons for Delay should be established to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners, or of the Arbitrator or Umpire in the event of the Commissioners differing in Opinion thereupon, and then and in any such Case the Period for presenting the Claim might be extended to any Time not exceeding Three Months longer; and that the Commissioners should be bound to examine and decide upon every Claim within One Year from the Day of their First Meeting; and that all Sums of Money which might be awarded by the Commissioners, or by the Arbitrator or Umpire, on account of any Claim, should be paid by the one Government to the other, as the Case might be, within Twelve Months after the Date of the Decision, without Interest, and without any Deductions save as specified therein-after (as to Expenses): And the High Contracting Parties engaged to consider the Result of the Proceedings of the Commission as a full, perfect, and final Settlement of every Claim upon either Government, arising out of any Transaction of a Date prior to the Exchange of the Ratifications of that Convention; and further engaged that every such Claim, whether or ✦ not the same might have been presented to the Notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said Commission, should, from and after the Conclusion of the Proceedings of the said Commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible: And it was thereby provided that the whole Expenses of the Commission, including contingent Expenses, should be defrayed by a rateable Deduction on the Amount of the Sums awarded by the Commission; provided always, that such Deduction should not exceed the Rate of Five per Cent. on the Sums so awarded; the Deficiency, if any, should be defrayed in Moieties by the Two Governments: And whereas by another Convention between Her Majesty and the said President, signed at Washington on the Seventeenth of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, it was agreed that the Time limited by the first-mentioned Convention for the Termination of the Commission should be extended for a Period not exceeding Four Months from the Fifteenth of September then next, should such Extension be deemed necessary by the • Commissioners or the Umpire: And whereas Commissioners were named by the High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the said first-mentioned Convention, and such Commissioners <appointed a Third Person to act as an Arbitrator or Umpire, as provided by such Convention, and the Claims presented to the 6 U 4 'said Sums payable by Government of United States to be divided among British Subjects whose Claims have been allowed, and to be deemed a final Settlement of Claims. 6 6 Convention with United States. " said Commissioners were, within the extended Period authorized 6 I. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall cause the said Sum of Two hundred and seventy-seven thousand one hundred and two Dollars and Eighty-eight Cents, after such Deduction therefrom on account of Expenses of the said Commission as in the said first-recited Convention provided, to be paid and distributed to and among the several Parties to whom the several Sums constituting the said aggregate Sum of Two hundred and seventy-seven thousand one hundred and two Dollars and Eighty-eight Cents were awarded under the said Commission, in proportion to the several Sums so awarded to them respectively, or to their respective Executors, Administrators, or Assigns; and such Payments shall be deemed to be a full Satisfaction of the Claims of the said several Parties; and all Claims upon the Government of the United States intended to be provided for by the said Convention shall be considered as finally settled and barred. СА Р. |