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 A.D.X74-6* Anno decimo nono Georgii II. C. 7, 8, 647 vcrnor and Company of the Bank of England, and their Succeffors, and their faid Stock and Funjfa, Cwr«mVif Sank {hall be, and arc hereby made fubject and liable thereunto. fu farther 24. G"», 1. c. 4. CAP. VII. An A<5t for adjourning the Court of Seffion in Scotland; and for remedying the Inconvenien- ces arifing from the Surceafe of Juftice in that Part of the Kingdom. ' "IT 7 H ERE AS a moft audacious and execrable Rebellion has broke out in Scotland, and a Number ' and forty-five, obtain Poffeffion of the City of Edinburgh, where his Majefty's Signet is kept, and which ' Suits in the faid Court of Seflion, and in the other Courts of Law, and cannot conveniently attend the enacted ; And be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Con fen t ■of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affemblcd, and by the The Sitting of Authority of the fame, That the Meeting and Sitting of the faid Court of Seflion in Scotland, for the the Court of Adminiftration of Juftice, be, and the fame is hereby adjourned, from the firft Day of November one Seflion adjourned thoufand feven hundred and forty-five unto the firft Day of June next. ™™ 6 u ° n v ; o 'j June. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Time and Space betwixt the faid The intermedi- fixteenth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five, and the faid firft Day of 'June one ale Time b f- thouiand feven hundred and forty-fix, fhall not be reckoned in any fhort Prefcription, but fhall be de- t ] ween l6 Sept. duced from the fame. . jmJ/j^e* to be deduced. III, And be it further enactedby the Authority aforefaid, That in all Adjudications, Confirmations of Caufes depending Teftaments, Regiftrations, Redemptions, and others, which by Law, or by the Agreement of Parties, upon 1 Nov. might and ought to have been deduced, expede, or performed within a limited Time, that the aforefaid »745» t0 bj- con- Time and Space between the faid fixteenth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five, fJmeStateupon and the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix, fhall not be reckoned or 2 j une, 7+6> counted ; and that all Actions and Caufes commenced, intended, or depending before the faid Court of in which they Seflion, upon the firft Day of November one thoufand {even hundred and forty-five, fhall be continued, were upon 1 and be in the fame State and Condition upon the faid firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and Nov * forty-fix, in which they refpectively were upon the faid firft Day of November one thoufand feven hun- dred and forty-five, or at any Time from the faid firft Day of November one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five to the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix; any Law, Statute, Cuf- tom, Practice, or Ufage to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. CAP. VIII. 'An Act for repealing fo much of an Aft paffed in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An AH for regulating Eleclions within the City ' -^London ^ and for preferring the Peace, good Order, and Government of the faid City •, as re- lates to the making or paffing of Afts, Orders, or Ordinances in Common Council. ' "ITT HEREAS by a Claufe in an Act palled in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, I ceo.2.c.i*j ' YV King George the Firft, intituled, An Act for regulating Eleclions within the City of London ; ' Order, or Ordinance whatfoever, at any Time, from and after the firft. Day of June one^ thoufand vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affem- bled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid recited Claufe fhall be, and is hereby repealed, The claufe re- from and after the twenty-fifth Day of Manh, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand M ed > ieven hundred and forty-fix. C A P.
 * W or " rebellious Traitors did, on or about the fixtcehth of September one thoufand feven hundred
 * is the ordinary Place of the Meeting of the Court of Seflion of Scotland for the Adminiftration of Juftice :
 * And whereas the faid Rebellion does ftill continue, whereby the Senators or Judges of the faid Court
 * of Seflion, and the other Members thereof, have been prevented from meeting and fitting, and his
 * Majefty's loyal Subjects have been prevented from commencing and profecuting their Actions and
 * faid Court while the faid Rebellion continues :' May it therefore pleafe your Majefty that it may be
 * and for preserving the Peace, good Order, and Government of the faid City; it is enacted, That no Act,
 * feven hundred and twenty-five, fhall be made or paffed in the Common Council of the faid City, with-
 * out the Aflent of the Mayor and Aldermen prefent at fuch Common Council, or the major Part of
 * them ; nor without the Affent of the Commons prefent at fuch Common Council, or the major Part of
 * them.: And whereas the faid recited Claufe has by no Means anfwered the good Ends and Purpofes
 * thereby intended ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty ,_ by and with the Ad-