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A.D. 1833. even and equal Portions, the first Payment to be made on such of the said Days as shall next happen after the Appointment or Succession to the said Offices respectively shall have taken place.

IX. ‘And whereas the Office of Clerk of Inrolments in Bankruptcy is by the said recited Act also directed to cease as therein specified, but Power to re-appoint to the said Office is given by the Act next herein mentioned;’ be it enacted, That the said Office shall and may continue and be in force, and that fit and proper Persons may be from Time to Time appointed to the same, with all the Powers, Authorities, and Duties, Fees, Rights, and Privileges, given to or imposed upon the said Office by an Act passed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts; any thing in the said first-recited Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further Term the Possession of the British Territories in India, together with certain exclusive Privileges; for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same; and for regulating the Trade to and from the Places within the Limits of the said Company’s Charter, the Possession and Government of the British Territories in India were continued in the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies for a Term therein mentioned: And whereas the said Company are entitled to or claim the Lordships and Islands of St. Helena and Bombay under Grants from the Crown, and other Property to a large Amount in Value, and also certain Rights and Privileges not affected by the Determination of the Term granted by the said recited Act: And whereas the said Company have consented that all their Rights and Interests to or in the said Territories, and all their Territorial and Commercial, Real and Personal Assets and Property whatsoever, shall, subject to the Debts and Liabilities now affecting the same, be placed at the Disposal of Parliament in consideration of certain Provisions herein-after mentioned, and have also consented that their Right to trade for their own Profit in common with other His Majesty’s Subjects be suspended during such Time as the Government of the said Territories shall be confided to them: And whereas it is expedient that the said Territories now under the Government of the said Company be continued under such Government, but in Trust for the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and discharged of all Claims of the said Company to any Profit therefrom to their own Use, except the Dividend herein-after secured to them, and that the Pro- perty