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THE FIRST REPORT Of the Right Honourable the COMMISIONERS appointed to regulate certain Fees payable in HIS MAJESTY'S General Register House, Edinburgh.
Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 February 1829.
TO THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BURGESSES IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The FIRST REPORT of the Right Honourable the Commissioners appointed to regulate certain FEES payable in HIS MAJESTY'S General Register House, Edinburgh.
BY an Act passed in the third year of the reign of His present Majesty intituled, "An Act for regulating the Fees chargeable in His Majesty's " General Register House at Edinburgh, and for completing the Buildings " necessary for keeping the Public Records of Scotland therein," proceeding on the recital, " That whereas, by an Act passed in the fifty-seventh year of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, ' An Act to abolish" ' certain Offices and regulate others, in Scotland,' " it was, among the other things, enacted, That from and after and upon the termination of the then existing interests in the offices of Keeper of the Signet and Lord Register in Scotland, respectively, in the manner therein mentioned, the Fees paid and payable to the Lord Register of Scotland, or in respect of the duties then discharged by any person or persons in the office of the said Lord Register, should continue to be paid and payable in the same manner as such Fees respectively were then paid and payable ; and such Fees should be applied, in the first place, in satisfying and paying such salaries or allowances as the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, should think fit to grant and direct to be paid to any person or persons whom they might think necessary for the due discharge of the business appertaining to the office of Lord Register ; and, in the next place, in the payment of the salary One thousand two hundred pounds per annum, thereby granted to the person holding the said office of Lord Register; and any balance of such Fees which should remain after such payment, should be paid to the Receiver General of Scotland at least once in three months, or as the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, should direct, and should be paid and accounted for by him with the other public monies received by him.
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