Sect. 16.-The right, &c., to any annuity purchased under this act, shall not be transferable or assignable, so as to enable the assignee to receive the same during the life-time of any nominee, except in case of insolvency or bankruptcy, when the same shall become the property of his or her assignees for the benefit of his or her creditors, and after notice of such insolvency or bankruptcy be paid to such assignees; and in such case the commissioners shall re-purchase the said annuity according to the value thereof, computed upon the tables aforesaid.

Sect. 17.-Annuities purchased under this act shall not be subject or liable to any taxes, charges, or impositions whatever, and shall be deemed personal estate; and in all cases where the same shall not depend upon the life of the person entitled, shall go to the executors and administrators of such person, and not to the heirs.

Sect. 18.-Whenever any person, having made one or more annual payment for the purchase of any deferred annuity under this act, or their respective executors or administrators, shall make default in paying the residue of such payments until the whole consideration be fully paid, or in case the person contracting for such annuity should die previous to the annuity becoming payable, in every such case the amount of all annual payments, which shall have been actually made, shall be returned, exclusive of interest; or, in case of the death of the party, the annual or other payments, which shall have been actually paid previous to his death, shall be paid, exclusive of interest, to his executors or administrators.

Sect. 19.-Registers of the birth, baptism, marriage, or burial, of nominees; certificates, declarations, powers of attorney, &c., to be exempt from stamp duty.

Sect. 27.-In any parish or place in the United Kingdom where no savings' bank is legally established under the provisions of the 9 Geo. IV. c. 92, it shall be lawful for any persons in such parish or place to establish a society for carrying the provisions of this act into execution; provided that the rector, vicar, or minister of the parish, or elder, for the time being, or a resident justice of the peace, be one of the trustees of such society; and provided that all the provisions of the last-mentioned act, and of this act, shall apply to the trustees and managers of any such society, &c.

Sect. 28.-Executors, &c., of officers of savings' banks to pay money due to savings' banks before any other debts.

Sect. 29.-So much of 9 Geo. IV. c. 92, as relates to withdrawing deposits from savings' banks and re-depositing, to be repealed.No money exceeding 30l. to be deposited in any one year.

Sect. 35.-This act shall extend to Great Britain and Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Man.

SOAP DUTIES.

[3 WILL. IV. c. 16-10th June, 1833.]

An Act to repeal the Duties, &c. of Excise on Soap, and to grant other Duties in lieu thereof.

This act repeals the duties of excise on soap made in Great Britain, and brought from Ireland into Great Britain, and all drawbacks of excise on soap exported to foreign parts, or removed from Great Britain into Ireland.

Substitutes for the future, on every pound weight, avoirdupois, of all hard soap made in Great Britain, a duty of 1d.; for every pound weight, avoirdupois, of all hard soap brought from Ireland into great Britain, a duty of 14d.; for every pound weight of all soft soap made in Great Britain, or brought from Ireland into Great Britain, to be paid by the maker or importer thereof respectively, a duty of 1d.; makes certain allowances, as drawbacks, &c. Repeals the allowance of one pound in ten.

Penalty for unlawfully increasing the weight of soap, by adding water, lays, lye, or any liquor or matter thereto, after the same shall have been charged with duty in the frames by the officer of excise, and before sent out from the premises where manufactured; forfeiture of all the soap so increased in weight, and 100l.

DRAMATIC AUTHORS.

[3 WILL. IV. c. 15-10th June, 1833.]

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property.

Sect. 1.-That the author of any tragedy, comedy, play, opera, farce, or any other dramatic piece or entertainment, composed, and not printed or published, or which hereafter shall be composed and not printed or published by the author or his assignee, shall have, as his own property, the sole liberty of representing, or cause to be represented, at any place of dramatic entertainment in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, or in any part of the British dominions, any such production as aforesaid, not printed and published by the author or his assignee, and shall be the proprietor thereof; and that the author of any such production, printed and published within ten years before the passing of this act, by him or his assignee, or which shall hereafter be so printed and published, or the assignee of such author, shall, from the time of passing this act, or from the time of such publication respectively, until the end of twenty-eight years from the day of such publication; and also, if the author, or the survivor of the author, shall be living at the end of that period, during his natural life, have, as his own

property, the sole liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, the same at any such place of dramatic entertainment, and shall be the proprieter thereof; but nothing shall prejudice the right of any person to represent or cause to be represented, at any place of dramatic entertainment whatsoever, any such production aforesaid, in all cases in which the author or his assignee shall, previously to this act, have authorized such representation.

Sect. 2.-If any person shall, during the continuance of such sole liberty, contrary to the intent of this act, or right of the author or his assignee, represent, or cause to be represented, without the consent, in writing, of the author or other proprietor at any place of dramatic entertainment within the limits, any such production, or any part, he shall be liable, for every such representation, to not less than 40s., or the full amount of the benefit arising from such representation, or the loss sustained by the plaintiff, whichever shall be the greater damages to the author or other proprietor, with double costs.

Sect. 3.-All actions and proceedings, for any offence or injury committed against this act, to be brought within twelve calendar months.

STARCH DUTIES.

[3 WILL. IV. c. 17-10th June, 1833.]

An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, &c.

Sect. 1.-Repeals the prohibition on makers of stone-blue, manufacturing stone-blue from any flour or meal (unless for colouring), except starch, for which all the duties have been first charged.

Sect. 2.-Enacts that every maker of stone-blue, who shall, in manufacturing it, make use of any starch, the full duties whereon shall not have been duly charged, or any flour, meal, or other farinaceous substance other than starch, the full duties whereon shall have been duly charged, or who shall have in his possession, on his premises, entered for making stone-blue, any flour, meal, or other farinaceous substance, to be used in lieu of, or as a substitute for starch, in the manufacturing of stone-blue, or any starch privately made, or the full duties whereon shall not have been paid, or any flour, meal, or other farinaceous substance, fermenting or fermented, to be used, or capable of being used, as a substitute for starch in manufacturing stone-blue, or capable of being converted into starch, shall, for every such offence, forfeit 100%.; and all such stone-blue, starch, flour, meal, and other farinaceous substance, together with the boxes, casks, or other vessels, shall be forfeited to the Excise.

Sect. 3.-And for preventing the excessive use of earthy matters and substances in substitution for starch in the manufacturing of

stone-blue, inflicts a penalty on every maker of stone-blue, who shall make use of any fullers-earth, Derby-earth, plaster of Paris, chalk, or other earthy matter or substance, of 100%., and forfeiture of all such fuller's-earth, &c.; but any maker of stone-blue may make use of any pipe-clay, in the proportion of five pounds only of pipe-clay to every one hundred weight of starch, for the purpose of binding, or rendering the stone-blue firm and adhesive.

STAMP DUTIES ON ADVERTISEMENTS, &c.

[3 and 4 WILL. IV. c. 23.—28th June, 1833.]

An Act to reduce the Stamp Duties on Advertisements and on certain Sea Insurances; to repeal the Stamp Duties on Pamphlets, and on Receipts for sums under 5l.; and to exempt Insurances on Farming-Stock from Stamp Duties.

1. Repeals the duties on policies of insurance, except on voyages from any port or place in Great Britain and Ireland, or in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, or the Isle of Man, to any other port or place in the said kingdom or islands, or Isle of Man, or for any certain period not exceeding twelve calendar months; and also upon receipts for sums under 51.; and also on pamphlets and advertisements; and substitutes the duties in the schedule.

3. One printed copy of every pamphlet, or literary work, or periodical paper (not being a newspaper), containing any advertisements liable to stamp duty, published within the cities of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or within twenty miles, shall, within six days next after publication, be brought, together with all advertisements printed therein, or published or intended to be published therewith, to the head office for stamps in Westminster, Edinburgh, or Dublin, nearest to which such pamphlet, &c. shall have been published, and the title thereof, and the christian name and surname of the printer and publisher, with the number of advertisements; and the duty shall be there paid; and one printed copy, &c., in any place not within London, &c., shall, within ten days, be brought to the head distributer of stamps in the district, and to whom the duty shall be paid; and if the duty be not duly paid, as above appointed, the printer and publisher shall forfeit 201. for every such offence.

5. Exempts insurances on agricultural produce, farming-stock, and implements of husbandry, from stamp duties.

Advertisements:

THE SCHEDULE.

For every advertisement in any Gazette or other news

paper, or periodical paper, or pamphlet or literary
work,

Where printed and published in Great Britain.
And in Ireland.

Sea Insurances in Great Britain and Ireland respectively:For every policy of insurance upon any ship or vessel, or upon any goods, merchandise, or other property on board of any ship or vessel, or upon the freight, or upon any other interest in or relating to any ship or vessel which may lawfully be insured for any voyage other than a voyage from any port or place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, or the Isle of Man, to any port or place in the said kingdom or islands, or Isle of Man, Where the premium or consideration for such insurance, actually and bona fide paid, given, or contracted for, shall not exceed the rate of 15s. per cent. on the sum insured, If the whole sum insured shall not exceed 100l. If the whole sum insured shall exceed 100%., then for every 100, and also for any fractional part of 100%. whereof the same shall consist

And where the premium or consideration for such insurance, actually and bond fide paid, given, or contracted for, shall exceed the rate of 15s. per cent., and shall not exceed the rate of 30s. per cent. on the sum insured,

If the whole sum insured shall not exceed 1001.
And if the whole sum insured shall exceed 100l., then for
every 100l., and also for every fractional part of 1001.
whereof the same shall consist

And where the premium or consideration for such insurance, actually and bona fide paid, given, or contracted for, shall exceed the rate of 30s. per cent. on the sum insured, If the whole sum insured shall not exceed 1004. And if the whole sum insured shall exceed 100l., then for every 1001., and also for any fractional part of 100l. whereof the same shall consist

But if the separate interests of two or more distinct persons shall be insured by one policy, then the duty of 1s. 3d., 2s. 6d., or 5s., as the case may require, shall be charged thereon, in respect of each and every fractional part of 100l. as well as in respect of every full sum of 100%. which shall be thereby insured upon any distinct interest.

And for every policy of insurance for any certain period, the following rates for every 100%., and also for any fractional part of 100%. whereof the same shall consist; that it to say, Where any such insurance shall be made for any period not exceeding three calendar months Exceeding three calendar months

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