Court of Session (No. 2) Act 1838

XVII Annuity Fund to Judges Clerks and Keepers of Inner House Rolls.

And whereas a Fund has been accumulated under the Provisions of the said recited Acts of the First and Second Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, and the Acts of Sederunt of the Court of Session relative thereto, for the Purpose of providing eventual Life-rent Annuities to the said Judges Clerks and Keepers of the Inner House Rolls; and the present Judges Clerks and Keepers of the Inner House Rolls, and certain existing Annuitants, are interested in the said Fund and in the Contributions directed to be made thereto under the Provisions of the said Act which are hereby repealed as aforesaid : And whereas it is expedient to provide for the Continuance of equivalent Life-rent Annuities to the said existing Annuitants, and also to the Judges Clerks and Keepers of the Inner House Rolls, and their Successors in Office, out of the Public Revenue; be it enacted, That the Holders of the said accumulated Fund shall be and they are hereby authorized and required to pay over and assign the said accumulated Fund to the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, or to such Person or Persons as they shall appoint, who is or are hereby empowered to require an Account thereof, and call for and receive the same, and discharge the Holders thereof, and which shall be applied and disposed of as the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners may think fit to direct; and Life-rent Annuities shall be payable and paid to the said existing Annuitants and Judges Clerks and Keepers of the Inner House Rolls, and their Successors in Office, equivalent to those which they would have had Right to receive under the Provisions of the said last-recited Act and Acts of Sederunt relative thereto, and in the Manner and under the Conditions therein contained, out of the Monies which by the Acts of the Seventh and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne were made chargeable with the Fees, Salaries, and other Charges allowed or to be allowed for keeping up the Courts of Session, Justiciary, and Exchequer in Scotland.