Relief of Bankers (Ireland) Act 1824
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1824 c. 73 |
| Year | 1824 |
(5 Geo. 4) C A P. LXXIII.
[17th June 1824]
'WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament ofIreland , in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled , it was among other Things enacted, that the Name of every Person and Persons who singly or jointly with any others carry on the Trade or Business of a Banker or Bankers, shall be mentioned in or subscribed to all Notes and Receipts to be issued by such Banker or Bankers, and that every Banker offending contrary thereto should for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds; and it was also by the said recited Act enacted, that no Person or Persons who should carry on the Business of a Banker or Bankers should, either singly or in Partnership with any other, so long as he or they should continue to be a Banker or Bankers, trade or traffic as Merchants in Goods or Merchandize imported or exported, and that every Banker offending contrary thereto should forfeit the Sum of One thousand Pounds: And Whereas it is expedient that Part of the said Actshould be repealed,' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, the said hereinbefore recited Clauses of the said recited Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
II Certain Banking Partnerships exceeding Six to be entered at Stamp Office, Dublin.
II. And be it further enacted, That before any Promissory Note or Bill for Money, payable to Bearer on Demand, shall, at any Time between the Twenty fifth Day ofMarch in any Year and the Twenty fifth Day of March following, be issued by any Society or Copartnership consisting of more than Six in Number, and who shall have their Establishments or Houses of Business at any Place not less than Fifty Miles distant from Dublin , and who shall carry on the Trade and Business of Bankers, and shall issue Notes payable on Demand, an Entry and Register of the Firm or Name of such Society or Copartnership, and of the Bank or Banks established by such Society or Copartnership, and of the proper Names and Places of Abode of all the Persons concerned or engaged in such Society or Copartnership, shall be made and entered by or on Behalf of such Society or Copartnership, in a Book or Books to be kept for that Purpose at the Stamp Office in Dublin , by some Person appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners of Stamps; and every such Entry or Register shall specify the Nameof some Individual of such Society or Copartnership, who shall be considered as the Public Officer of such Society or Copartnership, and the Title or Description of such Public Officer, in whose Name such Society or Copartnership shall sue and be sued; and also the Name of every Town and Place where any such Promissory Notes shall be issued or made payable by any such Society or Copartnership, or by any Agent or Agents of such Society or Copartnership; and the Name and Title and Descriptionof every such Public Officer shall be mentioned in or subscribed to all Notes and Receipts to be issued by or on Behalf of such Society or Copartnership; and if any Person or Persons shall issue or cause to be issued any Note or Receipt, in the Name or on Behalf of any such Society or Copartnership, in or to which the true Name of such Public Officer shall not be mentioned or subscribed, every such Personshall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
III Stamp Office to give a Certificate of such Entry;
III. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Entry or Register of the Firm or Name of any...
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