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, for building barracks at Garrioch, Still pending. Glasgow.

Claims a reward (not fixed) and £10,400, Still pending.
expenses for alleged inventions of artil-
lery.

£277 128. 9d., balance due on supplies of
meat to the troops at Dover and Shorn-
cliffe.

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Settled by payment of £49 38. 7d., and £32 128. 4d. costs to suppliant.

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Ephraim Brain, Richard Cook, James Morris, Frederick Charles Jewsbury, and William Saddler.

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£180 138. 6d., for building at Woolwich Still pending. Arsenal.

For a declaration of the suppliant's right to have a grant made to him by the Crown of a Gale on the Highmeadow Estate, near Dean Forest, as a free miner of Dean Forest.

That the declaration of forfeiture of the Alexandra Gale or Colliery in Dean Forest, made by Mr. Howard on the 17th July, 1871, might be declared illegal and of no effect, or if such declaration were valid, then, upon payment of the arrears of rent due in respect of the said colliery, the suppliants might be relieved from the effect of the forfeiture, and restored to the possession of the colliery; and for an injunction to restrain the grant of the gale to any other person without the consent of the suppliants.

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DEPARTMENT.

Name of Suppliant.

OFFICE OF WOODS, &c.-continued.

Subject-matter of Petition, and Sum of Money Claimed thereby.

Stephen Adams and Henry For a declaration that by virtue of the
Jordan.

suppliants' application of the 14th of
March, 1846, they were entitled to have
the gale of the Yorkley Iron Mine, in
Dean Forest, granted to them in priority to James Davis, and all
other free miners of Dean Forest, and that the gale ought to be
granted to the suppliants; and for an injunction to restrain the grant
being made to James Davis, or any other person, without the consent
of the suppliants.

Alvan James and Thomas Morse (representatives of James Davis, deceased).

For a declaration that by virtue of the application of James Davis (deceased), of the 4th November, 1868, he was entitled to have the gale of the Yorkley Iron Mine (above-mentioned) granted to him, and that the gale ought accordingly to have been granted to him; that it might be declared that the gale ought now to be granted to the suppliants, in rigt of James Davis, upon and for the trusts of his will; and for an injuuction to restrain the grant being made to any other person

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Decree or Judgment (if any)
Pronounced, and Amount of Money
and Costs (if any) Paid

or Received by Crown thereunder.

Not proceeded with.

Still pending.

Suppliants discontinued petition on payment of taxed costs; amount received by Crown, £6 48.; costs incurred by Crown, and not allowed on taxation, £35 88. 6d.

A. K. Stephenson, Solicitor, Treasury.

APPENDIX B.

THE LAWS REGULATING PROCEEDINGS BY PETITIONS OF RIGHT IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND CERTAIN COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

IRELAND.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 69: "An Act to provide for proceeding on Petitions of Right in the Courts of Law and Equity in Ireland."

Preamble. Expediency of extending the English "Petitions of Right Act, 1860," to Ireland.

1. Short title. "The Petitions of Right (Ireland) Act, 1873." 2. Petition of Right may be entitled in Irish Court.

3. Provides "that every petition so entitled shall contain an averment that the subject-matter of the said petition, or a material part thereof, arose within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland, and such averment shall be deemed to be a material and necessary statement in the case of the suppliant, and a traverse of such averment shall be deemed to be a sufficient pleading in bar of the suppliant's right to relief."

4. Provisions of the "Petitions of Right Act, 1860," to apply to Ireland, "Provided that unless within twenty-eight days after Her Majesty's fiat to any petition has been obtained, a copy of such petition and fiat shall be left at the office of the Crown and Treasury Solicitor for Ireland endorsed in manner by the said Petitions of Right Act, 1860, prescribed, no further proceedings shall be taken or had upon such petition.

5. Irish Courts to make rules.

6. Forms prescribed in "Petitions of Right Act, 1860," to be used.

SCOTLAND.

20 & 21 Vict. c. 44: "An Act to regulate the Institution of Suits at the Instance of the Crown and the Public Departments in the Courts of Scotland."

Whereas doubts are entertained as to the proper instance to be employed in the institution of actions, suits, and proceedings in the

Crown

suits, &c.,

may be in the name

Courts of Justice in Scotland on the behalf of Her Majesty and of public departments: Be it enacted by, &c., as follows:

:

1. Every action, suit, or proceeding to be instituted in Scotland on the behalf of or against Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or in the interest of the Crown or on the behalf of or against any public of the Lord department, may be lawfully raised in the name and at the instance Advocate. of or directed against Her Majesty's Advocate for the time being as acting under this Act.

With sanc

tion of department having interest.

Persons

not entitled

2. Provided always, That before instituting or defending any such action, suit, or proceeding Her Majesty's Advocate shall have the authority of Her Majesty or of the public department respectively on whose behalf or against whom such action, suit, or proceeding shall be instituted, to the institution or defence thereof.

3. Provided always, That it shall not be competent to any private prosecuted party in any action, suit, or proceeding instituted as aforesaid, to to object challenge or impugn the instance of or the title to defend such action, suit, or proceeding, or the right or title of Her Majesty's Advocate to raise or prosecute or to defend the same upon any allegation that such authority (as aforesaid) has not been granted, or that evidence of such authority is not produced.

to the in

stance.

Meaning

4. The expression "Public Department" shall include the Commisof "Public sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the War Department, the Post DepartOffice, the Board of Inland Revenue, the Board of Customs, the Comment." missioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings, the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, and all the like Public Departments, bodies or boards, and all and every officer or officers, person and persons, acting on the behalf or in the interest of or entitled at the date of the passing of the Act to sue on the behalf or in the interest of any such Public Department.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

1873. Act 19. (Consecutive number 439.)

Consolidated Statutes of British Columbia. Chapter 59.

“An Act to provide for the institution of suits against the Crown by Petition of Right and respecting Procedure in Crown Suits."

[This Act being in substance identical with the English Petitions of Right Act, 1860, it has been thought to be unnecessary to reprint it.]

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