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XIVKeepers of the Inner House Rolls and Clerks of the Judges to receive Salaries.

And whereas it is expedient that .fixed Salaries should be paid to the Keepers of the Inner House Rolls, and the Clerks of the Judges, instead of the Fees now exigible by them; and also that certain Allowances should be granted for providing Life-rent Annuities to them, payable on the Death or Resignation of the Judges to whom they are respectively attached; be it enacted, That from and after the Twentieth Day of June in this present Year, there shall be payable by the Collector of the Fee Fund to the Keepers of the Inner House Rolls, who are also Clerks to the Lord President and Lord Justice Clerk respectively, a Salary of Five hundred Pounds Sterling each per Annum, and to the Clerks of the Thirteen Ordinary Judges a Salary of Three hundred Pounds Sterling each per Annum, payable quarterly; and none of the said Keepers or Clerks shall thenceforth be entitled to any Fee or other Emolument whatsoever ; but the whole Fees now legally exigible by them shall be received by them respectively, and paid over on the First Monday of every Month to the Collector of the Fee Fund, conformably to signed Accounts to be delivered to him, and to the Verity of which they shall make Oath, if required by the Accountant of the Fee Fund: Provided always, that it shall be lawful to the Court, by any Act or Acts of Sederunt (which they are hereby empowered to make for that Purpose), to authorize and direct any other Mode of Collection of the said Fees, or of any Part thereof, which may be deemed more expedient, so as the whole of such Fees may in the most easy and convenient Manner be paid over to the Collector- of the said Fund.