Court of Session Act 1821

XXVIIIFees of Macers regulated, and Salaries provided for diem.

And be it enacted, That the Fees upon Services heretofore payable to the Macers shall be abolished from and after the Twentieth Day of June in this present Year, and that the Fees heretofore collected and accounted for to them, by the Clerks of the Bills and by the Keeper of the Outer House Rolls, shall be thereafter accounted for, and paid over weekly, to the Collector of the Fee Fund; and the said Collector shall retain those Fees which have heretofore been received by him on account of the Macers, and paid by him to them; and the other Fees now legally exigible by the said Macers, or any of them, shall remain so exigible, and shall, along with all Gratuities receivable by them or any of them, in their Capacity of Macers, form a common Fund of Division among the whole Seven Macers of the Court, including the one by Hereditary Right or his Deputy, instead of being as heretofore exclusively divisible among Four of their Number; and the Fees now legally exigible by the Two Macers of the Court-of Teinds (being also Macers of the Court of Session), shall in like Manlier form a common Fund of Division among the whole Seven Macers, who shall all equally be liable to perform the Duty of Macers without Distinction whether in the Court of Session, Court of Teinds, or elsewhere and the Salaries now payable to the said Macers of Ten Pounds each to Four of their Number, shall, from and after the said Twentieth Day of June in this present Year, cease and determine, and the said Seven Macers shall thereafter receive a Salary of One hundred and twenty Pounds each, payable in the same-Manner and at the same Times in which Salaries of One hundred and twenty Pounds each are now paid and payable to Three of their Number; the Salaries herein provided for them being in lieu and stead thereof.