In all Cases in which, if occurring at the Date of the passing of this Act, any Person or Persons would be liable, to be stayed by Injunction furth of the Court of Exchequer, whether in respect of such Person or Persons prosecuting or threatening to prosecute before any Court other than the Court of Exchequer in any Matters connected with the Revenue, or with the Proceedings of Officers of the Revenue, or in any other Matters as to which exclusive Jurisdiction is at present possessed by the Court of Exchequer, or otherwise, it shall be competent to apply to the Lord Ordinary in Exchequer Causes to restrain such Person or Persons by Interdict from following out such Prosecution in another Court or otherwise, according to the Circumstances of the Case; and such Application may be made by a Note of Interdict having a Statement of Facts and Note of Pleas in Law appended thereto, all as nearly as may be in the Form, at present in Use in the Court of Session; and such Note of Interdict shall be lodged in the Office of the Clerk of Court attached to the said Lord Ordinary, and shall be forthwith submitted by such Clerk to the said Lord Ordinary, who may thereupon at once grant Interdict or at once refuse to grant it, or appoint such Note of Interdict in the first place to be served, and if need be to be answered, or Parties to be heard thereon with or without Answers, and may thereupon give Decree granting or refusing Interdict, or may take such-other Course in regard to such Application for Interdict as to him may seem proper; provided, that where Interdict shall be granted as aforesaid with reference to any Cause requiring to be instituted within a limited Time, or which, if not instituted within a limited Time, may be competently objected to as not timeously brought, the Time which may have elapsed between the Date of the Service of such Interdict and the Date of the Institution of such Cause to which such Interdict relates, with Ten Free Days in addition thereto, shall be added to the Period limited as aforesaid, and such Cause shall be deemed and taken to be timeously brought, if instituted at any Time within such extended Period.