Life Annuities Act 1808

XXXIIThe Chief Baron added to the Number of Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.

And whereas by the said recited Act of the Twenty-sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, and the Governor and Deputy Governor, of the Bank of England, for the Time being respectively were appointed Commissioners for, carrying the said; Act into Execution; be it enacted, That in Addition to the Commissioners appointed by the said Act, the Chief Baron, or in his Absence, any one of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in England, for the Time being respectively, shall be a Commissioner for carrying into Execution the Purposes, of the said recited Acts of the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-second, and Forty, second Years of His present Majesty's Reign, and of this Act, and shall have and be Inverted with such and the same Powers and Authorities in all Respects as if the Chief Baron or Baron of the said Court of Exchequer respectively had been appointed a Commissioner by the said Act of the Twenty-sixth Year aforesaid.