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Limiting Costs to Solicitors employed by Commissioners under this Act.
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XXVI. ‘And whereas under and by virtue of the said recited Act it is enacted that it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, out of the said Funds therein mentioned, to defray all such incidental Charges and Expences as shall become necessary in the Execution of the several Powers and Trusts by the said Act, or any Act thereafter to be passed, reposed in them: And whereas it is expedient that the Sum to be paid for Costs to the Solicitor or Attorney employed by the said Commissioners should be limited in Amount;’ be it therefore enacted, That no Sum shall be paid by said Commissioners to any Attorney or Solicitor as and for Costs, Charges, or Expences unless the Amount of such Payment shall first have been approved of by the Lords of the Treasury: Provided always, that no Sum exceeding One thousand Pounds shall be allowed in any One Year by the said Lords of the Treasury as and for the Costs, Charges, or Expences of any such Attorney or Solicitor; and before any such Sum shall be allowed by the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury on such Account as aforesaid, the Particulars of all such Costs, Charges, and Expences shall be laid before them.
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