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A.D. 1824]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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such Security to be given by Recognizance, or otherwise, as the said Judges shall direct, binding every such Officer or Officers, together with Two or more sufficient Sureties, in such penal Sum or Sums as to the said Judges shall seem proper, for the due accounting for all and every such Sum or Sums of Money so paid.

18. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Judges of the said Courts of Great Sessions, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in all Cases in which they shall think fit, to order and direct any Sum or Sums of Money belonging to the Suitors of the said Courts of Great Sessions to be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant-General of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, subject to the Order and Decree of the Court of Great Sessions at the Instance of which it shall be so paid in; and the said Accountant General is hereby directed to obey the Orders and Decrees of such Court of Great Sessions in regard thereto, in like Manner as he obeys the Orders and Directions of the said Court of Exchequer, and to act and do all Matters and Things relating to the delivering, securing, and investing of the Money so ordered to be paid, and the Payment, selling, and transferring of the same, and the keeping the Accounts with the Bank of England, and other Matters relating thereto, in the like Manner as he acts and does all Matters and Things relating to the Delivery, securing, and investing of the Money and Effects of the Suitors of the said Court of Exchequer, and the Payment, selling, and transferring of the same, and the keeping the Accounts or other Matters relating thereto.

19. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to discourage the Practice of commencing frivolous and vexatious Suits in His Majesty's Courts at Westminster, in Causes of Action arising within the Dominion of Wales, and for further regulating the Proceedings in the Courts of Great Sessions in Wales, it is enacted, that in case the Plaintiff in any Action upon the Case for Words, Action of Debt, Trespass on the Case, Assault and Battery, or other personal Action, where the Cause of such Action shall arise within the Dominion of Wales, and which shall be tried at the Assizes at the nearest English County to that Part of the said Dominion of Wales in which the Cause of Action shall be laid to arise, shall not recover by Verdict Debt or Damages to the Amount of Ten Pounds, in