
I 
All Persons and Corporations who, in reliance upon any Instrument purporting to be a Confirmation granted under the " Confirmation and Probate Act, 1858," and all Persons and Corporations who, in reliance upon any such Instrument which may be sealed under the Authority of the said Act with the Seal of the Principal Court of Probate in England or of the Court of Probate in Dublin, and all Persons or Corporations who, in reliance upon any Instrument purporting to be a Probate or Letters of Administration granted by the Court of Probate in England or Court of Probate in Dublin, and having endorsed or written thereon a Certificate by the Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, in the Form in the said Confirmation and Probate Act prescribed, shall have made or permitted to be made, or shall make or permit to be made, any Payment or Transfer bonâ fide upon any such Confirmation, Probate, or Letters of Administration, shall be indemnified and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any Defect or Circumstance whatsoever affecting the Validity of such Confirmation, Probate, or Letters of Administration.
II 
This Act may be cited as the "Confirmation and Probate Amendment Act, 1859".