
1 
The Person for the Time being holding the Office of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District shall be a Corporation Sole, by the Name of " the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District," and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession, with a Capacity by his Official Name to acquire and hold Lands, to hold Stock in the Public Funds, Shares in any public Company, Securities for Monies, and Personal Property of every Description, to sue and be sued, to execute Deeds, using an Official Seal, to make Leases, to enter into Engagements binding on himself and his Successors in Office, and to do all other Acts necessary or expedient to be done in the Execution of the Duties of his Office.
2 
All such Property, Real and Personal, including all Interests and Rights in, to, and out of Property, Real and Personal, and including Things in Action, as may be vested in John Wray, the late Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, for the Purposes of his Office, and all such Property, Real and Personal, including all such Interests, Rights, and Things in Action as aforesaid, as may be vested in Maurice Drummond, the present Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, for the Purpose of his Office, shall pass to and vest in the present Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District and his Successors, by his Official Name, for all the Estate and Interest of the said John Wray and Maurice Drummond respectively therein, to be held by the said Receiver and his Successors for the Purposes for which the same were held by the said John Wray and Maurice Drummond respectively.
3 
The Receiver for the Time being for the Metropolitan Police District, herein-after referred to as the Receiver, shall not be personally liable for any Debt incurred or Engagement entered into by him by his Official Name in his Official Capacity, but all such Debts and Engagements shall be satisfied out of the Monies for the Time being received by him in his Official Capacity.
4 
The Name of the Receiver for the Time being shall not after the passing of this Act be inserted in the Official Account kept by him with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
5 
The Receiver may, by the Direction of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, transfer, demise, enfranchise, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of Property of any Tenure vested in him in his Official Capacity, and may purchase, take, or lease Property of any Tenure required for the Purposes of the Metropolitan Police Force or other the Purposes of his Office.
6 
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may from Time to Time grant such Pensions as he thinks just to the Widows of Metropolitan Police Constables who have been killed or have died from the Effect of Injuries received in the Execution of their Duty, and may likewise make Grants by way of compassionate Allowances to the Children of any such Constables, and any Grant so made shall be, payable out of any Monies for the Time being in the Hands of the Receiver; .but any Grants made in pursuance 0f this Section of Pensions or compassionate Allowances shall not exceed the Amount which the Lords of the Admiralty are for the Time being empowered to pay to the Widows and Children of Coast Guard Officers who may have been killed or have died from the Effect of Injuries received in the Execution of their Duty.
7 
There shall be repealed so much of the Twenty-fifth Section of the said Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Forty-four, as provides " that the Overseers shall pay to the Receiver " the Amount mentioned in the Warrant within the Time specified " for that Purpose, and at the Time of making any Payment to the " Receiver shall deliver to him a Note in Writing signed by them " specifying the Amount so paid, which Note shall be kept by the " Receiver as a Voucher for his Receipt of that particular Amount, " and the Receipt of the Receiver specifying .the Amount paid to " him by the Overseers shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Over" seers for such Amount, and shall be allowed as such in passing " their Accounts with their respective Parishes, Townships, Precincts, " or Places;" and in lieu thereof be it enacted, That the Overseers shall pay into the Bank of England, to the Account of the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, the Amount mentioned in the Warrant within the Time specified for that Purpose, and that the Certificate of the Bank, signed by One of their Cashiers, specifying the Amount paid into the Bank, shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Overseers for such Amount, and shall be allowed as such in passing their Accounts with their respective Parishes, Townships, Precincts, or Places.
8 
In addition to the Sums hereby directed to be paid by the Overseers all other Sums from Time to Time accruing payable to the Receiver shall be paid into the Bank of England to the Account of the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, and the Certificate of the Bank, signed by One of their Cashiers, specifying the Amount paid into the Bank, shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Persons paying the same.
9 
This Act, so far as is not inconsistent with the Purposes thereof, shall be construed as one with the said Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Forty-four, and the other Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police Force.
10 
This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Metropolitan Police Receiver's Act, 1861."