r. 180.

(9.*) Orders made on Application for Discharge.

Should be 10

r. 15 (2).

Pursuant to the Act and Rules, notices to the above effect have been received by the Board of Trade.

A.B. [Secretary, or as the case may be].

GENERAL RULE additional to the Bankruptcy Rules, 1883, made pursuant to section 127 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. Any matter or application pending before a registrar which, under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, or the Bankruptcy Rules for the time being in force under that Act, a registrar has jurisdiction to determine shall be adjourned to be heard before the Judge, if the Judge shall, either specially or by any general direction applicable to the particular case, so direct.

This Rule shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st day of December 1883.

Dated the 31st day of December 1883.

GENERAL RULE in substitution for Rule 59 of the Bankruptcy Rules, 1883.

Shorthand Notes, &c.

59A. Rule 59 of the Bankruptcy Rules, 1883, is hereby annulled, and the following Rule, which may be cited as Rule 59A, is substituted therefor :

If the Court shall in any case, and at any stage in the proceedings, be of opinion that it would be desirable that a person (other than the person before whom the examination is taken) should be appointed to take down the evidence of the debtor, or of any witness examined at any public sitting or private meeting under the Act, in shorthand or otherwise, it shall be competent for the Court to make such appointment; and every person so appointed shall be paid a sum not exceeding one guinea a day, and where the Court appoints a shorthand writer a sum not exceeding 8d. per folio of 90 words for any transcript of the evidence that may be required, and such sums shall be paid by the party at whose instance the appointment was made, or out of the estate, as may be directed by the Court.

(Signed)

I concur,

SELBORNE, C.

J. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Board of Trade,

February 4, 1884.

ORDERS UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY ACT,

1883.

[Orders under s. 94]

I, the Right Honourable Roundell, Earl of Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by virtue of the 94th section of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, and all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby order that on and after the 1st day of January 1884, until further order, all matters pending in the London Bankruptcy Court at the commencement of the said Act, and all matters which would have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the London Bankruptcy Court if the said Act had not passed, and all matters in respect of which jurisdiction is given to the High Court by the said Act, shall be ordinarily transacted and disposed of by or under the direction of the Honourable Mr. Justice Cave, one of the Judges of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice; and that the said Honourable Mr. Justice Cave shall, on and after the day aforesaid, and until further order, be the Judge assigned for that purpose pursuant to the said Act.

The 1st day of January 1884.

(Signed)

SELBORNE, C.

I, the Right Honourable Roundell, Earl of Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by virtue of the 94th section of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, and all other powers enabling me in that belialf, do hereby direct that on and after the 1st day of January 1884 all matters pending in the London Bankruptcy Court at the commencement of the said Act, and all matters which would have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the London Bankruptcy Court if the said Act had not passed, and all matters in respect of which jurisdiction is given to the High Court by the said Act, shall be assigned, until further order, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.

The 1st day of January 1884.

(Signed)

SELBORNE, C.

[Order under s. 103.]

I, the Right Honourable Roundell, Earl of Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by virtue of the 103rd section of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, and all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby order that on and after the 1st day of January 1884 the jurisdiction and powers under the fifth section of the Debtors Act, 1869, now vested in the High Court of Justice shall be assigned to and exercised by the Judge to whom Bankruptcy business is assigned; and do further order that the said jurisdiction and powers shall be delegated to and exercised by the Bankruptcy Registrars of the High Court, subject to an appeal by any person affected by any order or decision of such Registrars to the Judge to whom Bankruptcy business is assigned: Provided that if

any case shall appear to the Bankruptcy Registrar to be one for committal he shall adjourn the same to be heard before the Judge to whom Bankruptcy business is assigned.

The 1st day of January 1884.

(Signed)

SELBORNE, C.

[Order under s. 153, transferring certain officers from the London Bankruptcy Court to the Board of Trade.]

[Order under s. 135.]

By virtue and in exercise of the power given by the 135th section of the above-mentioned Act, I, the Honourable Sir Lewis William Cave, the Judge of the High Court of Justice to whom Bankruptcy business is assigned, hereby authorise and appoint Samuel Radness Stockton, George Falkner, Henry Alfred Stacey, William Notson, Thomas Smith, Henry Wright, Henry Perkins, Edward Grainger Austin, Frederick Plaskete Brown, and Richard Humphris, officers attached to the said High Court in Bankruptcy, to be persons before whom affidavits, affirmations, and declarations, to be used in a bankruptcy court, may be sworn, taken, or made.

The 1st day of January 1884.

(Signed)

LEWIS W. CAVE.