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High bailiff attending Court each sitting. Serving every bankruptcy notice, bankruptcy petition, or subpoena within two miles, including affidavit of service

Executing every warrant of seizure, or search warrant, or warrant of apprehension, or order of commitment within two miles of Court House

Keeping possession under a warrant—for each day the man is actually in possession; including affidavit of possession being actually kept

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to be paid to the man in possession, and
his receipt produced.)

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District) officer's, man travelling to place of
possession, or to execute a warrant of or order
of commitment, or to serve a summons or
subpoena, or for any other purpose specially
directed by the Court, per mile

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TABLE D.

On the net assets realised or brought to credit by the official receiver, whether acting as interim receiver or as trustee, not being assets received and spent in carrying on the business of the debtor, 67. per cent.

On every payment under section 162 of money out of the bankruptcy estates account, 5s. on each 20l. ad valorem on the amount paid.

Room for meeting of creditors, summoned by official receiver, for each creditor present personally or by proxy at each meeting For each notice to creditor of a meeting. Keeping possession, per day

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Travelling, and other reasonable expenses of

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For official stationery, books, and forms, each estate, for every fifty creditors, or less

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TABLE E.

For every order of administration under section 122, two shillings in the pound on the total amount of the debts scheduled from time to time, excluding any fraction of a pound in such total.

See note 1 on next page.

TABLE F.

The fees and allowances payable on proceedings had after the thirty-first day of December 1883 in respect of any matter which was pending in any Court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy on the said day shall be the same as if those proceedings had been taken before such day, and shall be applied to the same purposes.

We, the undersigned Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do hereby sanction the foregoing scales of fees and per-centages, and do direct that the fees to be taken by stamps shall be those mentioned in Tables A. and B., and that the fees mentioned in Tables C., D., and E., shall be taken in money, and that the fees and allowances referred to in Table F. shall be taken by stamps or money according as they have hitherto been taken in respect of all proceedings in the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal the stamps to be used shall be Judicature fee stamps; and in respect of all other proceedings the stamps to be used shall be Bankruptcy fee stamps.

And we further direct that the stamp shall be affixed or the money paid in respect of every fee1 before the proceeding is had in respect of which the fee is payable, and that the charge to be made by the London Gazette for the insertion of each notice authorised by the Act or Rules shall be ten shillings, except in the cases of estates administered under Part VII. of the Act, in which cases the charge shall be three shillings and fourpence.

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1 To be read as if the words "mentioned in Tables A, B, C, D, and F," were here inserted; the object of the insertion being to render the payment of the fee required by Table E for an administration order under s. 122 not a condition precedent to the making of such order (See Letter from the Treasury, Law Times, Feb. 2, 1884, p. 244).

BOARD OF TRADE ORDERS.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.

Unclaimed Dividends and other Undistributed Funds. PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

WHEREAS it is provided, by section 162 of the said Act, that where, after the passing thereof, any unclaimed or undistributed funds or dividends in the hands, or under the control, of any trustee or other person empowered to collect, receive, or distribute any funds or dividends. under any or either of the Acts of Parliament hereunder mentioned, or any petition, resolution, deed, or other proceeding under, or in pursuance of, any such Act, have remained or remain unclaimed or undistributed for six months after the same became claimable or distributable, or in any other case for two years after the receipt thereof by such trustee or other person, it shall be the duty of such trustee or other person forthwith to pay the same to the Bankruptcy Estates' Account at the Bank of England.

And whereas it is further provided that the Board of Trade may, at any time, order any such trustee or other person to submit to them an account, verified by affidavit, of the sums received and paid by him under, or in pursuance of, any such petition, resolution, deed, or other proceeding as aforesaid, and may direct and enforce an audit of the account.

And whereas the Board of Trade have opened an Account at the Bank of England above referred to as the Bankruptcy Estates' Account,

Notice is hereby given to such trustees or other persons as aforesaid forthwith to pay to the said Account the money in their hands or under their control, obtaining in the first instance a Receivable Order from the Board of Trade, and upon such payment the Board of Trade will furnish to such trustees or other persons a Certificate of Receipt of the money so paid, which shall be an effectual discharge in respect thereof.

Statutes relating to Unclaimed Dividends above referred to :—

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Dated this 25th day of August, 1883.

J. CHAMBERLAIN,

President of the Board of Trade.

FURTHER NOTICE.

WHEREAS by a Preliminary Notice dated the 25th August, 1883, Trustees or other persons, having in their hands or under their control Unclaimed or Undistributed Funds or Dividends as mentioned in section 162 of the said Act, were required forthwith to pay the same to the Bankruptcy Estates' Account at the Bank of England, in pursuance of the duties imposed upon them by the said section:

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