PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE MARKS.

No. 138.-NUMBER of PATENTS APPLIED FOR and SEALED, and of DESIGNS and TRADE MARKS REGISTERED.

(Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.)

(a) This statement relates to the number of Patents actually sealed during each year, and not the number of Patents sealed in respect of the applications made in each year.

COMPANY LIQUIDATION-ENGLAND AND WALES.

No. 139.-NUMBER of COMPANIES WOUND UP in ENGLAND and WALES, showing the various methods of Liquidation. [Compiled from the General Annual Reports by the Board of Trade under Section 283 of the Companies Consolidation Act, 1908.]

No. 141.-AMOUNT of LIABILITIES in BANKRUPTCIES, &c.,

6,526,427 4,661,444 4,900,019 5,904,650 3,464,530 2,634,207 1,637,123

851,316

6,841,470 4,913,950 5,091,265 6,052,648 3,731,280 2,731,959 1,933,329 907,611

1,923,101

2,180,869 1,827,110 1,790,463 2,073,031 1,136,450 1,005,914 1,230,429

881,865

INSOLVENCY-ENGLAND AND WALES.

in ENGLAND and WALES under the BANKRUPTCY ACTS.

Annual Reports by the Board of Trade.]

INSOLVENCY-ENGLAND AND WALES.

No. 143.-NUMBER OF ASSIGNMENTS, COMPOSITIONS, &C., REGISTERED [The Tables below are compiled from the General

No. 144.-AMOUNT of LIABILITIES in ASSIGNMENTS, COMPOSITIONS, &C.,

No. 145.-AMOUNT of ASSETS in ASSIGNMENTS, COMPOSITIONS, &c., under

INSOLVENCY-ENGLAND AND WALES.

under the Deeds of Arrangement Acts, in ENGLAND and WALES. Annual Reports by the Board of Trade.]

under the Deeds of Arrangement Acts, in ENGLAND and WALES, by the Debtors.

the Deeds of Arrangement Acts, in ENGLAND and WALES, as the Debtors.

320,034 1,084,872 4,908,059 3,533,913 2,471 976 1,966,305 1,973,757 Total.

113,705

88,442

14,823