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Of the value of £500,000 and upwards-then, in addition to the said duty of £11,250, for every full sum of £100,000 in excess of £500,000, and also for any fractional part of £100,000 so in excess, £2,500.

"2. Resolved,-That it is expedient to amend the laws relating to the stamp duties on probates of wills, letters of administration, and inventories, and the laws relating to the duties on legacies and successions."

The resolutions are to be reported to-day.

Obituary.

MR. DAVID WALTER DAVIS. Mr. David Walter Davis, solicitor, of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydvil, and Pontypridd, died on the 28th ult., after a long illness. Mr. Davis was born in 1835, and was admitted a solicitor in 1859. He soon afterwards commenced practice at Pontypridd in partnership with Mr. Montague Grover, with branch offices at Cardiff and Merthyr Tydvil, but the partnership was dissolved about ten years later. Mr. Davis was a commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and a perpetual commissioner for Glamorganshire, and he had an extensive private practice. His health had been for a long time failing, and he had been compelled to withdraw from professional life. He was buried at St. Martin's, Caerphilly, on the 5th inst., the funeral being attended by a large number of friends, including most of the solicitors practising in the district. The South Wales Weekly News says of Mr. Davis :-" Well read, exceedingly able as an advocate, and one upon whose opinion the utmost reliance could be placed, he gained the confidence of all who knew him, and won to himself a numerous clientele and a large practice, which was increasing when the state of his health demanded his retirement about two years since. That this event should be a source of regret was only natural, and many and sincere were the wishes for his ultimate recovery, but it was not to be, and after a long time death released him. The ultimate friends of the deceased gentleman will remember him as a kind and thoughtful friend, a genial and generous companion, with a quiet vein of humour which made him much sought for, and one in whose society both pleasure and profit were to be obtained."

MR. WILLIAM TYNDALL.

Mr. William Tyndall, solicitor (of the firm of Tyndall & Paxton), died suddenly, from apoplexy, at 7, Ivanhoe-road, Sefton-park, Liverpool, on the 2nd inst. Mr. Tyndall was the son of Mr. Thomas Tyndall, solicitor, of Birmingham. He was born in 1810, and was admitted a solicitor in 1843. He first practised at Birmingham in partnership with his father and brother. In 1845 he removed to Liverpool and joined Mr. Francis Hamp. He afterwards practised alone for several years (having a branch office at Birkenhead), but for the last four or five years he had been associated with Mr. John Paxton. Mr. Tyndall was a perpetual commissioner for Lancashire, and since 1843 he had been local solicitor to the Board of Trade, in which capacity he had appeared in many important prosecutions and inquiries under the Merchant Shipping Acts. Mr. Tyndall also acted as solicitor at Liverpool to the Commissioners of Excise and of Customs.

On taking his seat at the Liverpool Police Court on the morning of the 3rd inst., Mr. Raffles made the following observations:- "Another familiar face has gone from amongst us. I cannot hear of the sudden death of our friend, Mr. Tyndall, without a deep feeling of regret. He has for many years past, as solicitor for the Customs and Board of Trade, practised (I might almost say daily) in this court for one or the other of those public departments, and during that long course of years he conducted the business intrusted to him in a most efficient manner, and I believe to the entire satisfaction of those for whom he acted. For myself I may say that he secured and retained the esteem and regard of the court, and of all with whom he came in contact in the discharge of his public duty, as a thoroughly honourable practitioner, anxious only to discharge his duty fairly towards all with whom he had to do. I should not be doing justice to my own feelings did I not thus bear public testimony to the many excellent qualities of mind and heart for which we shall long remember our friend Mr. Tyndall." Mr. Tyndall was buried at the Smithdown-road Cemetery on the 5th inst., many members of the legal profession being present at the funeral.

MR. CLEMENT FRANCIS.

He was

Mr. Clement Francis, the head of the firm of Francis, Riches, & Francis, solicitor to the University of Cambridge, died at his residence Quy Hall, near Cambridge, on the 7th inst., from bronchitis, after a very short illness. Mr. Francis was born in 1815, and was admitted a solicitor in 1838. He subsequently matriculated at Trinity Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1843, and M. A. in 1846. originally in partnership with Mr. Francis John Gunning, late town clerk of Cambridge. At a later date he was joined by Mr. Thomas Webster and Mr. Alfred Smith Riches, and still more recently by Mr. Thomas Musgrave Francis, M.A., of Trinity College. The deceased was at the head of one of the largest offices at Cambridge. He had been for many years solicitor to the University, and he also acted for several of the larger colleges. He was a perpetual commissioner for Cambridgeshire, acting registrar of the archdeaconery of Ely, and clerk to the visiting magistrates of the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Lunatic Asylum, and to the conservators of the River Cam. Mr. Francis was a deputy-lieutenant for Cambridgeshire. His death has caused a general feeling of regret both in the town and in the University.

MR. HENRY CARLYON PHEAR.

Mr. Henry Carlyon Phear, barrister, died at his residence at Croydon, on the 3rd inst. Mr. Phear was a younger brother of Sir John Budd Phear, late Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was born in 1827, and was formerly scholar of Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as second wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1849. He was afterwards elected a fellow of his college, and he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Trinity Term, 1853. He practised as an equity draftsman and conveyancer, and had the reMr. Phear's putation of being a very sound lawyer. health had for a long time been failing.

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MR. JAMES COLEMAN FITZPATRICK. Mr. James Coleman Fitzpatrick, late judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope, died at Wynberg, South Africa, on the 6th ult. Mr. Fitzpatrick was called to the bar in Ireland in 1844, and in 1847 he proceeded to the West Coast of Africa in the capacity of a judicial assessor to the sovereigns and chiefs in the countries adjacent to her Majesty's Forest and Settlements on the Gold Coast. was Chief Justice of the Gold Coast from 1857 till 1861, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of British Kaffraria. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in Trinity Term, 1857, and he was a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony from 1872 till last year, when, in consequence of failing health, he retired on a pension. The Cape Argus speaks of the judicial services of the deceased in the following terms:-"His Honour, whose kindly demeanour and ready wit had made him many friends, had rendered long and faithful service to the Crown. Called to the bar in 1844, he was three years afterward ap

pointed to an important office on the Gold Coast, in which settlements he became in 1857 the Chief Justice. In 1861 he was appointed judge in British Kaffraria, and from this time forward, nearly twenty years, he has served the colony in the highest judicial capacity. His Honour's powers had been gradually failing for a long time past, and longevity was hardly to be expected in one who had passed so many years in the trying climate of the West Coast. Mr. Fitzpatrick was a good Catholic, a good Irishman, and a good friend. As a judge he was ever temperate and ever impartial, and (until declining years impaired his usefulness) ever attentive in the discharge of the functions of his office.'

DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS. FRANCIS WILLIAM AITKENS and WILLIAM HENRY HEWITT, solicitors, Hastings (Aitkens and Hewitt). March 1. (Gazette, March 9.)

JOHN HAWKSFORD and HERBERT CHARLES OWEN, 6, Darlington-street, Wolverhampton, solicitors (Hawksford & Owen). December 31. (Gazette, March 9.)

HENRY MINETT, HENRY WALLACE SOREL CAMERON, and JOHN LEONARD PIDDOCKE, solicitors, Ross (Minett, Son, & Piddocke). (Henry Minett and John Leonard Piddocke will carry on business under the firm of Minett & Piddoeke). January 1. (Gazette, March 9.)

Appointments, Etc.

Mr. HENRY SODEN BIRD, solicitor, of Newcastle-uponTyne, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. WILLIAM OSBORNE BOYES, solicitor, of Barnet, has been appointed Solicitor to the Barnet and District Licensed Victuallers' Protection Association.

Lord COLCHESTER has been appointed a Charity Commissioner for England and Wales in succession to Lord Clinton, resigned. Lord Colchester was born in 1842, and succeeded to the peerage as third Baron Colchester on the Ideath of his father in 1867. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a double first (classics and law, and modern history) in 1863. He obtained the Stanhope Prize in 1861, and was afterwards elected a fellow of All Souls College. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in Easter Term 1867.

Mr. M. B. DODDS, M.A., solicitor, of Stockton-on-Tees, has been appointed by Colonel Scurfield, High Sheriff of the county of Durham, to be Under-Sheriff for that county. Mr. Dodds is secretary to the Tees Salmon Fishery Board and clerk to the Kirkleatham Local Board of Health.

Mr. JOHN HAWLEY EDWARDS, junior, solicitor, of Shrewsbury, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. WILLIAM EVANS, solicitor (of the firm of Wragge, Evans, & Holliday), of Birmingham, has been appointed by the High Sheriff of Staffordshire (Mr. Walter Williams) to be Under-Sheriff of that county for the ensuing year. Mr. Evans was admitted a solicitor in 1874.

Mr. SAMUEL GOODING, solicitor, of Ipswich, has been elected Clerk to the Bosmere and Claydon Board of Guardians, Assessment Committee, and Rural Sanitary Authority. Mr. Gooding was admitted a solicitor in 1877.

Mr. ALFRED RICKETTS HUDSON, solicitor, of Pershore, has been appointed by the High Sheriff of Worcestershire, (Mr. Robert Woodward), to be Under-Sheriff of that county for the ensuing year. Mr. Hudson was admitted a solicitor in 1849, and is registrar of the Pershore County Court, and clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes for the district of Pershore West.

Mr. GEORGE BRISCOE KERFORD, barrister, has been appointed Attorney-General of the Colony of Victoria in the new Administration. Mr. Kerford was called to the bar at Melbourne in 1867. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly, and has already been in office as AttorneyGeneral.

Mr. ROBERT RIPON MARRETT, Attorney-General for Jersey, has been appointed Bailiff of the island.

Mr. WILLIAM WARREN STREETEN, barrister, has been appointed Chief Justice of the West African Settlements. Mr. Streeten was educated at Tunbridge School, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in Trinity Term, 1857. He formerly practised in the Court of Chancery, and he has been Queen's Advocate at Sierra Leone since 1874.

Mr. RICHARD TURNER TATHAM, solicitor (of the firm of Monckton, Son, & Tatham), of Maidstone, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. CHARLES DANIEL TYERMAN, solicitor, of 32, Fenchurch-street, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Companies.

WINDING-UP NOTICES.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.

LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

BRISTOL DISTRICT FORESTERS' HALL AND DISPENSARY COMPANY. LIMITED.-The M.R. has, by an order dated Feb 2, appointed Frederick George Tyler, Broad st, Bristol, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before April 6, to send their names and addresses, and the particnlars of their debts and claims, to the above. April 20, at 11, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims.

CLITHEROE LIME COMPANY, HORROCKSFORD, LIMITED.-V.C. Bacon has, by an order dated Feb 25, appointed Charles Lomax Tiplady, Tackett st, Blackburn, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before April 12, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts and claims, to the above. April 30, at 12, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debis and claims.

CROWN COLLIERY COMPANY, LIMITED.-Creditors are required, on or before April 7, to send their names and addresses, and the particu lars of their debts and claims, to John Earle Hodges, Abchurch lane. May 7, at 3, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims.

DOMINION OF CANADA PLUMBAGO COMPANY, LIMITED.-V.C. Malins has, by an order dated Feb 15, appointed John Henry Tilly, Queen Victoria st, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on cr before May 12, to send their names and addresses, and the particu lars of their debts or claims, to the above. May 25, at 12, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims. INOXIDATION AND PLATINUM COATING OF METALS COMPANY, LIMITED. -By an order made by the M.R., dated Feb. 26, it was ordered that the above company be wound up.-Bohm, Old Jewry, solicitor for the petitioner NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. -The M.R, has, by an order dated Jan 15, appointed John Adamson, Norfolk st, Manchester, to be official liquidator

METROPOLITAN FINANCE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up presented Feb 28, directed to be heard before the M.R., on Mar 13. Pettiver, College st, College hill, solicitor for the petitioner

WILLIAM RAMSEY, LIMITED.-V.C. Malins has fixed Tuesday, Mar 16, at 12, at his chambers, as the time and place for the appointment of an official liquidator

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WRECK RECOVERY AND SALVAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.-V.C. Malins has, by an order dated Jan 30, appointed Alfred Audrey Broad, Wa brook, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before Mar 31, to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debis or claims to the above. Tuesday, Apr 20 at 12 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims [Gazette, Mar. 5.] CATTERALL PAPER MAKING AND COTTON SPINNING COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up, presented Mar 6, directed to be heard before Hall, V.C., Mar. 19-Pritchard, Englefield. & Co. Little Trinity-lane, agents for Costeker, Darwen, solicitor for the petitioner

FITZROY BESSEMER STEEL HEMATITE IRON AND COAL COMPANY, LIMITED. By an order made by Hall, V.C., dated Feb 27, it was ordered that the winding up of the company be continned. Musgrave, Queen Victoria-street, solicitor for the petitioner

HUNGARIAN TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.-Hall, V.C., has fix d Mar 18, at 12, at his chambers, for the appointment of an official liquidator

INOXIDATION AND PLATINUM COATING OF METALS COMPANY, LIM ITED. The M.R. has fixed Mar 19, at 12, at his chambers, for the appointment of an official liquidator

LONDON AND VIRGINIA GOLD AND COPPER MINING COMPANY, LinITED. By an order made by Bacon, V.C., dated Feb 28, it wa ordered that the company be wound up

OAK PITS COLLIERY COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M.R. has fixed Mar 18, at 12, at his chambers, for the appointment of an official liquidator. LLANDRINDOD ESTATE AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.-By an order made by V.C. Bacon, dated Feb 28, it was ordered that the company be wound up. Swann and Co, Chancery lane, solicitors for the petitioner.

[Gazette, Mar. 9.]

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MANCHESTER LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. The tenth meeting of the session of this society was held on Tuesday evening, at the Law Library, Cross-street Chambers, when the chair was taken by Mr. Edmund Sutton, barrister-at-law. The minutes of the last meeting having been read by the hon. secretary (Mr. T. W. Millar), and passed, the chairman called upon Mr. Hislop, in the absence of Mr. Sykes, to open the debate in favour of the affirmative. The subject for discussion was as follows:-"Should our national museums and picture galleries be open to the public on Sundays?" Mr. Hislop was followed by Messrs. A. Smith, Stocks, Attkins, and Millar. Mr. Abell spoke on behalf of the negative view of the question, and was followed by Messrs. Rayner, Solly, Price, Norton, Butcher, Hodgkinson, and C. Law. Mr. Hislop having replied, the chairman summed up, and the question having been put to the meeting, ten voted for the affirmative and fourteen for the negative. A vote of thanks to the chairman, proposed by Mr. Attkins, seconded by Mr. C. Law, brought the meeting to a close.

LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY. The weekly meeting of this society was held at the Law Institution, Chancery-lane, on Tuesday evening last, Mr. C. E. Barry, in the chair. The subject appointed for the evening's debate was the following:-"Should the county franchise be assimilated with the borough ?"-and was opened in the affirmative by Mr. T. W. Ratcliff, LL.B. Messrs. J. Chater, T. Bateman Napier, Ed. Bedford, and C. E. Barry spoke in the affirmative, and Messrs. W. H. Hutton and A. E. Hemsley in the negative. The question on being put to the meeting was decided in the affirmative.

UNITED LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY.

A meeting of the above society was held at Clement's-inn Hall on the evening of Wednesday last, when Mr. W. Shirley Shirley opened in the affirmative the subject for debate-viz., "That Lord Beaconsfield and his Government do not deserve the confidence of the country," and was followed in the same line by Messrs. J. S. Leadam, J. S. Rubenstein, and N. Synnot, whilst Messrs. C. KainsJackson and R. Gwynne Templer supported the Government. The debate was remarkably well sustained, and at a late hour Mr. Ashton Cross moved its adjournment until the evening of Wednesday next, the 17th inst., and this on being put to the vote was carried. It is particularly requested that all members will attend on Wednesday next.

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BILLS IN COMMITTEE. SETTLED LAND. CONVEYANCING AND LAW OF PROPERTY (both passed through Committee). INDIAN SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES (passed through Committee). BILLS READ A THIRD TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Aston (Liverpool-street) Burial Ground, Wednesfield and Wyrley Bank Railway (Abandonment), Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MARCH 4.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILL.-Wrexham Water.

MARCH 8.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Ackworth, Featherstone, Purston, and Sharlston Gas, Hinckley Local Board Gas, Malton Gas, Sutton Bridge Dock, Worcester and Aberystwith Junction Railway.

INDIA STOCK (POWERS OF ATTORNEY). VALUATION (METROPOLIS) ACT (1869) AMENDMENT. EAST INDIA LOAN (EAST INDIA RAILWAY DEBENTUres).

BILL IN COMMITTEE.

BLIND AND DEAF MUTE CHILDREN (passed through Committee).

BILL READ A FIRST TIME.

BILL TO AMEND THE BURIAL LAWS (Mr. Grantham).

MARCH 10.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILL.-Yeadon and Gaisley Gas. CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1). SOUTH-WESTERN OF LONDON DISTRICT POST-OFFICE.

BILLS IN COMMITTEE. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (passed through Committee). VALUATION (METROPOLIS) ACT AMENDMENT. INDIA STOCK (POWERS OF ATTORNEY) and EAST INDIA LOAN (EAST INDIA RAILWAY DEBENTURES) (passed through Committee). COMMON LAW PROCEDURE AND JUDICATURE ACTS AMENDMENT (passed through Committee).

BILLS READ A FIRST TIME.

BILL TO REMOVE DOUBTS AS TO THE LIABILITY OF MACHINERY TO BE RATED TO THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND OTHER LOCAL RATES (Mr. Birley).

BILL TO AMEND AND CONTINUE THE ACTS RELATING TO ELECTION PETITIONS AND TO THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES AT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (The Attorney-General).

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Preliminary.

1. Short Title.] This Act may be cited as the Middlesex and Metropolis Land Registry Act, 1880.

2. Commencement.] This Act shall come into operation on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, which date is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act: Provided that any rules authorized to be made under this Act, and anything required to be done for the purpose of bringing this Act into operation, may be made or done at any time after the passing of this Act.

3. Definitions.] In this Act

"Registrar" means registrar of the registry continued and modified by this Act; and "registered" means registered under this Act.

"The Treasury" means "The Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury."

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Existing means existing at the commencement of this Act.

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to the registration of instruments relating to land situate in any part of the district consisting of Middlesex and of the metropolis, that is to say, the city of London and all parishes and places mentioned in Schedules A., B., and C. to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the office shall be called the Middlesex and Metropolis Land Registry.

This district and office are in this Act referred to as "the district" and "the registry."

5. Staff of Registry.] (1) On the commencement of this Act the existing registrar of the Middlesex Registry shall cease to hold that office, and the existing deputy registrar shall become and be the registrar of the registry.

(2) All subsequent registrars shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor.

(3) The registrar appointed by this Act, and all subsequent registrars, may be removed by the Lord Chancellor for reasons to be assigned in the order of removal.

(4) The registrar shall have such clerks, offices, and servants as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Treasury, from time to time directs. They may be appointed and removed by the registrar.

(5) The registrar shall perform his duties in person. (6) The registrar and his clerks, officers, and servants shall receive such salaries or remuneration as the Treasury from time to time direct.

(7) The salaries and remuneration of the registrar and his clerks, officers, and servants, and such incidental expenses of carrying this Act into effect as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament.

6. Obligation to register, and effect of non-registration— 37 & 38 Vict. c. 78, s. 8.] (1) There shall be registered in the registry every deed, will, and other instrument relating to land situate in the district.

(2) Every instrument required to be so registered shall, unless so registered, be void against any subsequent purchaser or incumbrancer for valuable consideration, whether with or without notice.

(3) Provided as follows:

(a) This section shall not apply to land of copyhold tenure, and shall not make obligatory the registration of a lease at a rack rent, or of a lease for a term not exceeding twenty-one years where possession and occupation go with the lease, or of an assignment or disposition of a lease of either of those kinds; but nothing in this proviso shall prevent or invalidate the registration of any such lease, assignment, or disposition.

(b) If the will of a testator devising land is not registered within six months after his death, or in the case of a testator dying out of the United Kingdom, within twelve months after his death, an assurance of the land to a purchaser or incumbrancer by the devisee or by some one deriving title under him shall, if registered before, take precedence of and prevail over any assurance from the testator's heir-at-law.

7. Mode of registration.] The mode of registering an instrument under this Act shall be as follows:

(1) The instrument to be registered shall be produced at the registry.

(2) The registrar shall enter or cause to be entered in the register the contents either of the instrument itself, or, at the option of the person applying for registration, a memorandum of its principal contents.

(3) There shall be indorsed on the instrument a certificate signed by the registrar, specifying the day, hour, and minute at which the instrument was registered, and referring to the page or part of the register in which the entry relating thereto was made.

(4) The several instruments produced for registration shall be registered in the order in which they are so produced.

8. Sub-districts to be formed with separate divisions of register for each.] (1) The registrar shall divide the district into sub-districts and keep a separate division of the register for each sub-district.

(2.) Where an instrument relates to land situate in more than one sub-district it shall be entered in one only of the

divisions of the register, and a reference to the entry shall

be made in the other divisions.

9. Index to be kept.] The registrar shall keep an index of all instruments registered under this Act. The index shall be so framed as to furnish references to places as well as to persons, and shall, as far as practicable, be based on the map made under the survey commonly known as the Ordnance Survey, and shall, as far as practicable, be completed up to the latest date.

10. Searches and certificates of search.] The registrar shall, on a request in writing giving sufficient particulars, cause a search to be made in respect of the registered dealings with any land in the district, and issue a certificate of the result of the search, and, if so requested, shall annex thereto or issue therewith a copy of any map or plan made on or accompanying any registered instrument relating to the land.

11. Power to make general rules.] The Lord Chancellor may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Treasury as to fees, make, revoke, and alter general rules with respect to

(1) The mode of conducting the business of the registry. (2) The hours of attendance at the registry. (3) The hours during which instruments may be regis tered, and searches may be made.

(4) The forms to be used under this Act. (5) The transmission by post of applications for registrations and for search, and of certificates of registration and of search.

(6) The fees to be payable under this Act. (7) The performance and exercise of the registrar's duties and powers during his illness, absence, or incapacity to act, or during any vacancy in his office. (8) Any other matter or thing, whether similar or not to those above mentioned, in respect to which it may be expedient to make rules for the purpose of carrying this Act into execution.

12. Fees-42 & 43 Vict. c. 58.] (1) There shall be paid in respect of the registration of instruments under this Act, and of the several matters required or authorized to be done under this Act, such fees as may be prescribed by general

rules made under this Act.

(2) The Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall apply to fees payable under this Act.

(3) There shall be paid to the existing registrar of the Middlesex Registry, out of the fees payable under this Act, an annual sum equal to the moiety of the average net amount raised by him yearly as such registrar during the ten years immediately preceding the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

13. Power to administer oaths.] The registrar, and any clerk of the registrar authorized by the registrar in writing, may, for any of the purposes of this Act, administer an oath and take a voluntary declaration.

14. Evidence.] A certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar or by a clerk to the registrar shall be prima facie

evidence of its contents.

15. Obligation to register judgments abolished.] It shall not be necessary to register any judgment in the registry.

16. Penalty on unlawful publication of information derived from registry.] If any person, without sufficient excuse, proof whereof shall lie on him, publishes any information derived from the registry, he shall, for each offence, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

Registered Charges.

17. Registered charges on land.] Any person entitled to or interested in land within the district may, by virtue of this Act, charge the land to the extent of his interest therein with the payment at the stipulated time of any principal sum of money, either with or without interest.

18. Schedule forms to be applicable and to be used.] The registrar shall not register any instrument securing on land within the district any money advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, or any instrument transferring any such security, unless the instrument is in the form given in the first schedule to this Act, or in a form as near thereto as the circumstances of the case admit, or the registrar is satisfied that the form in the schedule to this Act is inappli

cable to the circumstances of the case.

Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the registrar from registering any instrument made in a form

prescribed or authorized by any statute in force for the time being.

19. Implied covenant to pay charges.] Where a charge is created, by virtue of this Act, on any land there shall be implied on the part of the person creating the charge (in this Act called the proprietor of the land) his heirs, executors, and administrators, unless there is anything in the instrument of charge negativing the implication, a covenant with the person for the time being entitled to the benefit of the charge (in this Act called the proprietor of the charge) to pay the principal sum charged and iuterest, if any, thereon at the stipulated time and rate, and a covenant, if the principal sum or any part thereof is unpaid at the stipulated time, to pay interest at the stipulated rate at half-yearly or at such other intervals as may be stipulated, on so much of the principal sum as for the time being remains unpaid.

20. Implied covenant in case of leaseholds to pay rent, c., and indemnify proprietor of charge.] Where a charge is created, by virtue of this Act, on land held under a lease, there shall be implied on the part of the proprietor of the land, his heirs, executors, and administrators, unless there is anything in the instrument of charge negativing the implication, a covenant with the proprietor of the charge that the proprietor of the land, his executors, administrators, and assigns will pay, perform, and observe the rent, covenants, and conditions by and in the lease reserved and contained, and, on the part of the lessee, to be paid, performed, and observed, and will keep the proprietor of the charge, his heirs, executors, and administrators indemnified against all actions, suits, expenses, and claims on account of the non-payment of the rent, or any part thereof, or the breach of the covenants or conditions, or any of them.

21. Entry by proprietor of charge.] Subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the instrument of charge, the proprietor of a charge created by virtue of this Act may, for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction of any money due to him under the charge, at any time during the continuance of the charge, enter on the land charged, or any part thereof, or into the receipt of the rents and profits thereof, subject, nevertheless, to the right of any persons appearing by the register to be prior incumbrancers, and to the liability attached to a mortgagee in possession.

22. Foreclosure by proprietor of charge.] Subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the instrument of charge the proprietor of a charge created by virtue of this Act may enforce a foreclosure or sale of the land charged, in the same manner and under the same circumstances in and under which he might enforce the same if the land had been transferred to him by way of mortgage, subject to a proviso for redemption on payment of the money named at the specified time.

23. Application to charges of Trustees and Mortgagees Act, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 145.] Subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the instrument of charge, Part II. of the Act of the session held in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of her Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-five, give to trustees, mortgagees, and others, certain powers now commonly inserted in settlements, mortgages, and wills," shall apply to every charge created by virtue of this Act.

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The instrument of charge may modify the time within which the power of sale and other powers conferred by section eleven of that Act may be exercised, and the time and mode of giving the notice required under section thirteen of the Act; in that case the Act shall apply subject to any modification so made.

24. Satisfaction of charge.] (1) On the satisfaction of all money secured by a charge created by virtue of this Act the charge shall cease.

(2) A receipt for the money so secured, indorsed on the instrument of charge, and signed by a person describing himself as the proprietor of the charge, shall be primâ facie evidence that the charge is satisfied.

(3) On the production to the registrar of such a receipt, or of other sufficient evidence, he shall make an entry in the register that the charge is satisfied.

Savings and Repeal.

25. Exemption of land registered under Acts of 1862 and 1875 continued.-38 & 39 Vict. c. 87.] Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of section one hundred and four of the Act passed in the session held in the twenty-fifth and

twenty-sixth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-three, "to facilitate the proof of title to, and the conveyance of real estate," or of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Land Transfer Act, 1875, and no document relating to land registered under either of those Acts shall be required to be registered under this Act.

26. Repeal of enactments in schedule.] The enactments enumerated in the second schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in that schedule mentioned.

Provided that this repeal shall not affect any right acquired, liability incurred, obligation imposed, or thing done by or under any enactment so repealed, or alter the effect of the registration or non-registration of any document under any such enactment.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

FORMS.

1. Form of Charge.

I, A.B., of (name, address, and description), in consideration of the sum of £ paid to me by C.D., of (name, address, and description), charge the land specified in the schedule hereto with the payment to him, his executors, administrators, or assigns, on the day of of that sum with interest at the rate of per centum per annum, computed from this date (or other the date stipulated). The statutory powers of sale, insurance, and appointment of a receiver may be exercised at any time after default has been made for six months in payment of the said principal sum, or for three months after that time, in payment of any interest thereon, and the power of sale may be exercised after three months' notice. Dated the

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2. Form of Transfer of Charge.

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I, A. B., of in consideration of the sum of paid to me by C. D., of hereby transfer to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, a charge dated the and created by E. F., of on the land specified in the schedule hereto for securing the sum of and interest thereon, at per centum per annum [or, if the transfer is by indorsement on the instrument of charge, insert, instead of the words immediately following the word "assigns," the within security], and all my right, estate, and interest in, and to the money thereby secured, and in and to the land thereby charged.

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3. Form of Receipt on satisfaction of charge. I, A.B., of being the proprietor of the within charge, hereby acknowledge the receipt of the sum of £ being the total sum now due thereunder. Dated the day of

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

ENACTMENTS REPEALED.

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An Act for the publick registry of deeds, conveyances, and wills and other incumbrances, which shall be made of or that may affect any houses, lands, tenements, or hereditaments within the county of Middlesex after the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred and nine.

25 Geo. 2. c. An Act for appointing the deputy or secondary of the chief clerk to inrol pleas in the King's Bench, called the master of the King's Bench Office, one of the registrars or masters for the inrolment of deeds, wills, and other conveyances in the county of Middlesex, in the place and stead of such chief clerk.

5 & 6 Vict. c. An Act for abolishing certain offices of the 103, in part. High Court of Chancery in England: in part; namely-section thirty-four.

* If it is desired to modify 23 & 24 Vict. c. 145, add.

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