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or securities will be derived shall be stated; and in every case the exact | amount of money to be dealt with by the Paymaster-General shall be expressed in an Order or in a Chief Clerk's certificate, or in a certificate of a Taxing Master, or in a certificate of a Master in Lunacy, unless the amount to be dealt with be payable for legacy or succession duty, or be described as dividends to accrue on securities in Court, or as interest on money on deposit, or as money to arise by the sale or conversion of securities in Court, or as the residue of such dividends, interest, or money, respectively, after deducting an amount expressed in an Order or in such a certificate, or as an aliquot part of such dividends, interest, money, or residue, respectively.

7. [Mode of framing certain Orders.] When an Order directs the payment, transfer, or delivery of money or securities in Court, and the amounts to be paid, transferred, or delivered, are mentioned in a schedule to such Order, the total of such amounts shall be expressed in words at length in the body of the Order; and whenever the dealing by the Paymaster-General with money or securities in Court, is, by an Order, made contingent upon the execution of some document, the document and the parties thereto by whom it is to be executed, shall be clearly indicated in an Order or certificate of a Master in Lunacy, or in a Chief Clerk's certificate, and the execution of such document shall be certified by a Chief Clerk of a Judge of the Court, or by a Master in Lunacy, unless the Judge upon making the Order by which such execution is required shall otherwise expressly direct.

8. [Period of Computation and rate of interest to be defined.] When interest is, in pursuance of an Order to be acted on by the PaymasterGeneral, to be computed otherwise than by the Chief Clerk of a Judge of the Court, or by a Master in Lunacy, the Order shall state the days or times from, and up to, which, the interest is to be computed, and the rate per cent. of such interest, and whether or not income tax is to be deducted.

9 [Proceedings on payment and deposit of money and securities] When money or securities are to be paid into or deposited in. Court, such payment or deposit shall be made with the privity of the Paymaster-General, and the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction to the L'ank to receive and place the same to the credit of the Chancery Pay Office Account; and such direction shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which such money or securities are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and upon such money or securities being so paid or deposited the Bank shall cause a receipt to be given for the same, and shall send such direction to the Chancery Pay Office, with a Certificate thereon that the money or securities therein specified have been received, and placed to the credit of the Chancery Pay Office account.

10. [Payment, deposit, and transfer on request.] Money and securities may be paid or transferred into, or deposited in, Court, and be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of a cause or matter, on a direction to be obtained from the Paymaster-General upon the written request of the person desirous of so paying, transferring, or depositing, or of his solicitor, without an Order; but no such payment transfer, or deposit shall be so made to a separate account in a cause except to a security for costs account, unless such separate account has been directed to be opened by an Order made either before, or after the commencement of these Rules, and such request shall be filed in the Report Office. This Rule shall not apply to money, or securities, directed by an Order to be paid or transferred into, or deposited in, Court, nor to money or securities payable or transferable into Court in pursuance of an Act of Parliament, or a general Order of the Court, by which some particular authority to enable the payment, transfer, or deposit to be made is required.

11. [Request to contain reference to record.] Every request for a direction for payment or transfer into, or deposit in, Court of money or securities to be placed to the credit of a cause commenced since the 1st of November, 1852, shall contain the title of the cause and the reference to the record as cited in the preceding Rule 2, and the correctness of such reference shall be authenticated by the official seal of the Clerks of Records and Writs being impressed on such request. 12. [Mode of Lodging money at the Bank in urgent cases.] When it is desired to bring money into Court without waiting the time necessary to obtain a direction for the Bauk to receive the same it may be lodged at the Bank to the credit of a Chancery Suspense Account (subject to being dealt with as hereinafter mentioned, and not otherwise), upon a written application sigued by the person desiring to lodge the same, or is solicitor, and addressed to the Bank; and in such application shall be specified the amount to be lodged, and the title of the cause or matter in Chancery in respect of which the lodgment is desired to be made, and upon such lodgment being made one of the cashiers of the Bank shall give a certificate that the amount has been lodged to the

credit of the Chancery Suspense Account; and in every case the person making such lodgment, or his solicitor, shall forthwith bespeak the direction for the Bank to receive the money in the manner provided by the preceding Rule 9 and produce such direction and certificate at the Bank, for the purpose of having the money so previously ledged transferred to the Chancery Pay Office Account, and placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of the cause or matter mentioned in such direction, and the receipt mentioned in the said Rule 9 shall thereupon be given for such money.

13. [When money paid in under 8. 69 of Lands Clauses Act, 1845, the disability is to be stated] Money hereafter paid into Court pursuant to the 69th section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, in respect of lands in England or Wales, shall be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of Ex parte the promoters of the undertaking, in the matter of the special Act (citing it), as directed by the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and some words shall be added in each case briefly expressive of the nature of the disability to sell and convey, by reason of which the money shall be so paid in, as stated in the request for the direction to receive the money. 14. [When money paid in under the Copyhold Acts, the disability is to be stated.] Money hereafter paid into Court pursuant to the Copyhold Acts shall be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of "Ex parte the Copyhold Commissioners," as directed by the said Acts, and in addition thereto, to the account of the particular manor in respect of which the money shall be so paid in; and in the request for a direction to receive such money the name and locality of such particular manor shall be stated.

15. [Proceedings on transfer of securities into Court.] When securities are to be transferred into Court, such transfer shall be made with the privity of the Paymaster-General, and the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction for the transfer to be made to the account of the Paymaster-General for the time being on behalf of the Court of Chancery; and such direction shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which such securities are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office; and upon such securities being so transferred, the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books the transfer of such securities is made or registered, shall send such direction to the Chancery Pay Office with a certificate thereon that the securities therein specified have been transferred to the said account.

16. [Receipt and certificate of payment, deposit, and transfer.] When any such direction as is mentioned in Rules 9 and 15. with a certificate thereon that the amount of money or securities therein mentioned has been so paid or transferred, or deposited, shall be received at the Chancery Pay Office, the Paymaster-General shall file a certificate of such payment, transfer, or deposit, and shall therein state the title of the cause or matter to which such amount of money or securities has been placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office; and an office copy of such certificate of the Paymaster-General shall be received as evidence of the payment or transfer into, or deposit in, Court therein mentioned having been made.

17. [Funds in Court not to be dealt with except in pursuance of an order.] Securities in Court shall not be sold, transferred, or delivered out, and money in Court shall not be paid out or invested in securities (except in the case provided for by Rule 3 of the 41st of the Consolidated Orders of the Court, and in the case provided for by the 40th of these Rules), and money or securities in Court shall not be carried over, and a cert ficate shall not be issued for the sale, transfer, or delivery of securities in court, unless in pursuance of an Order, or of a certificate of a Master in Lunacy as authorized by the Lunacy Regulation Act, 1853, and any General Orders made thereunder.

18. [Payment of money out of Court] When money in Court is to be paid out (except in the cases hereinafter provided for), the PaymasterGeneral shall cause a cheque to be prepared, stating the title of the cause or matter in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to which the money paid is to be debited, the date of the order or other authority in pursuance of which, and the name of the person to whom, the payment is to be made, and such other particulars of such payment as the Paymaster-General may deem necessary; and such cheque, duly indorsed by the payee named therein, or his lawful attorney, shall be a good discharge to the Paymaster-General for the amount therein mentioned.

19. [Continuation of periodical payments.] Money in Court periodically payable at the commencement of these Rules, shall continue to be payable by the Paymaster-General in pursuance, and on the authority, of the entries of the cheques for periodical payments in the receipt books in the Accountant-General's Office, or of such other documents as the Accountant-General has been accustomed to use in the preparation of such cheques, without the production of the orders

and other documents in pursuance whereof such payments are made, | securities necessary to complete the sale to be made by their proper being necessary.

20. [Renewal of unpaid cheques of the Accountant-General.] When cheques have been signed by the present Accountant-General or by any of his predecessors, but have not been paid at the Bank previously to the commencement of these Rules, such cheques shall be a sufficient authority to the Paymaster-General to cause payments to be made to the same persons and of the same amounts as are named therein, without the production of the orders or other d cuments in pursuance whereof such cheques have been so signed, being necessary. 21. [Substitution of transfers for payments to official persons] When money in Court is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, the official trustees of charitable funds, the official liquidator of any company, the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or to any other official persons for whom an account is kept at the Bank, the order shall direct the amount so payable to be transferred, upon the requisition of the official persons to whom it is due, to the proper account (citing it) at the Bank, of such official persons. And the Paymaster-General shall, upon receiving such requisition, direct the Bank to write off from the Chancery Pay Office account the amount so payable, and to place it to the account at the Bank mentioned in such order, and shall debit the proper account in the books at the Chancery Pay Office therewith.

officer.

26. [Transfer of securities out of Court] When securities in Court are to be transferred or delivered out, the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction for such transfer or delivery, and specify in such direction the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which such securities shall be standing in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and the amount and description of the securities to be transferred or delivered, and the name of the person to whom the transfer or delivery is to be made, and upon the receipt of such direction, and of a certificate of a Registrar of the Court, or a Master or Registrar in Lunacy, countersigned by the Paymaster-General, authorizing such transfer or delivery, the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books, or with whom, such securities shall be standing or deposited, shall cause such transfer or delivery to be made by their proper officer, and shall send such direc tion to the Chancery Pay Office, with a certificate thereon that the transfer or delivery therein mentioned has been made to the person named therein.

22. [Payment and transfer to representatives of deceased persons.] When money in Court is payable, or securities in Court are transferable or deliverable to any person named or described in an order (except to a person therein expressed to be entitled as a trustee, executor, or ad-suant to a general or other previous Order, dividends have been in ministrator, or entitled in any character other than in his own right), the same or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid or untransferred or undelivered, may, on proof of the death of such person, whether before, on, or after the date of such order, be paid or transferred or delivered to the legal personal representatives of such deceased person, or to the survivors or survivor of them; and when money in Court is by an Order directed to be paid to any persons described in an Order or a Chief Clerk s certificate as copartners, such money may be paid to any one or more of such copartners.

27. [Application of dividends accruing thereon.] When securities in Court are directed to be transferred or delivered out, dividends accruing thereon subsequently to the date of the Order directing the transfer or delivery (when the amount of the securities to be transferred or delivered is specified in such Order, or, if not so specified, then subsequently to the time when the amount of such securities is ascertained). shall be paid to the persons to whom the securities are to be transferred or delivered, unless such Order otherwise directs. And when, purvested, which, but for such investment, would, under the Order directing the transfer or delivery, be payable to the persons to whom the securities on which they have accrued are directed to be transferred or delivered, the securities purchased with such dividends, and any dividends accrued in respect thereof, shall, unless otherwise directed, he transferred or delivered and paid to the same persons; and the Registrars of the Court, and the Masters and Registrar in Lunacy, may, upon production to them of a certificate of such investment, issue certificates for such transfer or delivery; and when securities in Court are directed to be realized, and the whole of the proceeds paid out or carried over in one sum or in aliquot parts, any dividends accruing on such securities subsequent to the date of the Order directing the realization, if the amount of such securities is specified in the Order, or, if not so specified, subsequent to the time when such amount is ascertained, shall be added to such proceeds, and applied in like manner therewith, unless such Order otherwise directs.

28. [Conversion of securities substituted for sale.] When a specific amount of Government securities in Court (consisting of not less than 1000l. Consolidated 31. per centum annuities, or 1000l. Reduced 37. per centum annuities, or 1000 New 31. per centum annuities), shall be required to be realized, the Order, instead of directing a sale of such securities, shall direct the same to be converted into cash, unless the Court on pronouncing such Order shall otherwise direct, and thereupon such securities shall be transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on behalf of the Court of Chancery, as provided by the 52nd of these Rules, and no such conversion shall be made of an amount less than 1000l. of such securities, except for the purpose of placing on deposit the value of such securities.

29. [Certificates for sale, &c., of securities.] Every certificate for the

23. [Paymaster-General may defer acting on directions in Orders with out request.] When an Order, or a certificate of a Master in Lunacy, directs the carrying over of money or securities in Court, or the invest ment, or placing on deposit (subject to Rule 52), or payment out, of money in Court, the Paymaster-General may defer giving effect to such direction until a request in writing to give effect thereto has been left at the Chancery Pay Office; but it shall be the duty of the solicitor for the person having the carriage of such Order or certificate to leave it and such request at the Chancery Pay Office without unnecessary delay. 24. [Investment of Money.] When money in Court is, in pursuance of an Order as defined by the 2nd of these Rules, or of Rule 3 of the 41st of the Consolidated Orders of the Court, or of a request as provided for by the 40th of these Rules, to be invested in specified securities, the Paymaster-General shall direct the money to be paid to the broker conditionally upon his causing such securities to be transferred or deposited to the account of the Paymaster-General for the time being on behalf of the Court of Chancery, and the cheque for such money shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which the securities purchased are to be placed in the books at the Chancery l'ay Office, and the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books or with whom the transfer or deposit of such securities shall be made or regis-sale, transfer, or delivery of securities in Court shall express the exact tered, shall cause a certificate of such transfer or deposit to be issued, and such a certificate purporting to be issued by the bank, or body corporate, or company aforesaid, shall be sufficient evidence, for all purposes, that such transfer or deposit as there in mentioned has been actually made; and the securities so transferred or deposited shall be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the same credit as that to which the said money was standing at the time of such investment, unless the order authorizing such investment shall otherwise direct. 25. [Sale of securities.] When securities in Court are to be sold, the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction to the Bank to receive the proceeds of such sale, and to place them to the Chancery Pay Office Account, and shall specify in such direction the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which such proceeds are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and such title shall be the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which the securities were standing at the time of such sale, and the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books, or with whom, the securities to be sold are standing or deposited, shall, upon the production of the receipt from the Bank for the proceeds of the sale, and of a certificate of a Registrar of the Court, or a Master or Registrar in Lunacy, countersigned by the Paymaster General, authorizing such sale, cause the transfer or delivery of the

amount of money to be raised by sale, or the exact amount and description of securities to be sold, transferred, or delivered out; and no such certificate shall be issued by a Master in Lunacy, except on the production of an office copy of the report of a Master in Lunacy confirmed by fiat; nor by the Registrar in Lunacy, except on the production of an office copy of the Order in Lunacy; nor by a Registrar of the Court, except on the production of the original order, or an office copy thereof, if the absence of the original order shall be accounted for to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

30. [Certificates of fund in Court.] The Paymaster-General, upon a request in writing made by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in money or securities standing in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of a cause or matter stated in such request, may in his discretion grant, for the information of a Judge or an officer of the Court, a certificate of the amount and description of such money or securities, and such certificate shall have reference to the morning of the day of the date thereof, and not include the transactions of that day, and the Paymaster-General shall notify on such certificate the dates of any Orders restraining the transfer, sale, delivery out, or payment, or other dealing with the securities or money in Court to the credit of the cause or matter mentioned in such certificate, and any

making such lodgment, or his solicitor, shall forthwith bespeak the direction for the Bank to receive the money in the manner provided by the preceding Rule 9 and produce such direction and certificate at the Bank, for the purpose of having the money so previously ledged transferred to the Chancery Pay Office Account, and placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of the cause or matter mentioned in such direction, and the receipt mentioned in the said Rule 9 shall thereupon be given for such money.

or securities will be derived shall be stated; and in every case the exact | credit of the Chancery Suspense Account; and in every case the person amount of money to be dealt with by the Paymaster-General shall be expressed in an Order or in a Chief Clerk's certificate, or in a certificate of a Taxing Master, or in a certificate of a Master in Lunacy, unless the amount to be dealt with be payable for legacy or succession duty, or be described as dividends to accrue on securities in Court, or as interest on money on deposit, or as money to arise by the sale or conversion of securities in Court, or as the residue of such dividends, interest, or money, respectively, after deducting an amount expressed in an Order or in such a certificate, or as an aliquot part of such dividends, interest, money, or residue, respectively.

9 [Proceedings on payment and deposit of money and securities] When money or securities are to be paid into or deposited in. Court, such payment or deposit shall be made with the privity of the Paymaster-General, and the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction to the l'ank to receive and place the same to the credit of the Chancery Pay Office Account; and such direction shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which such money or securities are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and upon such money or securities being so paid or deposited the Bank shall cause a receipt to be given for the same, and shall send such direction to the Chancery Pay Office, with a certificate thereon that the money or securities therein specified have been received, and placed to the credit of the Chancery Pay Office

account.

10. [Payment, deposit, and transfer on request.] Money and securities may be paid or transferred into, or deposited in, Court, and be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the credit of a cause or matter, on a direction to be obtained from the Paymaster-General upon the written request of the person desirous of so paying, transferring, or depositing, or of his solicitor, without an Order; but no such payment transfer, or deposit shall be so made to a separate account in a cause (except to a security for costs account, unless such separate account has been directed to be opened by an Order made either before, or after the commencement of these Rules, and such request shall be filed in the Report Office. This Rule shall not apply to money, or securities, directed by an Order to be paid or transferred into, or deposited in, Court, nor to money or securities payable or transferable into Court in pursuance of an Act of Parliament, or a general Order of the Court, by which some particular authority to enable the payment, transfer, or deposit to be made is required.

11. [Request to contain reference to record.] Every request for a direction for payment or transfer into, or deposit in, Court of money or securities to be placed to the credit of a cause commenced since the 1st of November, 1852, shall contain the title of the cause and the reference to the record as cited in the preceding Rule 2, and the correctness of such reference shall be authenticated by the official seal of the Clerks of Records and Writs being impressed on such request. 12. [Mode of Lodging money at the Bank in urgent cases.] When it is desired to bring money into Court without waiting the time necessary to obtain a direction for the Bauk to receive the same it may be lodged at the Bank to the credit of a Chancery Suspense Account (subject to being dealt with as hereinafter mentioned, and not otherwise), upon a written application signed by the person desiring to lodge the same, or is solicitor, and addressed to the Bank; and in such application shall be specified the amount to be lodged, and the title of the cause or matter in Chancery in respect of which the lodgment is desired to be made, and upon such lodgment being made one of the cashiers of the Bank shall give a certificate that the amount has been lodged to the

15. [Proceedings on transfer of securities into Court.] When securities are to be transferred into Court, such transfer shall be made with the privity of the Paymaster-General, and the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction for the transfer to be made to the account of the Paymaster-General for the time being on behalf of the Court of Chancery ; and such direction shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which such securities are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office; and upon such securities being so transferred, the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books the transfer of such securities is made or registered, shall send such direction to the Chancery Pay Office with a certificate thereon that the securities therein specified have been transferred to the said account.

16. [Receipt and certificate of payment, deposit, and transfer.] When any such direction as is mentioned in Rules 9 and 15, with a certificate thereon that the amount of money or securities therein mentioned has been so paid or transferred, or deposited, shall be received at the Chancery Pay Office, the Paymaster-General shall file a certificate of such payment, transfer, or deposit, and shall therein state the title of the cause or matter to which such amount of money or securities has been placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office; and an office copy of such certificate of the Paymaster-General shall be received as evidence of the payment or transfer into, or deposit in, Court therciu mentioned having been made.

and other documents in pursuance whereof such payments are made, | securities necessary to complete the sale to be made by their proper being necessary.

21. [Substitution of transfers for payments to official persons.] When money in Court is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, the official trustees of charitable funds, the official liquidator of any company, the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or to any other official persons for whom an account is kept at the Bank, the order shall direct the amount so payable to be transferred, upon the requisition of the official persons to whom it is due, to the proper account (citing it) at the Bank, of such official persons. And the Paymaster-General shall, upon receiving such requisition, direct the Bank to write off from the Chancery Pay Office account the amount so payable, and to place it to the account at the Bank mentioned in such order, and shall debit the proper account in the books at the Chancery Pay Office therewith.

22. [Payment and transfer to representatives of deceased persons.] When money in Court is payable, or securities in Court are transferable or deliverable to any person named or described in an order (except to a person therein expressed to be entitled as a trustee, executor, or administrator, or entitled in any character other than in his own right), the same or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid or untransferred or undelivered, may, on proof of the death of such person, whether before, on, or after the date of such order, be paid or transferred or delivered to the legal personal representatives of such deceased person, or to the survivors or survivor of them; and when money in Court is by an Order directed to be paid to any persons described in an Order or a Chief Clerk s certificate as copartners, such money may be paid to any one or more of such copartners.

officer.

26. [Transfer of securities out of Court] When securities in Court are to be transferred or delivered out, the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction for such transfer or delivery, and specify in such direction the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which such securities shall be standing in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and the amount and description of the securities to be transferred or delivered, and the name of the person to whom the transfer or delivery is to be made, and upon the receipt of such direction, and of a certificate of a Registrar of the Court, or a Master or Registrar in Lunacy, countersigned by the Paymaster-General, authorizing such transfer or delivery, the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books, or with whom, such securities shall be standing or deposited, shall cause such transfer or delivery to be made by their proper officer, and shall s nd such direc tion to the Chaucery Pay Office, with a certificate thereon that the transfer or delivery therein mentioned has been made to the person named therein.

27. [Application of dividends accruing thereon.] When securities in Court are directed to be transferred or delivered out, dividends accruing thereon subsequently to the date of the Order directing the transfer or delivery (when the amount of the securities to be transferred or delivered is specified in such Order, or, if not so specified, then subsequently to the time when the amount of such securities is ascertained). shall be paid to the persons to whom the securities are to be transferred or delivered, unless such Order otherwise directs. And when, pursuant to a general or other previous Order, dividends have been in vested, which, but for such investment, would, under the Order directing the transfer or delivery, be payable to the persons to whom the securities on which they have accrued are directed to be transferred or delivered, the securities purchased with such dividends, and any dividends accrued in respect thereof, shall, unless otherwise directed, he transferred or delivered and paid to the same persons; and the Registrars of the Court, and the Masters and Registrar in Lunacy, may, upon production to them of a certificate of such investment, issue certificates for such transfer or delivery; and when securities in Court are directed to be realized, and the whole of the proceeds paid out or carried over in one sum or in aliquot parts, any dividends accruing on such securities subsequent to the date of the Order directing the realization, if the amount of such securities is specified in the Order, or, if not so specified, subsequent to the time when such amount is ascer tained, shall be added to such proceeds, and applied in like manner therewith, unless such Order otherwise directs.

28. [Conversion of securities substituted for sale.] When a specific amount of Government securities in Court (consisting of not less than 1000l. Consolidated 31. per centum annuities, or 1000l. Reduced 31. per centum annuities, or 1000l New 31. per centum annuities), shall be required to be realized, the Order, instead of directing a sale of such securities, shall direct the same to be converted into cash, unless the Court on pronouncing such Order shall otherwise direct, and thereupon such securities shall be transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on behalf of the Court of Chancery, as provided by the 52nd of these Rules, and no such conversion shall be made of an amount less than 1000l. of such securities, except for the purpose of placing on deposit the value of such securities.

23. [Paymaster-General may defer acting on directions in Orders without request.] When an Order. or a certificate of a Master in Lunacy, directs the carrying over of money or securities in Court, or the invest ment, or placing on deposit (subject to Rule 52), or payment out, of money in Court, the Paymaster-General may defer giving effect to such direction until a request in writing to give effect thereto has been left at the Chancery Pay Office; but it shall be the duty of the solicitor for the person having the carriage of such Order or certificate to leave it and such request at the Chancery Pay Office without unnecessary delay. 24. [Investment of Money.] When money in Court is, in pursuance of an Order as defined by the 2nd of these Rules, or of Rule 3 of the 41st of the Consolidated Orders of the Court, or of a request as provided for by the 40th of these Rules, to be invested in specified securities, the Paymaster-General shall direct the money to be paid to the broker conditionally upon his causing such securities to be transferred or deposited to the account of the Paymaster-General for the time being on behalf of the Court of Chancery, and the cheque for such money shall specify the title of the cause or matter to which the securities purchased are to be placed in the books at the Chancery l'ay Office, and the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books or with whom the transfer or deposit of such securities shall be made or regis-sale, transfer, or delivery of securities in Court shall express the exact tered, shall cause a certificate of such transfer or deposit to be issued, and such a certificate purporting to be issued by the bank, or body corporate, or company aforesaid, shall be sufficient evidence, for all purposes, that such transfer or deposit as therein mentioned has been actually made; and the securities so transferred or deposited shall be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office to the same credit as that to which the said money was standing at the time of such investment, unless the order authorizing such investment shall otherwise direct. 25. [Sale of securities.] When securities in Court are to be sold, the Paymaster-General shall issue a direction to the Bank to receive the proceeds of such sale, and to place them to the Chancery Pay Office Account, and shall specify in such direction the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which such proceeds are to be placed in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, and such title shall be the title of the cause or matter to the credit of which the securities were standing at the time of such sale, and the Bank, or body corporate, or company, in whose books, or with whom, the securities to be sold are standing or deposited, shall, upon the production of the receipt from the Bank for the proceeds of the sale, and of a certificate of a Registrar of the Court, or a Master or Registrar in Lunacy, countersigned by the Pay master General, authorizing such sale, cause the transfer or delivery of the

29. [Certificates for sale, &c., of securities.] Every certificate for the amount of money to be raised by sale, or the exact amount and description of securities to be sold, transferred, or delivered out; and no such certificate shall be issued by a Master in Lunacy, except on the production of an office copy of the report of a Master in Lunacy confirmed by fiat; nor by the Registrar in Lunacy, except on the production of an office copy of the Order in Lunacy; nor by a Registrar of the Court, except on the production of the original order, or an office copy thereof, if the absence of the original order shall be accounted for to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

charging Orders affecting such securities or money, of which respectively he has had notice; and when a cause or matter has been inserted in the list referred to in Rule 54, the fact shall be notified on the certificate relating thereto, and the Paymaster-General may also in his discretion, upon a like request, grant a transcript of the account in any cause or matter in the books at the Chancery Pay Office.

31. [Certificates of purchases, sales, &c.] When securities have been purchased, sold, transferred, or delivered out. or money or securities have been carried over, or otherwise dealt with in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, the Paymaster General may in his discretion issue a certificate thereof, upon a request in writing made by or on behalf of any person claiming to be interested in such money or se

curities.

32. [Information as to transactions.] The Paymaster General may in his discretion, on a request in writing, supply such information with respect to any transactions in the Chancery Pay Office, as may from time to time be required in any particular case.

33. [Placing of money on deposit.] Subject to any exceptions in these Rules, money in Court paid in before the commencement of the Court of Chancery (Funds) Act, 1872 (other than money paid in pursuant to the Copyhold Acts, or to the 69th section of the Lands Clauses Consoliation Act, 1845), and money arising by the sale, conversion, or payment off of securities in Court, or dividends accruing on securities in Court, or money brought over from the credit of some other cause or matter or otherwise placed, either before or after such commencement, to the credit of a cause or matter in the books at the Chancery Pay Office, shall be placed on deposit on a request in writing to the Paymaster-General, signed by any person claiming to be interested in such money, or by his solicitor; and, subject as aforesaid, all money paid into Court after the commencement of the Court of Chancery (Funds Act, 1872, shall be placed on deposit without a request for that purpose.

34. [Money not to be placed on deposit in certain cases.] If a direction in an Order dealing with money in Court otherwise than by directing it to be placed on deposit, whether such money has been paid in before or after the commencement of the Court of Chancery (Funds) Act 1872, is brought under the notice of the Paymaster-General, or if a request in writing by a solicitor acting on behalf of any person claiming to be entitled to or interested in money in Court, paid in after the commencement of the same Act, that such money may not be placed on deposit is left at the Chancery Pay Office, such money respectively shall not be placed on deposit, but the person making such request may at any time withdraw the same, and by a like request in writing require the money to be placed on deposit.

35. [Time of placing money on deposit.] Money in Court shall be placed on deposit as soon as conveniently may be after it is paid in, or, when a request to place it on deposit is required, according to the last two preceding Rules, as soon as conveniently may be after such request is left at the Chancery Pay Office, but the placing of money in Court on deposit shall not be deferred beyond the last day of the month in which the money shall be paid into Court, or in which the request shall be left at the Chancery Pay Office.

36. [Exclusion of money paid in under 9 & 10 Vict. c. 20, or to the Appeal Deposit Account.] Money in Court paid in in pursuance of the Act of the session of the ninth and tenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty, intituled "An Act to amend an Act of the second year of Her present Majesty, providing for the custody of certain moneys paid in pursuance of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament by sub-cribers to works or undertakings to be effected under the authority of Parliament,” or of any Act amending the same, or money in Court paid in to the Appeal Deposit Account, shall not be placed on deposit.

37. [Limitation of amount to be placed on deposit.] Except in the case of money paid into Court to the credit of a cause or matter, to the credit of which money on deposit shall be standing at the time of such payment, a sum of money less than 37. shall not be placed on deposit, nor shall a sum of money less than 31. remain on deposit.

38. [Limitation of amount to be invested.] A sum of money in Court less than 1007. shall not be invested in pursuance of an Order made after the commencement of these Rules, unless such Order shall direct the investment to be made notwithstanding that the sum shall not amount to 100l.

This Rule shall extend to the investment of dividends accruing on securities in Court, which, by an Order, have been, or may be, directed to be invested, and such dividends, when amounting to less than 1001. half-yearly, are subject to Rule 37) to be placed on deposit until by accumulation they amount to a sum not less than 1007., when such sum shall, upon a request in writing by or on behalf of any person claiming

to be entitled thereto or interested therein, be withdrawn from deposit and invested as directed by such Order.

39. [Withdrawal of money on depos t.] When an Order containing directions dealing with money on deposit, or with money which after the date of the Order has been placed and still remains on deposit, is brought to the Chancery Pay Office to have such directions acted on, such money, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Order, may, on a request in writing signed by a person claiming to be entitled thereto or interested therein, or by a solicitor acting on his behalf, be withdrawn from deposit and applied as directed by the Order, subject, as to investment of money, to the last preceding Rule. 40. [Money paid in under 36 Geo. 3, c. 52. may be invested on request.] Rule 11 of the 1st of the said Consolidated Orders is hereby abrogated: Provided that the dividends accruing on securities purchased as mentioned in such Rule, previously to the commencement of these Rules, may (subject to Rule 38) be invested in like manner as if the said Rule 11 had not been abrogated.

And for the said Rule 11 so abrogated the following Rule shall be substituted :—

Any money, amounting to or exceeding 100l., paid into the Bank pursuant to the Statute 36th Geo, 3rd, c. 52, s. 32, shall, upon a written request of the person so paying it in, or his solicitor, or upon a written request made by or on behalf of any person claiming to be entitled thereto or interested therein, be invested by the Paymaster-General, without any Order for that purpose, in Consolidated 31. per Centum Annuities, and the dividends on such annuities and all accumulations thereon, shall (subject to Rule 38) be invested in like manner, without any order for that purpose, and if such money shall have been placed on deposit before such request shall be left at the Chancery Pay Office, the money and any interest thereon shall, upon a like request, be withdrawn from deposit and invested as before mentioned.

41. [Investing or placing on deposit discontinued on request.] In all cases, upon a request in writing by a solicitor acting on behalf of any person claiming to be entitled to or interested in money or securities in Court that no more dividends or interest accruing on any particular securities. or on any specified sum of money on deposit, may be placed on deposit, or invested, being at any time left at the Chancery Pay Office, the Paymaster-General shall be at liberty to cease to place on deposit, or invest, any more dividends or interest accruing on such securities or on such specified sum until he has had notice that the Court has made some order in that behalf.

42. [Limit of amount on which interest is to be computed.] Interest upon money placed on deposit shall not be computed on a fraction of one pound.

43. [Time at which interest is to begin and cease.] Interest shall accrue by calendar months, and shall not be computed for a broken period of a calendar month, and shall begin on and be computed for, the first day of the calendar month next after the money shall be placed on deposit, and when interest shall accrue under this Rule such interest shall be computed up to and inclusive of, and shall cease on, the last day of the calendar month which shall next precede the day on which the money in respect of which it shall accrue shall be withdrawn from deposit.

44. [Time at which interest is to be credited.] Interest due on the 31st of March and the 30th of September in every year, on money then on deposit, shall be credited by the Paymaster-General to the cause or matter to the credit of which such money is standing, on or before the 20th day of the following month; and when money on deposit, or any part thereof, shall be withdrawn from deposit except as to money withdrawn during the months of April and October) the interest accrued, but not credited, on the money withdrawn shall be credited, at the time of withdrawal, to the cause or matter to the credit of which the money shall be standing at the time it shall be withdrawn.

45. [Rule as to sums to be treated as withdrawn from deposit for the purpose of calculating interest.] When money on deposit standing to the credit of a cause or matter consists of sums which have been placed on deposit at different times, and an Order is made for dealing with the money standing to the credit of such cause or matter, and part of such money has to be withdrawn from deposit for the purpose of executing such Order the part or parts of such money last placed and remaining on deposit at the time of such withdrawal, shall, for the purpose of computing interest, be treated as so withdrawn, unless the Order shall otherwise direct.

46. [Placing of interest on deposit.] Until a direction in an Order dealing with interest on money on deposit, credited to a cause or matter as due on either of the days mentioned in Rule 44 has been brought under the Paymaster-General's notice, such interest shall (subject to

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