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admittance of the tenants of such land, being part of the said manor holden

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UPON THE APPLICATION of [name, description, and address of applicant] to [here state the substance of the application authorized by the order or certificate], and UPON HEARING the matter of the said application,

IT IS ORDERED, that [name, descriptions, and addresses] [where they are personal representatives, insert "the executors (or administrators) of (name, description, and address) deceased"] do transfer £ bank 31. per centum

annuities, or reduced annuities [or 31. 5s. per centum annuities, or bank stock, promissory note, bill of exchange, bond, debenture, or other security, as the case may be] standing in the name [or names] [insert the names, descriptions, and addresses of the persons in whose names the stock is standing] into the names of [names of official trustees].

[Where securities are to be deposited, vary the preceding order, commencing with the words "do transfer," and substitute the following: "do deposit the following exchequer bills, dated, that is to say, No. 1,836 for 5001., No. 772 for 501., &c., or any other exchequer bills for which the same may be exchanged (as the case may be) with (names of official trustees).]

Given under the seal of the court, this

day of

18 .

By the court.

A. B., clerk of the court.

Form of Order for Payment of Money by any Trustee of any Charity or any Person holding Money belonging to any Charity.

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Upon the application of [name, description, and address of applicant] to [here state the substance of the application authorized by the order or certificate], and UPON HEARING the matter of the said application,

IT IS ORDERED, that [name, description, and address] do, on or before the day of 18 , pay the sum of £ [with interest thereon

(if any)] to [state party or account].

Given under the seal of the court, this
By the court.

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Notice of Appeal.

In the matter of [name of charity].

I [name, description, and address of the appellant] do hereby give notice, that I am aggrieved by [or dissatisfied with] a certain order made by the county court of and dated the

holden at

day of

and that I intend to appeal against the same, and the grounds of appeal are that [here state grounds].

(Signed) [Appellant's name].

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Take notice, that the sureties whom I propose as my sureties on the appeal in the above matter are [here state the full names and additions of the sureties, whether housekeepers or freeholders, and their residences for the last six months, therein mentioning the county or city, places, streets and numbers, if any].

Form of Bond.

Know all men by these presents, that we [names, descriptions, and addresses] and [names, descriptions, and addresses] are jointly and severally bound to [name, description, and addresses of obligee] in £ of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid the said [name of obligee] or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns. For which payment to be made, we bind ourselves and each [and every] of us, in the whole, our, and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, by these presents.

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was made in holden at

the matter of [name] charity by the county court of and [name, description, and address of appellant] states himself to be aggrieved by [or dissatisfied with] the said order, and has given notice of appeal pursuant to the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, and the practice of the court: and whereas the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales have required that the said [appellant] should, together with two sufficient sureties, become bound to person whom the commissioners direct to be obligee] in the sum of £ to pay such costs of the proceedings on the appeal as shall be ordered to be paid by the said appellant [if required by the commissioners, and also to indemnify the charity against the costs and expenses of and attending such appeal].

And whereas the above-named [names, descriptions, and addresses of sureties], at the request of the said [name of appellant] have agreed to enter

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into the above-written obligation for the purpose aforesaid, and the security intended to be given has been approved of by [name of clerk].

Now the condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden [names], and any or either of them, shall pay unto the said [name of the obligee], his executors, administrators, or assigns, the costs of the said appeal, as the said court of appeal shall order, then this obligation shall be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

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CHARITABLE TRUSTS AMENDMENT, 1855.

18 & 19 VICT. CAP. 124.

An Act to amend the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853.

[14th August, 1855.]

CHARITABLE
TRUSTS
AMENDMENT

ACT, 1855.

137, and this act

I. "The Charitable Trusts Act, 1853," hereinafter called "the principal 16 & 17 Vict. c. act," and this act, shall be construed together as one act, and any provisions of the principal act inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

IV. Every act of the board may be sufficiently authenticated by the seal of the commissioners, and the signature of their secretary, or in his absence, of the chief clerk.

V. All orders, certificates, schemes, and other documents issued under the seal of the board shall be deemed and taken to be the originals, and copies thereof shall be entered in the books of the board, and all such entries may be sufficiently certified by the signature of the secretary, or in his absence of the chief clerk: every order, certificate, scheme, and other document purporting to be sealed with the seal of the board shall be received in evidence without further proof; and any writing purporting to be a copy extracted from the said books, and to be certified as aforesaid, shall be received in evidence in like manner.

to be construed together.

The acts of the board, how to be

authenticated.

Entries in, and extracts from, the board, how to be authenticated.

books of the

funds may be

XII. Any court or judge having jurisdiction to order the transfer of stock The official trusin the public funds, or stock or shares of any public company, to the official tees of charitable trustees of charitable funds, shall have power also to authorize such trustees empowered to call to call a transfer of and to transfer such stock or shares, and may also order for transfers to the payment to the same trustees of any principal moneys of any charity, them of stock, under the same circumstances in which the transfer of stock to them may now be ordered.

&c.

XXV. No transfer of any stock, shares, or securities shall be made to the For the regulation official trustees of charitable funds, nor shall any money other than the of transfers and dividends or interest of any such stock, shares, or securities as aforesaid be payments to or by the official paid to their account, except in pursuance of an order of the court of chancery, trustees. or of some judge thereof, or of a district court of bankruptcy, or county court, or of the board; and no transfer of any such stock, shares, or securities shall be made by the official trustees, except under the order of such court or judge, or under the order of the board signed by two commissioners, or authenticated in such manner as the lord chancellor from time to time by any order under his hand direct; and no transfer to or by the official trustees shall be permitted by the governor and company of the Bank of England or any other company contrary to this provision.

THE COMPANIES ACT (1862) AMENDMENT.

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30 & 31 VICT. CAP. 131.

An Act to amend" The Companies Act, 1862.”
[20th August, 1867.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in
this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 38
follows:

Preliminary.

1. This act may be cited for all purposes as "The Companies Act, 1867.”

2. The Companies Act, 1862, is hereinafter referred to as "the principal act; and the principal act and this act are hereinafter distinguished as and may be cited for all purposes as "The Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867;" and this act shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be construed as one with the principal act; and the expression "this act" in the principal act, and any expression referring to the principal act, which occurs in any act or other document, shall be construed to mean the principal act as amended by this act.

3. This act shall come into force on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, which date is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of this act.

Winding-up.

40. No contributory of a company under the principal act shall be capable of presenting a petition for winding up such company unless the members of the company are reduced in number to less than seven, or unless the shares in respect of which he is a contributory, or some of them, either were originally allotted to him or have been held by him, and registered in his name, for a period of at least six months during the eighteen months previously to the commencement of the winding-up, or have devolved upon him through the death of a former holder:

Provided that where a share has during the whole or any part of the six months been held by or registered in the name of the wife of a contributary either before or after her marriage, or by or in the name of any trustee or trustees for such wife or for the contributory, such share shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to have been held by and registered in the name of the contributory.

41. Where the high court of chancery in England makes an order for winding-up a company under the principal act, it may, if it thinks fit, direct all subsequent proceedings to be had in a county court held under an act of the session of the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter ninety-five, and the acts amending the same; and thereupon such county court shall, for the purpose of winding-up the company,

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