Officers of the court may be dismissed for fraud or wilful neglect in relation to stamps. Publication of accounts. impressed on such document or affixed thereto in compliance with any such order, such document, and every proceeding in reference thereto, shall be as valid and effectual as if such stamp had been impressed thereon or affixed thereto in the first instance. C. If any officer of the Court of Probate, or any other person employed under this act, shall do or commit or connive at any fraudulent act or praetice in relation to any stamp to be used under the provisions of this act, or to any fee or sum of money to be collected or which ought to be collected by means of any such stamp, or if any such officer or person shall be guilty of any wilful act, neglect or omission whereby any fee or money which ought to be collected by means of a stamp under this act shall be lost, or the payment thereof evaded, every such officer or person so offending shall be dismissed from his office or employment if the judge of the Court of Probate shall think fit so to order. CI. Salary of judge and compensations to be charged on consolidated fund. CII. Salaries and expenses not charged on the consolidated fund to be paid out of moneys provided by parliament. CIII. Compensation to registrars, &c. of existing courts. CIV. Persons receiving compensation to continue to discharge the remaining duties of their offices. CV. Compensation to proctors. CVI. Compensation to proctors in partnership. CVII. For the protection of the interests of Viscount Canterbury-2 § 3 Will. 4, c. 109. CVIII. The registry of Prerogative Court of Canterbury to vest in registrars of the court. CIX. Compensation to Sir John Dodson in case he be not appointed judge of the Court of Probate. CX. Establishments in district registries. CXI. Fees payable to district registrars-district registrars may be paid by salaries instead of fees. CXII. Compensation to clerical surrogates. CXIII. Persons receiving compensation to be liable to be called upon to fill offices, &c. CXIV. The commissioners of her Majesty's treasury shall cause to be prepared in each year ending December thirty-one a return of all fees and moneys levied in such year under the authority of this act; also a return of the annual salaries of the judge of the said Court of Probate, and of the registrars, deputy registrars, clerks and all others holding offices either in London or in the country districts, with an account of all the incidental expenses relating to the offices aforesaid, whether such salaries and expenses be defrayed out of fees or out of any other moneys; also a return of all superannuations, pensions, annuities, retiring allowances and compensations made payable under this act, in each year, stating the gross amount and the amount in detail of such charges: provided always, that all such re turns aforesaid shall be presented to both houses of parliament on or before the thirty-first day of March in each year, if parliament is then sitting, and if parliament is not sitting, then such returns shall be presented within one month of the first meeting of parliament after the thirty-first day of March in each year provided also, that every district registrar shall keep an account of all fees so taken by him as aforesaid, and shall within one month after the end of each year render to the commissioners of her Majesty's treasury a faithful account in writing of all such fees received by him during such year. CXV. Judge if a privy councillor to be a member of judicial committee. CXVI. College of Doctors of Law may let, sell, &c. their real and personal estate, and lay out moneys in purchase of other estates, &c. CXVII. College may surrender their charter, and upon such surrender shall be dissolved. CXVIII. Treasury to provide the buildings for registries, &c. CXIX. All rules and orders to be made under this act concerning procedure and practice, and the table of fees to be fixed under this act, and all alterations thereof to be from time to time made, shall be laid before both houses of parliament within one month after the making thereof if parliament be then sitting, or if parliament be not then sitting, within one month after the commencement of the then next session of parliament. Rules and orders to be laid before parliament. SCHEDULE (A). Districts and Places of District Registries throughout England and Wales. East Riding ditto (b), including the city of York and Ainsty Carlisle. Wakefield. York. County of Lancaster, except the hundred of Salford Lancaster. and West Derby and the city of Manchester. City of Manchester and hundred of Salford Hundred of West Derby in Lancashire County of Chester (c).. Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea Counties of Flint, Denbigh, and Merioneth.. County of Norfolk (g).. Manchester. Lincoln. Shrewsbury. Northern division of Northampton and counties of Peterborough. Norwich. Eastern division of the county of Suffolk and north Ipswich. division of the county of Essex. Western division of the county of Suffolk Bury St. Edmunds. County of Bedford and southern division of North- Northampton. amptonshire (h). County of Warwick (i) County of Stafford (k).. Counties of Radnor, Brecknock, and Hereford Birmingham. Hereford. Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen (1) and Pem- Carmarthen. broke (m), with the deaneries of East and West Gower, in the county of Glamorgan. (a) Including the towns and counties of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Berwick upon-Tweed. (b) Including the town and county of Kingston-on-Hull. (c) Including the city of Chester. (d) Including the town of Nottingham. (e) Including the city of Lincoln. (f) Including the University of Cambridge. (g) Including the city of Norwich. (h) Including the town of Northampton. (i) Including the city of Coventry. (k) Including the city of Lichfield. (m) Including the town of Haverfordwest. SCHEDULE (A)-continued. DISTRICTS. Places of District Counties of Glamorgan (with the exception of the Llandaff. Worcester. Bristol. Oxford. Wells. Taunton. Bodmin. Salisbury. ¡ Lewes. The divisions of counties referred to in the schedule are the divisions of the same counties described for election purposes in the act of the second and third years of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-four, and the cities and towns herein referred to are to be taken to include the counties of such cities and towns as are counties of themselves. (n) Including the city of Worcester. (9) Including the city of Exeter. (r) Including the town of Poole. (s) Including the town of Southampton and Isle of Wight. (1) Including such of the Cinque Ports and their dependencies as are locally situate in the county of Sussex. (u) Including the city of Canterbury, and such of the Cinque Ports and their dependencies as are locally situate in the county of Kent. 21 & 22 VICT. CAP. 95. An Act to amend the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Where personalty is under 2007., county court to X. Where it appears by affidavit to the satisfaction of a registrar of the principal registry that the testator or intestate in respect of whose estate a have jurisdiction. grant or revocation of a grant of probate or letters of administration is applied for had at the time of his death his fixed place of abode in one of the districts specified in Schedule (A) to the said "Court of Probate Act," and that the personal estate in respect of which such probate or letters of administration are to be or have been granted, exclusive of what the deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a trustee, and not beneficially, but without deducting anything on account of the debts due and owing from the deceased, was at the time of his death under the value of 2001., and that the deceased at the time of his death was not seised or entitled beneficially of or to any real estate of the value of 3007. or upwards, the judge of the county court having jurisdiction in the place in which the deceased had at the time of his or her death a fixed place of abode shall have the contentious jurisdiction and authority of the Court of Probate in respect of questions as to the grant and revocation of probate of the will or letters of administration of the effects of such deceased person, in case there be any contention in relation thereto. Sect. 54 of 20 Sect. 59 of 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, to apply to applica tion for revocations of grants. Power to make rules and orders XI. Section 54 of the said Court of Probate Act shall be and the same is hereby repealed. XII. The said Court of Probate Act, section 59, shall, so far as the county courts or a judge thereof are concerned, apply to an application for the revocation of a grant of probate or administration as well as to an application for any such grant. XIII. The power and authority to make rules and orders for regulating the proceedings of the county courts shall extend and be applicable to all and frame scales proceedings in the county courts under this act, and also to framing a scale of costs and charges to be paid to counsel, proctors, solicitors and attorneys, in respect of proceedings in county courts, under the said Court of Probate Act or this Act. of fees for the county courts. |