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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Regulations affecting Registrars of Supreme Court
in Lunacy matters.

1. The percentage authorized to be charged on
   moneys collected by or coming under the control
   of the Registrar for or on behalf of any lunatic
   patient or his estate, shall be according to the rates
   following:-

Class I.-On proceeds of sales made by the
Registrar, moneys in bank or on deposit in
bank or otherwise, or in personal possession
of lunatic, mortgage moneys (except interest),
debts due to lunatic (except such as are specially
provided for)-

On the first two hundred pounds received,
no percentage shall be charged.

After the first two hundred pounds collected,
and up to two thousand pounds, at the rate of
five per cent.

After the first two thousand pounds, and
up to five thousand pounds, four per cent.

After the first five thousand pounds, three
per cent.

Class II.-On clear annual income from
rents, interest on mortgages, income from in-
vestments in Government Securities, shares in
Joint Stock Companies, or similar investments-

The rate of six per centum for each clear
annual income amounting to fifty pounds and
not amounting to one thousand pounds.

The rate of five per centum for each clear
annual income amounting to one thousand
pounds and not amounting to three thousand
pounds.

The rate of four per centum for each clear
annual income amounting to three thousand
pounds or upwards.

2. The Registrar shall, on the first day of every
   month, unless such day be a Sunday, and then on the
   following Monday, certify under his hand, in the form
   marked A, in the Schedule hereto, to the Colonial
   Treasurer, the several amounts payable by himself as
   Registrar, and the several amounts payable by each
   committee appointed in his Judicial District, to the
   Consolidated Fund, as percentages under the one
   hundred and fifth section of the said Act, in respect
   of moneys belonging to lunatics collected by, paid
   to, or coming under the control of such Registrar
   and committee during the month preceding, and shall
   forthwith transmit such certificate to the Colonial
   Treasurer.

3. Whenever under the one hundred and ninth
   section of the said Act, any order shall be made by
   the Supreme Court, or any Judge thereof, exempting
   any estate from payment of percentages, the Regis-
   trar shall forthwith transmit a copy of such order to
   the Colonial Treasurer.

4. Every Registrar shall each day, immediately
   before the close of the Bank, pay into the Branch
   of the Bank of New Zealand at the town at which
   his office is, or into such other Bank as the Governor
   shall from time to time appoint, all the money in his
   possession which he shall have received by virtue of
   his office for or on behalf of any lunatic patient, or
   his estate, to an account to be called "The Lunatics'
   Estates Trust Account of the Registrar of the
   Supreme Court ," (specifying the name
   of the Judicial District); and if he receive any such
   money after the hours at which the Bank closes, he
   shall pay it into the Bank with his receipt on the
   following day.

5. Moneys shall be withdrawn from every such
   account only by cheque signed by such Registrar or
   his successor in office, countersigned by the Auditor
   appointed to audit his accounts.

6. Every Registrar shall keep a separate debtor
   and creditor account of each estate, showing all
   moneys received by him under the said Act for or on
   behalf of any lunatic patient or his estate, and how
   the same may have been disbursed or dealt with, in
   a book to be entitled, "Lunatics' Estates Account for
   the Judicial District of ," (specifying it); and
   he shall, within three days after the close of each
   month, send to the Auditor appointed to audit his
   accounts separate accounts of the receipt and
   expenditure of all such moneys as shall have been
   received by him for or on behalf of each lunatic
   patient or his estate during such month, together
   with duplicate receipts of all moneys paid by him,
   and certificates from the Bank of the balance standing
   to the credit of the said Trust Account.

7. Every Auditor appointed under the provisions
   of the said Act to audit Registrars' accounts shall
   require that all accounts which it shall be his duty
   to audit shall be transmitted to him with regularity
   and despatch; and he shall audit the same; and if he
   shall find any error in any of the said accounts, he
   shall call upon the Registrar forthwith to explain
   the same; and if such Registrar shall fail or delay to
   make such explanation to his satisfaction, such
   Auditor shall forthwith notify the same to the
   Colonial Secretary.

8. Every Registrar of the Supreme Court shall,
   on the third Wednesday in the months of March,
   June, September, and December, in every year,
   after the deduction of such moneys as may be retained
   or expended by such Registrar under the powers by
   law vested in him, pay or transfer all surplus moneys
   in his hands on account of any lunatic patient, or his
   estate, or standing to the credit of any such account
   as aforesaid, into the Public Account; and the same
   shall be placed by the Colonial Treasurer to the
   credit of the Public Trust Fund, and be there kept as
   a separate account.

SCHEDULE.
A.

To the Colonial Treasurer.

In the Judicial District of (specifying it).
The Estate of (naming him in full), a lunatic.

I HEREBY certify that the sum of is payable
to the Consolidated Fund, as percentages on the
estate of the above-named lunatic, in respect of
money collected by or coming under the control of
as Registrar (or Committee, as the case
may be), during the month ending the day
of
Dated day of 187 .
Registrar of Supreme Court.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this
fourth day of May, 1870.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
it is enacted that the Governor in Council
may, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time
delegate to the Superintendent of any Province
within the Colony all or any of the powers vested in
the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said
Act, subject to such regulations as he may think fit:
And whereas by the fourth section of "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted
that the Governor may, by any Order in Council,