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Bankruptcy Court Act 1853

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1853 c. 81
Year1853
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Decimo Sexto & Decimo Septimo. An Act to reduce the Salary and Emoluments of the Registrar of Meetings of the Court of Bankruptcy.

(16 & 17 Vict.) C A P. LXXXI.

[15th August 1853]

'WHEREAS by an Actpassed in the Session holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth it was among other Things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord Chancellor for the Time being to appoint some competent and proper Person to the Office of Registrar of the Meetings of the Commissioners of Bankrupt, who should be resident in such Part of the Building to be erected under the said Act as the Commissioners should direct, and who should also have an Office in some convenient and public Part of the said Building, and that there should be paid and allowed to the Registrar to be appointed as aforesaid, during his Continuance in the said Office, the clear yearly Salary or Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and that there should be taken from and charged to the Estates of the Bankrupts, the Business under whose Commission should be transacted in the said Building, to the said Registrar for his own Use, for the Registry of every Meeting in Bankruptcy holden in the said Building, the Sum of One Shilling, and for every Search out of Office Hours that might be made in the said Registry, unless by or by the Order of the Commissioners under any Commission of Bankruptcy, the like Sum of One Shilling, to be paid by the Party making such Search: And whereas in the Month ofMarch last the said Office of Registrar of Meetings having become vacant by the Death of Jeremiah Hodgson , the then Holder thereof, John Frederic Buccleugh was appointed to the said Office, but on the express Condition that he should hold the same subject to any Reduction which might thereafter be made in the Emoluments to be received by him as such Registrar: And whereas the Fees receivable...

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