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* For Bills taxed in Companies (Winding up), Bankruptcy, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty, District Registries, and Lunacy Dept., see Tables VI, VII. XI, XIII and XVIII.

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NOTE.

The Scrivenery Department of the Principal Probate Registry is not included in the figures above.

TABLE XVII.-HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.-NUMBER OF DAYS OF

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The Chancery Judges sat altogether 988 days in Court, and also sat in chambers 84 days, in Court of Appeal 11 days, and on Royal and other Commissions 31 days. Each sitting of Court composed of two or more Judges is counted as one sitting only, and a sitting for part of a day is counted as one day's sitting.

(For "Sittings on Circuit " see next page.)

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(a) Birmingham, although officially on the Midland Circuit, is common to both the Midland and Oxford Circuits for civil business.

Commission Days.-Column 2 excludes Commission Days on which actions or prisoners were tried at the same time or some other Assize town. Under ordinary circumstances the Commission Day is occupied by travelling and preparatory business, the Commission being opened on the day following, but very frequently Commission Days are utilized for the completion of the business at the preceding or some other Assize town.

Number of Days Judges Sat.-If two or more Courts are sitting on the same day, each sitting is entered as a separate day. Days on which both civil and criminal causes are tried are counted as two separate days in columns 3 and 4, but as only one day in column 5.

TABLE XVIII.-JUDGE AND MASTER IN LUNACY.

The protection of the persons and estates of Lunatics is a prerogative of the Crown exercised through high officers of State, appointed under the Sign Manual. These officers are now the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls and the Lords Justices of Appeal. The Jurisdiction can only be exercised after Inquisition found. This procedure can still be used, but it has been superseded by the simpler procedure of appointing a Receiver of the property of Lunatics without the expense of an Inquisition. This latter procedure has been extended to the case of persons unable to manage their affairs through disease or age. The jurisdiction under both procedures is exercised by the high officers already mentioned, but the Master in Lunacy has statutory power to exercise the administrative powers of the Judge in Lunacy. Some Orders can only be made by the Judge, but the great bulk of them are made by the Master, subject to an appeal to the Judge.

The expenses of Lunacy Administration are provided by a percentage on the incomes of Lunatics and fees on Orders and Certificates.

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(a) Including 1,000 First Summonses. In addition, the Master hears numerous applications without summonses.

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TABLE XIX. RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSION.

The Railway and Canal Commission hears and determines complaints that reasonable facilities for traffic are withheld, or that undue preferences are shown, by railway and canal companies, or other questions in relation to the work of such companies, and decides disputes regarding postal and telegraph services, and the supply of water to the Metropolis.

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The Commission consists of two appointed and two ex-officio Commissioners. appointed Commissioner must have experience in railway business. The ex-officio Commissioners are judges of the superior courts of England and Scotland respectively.

A Court is formed of the two appointed Commissioners and the ex-officio Commissioner nominated for the part of the Kingdom in which the sitting is held. The ex-officio Commissioner presides. For certain matters the Court may be held by the two appointed Commissioners only.

The Commission is a Court of Record. Its decisions on matters of fact are final: in matters of law an appeal lies to the superior Courts. The Orders of the Commissioners are enforceable either in accordance with special statutory provisions or as orders of the High Court. Damages may be awarded, but power to award costs is restricted.

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Other applications in relation to 11 railways.

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Defence of the Realm (Acquisition of 42 161 13 174 89 1 14 104

Land) Acts, 1916 and 1920 (as amended by the Rly. & Canal Commissions Consents Act, 1922).

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The Court sat on 26 days in 1923 and 15 in 1922.

* The majority of these applications have since been abandoned.

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