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The fees paid into the Treasury amounted to $9,019.74, including the Official Receiver's commission as Trustee where no Trustee has been appointed by the Creditors.
A tabulated statement of the work done is attached to this Report.
7.-PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION.
There were 194 Grants made by the Court, being :-
Probates,.....
Letters of Administration,
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Table VII.
87
107
194
The aggregate value of the Estates was $5,708,450.00.
Probate duties amounted to $164,221.20 and $258.69 additional duty was paid during the year. Court fees amounted to $8,789.25 and Official Administra- tor's Commission paid into the Treasury to $4,180.70.
There were 84 Estates vested in, or administered by, the Official Administrator Tables VIII during the year, representing an aggregate value of $105,118.51.
39 Estates were wound up during the year, as against 11 in 1905, representing an aggregate value of $41,683.38.
8. OFFICIAL TRUSTS.
The total number of Trust Estates in the hands of the Official Trustee at the end of 1906 was 24, and the aggregate amount of Trust funds $111,707.58 as against 19 Estates aggregating to $96,378.08 in 1905, and certain house property, viz., No. 6, Rednaxela Terrace.
9. REGISTRATION OF COMPANIES.
The total number of Companies registered from the commencement of the "Companies Ordinance, 1865," was 501 with an aggregate capital of $239,470,873.
Of the 501 Companies on the Register 85 are defunct, 2 were not floated, 114 were wound up and 46 were in the course of being wound up, leaving 254 on the Register at the end of 1996 representing an aggregate capital of $152,246,035. There were 39 Companies registered in 1906, the revenue from which was :--
Registration Fees,
...$5,716,50
Filing and other Fees received during the year, 2,583.00
and VIII (@).
$8,299.50
10. FEES AND COMMISSIONS.
The total sums collected during the year by way of Fees and Commissions Tables IX paid into the Treasury amounted to $52,904.11, as against $61,984.69 in the and IX (4). previous year.
11.-COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS, &c.
During the year the following gentlemen were appointed Commissioners for Oaths, &c., so long as they should hold their several offices, viz.:-
Mr. JOSEPH HORSFORD KEMP, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser to be a Commissioner for taking acknowledgments by married women of the Deeds to be executed by them.
Mr. CHARLES ALEXANDER DICK MELBOURNE, First Clerk, Magistracy, to
be a Commissioner to administer Oaths, &c.
Mr. ROBERT HENRY ARTHUR CRAIG, Assistant Superintendent, Victoria
Gaol, to be a Commissioner to administer Oaths, &c.
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