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Consideration will also have to be given to Ordinance 4 of 1865 § 2; 13 of 1873,
§ 2, § 11, § 16, subs. 2, § 17, subs. 3, § 19, § 20, § 76, subs. 2, 7, § 82, subs. 6, 7, 14; 11 of 1873. § 30, § 31; 6 of 1855, § 15; 4 of 1863, § 7; 6 of 1855, § 43 ; 8 of 1860, § 18; 8 of 1858, § 22; 2 of 1855, § 10.
Ordinance 1 of 1865, § 159 as to the appointments of Registrar of Companies and Official Liquidator; Ordinance 9 of 1870, § 4 as to the appointment of Appraiser; Ordinance 7 of 1873 as to the appointment of Official Trustee will have to be revised.
With regard to the accounts of the Supreme Court, and the audit thereof, I find that they have been kept and audited under Provisional Instructions issued by Sir JOHN SMALE dated 31st October, 1870, as the result of several conferences between the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Registrar and which are as follows:-
Provisional instructions issued for the guidance of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrars, the Accountant, and other officers of the Supreme Court, as regards receipt and payment of moneys and the keeping of the accounts, to be acted on, on and after the
1st November 1879.
The Registrar.
1. The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be responsible for all moneys into or paid out of the Court.
received
2. He will open an account at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in the name of the Supreme Court of Hongkong" and will see that all moneys received at the Supreme Court are paid daily in to this account, taking care that in no case shall a sum exceeding $500 be left after 11 o'clock A.M. of the day next following the time of receipt
in the hands of the Accountant.
3. Monies paid into this account shall only be withdrawn upon cheques bearing the signatures both of the Registrar and of the Accountant, and in the case of cheques exceeding $10,000 in amount, they will be countersigned by the Auditor upon produc- tion to him of the order of the Court authorizing the payment.
moneys
in
4. The Registrar will have charge of the general management of all Court and of estates being subject to the administration of the Court as well as of Bankrupt estates in his capacity of Official Assignee and of Intestates estates as Official
Administrator.
5. He will in such capacity be charged with the receipt and investment of any funds belonging to such Estates under the directions of the Court. All deeds, Bonds and other securities for such investment shall be kept in safe custody in the Registry, subject to such provisions for their security as the Chief Justice shall direct.