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If the Registrar is to continue to receive payment
he must keep a proper cash book in a form which will allow
of it being balanced, so that there may be a proper check of receipts against cash in hand and payments to Bank and
Treasury.
If the Registrar is to continue to receive payment he must keep ledger accounts in respect of each individual
Summary Jurisdiction Action and Distraint in respect of which
he receives payments.
The record of payments in respect of such matters is now kept on the back of relevant Court files, which is highly unsatisfactory as files are flimsy documents which
are liable to disfigurement or loss.
The Registrar expresses the opinion that with his present staff the keeping of these Ledger accounts is
impossible and with this opinion the Committee agrees.
It must be noted that in the Treasury no ledger
accounts are kept in relation to individual causes and
matters in Summary Jurisdiction Actions or Distraints. (If such ledger accounts are in future to be kept in the Registry the keeping of them in the Treasury would seem to be a duplica tion of work, though it appears to be called for by the Rules
under the Suitors' Fund Ordinance).
The result is that while it is possible to ascertain
from the Treasury Books the gross balance standing to the
credit of the Suitors' Fund it is impossible, without immense labour, to ascertain from any books of account either in the Registry or in the Treasury the balance standing to the credit of any individual cause or matter.
To ascertain such balance it would be necessary to
check all payments and receipts from the date of the institu-
tion of the cause or matter onwards.
The Assistand Auditor has expressed the opinion
that