Offices abolished. Registrars. Registrars to attend each Court. the Court; to the regulation of the fees to be taken for office copies, and the mode of drawing up decrees and orders; and to the examination of witnesses before the examiner. In pursuance of these enactments several Orders were issued on the 21st December, 1833, which will be found set forth at length in the Appendix, post, and are also referred to in the Analysis, ante. The following is an abstract of its enact ments: Sect. 1. The office of Master of the report office, and the office of entering clerks, or entering registrars of the Court, and of clerk of the exceptions, and agent to the senior deputy registrar to be abolished. Sect. 2. Six registrars to be appointed. Sect. 3. The registrars to attend each judge judge of the of the Court, as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls or the Vice Chancellor, or one of them, shall direct. Clerks to registrars. Mode of fu ture appoint Sect. 4. Six clerks to the registrars to be appointed. Sect. 5. On all future vacancies of the office ment of sixth of sixth clerk to the registrars, the Lord Chan clerk. cellor to appoint some proper person who has been admitted a solicitor of one of the Courts of Westminster, or has served a clerkship of five years to a solicitor of one of the said Courts. clerks to Sect. 6. R. W. Fry and R. H. Leach to act Assistant as assistant clerks to the registrars, and each registrars. of them to succeed to the office of junior clerk to the said registrars; but no clerk to be appointed in their place. cellor may ber of clerks Sect. 7. The Lord Chancellor may appoint Lord Chanone or more additional clerk or clerks to the increase numsaid registrars, so that the number do not exceed in registrars' eight. office to called Master of reports and pointed. Sect. 8. An officer to be appointed, "The Master of Reports and Entries," to which entries apoffice the several registrars and the six senior clerks to the said registrars to be entitled in the event of a vacancy to succeed. office of reports. Sect. 9. A clerk, to be called "The Clerk of Clerks in the Reports," two clerks to be called "Clerks of Master of the Entries," and ten clerks of account to be in the office of the Master of reports and entries, and subject to his direction. Sect. 10. Any person shall be at liberty to No recital to be introduced into decrees take an office copy of so much only of any or orders. Clerk and decree, order, report, or exceptions as he may require, and, unless the Court shall otherwise specially direct, no recitals shall be introduced into any decree or order, but the pleadings, petition, notice, report, affidavits, exhibits, or other matters or documents on which such decrees or orders shall be founded, shall merely be referred to; and the Lord Chancellor, with the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, may make such rules and regulations as to the form of such decrees and orders as he may deem necessary for the proper drawing up of such decrees and orders, and carrying into effect the provisions of the Act in regard thereto. Sect. 11. Clerk and assistant clerk of affiof affidavits. davits to be appointed. assistant clerk Patentee of subpœna office. Master to hear all ap &c. Sect. 12. After the death, &c of the present patentee of the subpoena office, all the duties of such office to be performed by the clerk of the affidavits. Sect. 13. The Master in ordinary of the High plications for Court of Chancery shall hear and determine all time to plead, applications for time to plead, answer or demur, and for leave to amend bills, and for enlarging publication, and all such other matters relat ing to the conduct of suits in the said Court as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, shall by any general order or orders direct, in such manner and under such rules and regulations as by any general order or orders, to be also issued by the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance aforesaid, shall be directed; and either party may appeal by motion from the order made on such application to the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor, and the order made on such appeal shall be final. Sect. 14. No such application to be heard by any of the judges of the said Court of Chan cery, except on appeal. No such apbe made to plication to the Court except on appeal. Sect. 15. The said Masters, on all applica- Costs of ap plication to tions made to them by virtue of this act, may the Masters. direct that the costs of all or any of the parties shall be costs in the cause or matter, or may award such liquidated sum by way of costs to any of the parties as they shall think reasonable, and the costs so awarded shall be recoverable in like manner as costs directed to be paid by an order of the Court of Chancery (a). (a) A party aggrieved by an order made by the Master under the above section in a cause set down at the Rolls, cannot appeal to the Lord Chancellor against the order.-Hill v. Gomme, 3 Myl. & Cr. 503. Masters to be Sect. 16. The appointment of all Masters in appointed by the Crown. ordinary of the Court, other than the accountant-general, to be vested in the Crown. Master to report yearly Chancellor the state of the causes, &c. in the offices. Sect. 17. Each of the Masters within the first to the Lord four days of Michaelmas term in every year to present to the Lord Chancellor a report in writing, stating the days on which he shall have attended at his office during the preceding twelve months, specifying the number of hours occupied in each of such day's attendance; and shall annex to such report a list or schedule of the several causes and matters then pending in his office, showing the then state and stage of the same respectively; and the Lord Chancellor may order such list or schedule to be published in such manner as he shall think fit. As to the person to be appointed chief clerk. Suitors not compellable Sect. 18. No person to be appointed chief clerk to Master unless he shall have been any admitted as an attorney or solicitor for five years, or have been junior clerk in the office of one of the Masters for ten years. Sect. 19. No person shall be compelled or to take copies. required to take or pay for any copy of any paper or document being in the office of any Master in ordinary, and every person shall be at liberty to take a copy of such part only as he may require of any paper or document being |