GENERAL ORDERS. ORDER I. OFFICERS OF THE COURT. I. Accountant-General. ORDER I. Officers of the Court. RULE *1. Money ordered to be paid to marry. 1. Where the Accountant-General is directed by any decree or order to pay any sum or sums of money to an unmarried woman, and such decree or order does not extend women who afterwards to the transfer or delivery to such woman of any stocks or securities, and such woman marries before payment of such sum or sums of money, the Accountant-General, if such sum of money does not, or such sums of money in the whole do not, exceed £200 of principal money or £10 in annual payments, may draw for such money in favour of such woman and her husband, upon proof of the marriage, and upon an affidavit of such woman and her husband, that no settlement or agreement for a settlement whatsoever has been made or entered into, before, upon, or since their marriage, or in case any such settlement or agreement for a settlement has been made or entered into, then upon an affidavit of such woman and her husband, identifying such settlement or agreement for a settlement, and stating that no other settlement or agreement for a settlement has been made or entered into as aforesaid, and an affidavit of the solicitor of such woman and her husband, that such solicitor has carefully perused such settlement or agreement for a settlement, and that according to the best of his judgment such sum or sums of money is not or are not, nor is nor are any part or parts thereof, subject to the trusts of such settlement or agreement for a settlement, or in any manner comprised therein or affected thereby. (16th Feb. 1807.) ORDER I. Court. RULE *2. shares, or secu- ferred or de- marry. 2. Where the Accountant-General is directed by any Officers of the decree or order to transfer or deliver any stocks, funds, shares, or securities to an unmarried woman, and such Stocks, funds, decree or order does not extend to the payment to such woman of any money, and such woman marries before the transfer or delivery of such stocks, funds, shares, or securities, and the same do not in the whole exceed in value £200 sterling, there, upon proof of the marriage, and upon an affidavit of such woman and her husband that no settlement or agreement for a settlement whatsoever has been made or entered into before, upon, or since their marriage, or, in case any such settlement or agreement for a settlement has been made or entered into, then, upon an affidavit of such woman and her husband, identifying such settlement or agreement for a settlement, and stating that no other settlement or agreement for a settlement has been made or entered into as aforesaid, and an affidavit of the solicitor of such woman and her husband, that such solicitor has carefully perused such settlement or agreement for a settlement, and that according to the best of his judgment such stocks, funds, shares, or securities are not, nor is any part thereof, subject to the trusts of such settlement or agreement for a settlement, or in any manner comprised therein or affected thereby, the Registrar may issue a certificate authorizing the transfer or delivery of such stocks, funds, shares, or securities to such married woman and her husband; and the Accountant-General may thereupon transfer or deliver the same to them accordingly. RULE *3. Money to be paid, and stocks, funds, shares, or securities to be transferred or delivered to women who afterwards marry. RULE 4-6. Payments to surviving personal representatives. 3. A similar course to that mentioned in the 1st and 2nd Rules of this Order shall be adopted in the case of money directed to be paid, and of stocks, funds, shares, and securities directed to be transferred or delivered to a woman who afterwards marries, where the aggregate value of such money, stocks, funds, shares, and securities does not exceed £200. 4. Where any money is directed to be paid out of Court to persons to be named in the report of a Master or in the certificate of the Chief Clerk of a Judge, and a sum ORDER I. Court. is reported or certified to be due to any persons as legal personal representatives, the same or any portion thereof Officers of the for the time being remaining unpaid, may, upon proof to the Accountant-General of the death of any of them, be paid to the survivors or survivor of them. (28th July, 1852. See also 5th and 6th Ord. of 22nd Aug. 1859.) 5. Where any money is directed to be paid out of Court to the legal personal representatives of any person, or to any persons as legal personal representatives, the same or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid, may, upon proof to the Accountant-General of the death of any of such legal personal representatives, whether before, on, or after the day of the date of the decree or order, be paid to the survivors or survivor of them. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 5.) 6. Where any money is directed to be paid out of Court to any person named in the decree or order, or named or to be named in any Report or Certificate, or his legal personal representatives, the same or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid, may, on proof to the Accountant-General of the death of such person, whether before, on, or after the day of the date of the decree or order, be paid to such legal personal representatives, or the survivors or survivor of them. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 6.) RULE 7. Transfer or delivery to surviving per sonal repre 7. Where any stocks, funds, shares, or securities, are directed to be transferred or delivered out of Court to the legal personal representatives of any person, or to any persons as legal personal representatives of any person, sentatives. the Registrar may, upon proof of the death of any of such representatives, whether before, on, or after the day of the date of the decree or order, issue a Certificate authorizing the transfer or delivery of such stocks, funds, shares, or securities, to the survivors or survivor of them; and where any stocks, funds, shares, or securities, are directed to be transferred or delivered out of Court to any person, or his legal personal representatives, the Registrar may, upon proof of the death of such person, whether before, on, or Court. ORDER I. after the day of the date of the decree or order, issue a Officers of the Certificate authorizing the transfer or delivery of such stocks, funds, shares, or securities, to such legal personal representatives, or the survivors or survivor of them. And in any of the cases herein before mentioned, such stocks, funds, shares, or securities, may be transferred or delivered accordingly. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 7.) RULES 8, 9. Within what time probate or letters of administration 8. No principal sum of money, nor any stocks, funds, shares, or securities, shall, under the 6th or 7th Rule of this Order, be paid, transferred, or delivered out of Court, must have been to the legal personal representatives of any person, under granted in cases any Probate or Letters of Administration purporting to and 7th rules. be granted at any time subsequent to the expiration of six years from the day of the date of the decree or order directing such payment, transfer, or delivery. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 8.) under the 6th RULE 10. Payment to a partner or partners. RULE 11. dividends on 9. No interest or dividends shall, under the 6th Rule of this Order, be paid out of Court to the legal personal representatives of any person, under any Probate or Letters of Administration purporting to be granted at any time subsequent to the expiration of six years after the day of the date of the decree or order directing such payment, or after the last receipt of such interest or dividends under such decree or order, which shall last happen. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 9.) 10. Where any money is directed to be paid out of Court to any persons named or to be named in a Master's Report or Chief Clerk's Certificate, and such money shall by such Report or Certificate be certified to be due to them as partners, the same may be paid to any one or more of such partners. (22nd Aug. 1859; Ord. 10.) 11. Where any money paid into the Bank, with the Investment of privity of the Accountant-General, pursuant to the stat. 36 stock purchased Geo. III., c. 52, s. 32, and 37 Geo. III., c. 135, is laid out by by the Account- the Accountant-General, pursuant to the said statutes, in the ant-General, pursuant to the Legacy Duty Acts, 36 Geo. 3, c. 52, s. 32, purchase of Bank £3 per Cent. Annuities, the AccountantGeneral, (unless he shall have received, on behalf of some person claiming to be entitled, notice in writing of an ORDER I. Court. c. 135. intended application to the Court or to a Judge in Chambers, for disposing of the fund, or for otherwise applying the Officers of the dividends thereof), may from time to time, without any formal request for that purpose, lay out and invest the and 37 Geo. 3, dividends on such stock, when so purchased, and all accumulations thereon, as the same shall accrue due, in the purchase of like stock in trust in the same matter and account to which the original sum of stock stands. (4th May, 1852). RULE 12. interest and the Accountant-General, same. 12. Where any decree or order directing the investment from time to time of any interest or dividends accruing Investment of upon any stocks, funds, shares, or securities standing in the dividends by name of the Accountant-General in trust in or to the credit of any cause, matter, or account, or upon any stocks, funds, under an Order directing the shares, or securities which may be directed to be transferred into the name of the Accountant-General or to be carried over from one account to another, or upon any stocks, funds, shares, or securities which may be directed to be purchased with any cash in Court or with any cash to be paid into Court with his privity, is brought to the Accountant-General for the purpose of having such direction for investment carried into effect, the AccountantGeneral may from time to time, until he shall receive notice of a decree or order to the contrary, without any further request, invest the interest or dividends so directed to be invested, together with all accumulations of interest or dividends thereon, as soon as conveniently may be after they shall accrue due and have been received, in the purchase of the particular description of stocks, funds, shares, or securities named in the decree or order directing such investment, and place such stocks, funds, shares, or securities when purchased, to the credit of the cause, matter, or account respectively, as may be directed by such decree or order. (3rd June, 1853.) RULE 13. Purchase of 13. Where, by any decree or general or special order, any money is directed to be laid out with the privity of the Exchequer bills Accountant-General, in the purchase of Exchequer Bills or or bonds. Bonds to be deposited in the Bank to the credit of any cause, matter, or account, and where any Exchequer Bills |