Proposed New Buildings for Courts, Offices, &c. 32 pulled down, a grand building might be erec-ing the new state paper office, would, no doubt, ted in the centre of a square, surrounded by be fully adequate for defraying the expense magnificient stone buildings; one side of which of such building in Lincoln's Inn Fields; the should be allotted for the Judges, another side ground whereof in the centre, it is believed, for the Rolls and Exchequer Courts out of belongs to the Crown. term, and for the cursitors, examiners, petty bag and secretaries' offices, and the King's Bench and Common Pleas offices; and the two remaining sides should be sold or let out to the leading counsel, in a similar manner as the Stone Buildings in Lincoln's Inn. In order to carry this plan into execution, the mode of raising the money necessary for that purpose will be, after purchasing the leasehold interests of that part of the Rolls estate whereon the new buildings are proposed to be erected, by the sale, when so erected, of the two sides of the stone buildings intended for barristers. Assuming that the rent of each set of chambers will produce from 150l. to 2007. per annum-then, if there are twelve staircases on each of the two sides, and six sets of chambers to each staircase, there will be 144 sets in the whole Taking, therefore, the average at 150 per annum, the annual rental of the two sides of the square to be allotted for the bar would be 21,6007. The sale of these chambers at twenty years' purchase would produce 432,000l.; i. e. 30007, for each set;-a sum, it is presumed, more than sufficient for the building of the grand record office and the entire square, for making compensation to the tenants of the leasehold houses, and for setting apart a sufficient fund for payment of 20007. per annum to the Master of the Rolls, now received by him out of the rents of the Rolls estate. With reference to compensation to the tenants of the Rolls estate; this would not be to any great amount, inasmuch as along Chancery Lane the houses are mostly occupied by attorneys and law stationers, or are let out in offices and on the north and east side of the Rolls, by persons not concerned in any business of a lucrative nature and it is believed none of the leases are for a longer period than twenty-one years. In point of ornament and elegance, as well as of utility and convenience, this plan is preferable to the building the record offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields; Chancery Lane being a very great thoroughfare for carriages to and from Holborn; the passages whereof are so continually blocked up, as to render it frequently unsafe for foot persons towards Fleet Street: which inconvenience would, by the adoption of this plan, be avoided. Besides this, the contiguity to the Law Institution, as the general resort (or quasi exchange) for solicitors, renders it most desirable that the record offices should not be far distant. Should, however, this scheme be impractic able, the Rolls estate might be sold; and after setting apart so much money arising from the sale as would provide for the Master of the Rolls' salary, the remainder, together with the 25,000l. already voted by parliament for build a These rents are now received by the Trea sury. A third mode of defraying the expense of the building might be reasonably resorted to, namely, the Suitor's Fund, or dead cash in the Court of Chancery; as was the case on a former occasion. The Master's offices, the Examiner's offices, and others in the Rolls Yard were provided for out of this fund; the Examiners and their clerks, and the ushers of the Court are paid their salaries out of the same fund: a provision is also made by act of parliament for the Examiners and their clerks, when they retire, from length of service or through infirmity, as may be seen by statute 50 Geo. 3, c. 164. There is reason also to believe, that many builders, in this age of speculation and im provement, would very gladly undertake a work, so likely to be productive both of profit and fame. In order to lessen the number of record keepers and their clerks, it would be advisable that the following arrangements should take place; viz. 1st. The forest proceedings, the records of the Court of Requests, of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and of the Court of Star Chamber, and the survey called Domes day, and numerous other miscellaneous records should be transferred to the custody of the keeper of the records of that part of the Exchequer termed the Augmentation Office. 2d. That the ancient treaties of peace and state papers in the Chapter House should be placed in the custody of the keeper of the state papers. 3d. That the records of the Aula Regis and the more early rolls of the King's Bench from Edw. I to Henry the 6th, and the assise rolls of Hen. 3, Edw. 1, and subsequent reigns, and the rolls of the justices itinerant, should be transferred from the Chapter House to the custody of the keeper of the records of the King's Bench Treasury. 4th. That the early rolls of the Common Pleas from Edw. I to Hen 6, together with the fines and recoveries, should also be removed from the same repository, and be deposited in the custody of the keeper of the records of the Common Pleas Treasury. 5th. That the records in the King's Remembrancer's office, the Lord Treasurer's and the pipe offices, should be kept together in the custody of one keeper. 6th. The records of the Court of Chancery, namely, those preserved at the Tower, the Rolls Chapel, the Petty Bag, Crown Office, Examiner's Office, Six Clerks' and Enrolment Offices, and at the cursitor's, should be all brought into one office, and under one keeper. Hence, all the records of the four Courts would be under the custody of one keeper in each Court; and not, as now, in the care of numerous officers, many of whom are unable to read a record. Exclusively of these keepers, there should be one head or principal keeper: 324 Proposed New Buildings for Courts, Offices, &c.-New Order in Bankruptcy. who ought to have a controul over the respective keepers, and be empowered to order such indexes, arrangements, and alterations to be made from time to time as he, or the Commissioners on the Public Records, with the sanction of the respective Courts, should deem requisite. There would then be six keepers-thus :1st. The principal or head Keeper. 2d. The Keeper of the Records of Chancery. 3d. The Keeper of the Records of the King's Bench. 4th. The Keeper of the Records of the Common Pleas. 5th. The Keeper of the Records of the Exchequer. 6th. The Keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office and those to be removed thither from the Chapter House. Having stated the necessity of having five Keepers of the Records, exclusive of the head or principal Keeper; there must in each department be a set of clerks; the salaries proposed to be paid to such keepers and clerks are as follow, viz. : Per Ann. 1st. To the Keeper of the Records of Chancery.... To his four clerks £800 750 500 400 cleansing, repairing, transcribing and indexing of the records, which have amounted to seve ral thousand pounds per annum, will be also saved; as it is intended that the clerks, messengers, and bagbearers in each office, when not actually engaged in making searches and transcripts, shall be employed in those operations. It may probably happen, that the clerks in the King's Bench and Cominon Pleas Offices, and even in the the other record offices, may be very frequently unemployed in making searches and transcripts, at a time when an extra hand is required in the Chancery or Exchequer department. It is also submitted that the head or principal keeper shall have power to order any such clerk to assist in making transcripts in such other office, on an application by the respective keepers of the records of each Court. There can be little doubt, but that, when the records are all brought into one building near the Inns of Court, and proper indexes made, and a more enlightened and liberal conduct is observed towards applicants making searches, (who are frequently deterred from so doing by the sordid conduct of many record officers,) the fees in many cases will amount to a larger sum than before calculated. When Mr. Illingworth was first appointed Deputy Keeper of the Records in the Tower, the ave rage amount of fees was 150/. per annum; in consequence, however, of his liberality to applicants, and allowing them frequently to take short extracts, the fees, when he resigned his office, nine years since, amounted on an average to 400l. per annum. In case the amount of fees should be less than the proposed sala750 ries, the deficiency might be supplied out of the surplus of the Hanaper Fund, which is understood to be considerable. Mr. Illingworth was informed by Mr. Kipling, the late Keeper of the Records in the Rolls' Chapel, that my Lord Eldon intended, about twenty years ago, to place the Rolls' Office on an establishment similar to that at the Tower, and to pay the salaries out of the surplus of that fund. 500 400 600 600 600 300 £6200 It is proposed, that these salaries shall be defrayed by the fees for searches and copies of records, which, according to the scale in the appendix, amount to upwards of 60007. per annum. So that as regards these five keepers and their clerks, there will be a saving to the government of 2000l. per annum; viz :— 1st. The present establishment at the Tower is 2d. That at the Chapter House. 2200 Exclusively of the rent paid to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for the Chapter House. ORDER FOR CLOSING THE ACCOUNTANT THE Lord Chancellor has made the follow£1300ing order: 900 Whereas it has been represented to me by the Accountant in Bankruptcy, that it is necessary the accounts kept by him shall be examined and compared, in order to settle the same, and adjust them with the books kept at the Bank of England, and that it will require a considerable time to and it has further been represented to me perfect such examination and adjustment; by the said Accountant in Bankruptcy, that it is necessary that a time should be ap Out of this saving it is proposed to pay the head or principal keeper an annual salary of 1000%., and to his secretary 2007., leaving a net saving of 8007. per annum. Independently of this saving, all the expenses of the record commission, as regard the Police Magistrates.- List of New Publications.-Professional Lists. 325 may pointed for closing the books of the said "I therefore ORDER that the books of the said Accountant in Bankruptcy be closed from Monday the 21st of August instant, to Monday the 2d day of October next; and that during that time no draft for any money, nor any order or certificate for any effects, shall be signed or delivered out, nor any purchase, sale, or transfer of any stocks, securities, or effects be made by the said Accountant, for or on account of any bankrupt's estate: "PROVIDED, that the Accountant in Bankruptcy be at liberty to sign orders or checks for dividends in such cases as may appear to be urgent. (Signed) "COTTENHAM, C." one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. W. L. BATHurst. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. An Act to amend an Act for the Commuta- Copyhold and Court-Keeping Practice; with nearly Two Hundred Precedents, and the Act for Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills. By Rolla Rouse, Esq. Price 10s. cloth hds. Deacon's Reports of Cases in Bankruptcy. Vol. 1, Part 4. Price 7s. 6d. Clarke and Finnelly's Reports of Cases heard in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error. Vol. 3, Part 1. Price 98. Dowling's Reports of Cases in the King's ALTERATION IN THE HOURS OF Bench Practice Court. Vol. 5, Part 4. Price From the London Gazette, Friday, August 11. At the Court at St. James's, the 19th day of July, 1837, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY. William Davies, Merthyr Tidvil James Wallis Pycroft, Charlotte Street, Portland Place. Frederick Ouvry, Tokenhouse Yard. James Hobday Mason, Harwich. WHEREAS it is deemed expedient by her Ma-Thomas Kirk, Symond's Inn. jesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to make certain new Regulations, in manner following, for the attendance of the Justices in the Police Offices hereinafter mentioned: It is hereby ordered by her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, that one of the Justices appointed to the several police offices now established in the parishes of St Margaret, Westminster; St. James's, Westminster; St. Mary-le-bone; St. Andrew, Holborn; St. Leonard, Shoreditch; St. Mary, Whitechapel; and St. John, of Wapping, in the County of Middlesex; and St. Saviour, of the county of Surrey; shall, from and after the thirteenth day of August next, attend at each of the said offices from the hour of ten of the clock in the morning, until five of the clock in the afternoon; and that two of the said justices shall, in like manner, attend together at each of the said offices, from twelve of the Carr, William John, Alnwick, Northumberland. clock at noon, until three of the clock in the July 21. afternoon, instead of the hours at which they Creswell, Edward, Manchester. Aug. 18. are now required to be in attendance, accord-Hodgson, Richard Tucker, Warwick. July 25. ing to the form of the statute in such case Wainwright, Henry Money, Dudley, Worcester. made and provided. Aug. 18. And the Right Honorable Lord John Russell, PROFESSIONAL LISTS. From July 21, to Aug. 22, 1837, both inclusive, MASTERS EXTRAORDINARY IN CHANCERY. 326 Professional Lists.- Eankrupts. DISSOLUTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS. Agar, Thomas Stodhart, and Charles Morgan, Wailes, William, and Joseph Storr Lister, Leeds, BANKRUPTCIES SUPERseded. Beetham, Edward, Portsmouth Chambers, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Bill Broker. Aug. 4. Chapman, James, Tunbridge, Kent, Grocer and Corn Dealer and Shopkeeper. Aug. 11. Chifney, Samuel, Wood Ditton, Cambridge, Livery Stable Keeper. Aug. 4. Emley, James, Liverpool, Merchant and Broker. Aug. 4. Foster, Charles, Kingsbury, Middlesex, Bill Broker. Aug. 4. Gitton, Thomas, Bridgnorth, Salop, Money Scriviner. July 21. Parker, Thomas, Great Russell Stseet, Blooms bury, Gold and Silversmith. Aug. 18. Wallis, William Henry, usually called Henry Wallis, of Cardington Street, Hampstead Road, Middlesex, Engraver and Dealer in Drawings and Prints. Aug. 11. BANKRUPTS. Anderson, William, New Road, St. George's in the East, Middlesex, Victualler and Vinter. Pennell, Off, Ass. Lawrance & Co., Bucklersbury. Aug. 22. Arnold, George, Leamington Priors, Warwick, Builder. Ewington, Leamington Priors: Rushworth, Staple Inn. Aug. 4. Barnett, Thomas, jun., Wolverhampton, Stafford, Ironmonger. Richards & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields: Foster, Wolverhampton. July 25. Baghott, Sir Paul, Bridgend Mills, near Stroud, Gloucester, Clothier. Housman, Basinghall Street. Aug. 4. Bamford, John, Abbots Bromley, Stafford, Maltster. Chaplin, Gray's Inn Square: Smith & Co., Rugeley Harrison, Birmingham. Aug. 8. Berry, Samuel Blake, Greek Street, Soho, Perfu mer: Alsager, Off. Ass.; Springall & Co., Raymond Buildings. Aug. 8. Benbow, Thomas, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Mercer and Draper. Shirreff, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Packwood & Co., Cheltenham. Aug. 8. Barnes, Jonathan, Derby, Currier. Welch, Derby: Wilson, Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane. Aug. 22. Bird, John Goodwin, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Stationer and Grocer. Hornby & Co., St. Swithin's Lane, Lombard Street: Towgood, Cardiff. July 25. Blundell, Jose h Birkbeck, Seacomb, Chester, Rectifier. Deane & Co., Liverpool: Blackstock & Co., Temple. Aug. 18. Bassett, Stephen, and Edward Bassett, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Hotel Keepers. Edwards, Off. Carden, John, and George Parkes, Liverpool, Ass Slee, Parish Street, Southwark. July 28. Linen Drapers. Abbott, Off. Ass.: Hardwick & Co., Lawrence Lane, Cheapside. Aug. 11. Clark, Thomas, Lamb's Conduit Street, and Oxford Street, Boot Maker. Cannan, Off. Ass. Platt, Clement's Lane. Aug. 18. Clark, Thomas, Dover, Kent, Master Mariner. Belcher, Off. Ass.: Coote & Co., Austin Friars. Clark, John, Spalding, Lincoln, Shoemaker and Aug. 8. Currier. a' Beckett & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields: Hollway & Co., Boston. Aug. 8. Coplestone, Joseph, Exeter, Grocer. For, Finsbury Circus: Tanner, Crediton, Devon. Aug. 18. Cook, Thurston, Shrewsbury, Salop, Grocer. Cooper, Shrewsbury: Ronalds, Gray's Inn Square. July 25. Caine, John, Stockport, Chester, Boot and Shoe Maker. Bower & Co., Chancery Lane: Lingard & Co., Stockport. July 28. Dawes, Henry, Great Malvern, Worcester, Malt ster and Corn Factor. Bedford, Calthorpe Street: Bedford & Co., Worcester. Aug. 15. Donald, James, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dealer iu Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, and Jewellery. Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Meggism & Co., King's Road, Bedford Row. Aug. 15. Dadswell, Edward, Shrewsbury, Salop, Grocer and Tea Dealer. Groom, Off. Ass.: Cattlin, Ely Place. July 28. Downs, Samuel, Glemsford, Suffolk, Blacksmith Wayman & Co., Bury St. Edmunds: Walter & Co., Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane. Aug. 8. Douglas, James, Birmingham, Draper. Messrs. Baxter, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Sale, Manchester: Colmore & Co., Birmingham. Aug. 8. Drabble, John, Kent Street and Great Dover Street, Newington, Surrey, Axle Tree Maker and Engineer. Groom, Off. Ass.: Holmer, Bridge Street, Southwark. Aug 18. Eadson, Samuel, and Ralph Kilvert, Manchester, Fustian Manufacturers. Appleby, King's Road, Bedford Row. Barker, Manchester. Aug. 4. Eldridge, William, Hastings, Sussex, Hotel Keeper and Brick Maker. Abbott, Off. Ass.: Ske, Parish Street, Southwark. July 25. Evans, John, Beddgelert, Carnarvon, Shopkeeper and Cattle Dealer. Roberts, Carnarvon : Messrs. Lowe, Southampton Buildings. August 8. Ebsworth, Henry James, Nunn Court, Coleman Street, London, Wool Broker. Alsager, Off. Ass. Gore, Bucklersbury. July 28. Etheridge, James Cox, Yeovil, Somerset, Chemist, Druggist, and Grocer. Vining, Yeovil: Douglass & Co., Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn. July 28. Frost, Charles, Chard, Somerset, Draper. Jenkins & Co., New Inn : Clarke & Co., Bristol. Aug.1. Farmer, Henry, Bath, Ironmonger. Dar & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields: Drake, Bath. Aug. 15. Feltham, Richard, Bath, Oil and Colour Merchant. Dax & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields: Drake, Bath. Aug. 15. Felton, Richard, Victualling-Office Square, Tower Hill, London, Victualler. Turquand, Off. Ass.: Cutten & Co., Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside. Aug. 22. Finleyson, John, Union Place, New Road, Mary- | Inman, Richard, Brighton, Sussex, Grocer and Fisher, George, Bradford, York, Linen Draper. Milne & Co., Temple: Bent, Manchester. July 21. Franklin, William, Liverpool, Sail Maker and Ship Owner. Holden, Liverpool: Walmsley & Co., Chancery Lane. Aug. 4. : Griffiths, John, Astley, Worcester, Hallier. Smith, and Sheep-salesman. Golindo, Monmouth: Berkeley, Lincoln's Inn, New Square. July 25. Gordon, John, Corson, Manchester, Dealer. Wheeler & Co., Manchester: Walmsley & Co., Gibbie, Moore Corunna, Cambridge, Draper and Hayles, John, Brighton, Sussex, Builder and Grocer. Abbott, Off. Ass.: Neal, Threadneedle Street. Aug. 1. Hale, William, Bath, Scrivener. Dowding, Bath : Howe & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. Aug. 18. Harris, Francis Wood, Hatton Garden, Genera. Hardware Factor. Groom, Off. Ass. Howlet, Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn. Aug. 11. Harris, Joseph, Sandhill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, Bookseller. Clark, Off. Ass.: Williams, Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn. July 21. Hatch, Thomas, and Richard Hatch, Eccleston, near Croston, Lancaster, Calico Printers. Norris & Co., Bartlett's Buildings: Howard & Co., Preston. July 21. Hardwick, Samuel, Birmingham, Builder. Battye & Co., Chancery Lane: Webb & Co., Birmingham. July. 21. Hayward, Jane, Leamington Priors, Warwick. Lodging-house Keeper. Rickards & Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields: Russell, Leamington Priors, Aug. 18. Hayward, Henry, Canterbury, Coach Maker. Robins, Furnival's Inn: Wilkinson, Canterbury. Aug. 11. Hewitt, Samuel, and Thomas Weatherby, Man- Builder. Ewington, Leamington Priors: Messrs. Rushworth, Staple Inn. Aug. 11. Honey, John, Redruth, Cornwall, Linen Draper. Messrs. Sole, Aldermanbury: Pinder & Co., Hill, Christopher, Clarence Street, Saint Luke's, Brewer. Cannan, Off. Ass.? Hembery, Bed'ford Street, Bedford Square. Aug. 8. Hutchinson, Richard, Manchester, Merchant and Commission Agent; also carrying on the business of a Cotton Mannfacturer at Portwood, near Stockport, Chester. Makinson & Co., Temple: Atkinson & Co., Manchester. July 25. Ireland, Thomas, Sen., Newton Vale, Lancaster, and John Harrison, of Manchester, Dyers. Kay & Co, Manchester. July 28. Provision Merchant. Benson, Brighton: Freeman & Co., Coleman Street. July 25. Johnston, John, Sheffield, York, Mason and Builder. Fiddy, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street: Messrs. Branson, Sheffield. July 21. Jenkins, Jacob, Birmingham, Builder. Gatty & Co., Red Lion Square: Cresswell, Birmingham. Aug. 4. Je wesson, Richard, Fenchurch Street, London, Knight, Nathaniel, Abbot's Bromley, Stafford, Lenegan, James, Liverpool, Victualler. Bradshaw & Co., Liverpool: Holme & Co., New Inn. Aug. 18. Lewis, William, Birmingham, Hosier and Haberdasher. Holme & Co., New Inn: Parker & Co., Birmingham. July 25. Machell, Maria, and Charles Machell, Fountain 21. Mac Cracken, Ross, Manchester, Flour and Provision Dealer, Baker and Shopkeeper. Johnson & Co., Temple: Hitchcock, Manchester. July 25. Mande, Gideon, Wetherby, York, Money Scriviner. Messrs. Lee, Leeds: Hardwick & Co., Lawrence Lane, Cheapside. July 25. M'Laren, Robert, Liverpool, Rectifier. Stockley, Liverpool: Weeks & Co., Cook's Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Aug. 22. M'Cann, Thomas, Great Malvern, Worcester, Builder. Allies, Worcester: Grane, Bedford Row. Aug. 8. Maltby, Thomas, Lawrence Pountney Hill, London, and of Upper Side Waterloo Bridge, Lambeth, Lead Merchant. Turquand, Off. Ass. Swain & Co., Frederick's Place, Old Jewry. July. 25. Marsh, Absalom, Brentford, Middlesex, Confectioner. Pennell, Off. Ass.: Lang, Fenchurch St. Aug. 11. : Nield, Daniel, jun., Shaw Edge, near Oldham, smith. Philbrick & Co., Colchester: Chilton, Ogilvy, George, Kidderminster, Worcester, Carpet Manufacturer. Holme & Co., New Inn: Talbot, Kidderminster. Aug. 8. Osborn, Joseph, jun., Gainsborough, Lincoln, |