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KEEPER OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS IN IRELAND.
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Appendix IX.
Extract from the Report of the Assistant Deputy Keeper on
Records Received in the Year 1874.
From the Record and Writ Office, Chancery, there were removed, on tho 5th February, Cause Petitions under the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act, 1850 :—those on parchment, from 22nd August, 1850, to 9th August, 1851, and of those on paper, thirty Volumes, from 13th August, 1851, to 31st January, 1855.
These latter are numbered consecutively, and each Volume contains 100 Petitions.
Also Answers (on parchment) to the Cause Petitions, from 6th January, 1851, to 31st December, 1851.
On the 4th March, 62 Volumes of the Answers and Affidavits in Cause Petition matters from 11th September, 1850, to 10th January, 1855.
Note.—Prior
to 11th September, 1850, all Affidavits in Chancery were filed in the Chancery Affidavit Office, but on the passing of tho Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act of 1850, the Chancellor decided that the ordinary Affidavits under the Act should be filed in the Rolls Office, along with the Answering Affidavits.
In 1860 this practice was altered, and all, except the Answering Affidavits, were filed from thenceforth in the Chancery Affidavit Office.
In Causes under the 15th section of the Act the practice was to file the Answering Affidavit in the Master's Office, in the nature of a Discharge to the copy of the Petition previously filed in the same office.
Many, however, of the Answering Affidavits to Petitions under the 15 th section have slipped in amongst these Affidavits.
There were transferred on 29th April the Cause Petition Index Books for tho years 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, the Volume for 1851 containing all Cause Petitions filed from the earliest date to that year.
On 19th May, Accounts • from 22nd December, 1851, to 29th December, 1854 (Vols.
171 to 262); Petitions, 6th December, 1851, to 31st December, 1854 (Vols.
89 to 120); Reports, 18th December, 1851, to 18th December, 1854 (Vols.
109 to 144).
On 4th June the Order or Full Entry Books, from (circa) 1852 to 1854 (Vols.
485 to 522)—Vol.
489 not transferred : it is either missing, or a mistake was made in the numbering.
Rolls Motion Books, 13th January, 1852, to 13th December, 1854 (Vols.
321 to 363).
Masters' Orders (a new series), 7th November, 1853, to 23rd December, 1854 (Vols.
1 to 11).
Incumbered Estates Court Certificates, 1st June, 1852, to 30th Jixne, 1854 (Vols.
5 and 6); Attachments, 1852 to 1854 (Vols.
9 and 10); Decrees, 8th March, 1852, to 21st August, 1854 (Vols.
89 to 92) ; Masters' Certificates, 12th February, 1852, to 26th August, 1854 (Vols.
19 to 24); Consents, 1st January, 1852, to 14th August, 1854 (Vols.
33 to 38); Rolls Petition Hearing Books, 1852-54 (Vols.
41 to 49).
Rolls Consent Motion Books, 1852-4 (Vols.
10 to 13); Orders on Cause Petitions, 1852-4 (Vols.
3 to 6); Chancery General Hearing Books, 1852-4 (Yols.
6 to 14); Side Bar Rule Books, 21st April, 1852, to 30th.November,
1854 (Yols.
51 to 55).
The above have been placed in Bay 1 P.
