Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers.

  • Fry, Danby P. (Danby Palmer), 1818-1903.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Stamp to bo caucelled. Limited number of adhesive stamps to be used. Masters to certify amount of per-centage. Masters may certify per- centage to be paid out of dividends. Lunacy I'ev-ceutago Account. Upon certi- ficate of Masters dividends to be carried to Per-centage Account. Masters their use be inconvenient. The stamps shall be impressed or affixed on the vellum, parchment, or paper on which the proceeding in respect whereof such stamps are required is written or engrossed, or which may other- wise be used in reference to such proceeding. 128. Every officer who receives any document to which a stamp is affixed shall immediately upon the receipt of such document cancel or deface the stamp thereon by writing upon such stamp his name or the initial letters of his name in such a manner as to show clearly and dis- tinctly that such stamp has been made use of and so that the same may not be again used, and no document bearing an adhesive stamp shall be tiled or delivered out until the stamp thereon has been cancelled or defaced in manner aforesaid. 129. In all cases where adhesive stamps are used the stamps affixed to the document shall be of an amount corresponding as nearly as is practicable with the amount of the stamp which such document requires, in order that no greater number of adhesive stamps may be affixed to any document than is actually necessary. 13U. The Masters shall certify the amount of per- centage payable upon the income of each lunatic and the person who is to pay the same, and the time within which the same is to be paid, and such person shall pay the same out of the first money coming to his hands on account of the income of the lunatic. 131. The Masters may in such cases as they think fit, certify that the whole or any part of the per-centage payable on the incomes of lunatics shall be paid out of cash arising from dividends of the lunatic standing to the credit of the matter of any lunacy either generally or to any particular account, and when any sucli certificate is made, the amount certified thereby shall not be paid by means of stamps, but shall be carried over and transferred in manner hereinafter directed. 132. There shall be kept in the Paymaster-General's office an account intituled The Paymaster-General's Lunacy Per-centage Account. 133. When any such certificate as last herein-before mentioned is made, an office copy of such certificate shall be left at the office of the Paymaster-General, who shall by virtue of such certificate, out of any cash arising from dividends or interest on money on deposit belonging to the lunatic standing to the credit of the matter of any lunacy, carry over the amount mentioned in such certifi- cate from the credit of the account in such certificate