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the records of land rights and others in Scotland, and to the system of search sheets, which has been tentatively introduced for the purpose of abridging and expediting the work of searching the Registers of Sasines under the regulations of the Searcher's Department of the General Register House, which were framed and issued by the authority of the Treasury Board in 1854, and are printed in the 17th Report of the Deputy Clerk Register for Scotland.

My Lords of the Treasury are advised by the Lord Advocate that any alteration of these regulations must be made by Minute of this Board. My Lords concur in the recommendations made by the Lord Advocate, and in conformity therewith they give directions that the regulations issued by their authority in 1854, referred to above, shall be amended as follows: :-

1. When an order for a search in the Register of Sasines is given to the Deputy Keeper of the Records, comprehending any period for which search sheets exist, the search shall be completed by the official searcher as heretofore, down to the period at which search sheets commence for the county division of the Register of Sasines in which the search is to be made, and the search shall then be transmitted to the Keeper of the General Register of Sasines, who shall himself, or by his deputy appointed for the purpose, complete and certify a search made by the search sheets from the commencement of such search sheets to the latest date, and shall thereafter retransmit the search to the Deputy Keeper of the Records to be given out to the applicant.

2. Where search sheets are in existence for the whole period comprehended in the order, the order shall be at once transmitted by the Deputy Keeper of the Records to the Keeper of the General Register of Sasines, who shall, by himself or by his deputy as before provided, complete and certify the search, and shall thereafter retransmit it to the Deputy Keeper of the Records to be given out to the applicant.

3. In every case when an order for a search given to the Deputy Keeper of the Records is accompanied by a request that the Register shall be searched according to the hitherto existing system (i.e., by means of the Abridgements or Minutes and Indices) and not by the search sheet, such order shall be wholly executed by the official searchers, but in cases where no such request accompanies the order the search shall, so far as search sheets exist, be made by means of the search sheets.

4. The Keeper of the General Register of Sasines shall issue to such persons as may apply for them searches extracted from the search sheets as searches in that Register upon payment by means of fee stamps of the same fees as are now charged for searches extending over the same period in the Searching Department of the Law Clerk Register's Office, or at such other rules as may from time to time be fixed by competent authority.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, &c., SCOTLAND.

Forms.

ORDER IN COUNCIL SUBSTITUTING NEW SCHEDULES OF FORMS FOR THOSE IN THE SCHEDULES TO THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1854.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 27th day of August, 1860.

PRESENT:

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the 17th and 18th years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act to provide for the better regulation of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Registrar-General, with the consent of Her Majesty in Council, to diminish from time to time the fees, thereby authorised to be taken, and to alter the schedules to the said Act annexed, regard being always had to the objects and purposes of the said Act, and to rendering the same more effectual; and that such alteration of fees and schedules shall be published in the Edinburgh Gazette, and shall, within fourteen days after the same shall have been issued, be laid before both Houses of Parliament, or, if Parliament shall not then be sitting, within fourteen days after the meeting of the then next session;

And whereas the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland has altered the Schedules A., B., C., D., E., F., G., H., and K., to the said Act annexed, being the forms for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and the schedules so altered have been laid before Her Majesty in Council;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to declare and doth hereby declare Her consent to the said schedules (copies whereof are hereunto annexed) so altered as aforesaid; and to order that the same be substituted for the schedules marked A., B., C., D., E., F., G.. H., and K., annexed to the above-mentioned Act.‡

Edmund Harrison.

+ The Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 80).

Schedule I (Form of Certificate of Registration of Death) is the only Schedule to the Act of 1854 which is not superseded by this Order.

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