Col. 14-Including £

invested, and £

uninvested at the end of the year.

$ Col. 15.-Repayments (if any) made out of moneys set aside for sinking funds before investment should be distinguished.

Col. 16.-The sums entered in this column should represent the total amount remaining in the funds of the sums which have been paid into the funds and invested, and not the nominal value of the securities in which the sums have been invested.

PART IV.-SUMMARY OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE SHOWN IN PARTS I. AND II. OF THIS FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have compared the entries in this Financial Statement with the Vouchers and other Documents relating thereto, and that the Regulations with respect to such Statement have been duly complied with.

I hereby further certify that I have ascertained by Audit the correctness of such Statement, and that the expenditure of the council during the year ended the 31st day of March, 19 included in such Statement, and allowed

by me at the Audit, ist

Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Ninth day of March in the year One thousand nine hundred and six.

(L.S.)

S. B. Provis,

Secretary.

John Burns,

President.

REGULATION

BUILDING SOCIETY.

OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED NOVEMBER 8, 1906, PRESCRIBING TABLE OF FEES IN LIEU OF THOSE PRESCRIBED BY NUMBER 41 OF THE BUILDING SOCIETY REGULATIONS, 1895.

1906. No. 838.

In pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Building Societies Acts, I, the Right Honourable Herbert John Gladstone, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, prescribe the following table of Fees as the Fees payable under the said Acts, in lieu of the table prescribed by Number 41 of the Regulations of the 1st January, 1895.* These fees shall come into operation on the 1st January, 1907:

£ s. d.

For the certificate of incorporation of a society 5 0 0
For the certificate of registry of an alteration

200

1 0 0

...

For every appointment of inspectors, or calling
of a special meeting by a registrar
For a direction to transfer stock.....

...

...

For the certificate of registry of an instrument
of dissolution, or alteration therein...
For registry of notice of the commencement or
termination of a dissolution or winding up....
For registry of union or transfer...

...

...

For an award by the registrar on a dispute or for
dissolution

7675

...

And, if more than one hearing or an ad-
journment becomes necessary, then £1
more for every hearing after the first, and
for every adjournment.

* Printed St. R. & O. Rev., 1904, "Building Society," p. 1.

For an order for discovery

...

For every document required to be authenti-
cated by the registrar, not chargeable with
any other fee
For every inspection on the same day of docu-
ments (whether one or more), in the custody
of the registrar, relating to one and the same
society
For every copy or extract of any document in
the custody of the registrar, not exceeding
216 words 18., and if exceeding that number
4d. per folio of 72 words, in addition to the
fee for authentication.

...

H. J. Gladstone,

£ s. d. 100

0 26

... 0 1 0

One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.

Home Office, Whitehall,
8th November, 1906.

REGULATION

OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED DECEMBER 4, 1906, UNDER THE BUILDING SOCIETIES ACTS, SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE REGULATION AS TO FEES DATED NOVEMBER 8, 1906.

1906. No. 885.

In pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Building Societies Acts, I, the Right Honourable Herbert John Gladstone, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do hereby revoke number 42 of the Regulations made thereunder on the 1st January, 1895,* and do make the following Regulation in lieu thereof:

(42.) The Registrar may dispense with the fee for inspection of documents in cases where he may consider it for the public interest to do so, and may, in exceptional cases, reduce the fee for an award.

This Regulation shall come into operation on the 1st January, 1907.

Whitehall,

December 4, 1906.

H. J. Gladstone.

* Printed St. R. & O. Rev., 1904, "Building Society," p. 1.

CHURCH, SCOTLAND.

ORDER IN COUNCIL FURTHER CONTINUING THE POWERS OF THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES COMMISSION UNTIL

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of

December, 1906.
PRESENT,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas in an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to "provide for the Settlement of certain Questions between the "Free Church and the United Free Church in Scotland, and to make certain amendments of the law with respect to the "Church of Scotland," it is enacted that a Commission be established to consist of five Commissioners to be appointed by His Majesty:

And whereas it is further enacted in the Act aforesaid, section three, subsection seven, that "The powers of the Com"mission shall be in force until the first day of March, nineteen "hundred and six, but His Majesty may, by Order in Council, "continue their powers for such further period as His Majesty "thinks fit":

And whereas the said Commission was duly established by the appointment of five Commissioners in pursuance of a Warrant under His Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the eleventh day of August, nineteen hundred and five:

And whereas His Majesty, by Orders in Council dated respectively the sixteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and six,† and the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and six, continued the powers of the said Commission until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the powers of the said Commission should be continued for a further period:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the powers of the Commission established under the Act aforesaid shall be in force until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seven.

A. W. Fitzroy.

"The Churches (S) Act, 1905" (5 Edw. 7, c. 12). + St. R. & O., 1906, No. 145.

St. R. & O., 1906, No. 601.