The lunacy acts : containing all 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, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1877
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Credit: The lunacy acts : containing all 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, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    33/790 (page 19)
    On incomes of ;^5,ooo and upwards, a percent- age of 2 per cent., but in no case exceeding £200 Thus, for example, an income of ^500 a year will con- tribute a percentage of £20; whilst an income of ;£20,000 a year (z.e., forty times as large) will only contribute a percentage of 200, or not more than ten times as much as in the former case; the contribution from the smaller income being at the rate of 4 per cent.; from the larger, i per cent. The fees to be paid are fixed by s. 29; but power is given to the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Lords Justices, to alter them from time to time, and also to vary the percentages within the limits pre- scribed by the Act (A, s. 30); and further provision as to this point is made by the ,32 & 33 Vict. c. 91, s. 13, passed in 1869. Both percentages and fees are to be collected by means of stamps (A, s. 31); the former being payable on the certificate of the Masters (A, s. 27), and recoverable under such regulations as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Lords Justices, may direct (A, s. 28), though in certain cases the Lord Chancellor may reduce or remit the amount. (See s. 28, and also A, s. 32.) It is provided, however, by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1875, s. 26, that the Lord Chancel- lor, with the advice and consent of the Judges of the Supreme Court, or any three of them, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, may fix the fees and per- centages to be taken in the Courts, including the percentage on estates of lunatics, but, subject to any order made in pursuance of that provision, the exist- ing fees and percentages shall continue to be taken, applied, and accounted for in the existing manner. Commtsswn of Lwiacy.]—The first Act provides that any commission in the nature of a writ de luiiatico imjuireiido maybe directed to less than three persons; and that every such commission shall, when issued, be directed to the Masters, or one of them, in such form as the Lord Chancellor may prescribe (A, s. 38); un- C 2