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the Lord Chancellor, he said that the Accountant-General was not
authorized to refuse malting the transfer.—Tbill WAR communicated
to the Accountant-General, who attended at a quarter before ten
o'clock in the ball to-day, stating, that it was necessary he should
are the Cline*llov. Mi. Horne arrived 10 Court before the bilk
King found admittance to the Lord Chancellor, to whom the Ac-
countant-General.eommuricafed Iris object. He said, that he had
made strict enquiry Into this point of practice, and found that, for
the last twenty-five years, the transfer of money in his office had
always been stayed by the presenting of a petition of appeal ; and if
that practice were now to be altered, he certainly should require the
direct order of the bend Chancellor.
Mr. HoRNE said, he certainly was much surprised to hear such
a statement. It was a perfect matter of course when a petition of
appeal was presented to the Lord Chancellor, for his Lordship to
answer it, and if the practice the Accountant-General contended
foe was to obtain, the result would be, that in every cue where
money was ordered to be paid out of Court just before the recess,
by any branch of the Court, the unsuccessful party would only have
to present a petition of appeal, and by that means the fund would
unavoidably he locked up the whole of the long vacation. If the
Accountant-General could, under such circumstances, stay the
transfer of money, he certainly would be a much greater man than
the Lord Chancellor; but if hie did do so in a case in which lie
(31r. Home) was a party in whose favour the transfer had been
ordered, and if any thing were lost by the falling of the funds be-
tween the staying of the transfer and the order for payment, upon
the bearing of the appeal, he should unquestionably bring an action
against him for the loss.
The Accountant-General then had an interview with the Chan-
cellor in his private room, and upon his Loa ositi r entering
the Court. he addressed himself to Mr. Horne thus :—`• The Ac-
countant-General has been with me, Mr. Herne, upon the matter of
that order of transfer you did me the favour to speak abcut ; and I
find from him, that the practice of the office, without interruption,
has been for about thirty years, that where an order is made on a
motion to transfer money, upon notice of an appeal being given to
stay the transfer of the niones, the order is stopped."
Mr. HORNE—My Lord,.) feel peculiarly satisfied to have occa-
sion to mention this point of practice—a most important point to the
public, when a gentleman was in the office, so well calculated to
till it, and so anxious to act correctly as Mr. Harvey was; and
therefore, I hope that that officer will not imagine this was intend-
ed as a complaint against him.
His LottnstriP.—No, no; he has no notion of that sort, I MR
quite sore. But finding this to have been the practice in the office
for thirty years, he did not like to alter it without an application to
me ; and if any thing occurs to any gentleman at the bar, in the
course of the day, upon the dissimilarity of the practice, I shall
feel greatly obliged to hear it.
Nothing, however, was stated further upon it in the course of the
day.