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Regent s canal to Shepherdess Walk; thence along the centre thereof, and of Bath
Street and Bunhill Row, to the boundary of the City of London; and thence along
the same to Whitechapel High Street aforesaid."
SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
Court House: 221, OLD STREET, E.C.
HIS HONOUR JUDGE LUMLEY SMITH, Q.C.
4, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.
Registrar: ERNEST E. WICKHAM, Esq.
High Bailiff: ROBERT HACKSHAW, Esq.
Hours of Attendance.—The Registrar's Office (16, Charles Square,
Iloxton, N.) is open daily from 10 till 4 ; Saturdays, 10 till 1. Summonses granted
every day; money paid in daily, paid out Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Sittings, &c.—The sitting days of the Court are usually Tuesdays and
Thursdays in each week. The Court is held at least once a mouth, except in
August and September (28 and 29 Vict., c. 99, sec. 14) or at such other interval as
a Secretary of State may order (9 and 10 Vict., c. 95, sec. 56). The days and
hours for sitting are appointed three months previously, and notice of such days is
affixed in the Court House and in the Registrar's Office. But the days may be
altered (notice of alteration being affixed in like manner), and additional and
adjourned courts be held (Order I, Rule 1 of 1875). The Registrar's Offices are
open daily from 10 till 4, except on Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Eve,
Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, and
public fast, humiliation or thanksgiving days, or any day appointed for closing the
same by the Lord Chancellor; and except on Saturdays (not being market days),
when they close at 1; and except also on days when the Court is sitting elsewhere
(Rule 3). A Table of the Court Fees is put up in the Court House and in the
Registrar's Office (sec. 37; also 19 and 20 Vie., c. 108, sec. 78.)
[The Common Law Jurisdiction of the Ancient County Court (held before the
Sheriff or his Deputy) still subsists for all purposes except in cases within the
jurisdiction of the Courts holden under the above-mentioned statute (9 and 10 A ict.,
cap. 95, see sec. 4)].
District.—By the original Order in Council of 9th March, 1847, it was
ordered that:- "The District of the Shoreditch County Court of Middlesex"
should "include all within a line drawn from the point where the boundary of the
City of London crosses Finsbury Place, along the eastern boundary of the dislrict