§ SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE (Ipswich)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General if he will state the reason of the arrangement by which, while in other courts postal orders are received in payment of small debts, in the City of London money orders only are received, and the exclusion of postal orders is so rigid that if they are remitted instead of money orders, a warrant to levy is issued, as if there had been no tender of payment made; and if it would be possible to make the practice of receiving money and postal orders alike, as in other courts, applicable to the City of London Court.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT FINALY,) Inverness BurghsI have made inquiry into the subject of the question, and find that there is no uniform practice in the matter. County court registrars commonly accept postal orders, but there are a good many county courts in which they are not accepted. It is stated that a good deal of inconvenience has in some instances been found to result from remittance by postal order. The matter is, no doubt, one which deserves consideration, and I am taking steps to have in considered in the proper quarter.