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AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION 



Appointment 

 of guardian. 

 [Act 1883, s. 

 3S-] 



Provisions 



respecting 



married 



women. 



45 & 46 Vict. 



S.75- 



[Act 1883, s. 



26.1 



21. Where a landlord or tenant is an infant without a 

 guardian, or is of unsound mind, not so found by inqui- 

 sition, the county court, on the application of any person 

 interested, may appoint a guardian of the infant or person 

 of unsound mind for the purposes of this Act, and may 

 change the guardian if and as occasion requires. 



22. Where any woman married before the commencement 

 of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, is desirous of 

 doing any act under this Act in respect of land, her title 

 to which accrued before such commencement as aforesaid, 

 her husband's concurrence shall be requisite. Except as 

 aforesaid a married woman shall for all the purposes of 

 this Act be in respect of land as if she was unmarried. 



Costsincounty 23. The costs of proceedings in the county court under 



Facm88, this Act shall be in the discretion of the court. 



S.27-] ' The Lord Chancellor shall from time to time prescribe a 



scale of costs for those proceedings, and of costs to be taxed 



by the registrar of the court, other than those provided for 



by section thirty-two of this Act. 



24. Any notice, request, demand, or other instrument 

 under this Act may be served on the person to whom it_ is to 

 be given, either personally or by leaving it for him at his last 

 known place of abode in England or Wales, or by sending 

 it through the post in a registered letter addressed to him 

 there ; and if so sent by post it shall be deemed to have 

 been served at the time when the letter containing it was 

 registered ; and in order to prove service by letter it shall 

 be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed 

 and posted, and that it contained the notice, request, 

 demand, or other instrument to be served ; and for such 

 purpose a receipt bearing the post office stamp shall be 

 evidence of the same until the contrary has been proved. 



25. The Board of Agriculture shall appoint for every 

 county (other than the metropolis or a county borough) or, 

 where it is in their opinion advisable, for any group of 

 counties one or more fit persons to be agricultural arbitrators, 

 who shall have a practical knowledge of the agriculture of the 

 county or counties, and shall assign to each such arbitrator 

 the district within which he shall act, and for such appoint- 

 ment and assignment of districts shall have due regard to 



Service of 

 notice, &c. 

 [Act 1883, 

 s. 28.] 



.SVc' Schofield 

 V. Hincks 

 0888, bo L.T. 

 573)- 



Official 



Agricultural 



arbitrators. 



