The impossibility, however, of obtaining access to the Notes of the whole of the One Hundred and Sixty-five Revising Barristers appointed under the Act, has confined the Collection to such Cases as fell under the actual notice of the Compiler, or were furnished by the kindness of friends. The limited means thus afforded, having been reduced into the shape of a Digest, offer at least an opportunity for future additions, which may tend to promote the unity of decision that such important questions require. The introduction of a new law of such extensive operation has occasioned many complaints, but the result of the Second Year's Registration has proved that the only serious inconvenience, has arisen from the formation of the Annual Lists being left to the Overseers, the greater number of whom are persons selected from a class whose various avocations prevent the possibility of securing the fulfilment of the simple but important duties required from those officers.

The difficulty of obtaining the formation of the Annual Lists of Claimants and of Objections, and their

due publication, and subsequent production at the respective Courts of Revision, exists chiefly in Country Parishes, and it is almost too much to expect that men engaged in agricultural pursuits can spare, from the busiest and most important months of the year, even the short time that is requisite for completing those Lists, and affording the attendance required by the Act. To obviate the inconvenience occasioned by these omissions, an Officer should be appointed in every County, whose duty it should be, at the periods named in the Act, to prepare the Lists of Claims, and cause them to be published, by transmitting them to the Overseer; also to receive all Objections, which, on being entered on the Lists of the respective Parishes, might be published in like manner. This Officer should be responsible for the production of the Lists so published, or attested Copies thereof, at the Courts of Revision, and also be bound to permit, at convenient hours, on payment of a small fee, the inspection of all the Lists, and to furnish Copies thereof at the price fixed by the Quarter Sessions. All communications respecting the

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Lists, to or from Overseers, to be free of postage; and instead of Notices of Objections being served on the Overseers, it should be sufficient if such Notices were sent to such Officer by post, addressed by a sufficient direction, which should be named in the Act. The amount to which Overseers are now entitled, by section 56, for defraying the expenses incurred by them in carrying into effect the provisions of the Act, would be nearly, if not quite, sufficient for remunerating the duties of such an Office.

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