A STUDY IN LEGAL ADMINISTRATION AND RECORDS SHARON ...

(Masters' reports for the period show land evaluated at approximately one dollar
per acre.) Moneys cantinually passed in and out of court, through the hands of
the registrar or his assistants- The court maintained a detailed accounting
system, which was examined at intervals through audit. Financial business was
carried on through the lrnperial Bank of Canada and, thus, decrees show
defendants being directed to pay "the said last mentioned sum into the office in
the City of Winnipeg of the lrnperial Bank of Canada, between the hours of ten
of the dock in the moming and one of the dock in the aftemoon."
Three financial volumes remain of the several that must have been
created over the twenty-three years of Equity's operationo? There are two
money ledgers (1 879-92 and 1893-95) and a cash book (1 883-1 902).% The
former were used to maintain separate accounts belonging to individual actions,
while the latter served as a general cash book. Prothonotary Walker described
them as "A Ledger in which is [recorded?] al1 accounts with the Bankn and "A
Cash Book in which al1 moneys ..- are entered and which shows the balance in
bank every day.""
The first money ledger bears no title; a stationer's label indicates that it
was purchased from Brown Bros., Toronto, October 22, 1881. The volume (14 x
19 x 4 inches) holds a separate, full-sized index entitled B. R. In Equity Index To
Money Ledger No. 1. The index is arranged by style of cause, or, in infants'
cases, by the name of the chifd concemed. To facilitate searching, a double
indexing system has been employed. There are not only twenty-seven alphabet