The Clerks and other Officers of the Court of Session shall make, in such Manner and Form as may from Time to Time he ordered and required by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, annual Returns of the Business of their respective Offices for the Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of December immediately preceding, and shall transmit such Returns to Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland on or before the Fifteenth Day of January in each Year; and Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland is hereby required to prepare from these Returns a general Return for the Court of Session, and on or before the First Day of March in each Year to cause the same to be transmitted to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to be laid before Parliament.