8Return of factors, &c. to be supplied to accountant by clerks of court, &c.
Immediately after the passing of this Act it shall be incumbent on such one or more of the depute or assistant clerks of session, or of the clerks in the office of the Bill Chamber or other qualified person or persons as shall be selected by the principal clerks of session with the approval of the Lord Advocate, to prepare under the supervision of the said principal clerks a return setting forth the following particulars applicable to all factors and other persons referred to in section six hereof appointed after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and to all factors and other persons under any factory constituted prior to said last-mentioned date in which proceedings have been taken in court since that date not embraced under the provisions of the Pupils Protection Act, 1849, the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act, 1880, and the Bankruptcy Acts, and where the factories or other offices held by them still subsist, viz.:—(1) the date of the factor's appointment; (2) his name and designation; (3) the name of the estate on which he is factor; (4) the date of his lodging of the inventory, if lodged; (5) the date of the last petition for the audit of his accounts ; (6) the latest date of the accounts so submitted to audit; (7) the date of the interlocutor approving of the accounts; and the said return, with the whole of the factors' inventories, accounts, and reports thereon, so far as lodged in process, shall be transmitted to the accountant on or before the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and it shall also be incumbent on the sheriff clerks to prepare the like returns applicable to all factors and other persons appointed in the sheriff courts, and not embraced under the provisions of the Pupils Protection Act, 1849, the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act, 1880, and the Bankruptcy Acts.