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such of them and in such manner as the Board of Trade shall by any general or special direction require. Provided that the Board of Trade may at any time require that an estate which has been assigned to one of the Official Receivers of the district be transferred either permanently or for special purposes of administration to one of the other Official Receivers. In such case the Registrar shall transfer the Receivership of that estate to the Official Receiver designated by the Board of Trade. The order of transfer shall be in the Form No. 176 in the Appendix.

Power of one Receiver to take the business of another. [323B.]

71. When there are two or more Official Receivers attached to the district of the same Court, any one of them shall (subject to the directions and control of the Board of Trade) have power without any transfer of the Receivership of an estate to take and perform any business and duties of any other Receiver.

Officers of Board of Trade and clerks of Official Receivers in certain cases to act for Official Receivers. [823C.]

72. In the absence of the Official Receiver to whom an estate has been assigned, any officer of the Board of Trade duly authorised for the purpose by the Board of Trade, and any clerk of the Official Receiver duly authorised by him in writing, may by leave of the Court act on behalf of the Official Receiver, and take part for him in the public examination of the debtor, in any examination under the twenty-seventh section of the Act of 1883, and on any unopposed application to the Court. Unclaimed Funds, &c. under Section 162 of Act of 1883.

Accounts by trustees under Act of 1883 of unclaimed funds. [346A.]

73. For the purposes of sub-section 1 of section 162 of the Act of 1883, the Board of Trade may at any time order the trustee under any bankruptcy composition or scheme to submit to them an account verified by affidavit of the sums received and paid by him under or in pursuance of any such bankruptcy, composition or scheme, and may direct and enforce an audit of the account, and payment of any unclaimed or undistributed moneys arising from the property of the debtor in the hands or under the control of such trustee into the Bankruptcy Estates Account in accordance with the terms of the said sub-section.

Miscellaneous.

Disposal of bankrupts' books and рарегs. [294.]

74. The Board of Trade may, on the application of the Official Receiver, direct that the debtor's books of account and other documents given up by him may be sold, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of.

Repeal.

75. (1) The following of the Bankruptcy Rules, 1886,* are hereby annulled as from the commencement of these Rules :-