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The company may pay the deposit money into the Bank by way of security during the time that the office of the accountant general is closed.
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88. If at any time the company be unable, by reason of the closing of the office of the accountant general of the Court of Chancery, to obtain his authority in respect of the payment of any sum of money so authorized to be deposited in the Bank by way of security as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the company to pay into the Bank to the credit of such party or matter as the case may require (subject nevertheless to being dealt with as herein-after provided, and not otherwise,) such sum of money as the promoters of the undertaking shall, by some writing signed by their secretary or solicitors for the time being addressed to the Bank in that behalf, request, and upon any such payment being made the cashier of the Bank shall give a certificate thereof; and in every such case, within ten days after the re-opening of the said accountant general’s office, the solicitor for the promoters of the undertaking shall there bespeak the direction for the payment of such sum into the name of the accountant general, and upon production of such direction at the Bank of England the money so previously paid in shall be placed to the credit of the said accountant general accordingly, and the receipt for the said payment be given to the party making the same in the usual way, for the purpose of being filed at the Report Office.
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