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On 23rd April 1890 the Earl of Glasgow, Keeper of Her Majesty's Signet for Scotland, died, and his mandate to Mr Charles B. Logan, W.S., to act as Deputy-Keeper thereupon fell. A petition having been presented by Mr Logan asking to be appointed Interim-Keeper, the Lord Ordinary on the Bills (Well-wood), pronounced an interlocutor in which, the “Crown Agent having expressed his consent” to the appointment, he appointed the petitioner to act as Interim-Keeper until the 3rd sederunt day in May. On 14th May, no permanent appointment of Keeper of the
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Signet having been made, the Court, the Lord Advocate having intimated his concurrence by counsel, continued the petitioner's appointment as Interim-Keeper till Her Majesty should be pleased to issue a commission appointing a new keeper.