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Power to direct District Court to make inquisition in certain cases.— (1) If the alleged lunatic is not within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court, and the inquisition cannot conveniently be made in the manner hereinbefore provided, the Court may direct the inquisition to be made before the District Court within whose local jurisdiction the alleged lunatic may be ; and such District Court shall accordingly proceed to make 'such inquisition in the same manner as if the alleged lunatic were subject to its 18 jurisdiction, and shall certify its finding upon the matters of inquisition to the Court directing the inquisition. (2) The record of evidence taken upon the inquisition shall be transmitted, together with any remarks the Court may think fit to make thereon, to the Court by which the inquisition was directed.