UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS
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90.-Copies on appeal.-On appeal, copies of all the papers must be paid for in advance by the appellant, except in criminal cases where respondent is unable to pay. 91.-Copies. Any person interested is entitled to a copy of any paper on file, on prepayment of the fee.
92.-Reasonable clearness, precision, and certainty should be required in the papers; and substantial justice and all practicable dispatch are expected in the decisions. 93.-Definition of Consul.-The word "Consul" is intended to include the Consul- General, and any Vice-Consul or Deputy-Consul actually exercising the Consular power at any Consulate, unless the sense requires a more limited construction.
94.-Associates.-Each associate in a Consular trial shall, before entering on his duties, be sworn by his Consul. Before taking the oath, he may be challenged by either party, and for sufficient cause excused, and another drawn.
95.-Contempt.-Consuls will always preserve order in Court, punishing sum- marily any contempt committed in their presence, or any refusal to obey their lawful summons or order, by imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs.
96.—Attorney.—Every party to a civil or criminal proceeding may be heard in person, or by attorney of his choice, or by both; but the presence of counsel shall be under the exclusive control and discretion of the Consul.
97.—Accounts.—The accounts of the Consular Courts shall be kept in United States' currency, and every order of deposit, decree of costs, taxation of fees, and generally every paper issuing originally from the Court, shall be expressed in dollars and cents, and satisfied in the United States' metallic currency, or its equivalent.
-In Consular Court.
XVII. FEES✶
In all cases and estates where the amount in question is not more than $500
In all cases and estates where it is over $500
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In all cases where no specific damages are sought the fee shall be $5 for minor and $15 for greater cases.
99-Clerk's Pees.
For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process
For docketing every suit commenced
For all subpœnas and notices
For executions
For all suiamionSea
For filing and entering every declaration, ples, or other paper
For administering an oath or affirmation, except to an associate For taking an acknowledgement
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For taking and certifying depositions to file (for each folio of 100 words): for the first 100 words, 50 cents; for
each succeding folio
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For a copy of such deposition, furnished to a party on request, per For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing any bond, or
making any record, certificate, return, or report: for each folio For a copy of any entry or of any paper ou file: for each folio...
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The cocket tee of $1, hereinbefore allowed, shall cover all charges for making dockets and indexes issuing venire for associates, taxing costs, and all other services not specified herein, in all cases where the amount involved is $100 or less; where the amount involved exceeds $100 the clerk shall be allowed for the services specified in the foregoing paragraph, in all cases up to $500), inclusive, a fee of
In all cases involving more than $500 the clerk shall be allowed for like services
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2.00
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For causes where issue is joined but no testimony is given, for causes, dismissed or discontinued, the clerk shall be
allowed, for like services, one-half of the above fees, respectively For affixing the seal of the court to any instrument, when required For every search for any particular mortgage, or other lien
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For approving bond in attachment
For andavit in distress cases
For approving replevin bond
For sfidavit in replevin cases
be made
For searching the recoris of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instruments constituting a lien on any property and certifying the result of such search: for each person against whom such search is required to For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, ï per centum of the
amount so received, kept, and paid.
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For travelling, made necessary by the duties of his office: for going, 5 cents a mile, and 5 cents a mile for returning. All books in the clerk's office containing public records shall, düriax office hours, be open to the inspection of any
person dearing to examine the same without any fees or charge therefor.
In case of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heirs
For service as enchentor
For every office found
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For recording proceedings of inquest, per folio For an affidavit in sitschment
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For adidavit in trials of right of property
Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
100-Murskať, Fees.
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For apprehending a deserter and delivering him on board the vessel deserted from, to be paid by the vessel before
leaving port
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For searching for the same, and, if not found, to be certified by the consul, and on his order to be paid by the ship 3.00
* Scale subutituted for the original nonia, 18th March, 1800.