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UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS
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.
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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 Cousular 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.
98-In Consular Court.
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In all cases and estates where the smount 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 Fees.
For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced
For executions
For all summonses
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For all subpoenas and notices
For filing and entering every declaration, plea, 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 word, 50 cents; foi
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For a copy of such deposition, furnished to a party on request, per folio For entering any retura, rule, order, continuance, judgnient, 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 on file; for each folio...
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The docket fee of $1, hereinbefore allowed, shall cover all charges for making dockets and indexes issuing vexire for associates, taxing costs, and all other services not specifled herein, in all cases where the amount involved is $ 0) 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
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In all cases involving more than $50) the clerk shall be allowed for like services
For causes where issue is joined but no testimony is given, tor 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 searching the recor is of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instrument‹ constituting a lien on any property and certifying the result of such search: for each person against whom such search is required to be made For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, 1 per centum of the
amount en received, kept, and paid.
1.00
For travelling, made necessary by the duties of his office: for going, 6 cents a mile, and 5 cents a mile for returning. All books in the clerk's office containing public records shall, during office bours, be open to the inspection of any
person desiring to examine the same without any fees or charge therefor. In case of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heirs
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For service as escheator
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For recording proceedings of inquest, per folio For an affidavit in attachment
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For affidavit in replevin cases
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For approving rep'evin bond
For davit in trisis of right of property
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Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
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For apprehending a descrter 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 1.00
# Sosle substituted for the original seale, Läch March, 189,
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