FEES FOR THE CONSULAR COURTS OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CHINA
98-In Consular Court,
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
In all cases where do specific damages are sought the fee shall be $5 for minor and $1 for greater cases.
99-Clerk's Fees,
For issuing all writs, warrauts, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced
For execntions
For all summonses
For all subpoenas aud notices
For filing and catering every declaration, plea, or other paper
For administering au oath or affirmation, except to an associate
For taking an acknowledgment
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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 succeeding folio
For a copy of such deposition, furnished to a party on request, per folio
For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing auy 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 docket fee of $1, hereinbefore allowed, shall cover all eh urges 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 8100 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 clark shall be allowed for like services
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For causes where issue is joined but no testimony is given, for canses, dismissed or discontinued, the clerk shall
be allowed, for like services, oue-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
For searching the records 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 be made
For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, 1 per centum of the
amount so receivert, kept, and paid.
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, during office hours, be open to the inspection of nay
person desiring to examine the same without any fees or charge therefor.
In cases of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heirs
For service as escheator
For every office found
For recording proceedings o inquest, per folio
For an affidavit in attachment...
For approving bond in attachment
For affidavit in distress cases
For affidavit in replevin cases
For approving replevin bond
For affidavit n trials of right of property
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Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
100– Marshal's Fecs,
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For apprehending a dcserter and delivering him on board the vessel deserted from, to be paid by the vessel before
leaving port
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5.00
For searching for the same, and, if not found, to be certified by the consul, and his order to be paid by the ship 2000 For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, cr other compulsory process, each person
For serving summonses
For returning all notices, writs, attachment, warrants, and summonses, each
For each bail besnel
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s every commitment or discharge of prisoner
For subpuras, for each witness summoned
For returning subpiena
For each day's attendance upon court
For levying execution
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For advertising property for sale
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Far releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff
For selling property under execution, when the amount collected (ioes not exceed $1,000
f over $1,000 and not exceeding $5,000
If over $5,000
For making collections under $200, In cases where no adjudication has taken place
If the ammo in exceeds $200
For travelling fees in serving all processes, cach mile
For serving every notice not heretofore provided for, in addition to the usual travelling fees...
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3.00
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per cent.
2 per cent.
5 per cent. per cent.
If an execution be paid and satisfied while in the hands of the marshal, and after he has made a levy on property to satisfy the same, he shall receive one-half the fees fixed for selling property under execution or attachinent.
• Scale substituted for the original scale, l5th March, 1889.
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