FEES FOR
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
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In all cases where do specific damages are sought the fee shall be $5 for minor and $15 for greater cases.
99-Clerk's Feex,
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For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or otber compulsory process For docketiug every suit oommenced For execntions
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For all summonses
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For all subpoenas and notices
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For filing and entering every declaratiou, plea, or other paper For administering an 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, jndgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing any bond, or
making any record, certificate, return, or report: for each folio
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400
For a copy of any entry or of any paper on file: for each folio
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The docket fee of $1, herein before 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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For canses where issue is joined but no testimony is given, for canses, 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 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
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For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, 1 per centum of the
aniount so received, 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 any
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 of inquest, per folio
For an affidavit in attachment...
For approving bond in attachment
For affidavit in distress cases
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For affidavit in replevin cases
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For approving replevin bond
For affidavit in 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 Fees.
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5.00
For apprehending a deserter and delivering him on board the vessel deserted from, to be paid by the vessel before
leaving port For searching for the same, and, if not found, to be certified by the consul, and his order to be paid by the ship 2.00 For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each person For serving summonses
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For returning all notices, writs, attachment, warrants, and summonses, each For each bail bond
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On every commitment or discharge of prisoner For subpoenas, for each witness summoned
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For returning subpoena
For each day's attendance upon court
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For levying execution
For advertising property for sale
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For releasing property nnder execution by order of plaintiff
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For selling property under execution, when the amount collected does not exceed $1,000 If over $1,000 and not exceeding $5,000
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If over $5,000
For making collections under $200, In cases where no adjudication has taken place If the amount exceeds $200
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For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile
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For serving every notice not heretofore provided for, in addition to the usual travelling fees... 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 attachment.
* Scale substituted for the original scale, 15th March, 1889.