THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 19, 1917.
If the solicitor does not carry on business in the town in which the Prize Court sits, the Registrar may in his discretion allow him for each day he is necessarily absent from his place of business any sum not exceed- ing, per day
And expenses (besides actual reasonable travelling expenses)
each day, including Sundays, not exceeding
If the solicitor has to attend on more than one hearing or assessment at the same time and place the expenses in
such case to be rateably divided.
To hear judgment when same adjourned.
or according to circumstances, not exceeding
Before the Registrar or before the Registrar and Mer-
chants, on a reference
.$ 65.00
13.00
4.00
13.00
..From $13.00 to 65.00
To deliver papers (when required) for the use of a Judge
prior to a hearing
On taxation of a bill of costs
or according to circumstances, not to exceed
pay reference fees........
4.00
4.00
39.00
To
4.00
To arrange for and on completion of bail papers.......
8.00
To enquire as to sufficiency of sureties, in respect of each
surety
4.00
or such further amount as the taxing officer may think reasonable, if any special enquiries have been made.
Inspecting bail papers when filed
4.00
To obtain or give an undertaking to appear
4.00
On printer to insert advertisements, or for any other neces-
sary purpose
4.00
4.00
On Registrar to certify that a cause set down is settled, or for any reason not to come into the paper for hearing... To advice, or receive instructions from, a client, where ren- dered necessary by anything done by an opposite party during the progress of a cause or matter, for each
attendance
or such further allowance as the taxing master shall consider reasonable.
On any other attendance (whether before the Judge in chambers, before the Registrar, a commissioner, exami- ner, or the Marshal, or upon a witness or a party or his solicitor) which the taxing officer shall deem necessary, and for which a fee has not been specially provided
Oaths and Exhibits.
Commissioners to take oaths or affidavits :—
For every oath or declaration
The solicitor for preparing each exhibit
The commissioner for marking each exhibit
Letters.
For every letter written by the solicitor which does not fall under the head of instructions for brief, and which the taxing officer shall deem reasonable and necessary or according to circumstances not to exceed For every letter in the nature of a notice sent by a solicitor
to his own client or any other person
And in addition, in respect of correspondence between a solicitor and his client, other than correspondence allowed for by the taxing officer under the head of instructions for brief, for every letter which the taxing officer shall deem reasonable and necessary.
or according to circumstances not to exceed
In addition to the above an allowance is to be made for the necessary expense of postages, carriage, and transmis- sion of documents.
Evidence.
As to evidence such just and reasonable charges and ex- penses as appear to have been properly incurred in procuring evidence and attendance of witnesses are to be allowed.
4.00
4.00
1.00
.50
.50
2.10
3.00
1.00
2.10
3.00
617
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