I have been dealt with
in the same
way noth
taken in respect
other proceedings
in the Supreme Court,
and should not have
been paid for
their own benefit to the Judges of the Register, or the official who discharges the duty
Such are office fees and not personal fees, as was the case in the Vice Admiralty Court before Parliament, when it was abolished.
4. In making this change, the Vice Admiralty Courts Acts of 1863 and 1867, protected the interests of the existing officials of those Courts, who might otherwise have suffered by their abolition, and Section 16 (8) of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890, provided that the amount of each fee should, as nearly as practicable, be paid to the same officer or person who, but for the passing of this Act, would have been entitled to receive the same in respect of like business.
You will observe that the Act draws a distinction between the taking of the fees (from the suitors) and
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