SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

POSTAGE, Continued.

Box RENTS:-

$10 per annum for each private box at Hongkong or Shanghai, $12 at Yokohama.

MONEY ORDERS:—

On the United Kingdom.

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Up to £2, £5, " £ 7,

£10,

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Up to $25, $50,

Local and Intercolonial Orders.

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Act of Colonial Legislaturo or other Authority under which lovied.

.18 cents. .36

· Ordinance No.10 of 1876.

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.54

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.16 conts. .30

FINES

FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURT.

Levied in Supreme Court, Police Court, and Marine Magistrate's Court,.......

FORFEITURES,

Under Common Law and

Local Ordinances. Direction of the Supreme and Inferior Courts.

PERO:-

SUPREME COURT.

Regula Generalis passed March, 1847, under Section 23 of Ordinance No. 0 of 1845.

For filing or entering Plaint or Statement of Cause on Action,. Writ of Summons, each Defendant,.........................

.$1.00 0.50

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For filing every Affidavit of debt, where the sum sworn to shall not

exceed, $100,

2.00

For filing every Affidavit of debt, where the sum sworn to shall exceed

$100, for every $100 or fractional part thereof beyond the first $100,

0.25

Writ of Capias, ...

1.00

Alins or Pluries do....

1,00

1.00

Filing and entering Declaration, where the real amount claimed shall not

exceed $100,

0.50

Filing and entering every Appearance,-

For every $100, or fractional part thereof after the first $100,

In all Ejectmouts, and in all Actions and Proceedings where tho Property sought to be recovered shall consist of Lands or Houses, or both, the chargo on filing or entering Declaration shall be one quartor per cent upon the valuation at which the same is assessed by Government. In all Actions or Proceedings brought for the recovery of a Specific Per- sonal Chattel, or for damages done thereto, or for conversion of the same, the charge for filing and entering Declaration shall be 1 por cent on the value of the Chattel, and one quarter por vent on the dumago Inid in the Declaration.

0.25

Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, Section 23, and Ordi- nauco No. 8 of 1800, Sections 10 and 43.

Registrar's Certificato of Declaration being filed,.

1.00

For filing any Documents or Affidavits not otherwise charged,

For filing and entering overy Plen, Demurrer, Joindor in Domuurror, Re-

plication, Rejoinder, or other Plending,

0.50

For the Pleadings whion iesuo is joined, in Fact or in Law, or both, one

Fce of.....

0.20

2.00

NOTE,―This Fee is to be collected on signing the Writ of Trial or on passing the

Record, or otherwise on the Taxing of Costs.

For Subpoena, each Witness,

.$0.50

For signing the Jury Procoss, and passing and scaling the Record of Nisi

Prius,

1.00

NOTE.-Venire and Distringas included in this.