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UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS.

997

For searching for the same, and if not found, to be certified by the Consul, and on

his order to be paid by the said ship,..

-

For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each

person,.

For serving summons,

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For returning all writs, attachments, warrants, and summons, each,

For each bail-bond,

For every commitment or discharge of prisoner,

On subpoenas, for each witness summoned,.

For returning subpoena,

For each day's attendance upon Court,

For levying execution,.

For advertising property for sale,.

For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff,

• • •

2.00

2.00

1.00

0.50

1.00

2.00

0.50

0.20

3.00

1.50

2.00

3.00

+

.5 per cent, ..3

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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,.

If over $5,000,

For making collections under $200 in cases where no adjudication has taken

placed,...

If the amount exceed $200,

For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile,.

For serving every notice not heretofore provided for in addition to the usual

travelling fees,

101. Interpreter's Fees.

For each day's attendance upon Court,

Eor making translations,

If more than 200 words, for each additional hundred,

102. Witnesses' Fees.

Eor every day's attendance at Court,.

·

For each mile travelled in going to and returning from Court,.

103. Crier's Fees.

On trial of every suit,

104. Citizen Associates' Fees.

For each day's attendance,... ... ...

105. Cos & for prevailing party.

All necessary Court fees paid out.

XVIII. PROVISO.

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21

$ 0.15

0.50

3.00

2.00

· 1.00

1.50

0.15

$1.00

3.60

106. All decrees heretofore issued by authority of the Commissioners and Minister of United States to China, which are inconsistent in whole or in part with the provisions of this Decree, are hereby annulled, and those portions are henceforth void and of no effect; and the promulgation of these rules abrogates no authority hitherto lawfully exercised by Consuls in China not inconsistent herewith.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES TO CHINA,

PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.

Assented to

ANSON BURLINGAME.

PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.

Assented to

Canton, July 12th, 1864.

GEO. F. SEWARD, Consul General.

OLIVER H. PERRY,

U. S. Comani,

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