UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS.
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
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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 subpienas, for each witness summoned...
For returning subpoena .
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For each day's attendance upon Court.
For levying execution....
For advertising property for sale.
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For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff.
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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
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per
cent.
3
a
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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...
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For making collection sunder $200 in cases where no adjudication has
taken place.
If the amount exceed $200.
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For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile..
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2
5
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21/10
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.2,
For serving every notice not heretofore provided for in addition to the usual
travelling fees.
For each day's attendance upon Court.
101.-Interpreter's Fees.
For making translations..
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If more than 200 words, for each additional hundred.
102.-Witnesses' Fees.
For 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.-Costs for prevailing party.
All necessary Court fees paid out.
XVIII.-PROVISO.
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$0.15
0.50
3.00
2.00
1.00
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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.
ANSON BURLINGAME.
Assented to,
GEO. F. SEWARD,
Consul General.
PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.
Assented to,
OLIVER H. PERRY,
U. S. Consul.
CANTON, July 12th, 1864.