846
UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL CONSULAR REGULATIONS.
For each bail-bond
For every cominituent or discharge of prisoner
On subpoenas, for each witness summoned
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
$2.00
For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each
person
2.00
For serving summons
1.00
For turning alt writs, attachments, and summonses, each
0.50
1.00
2.00
0.50
0.20
3.00
1.50
For advertising property for sale
2.00
3.00
For selling pro¡ erty under execution, when the amount collected does not
exceed $1,000
5
per cent.
3
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2
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For returning subpœna
For each day's attendance upon Court
For levying execution
For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff
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 place
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
For each day's attendance upou Court..
101.-Interpreter's Fees.-
For making translations
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
134.-Associate's Fees.-
For each day's attendance
105.-Costs for prevailing party.-
All necessary Court fees paid out.
5
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22
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$0.15
0.50
3.00
2.00
1.00
1.50
0.15
1.00
3.60
XVIII.-PROVISO.
106.-All decrees heretofore issued by authority of the Commissioners and Minister of the 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 promul ation of these rules abrogates no authority hitherto lawfully exercised by Consuls in China not inconsistent her with.
ANSON BURLINGAME.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES TO CHINA,
PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.
ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR THE CONSULAR COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN CHINA.
These regulations which have been decreed, as having the force of law in the Consular Courts of the United States in China by James B. Angell, Envoy Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, are dated May 26th, 1881. They have been assented to by the various United States Consuls in China and are as follow:-
1. In civil proceedings between American citizens in the Consular Courts in China, the service of summons upou the defendant, if he is found within the Empire