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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, de,

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

POSTAGE—Continued,

Box Rests:—

$10 per annum for each private box at Ilongkong or Shanghai,

Yosey. OrderA :—

1.

£7.

Up to $25,

$50,.

On the United Kingdom.

Local and Intercolonial Orders.

18 cents. .36

Ordinance No. 10 of 1870.

.54

+

+

.........25 cents,

"

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.

FEES:-

SUPREME COURT,

Regula Generalis passed March, 1847, under Section 23 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845.

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

.$1.00 0.50

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, Writ of Capias,....

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

exceed $100,

2.00

0.25

1.00

Alias or Pluries do.........................

1.00

Filing and entering every Appearance,

1.00

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

exceed $100,

For

every $100, or fractional part thereof after the first $100, In all Ejectments, and in all Actions and Proceedings where the Property sought to be recovered shall consist of Lands or Houses, or both, the charge on filing or entering Declaration shall be one quarter 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

per cent on the value of the Chattel, and one quarter per cent on the damage laid in the Declaration.

0.50 0.25

Ordinance No. 13 of 1878, Section XCIV, Sub- section 3.

Registrar's Certificate of Declaration being filed...............

1.00

For filing any Documents or Affidavits not otherwise charged,..

For filing and entering every Plea, Demurrer, Joinder in Demurrer, Re-

plication. Rejoinder, or other Pleading.............

0.50

0.25

For the Pleadings when issue is joined, in Fact or in Law, or both, one

Fee of...........

2.00

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

Record, or otherwise on the Tazing of Coste.

For Subpoena, each Witness,-

..$0.50

Fne signing the Jury Process, and passing and sealing the Record of Nisi

Priss

1.00

Xork—Venire

NOTK-Venire and Distringas included in this.