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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

POSTAGE,-Continued.

Box RENTS:-

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

MONET ORDERS:-

On the United Kingdom.

Up to £2,

£5,

.18 cents. .30

Ordinance No. 10 of 1876.

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£10,....

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Local and Intercolonial Orders.

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Up to $25, $50,

......25 cents.

.50

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FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURT.

FINES:-

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

FORFEITURES.

Under Common Law and

Local Ordinances. Direction ofthe 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

Alias or Pluries do.,

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

1.00

Filing and entering every Appearance,

1.00

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

exceed $100,

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

0.50 0.25

In all Ejectments, and in all Actions and Proceedings where the Property sought to be recovered shall consist of Lauds 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.

Registrar's Certificate of Declaration being filed,.

Ordinance No. 13 of1872, Section XCIV, Sub. section 3.

1.00

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

plication, Rejoinder, or other Pleading,......... For filing any Documents or Affidavits not otherwise charged, For the Pleadings when issue is joined, in Fact or in Law, or both, one

Fee of,

0,50

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0.25

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 Costs.

For Subpoena, each Witness,.........

...$0.50

For signing the Jury Process, and passing and sealing the Record of Nini

Prius,

1.00

NOTE-Venire and Distringas included in this.