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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
FEES OF COURT,-Continued.
ORDINANCE No. 20 of 1891.
BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION.
Scale of Fees.
Every declaration by a debtor of inability to pay his debt,
Every bankruptcy notice,.......
.$ 1.00
1.00
Every bankruptcy petition,
10.00
Every affidavit filed other than proof of debts,
0.50
Every proof of debt,
0.25
Every proxy,........
0.10
Every application to the Court except by the Official Receiver,
2.00
Every application for an order of discharge,
10.00
Every application to the Court to approve a scheine per cent, on tho
gross amount of the estimated assets.
· Ordinance 20 of 1891.
Every application to the Court to approve a composition à per cent, on the
gross amount of the composition.
For official stationery each estate for-
Every 50 creditors or less,
10.00
Every allocatur for costs where the bill does not excred $100,
2.00
and for every additional $100 or part thereof...
Remuneration of Trustee and Official Receiver.
0.50
To the Official Receiver on appointment of a Trustee other than himself, $5.00 to 50.00 To the Trustee—such commission on the assets not exceeding 5 per cent.
as the Court may order.
ORDINANCE No. 10 or 1886.
Probate Jurisdiction.
Where the whole Estato of a person dying intestate shall not exceed the sum of $500 the necessary administration papers are to be filled up in the office and the parties sworn or declared to the same without payment of any Fee save the undermentioned.
Estates sworn at and under $100,
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For every $50 or fraction of $50 over the first $100,
The above fees do not include Probate duties.
Estates sworn under $250 exempt from Probate Duty.
ORDINANCE No. 13 or 1896.
Admiralty Jurisdiction.
Court Fees.
Scaling any warrant, release, commission, attachment or other instrument
requiring to be scaled (other than a writ of sunmons or subpœun).
Filing a bail bond,
$ 1.00
0.20
Order for referenco,
Filing Preliminary Act,
Notice issued by Registrar,
Ordinance 10 of 1886.
..$ 10.00
5.00
10.00
5.00
1.00
10.00
5.00
2.50
Ordinance 13 of 1996.
10.00
5.00
Bailiff attending unlivery of cargo (to be paid in cash) for each day......................... Bailiff executing any commission of appraisement, sale or appraisement and sale, exclusive of the fees, if any, paid to the appraiser and auctioneer,....... Bailift executing any other commission or instrument or any warrant or
attacliment,.
On the gross procecils of any ship or goods, &c. sold by order of the Court
(to be deducted from the proceeds in Court) if not exceeding $1,000, For every additional £1,000 or part thereof,
For every matter or procceiling not above specified the same fee as is taken in Original Jurisdiction in respect of a similar matter or proceeding.
Assessor's Fees.
For cach nautical or other assessor whether at the examination of witnesses or at the trial of an action or at the hearing of an appeal or upon ( $ 10.00 any assessment of damages or taking of an account according to the case per diem.
From
to
50.00
Note.—The above fees shall be paid to the Registrar for the assessors in cash and in the first instance by the party preferring the claim or in the case of an appeal by the appellaut.
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