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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature

or other Authority under which levied.

FEES OF Court:—

ORDER AS TO THE FEES AND PERCENTAGES TO BE

TAKEN IN THE SUPREME COURT.

It shall

1.—This Order may be cited as The Supreme Court Fees Order, 1903,

come into force on the 1st day of June, 1903, and shall apply to all enuses and matters commenced on and after the suid day, and to all proceedings taken on and after the said day in all causes and matters then pending. 2.-The fees and percentages contained or referred to in the several Schedules hereto are fixed and appointed to be and shall be taken in the Supreme Court in the various jurisdictions to which the said Schedules respectively relate; and the' said fees and percentages shall, except in so far as the said Schedules provide for a payment in cash, be taken by stamps either impressed or adhesive as the Governor may from time to time direct.

3.—All Orders and Rules of Court heretofore made for the purpose of fixing fees or percentages in the Supreme Court are hereby aunulled, but this Order shall not apply to or affect existing fees or percentages directed to be taken or paid by any Ordinance.

4. — A folio comprises 72 words, each tigure being counted as a word.

Scaling every

SCHEDULE I.

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

Writs of Summone, Subpœnas, und Appearance.

Writ of Summous for commencement of a Cause (except a con- current, renewed or amended Writ) and sealing a Writ of Injunction, Certiorari, Mandamus, or Hubens Corpus

Interpleader Summons ..............

Sealing a concurrent, renewed or amended Writ of Summons

Sealing a Subpoena

Sealing a Subpoena for each Wituess in addition to the first

Entering an Appearance for each Defendant

Certificate of Non-Appearance,

Writs of Execution, &c.

Sealing a Warrant for arrest of a Defendant, or for arrest and detention of a

Ship or for Attachment of Property before Judgment................

Sealing & Writ of Execution or Writ of Possession

Scaling a Prohibitory Onder

Order for Release of Defendant from Custody

Each Copy, Prohibitory Order

+

$ 5.00

5.00

1,50

3.00

0.50

I

1.50

1.50

15.00

15.00

1.00

3.00

1.50 |

Foreign Attachment.

Sealing a Writ of Foreign Attachment

15.00

Settling Boud

4.00

Filing same,

2.00

Certificate of Dissolution of Foreigu Attachment or Satisfaction of the Judg-

ment,

5.00

Registrar's Order for seizure of Property,

5.00

Pleadings, Issues, References, fc.

Filing any Pleading and Sealing Copy....

6.00

Filing any amended Ploading and Sealing Copy,

3.00

Filing any Petition of Right or Special Case,

10:00

Filing any issue,

15.00

Filing any Agreement under Section 239 of Cole,

15.00

Order of Reference of Accounts, &e,

10,00

Filing same,

1.50

Order of Reference to Arbitratiou......................

5.00

Filing same,

1.50

Application to file award in Court when arbitration has been without the inter-

vention of the Cottri...........................

7.50

Taking Evidence, Affidavits, &c.

Administering any Oath or taking any Declaration in the Registry,

Filing any Affidavit or Declaration,

1.00

1.00

I

Administering any Oath or taking any Doclaration outside the Registry,

(other than Outh or Declaration of Ďebtor in Gaol),

10.00

Marking every Exhibit,

0.50

For every Witness examined de bene esse by the Judge, Registrar or other

Officer in the Court House ineluding Outh,

10.00

For every Witness examined de bene esse by the Judge, Registrar or other

Officer, outside the Court Honse, including Oath,................... Attendauce of any Government Official to produce or prove in the Supreme

Court any reconl or document,..

20.00

5.00

The Supreme Court Fees Order, 1903. (Vide Government Notification No. 256 of 24th April, 1903.)

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