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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority

under which levied.

FEES OF COURT OR OFFICB, &c.—Continued,

BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION :—

5. For each notice by an Official Receiver to a creditor of a first or any

other meeting, or sitting of the Court:-

Where the estimated value of the estate exceeds $1,000 ench notice, $0.50 Where the estimated value of the assets does not exceed $1,000 :-

On the first twenty notices-each notice,

0.50

For each notice above twenty,

0.25

Each notice by an Official Receiver to a creditor of an adjourned

meeting or au adjourned sitting of the count,

0,25

6. For the Official Receiver supervising a special manager or the carrying on of a debtor's business, where the estimated assets exceed $1,000, a fee according to the following scale :-

If the gross assets are estimated by the Official Receiver not to

exceed $5,000,.

If to exceed $5,000 but not to exceed $50,000,

If to exceed $50,000 but not to exceed $100,000,

Per week.

$15.00

30,00

45.00

If to exceed $100,000 but not to exceed $200,000, If to exceed $200,000,...

60.00

75.00

7. Travelling, keeping possession, and other reasonable expeuses of Official

Receiver or trustee-the amount disbursed.

8. For official stationery, printing, books, forms, and postages, each estate :—

For every ten applications to debtors to an estate, or fraction of ten, $ 1.50 Where the estimated assets exceed $1,000 :—

For every ten creditors or fraction of ten, ...................

Where the estimated assets do not exceed $1,000:-

For every ten creditors or fraction of ten up to twenty, For every ten creditors or fraction of ten above twenty,

7.50

7.50 3.75

9. A fee according to the following scale on the gross amount of the assets realised

and brought to credit shall be paid :-

(i) in respect of estates in which the Official Roceiver acts as trustee, when be accounts to the court under section 78(8) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931.

(ii) in respect of estates in which the Official Receiver is not acting as trustee, when the trustee sends his accounts to the Official Receiver under section 93(1) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931,

SCALE

$15 on every $1,000 or fraction of $1,000 up to $50,000,

$7.50 on every $1,000 or fraction of $1,000 beyond $50,000,

Provided that where a fee has been taken on an application to approve a composition or schome of arrangement seven-eights of the amount thereof shall be deducted from the fee.

10. On every payment of money out of the Bankruptcy Estates Account 20 cents

on each $10 or fraction of $10 to be charged as follows:-

When the money consists of unclaimed dividends, on each dividend paid

out.

When the money cousists of undistributed funds or balances, on the amount

paid out.

TABLE C.

Scale of Allowances to Auctioneers, Accountants

and Special Managers.

R. 182.

All the following charges shall be subject to reduction by agreement with the Official

Receiver or the trustee,

Pure Personal Property.

1.—Auctioneers.

For inventory, only, and one copy (not exceeding 5 folios)................................. For every additional folio beyond 5 up to 20 and one copy

For each folio above 20, and one copy..

For inventory and valuation :—

On the first $1,000.

On the next 84,000..........

Above $5,000 up to $100,000 Above $100,000

.$ 15.00

1.00 .75

per cent.

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Section 115 of the Bank- ruptcy Ordinance, 1931, Ordinance No. 10 of 1931, on the 15th day of October, 1932, and approved by the Legis- lative Council on the 10th day of November, 1932,