CO129-518-11 Request for information regarding the levying of poundage on all monies paid into Supreme Court... 29-8-1929 - 14-12-1929 — Page 13

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accounting operations rather than to fix these fees

at lower rates and introduce an additional fee to be

charged on the payment of moneys into Court. This

arrangement tended to make the scale of fees more

simple and intelligible, and, moreover, there would

be considerable practical difficulties in the

collection of a fee on payments into Court,

particularly in the case of the enormous number of

payments which are made by way of instalments of a

few shillings per month. lt is true that there are

substantial differences in the amount of accounting

work to be done in different actions, depending

upon whether the amount of the judgment is paid in

one sum or by perhaps twenty or more small instal-

ments. A fee on payment into Court in the case of

a debt action could not justly be calculated upon the

sum paid in, as it costs no more to make a book entry

of £100 than of £10. If any such fee were adopted

it should relate rather to the number of book-keeping