UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS.
For searching for the same, and if not found, to be certified by the Consul, and on
his order to be paid by the said ship...
For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each
person...
For serving summons.
299
.$2.00
2.00
1.00
For returning all writs, attachments, warrants, and summons, each For each bail-bond...
0.50
...
1.00
For advertising property for sale...........
For every commitment or discharge of prisoner.
On subpoenas, for each witness summoned.
For returning subpoena.
For each day's attendance upon Court
For levying execution.........
For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff.
2.00
0.50
0.20
3.00
1.50
2.00
3.00
For selling property under execution, when the amount collected does not
exceed $1,000....
5
per
cent.
If the amount exceed $200....
travelling fees...
101.-Interpreter's Fees.
For making translations..
102.- Witnesses' Fees.
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If over $1,000, and not exceeding $5,000..
If over $5,000........
For making collections under $200 in cases where no adjudication has
taken place......
For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile...
For serving every notice not heretofore provided for in addition to the usual
For each day's attendance upon Court....
If more than 200 words,.for each additional hundred..
For every day's attendance at Court.............
For each mile travelled in going to and returning from Court......
103.-Crier's Fees.
On trial of every suit...
104 Associates' Fees.
For each day's attendance...
105.-Costs for prevailing party.
All necessary Court fees paid out.
XVIII.-PROVISO.
106.-All decrees heretofore issued by authority of the Commissioners and Minister of United States to China, which are inconsistent in whole or in part with the provisions of this Decree, are hereby annulled, and those portions are henceforth void and of no effect; and the promulgation of these rules abrogates no authority hitherto lawfully exercised by Consuls in China not inconsistent herewith.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES TO CHINA,
PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.
ANSON BURLINGAME.
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$0.15
0.50
3.00
2.00
1.00
1.50
0.15
1.00
3.60
Assented to,
GEO. F. SEWARD,
Consul Generol.
PEKING, April 23rd, 1864.
Assented to,
OLIVER H. PERRY,
U. S. Consul.
CANTON, July 12th, 1864.
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