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UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS.

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89.-Officer.- All processes not served by the Consul personally must be executed by an officer of the Consulate, who shall sign his return, specifying the time and mode of service, and annexing an account of his fees.

90.-Copies on appeal.-On appeal, copies of all the papers must be paid for in advance by the appellant, except in criminal cases where respondent is unable to pay. 91.-Copies. Any person interested is entitled to a copy of any paper on file, on prepayment of the fee.

92.-Reasonable clearness, precision, and certainty should be required in the papers; and substantial justice and all practicable dispatch are expected in the decisions. 93.—Definition of Consul.—The word "Consul" is intended to include the Consul- General, and any Vice-Consul or Deputy-Consul, actually exercising the Consular power at any Consulata, unless the sense requires a more limited construction.

94.-Associates. Each associate in a Consular trial shall, before entering on his duties, be sworn by his Consul. Before taking the oath, he may be challenged by either party, and for sufficient cause excused, and another drawn.

95.-Contempt.--Consuls will always preserve order in Court, punishing sum- marily any contempt committed in their presence, or any refusal to obey their lawful summons or order, by imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs.

96. – Attorney.—Every party to a civil or criminal proceeding may be heard in person, or by a'torney of his choice, or by both; but the presence of counsel shall be under the exclusive control and discretion of the Consul.

97.-Accounts.-The accounts of the Consular Courts shall be kept in United States' currency; and every order of deposit, decree of cost, taxation of fees, and generally every paper issuing originally from the Court, shall be expressed in dollars and cents, and satisfied in United States' metallic currency, or its equivalent.

98.-In Consular Court.-

XVII.-FEES.

In all cases where the amount in question is not more than $500. In all cases where it is over $500.

$ 5.00 15.00

In all cases where no specific damages are sought, the fee shall be $5 for minor,

and $15 for greater cases.

99.-Clerk's Fees.-

For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced.....

1.50

1.00

For executions..

1.00

For summonses and subpoenas...

0.50

For all records at the rate of, for each hundred words.................

0.20

For drawing every notice, paper, order, or process, not otherwise provided for. 2.00 And if it exceed 200 words, for every additional hundred words..

1.00

For every seal to process issued...

1.00

For filing each paper upon the return of the Marshal, and all papers filed in

Court..

0.10

100.-Marshal's Fees.-

For apprehending a deserter, and delivering him on board the vessel deserted

from, to be paid by the vessel before leaving port..

5.00

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..

2.00

For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each

person

2.00

For serving summons.

1.00

For returning all writs, attachments, warrants, and summonses, each

0.50

For each bail-bon 1............

1.00

For every commitment or discharge of prisoner.

2.00

On subpoenas, for each witness summoned......

For returning subpœna.....

For each day's attendance upon Court...

0.50

0.20

3.00