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UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS.

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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 Consulate, 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 attorney 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 costs, 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 execution

For summonses and subpoenas...

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

For drawing every notice, paper, order, or process, not otherwise provided for

And if it exceed 200 words, for every additional hundred words

For every seal to process issued

1.00

0.50

0,20

2.00

1.00

1.00

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

100.-Marshal's Fees.-

0.10

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 or-

der to be paid by the said ship .....

2.00

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

2.00

1.00

For each bail-bond

For returning all writs, attachments, and summonses, each

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 advertising property for sale

For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff

0.50

1.00

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 over $1,000, and not exceeding $5,000.

3

If over $5,000 ...

.2

For making collections under $200 in cases where no adjudication has taken place...5 If the amount exceed $200...

21

For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile

$.0.15

For serving every notice not heretofore provided for in addition to the usual travelling fees 0.50

101.-Interpreter's Fees.-

For each day's attendance upon Court

3.00

For making translations

2.00

If more than 200 words, for each additional hundred...

1.00