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UNITED STATES CONSULAR REGULATIONS
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 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 the United States' metallic currency, or its equivalent.
98—In Consular Court,
XVII.-FEES*
In all cases and estates where the smount in question is not more than $500
In all cases and estates where it is over $500
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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 executions
For all summonses
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For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced
For all subpoenas and notices
For filling and entering every declaration, plea, or other paper For administering an oath or affirmation, except to an associate For taking an acknowledgement
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For taking and certifying depositions to fille (for each folio of 100 words): for the first 100 words, 50 cents; for
each succeding folio
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For a copy of such deposition, furnished to a party on request, per For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing any bond, or
making any record, certificate, returo, or report; for each folio For a copy of any entry or of any paper on file for each folio... The docket tee of 31, bereinbetore allowed, shall cover all charges for making dockets and indexes issuing venire for associates, taxing costs, and all other services not specified herein, in all cases where the amount involved is $100 or less; where the amount involved exceeds $100 the clerk shall be allowed for the services specifled in the foregoing paragraph, in all cases up to $500, inclusive, a fee of
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In all cases involving more than $500 the clerk shall be allowed for like services
3.00
For causes where issue is joined but no testimony is given, tor causes, dismissed or discontinued, the clerk shall be
allowed, for like services, one-half of the above fees, respectively For affixing the seat of the court to any instrument, when required For every search for any particular mortgage, or other lien
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For searching the records of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instruments constituting a lien on any property and certifying the result of such search: for each person against whom snch search is required to be made For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, 1 per centum of the
amount so received, kept, and paid.
For travelling, made necessary by the duties of his office: for going, 5 cents a mile, and 5 cents a mile for returning. All books in the clerk's office containing public records shall, dunag office hours, be open to the inspection of any
person desiring to examine the same without any fees or obarge therefor.
In case of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heira
For service an escheator
For every office found
For recording proceedings of inquest, per folio
For an affidavit in attachment
For approving bond in attachment
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For affidavit in distress cases
For affidavit in replerin casea
For approving replevin bond
For affidavit in trials of right of property
100–Marshal'a Fren.
Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
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For apprehending a deserter and delivering him on board the vessel deserted from, to be paid by the vessel before
leaving port For searching for the same, and, if not found, to be certified by the consul, and on his order to be paid by the ship 200
• Scale substituted for the original soxle, 13th March, 1940.
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