FEES FOR
FOR THE CONSULAR COURTS OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CHINA
98-In Consular Court.
In all cases and estates where the amount in question is not more than $500
In all cases and estates where it is over $500
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.$ 5.00 15.00
In all cases where do specific damages are sought the fee shall be $5 for minor and 815 for greater cases.
09—Clerk's Fees,
For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced
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For filing and entering every declaration, plea, or other paper For administering an oath or affirmation, except to an associate For taking an acknowledgment
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For taking and certifying depositions to file (for each folio of 100 words): for the first 100 words, 50 cents; for
each succeeding folio
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For a copy of such deposition, farnished to a party on request, per folio For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing any bond, or
making any record, certificate, return, or report: for each folio For a copy of any entry or of any paper on file for each folio The docket fee of 81, hereinbefore allowed, aball cover all charges for making dockets and indexes, issaing venire for associates, taxing costs, and all other services not specified herein, in all cases where the amount involved 18 $100 or less; where the amount involved exceeds $100 the clerk shall be allowed for the servic s specified in the foregoing paragraph, in all cases up to $500, inclusive, a fee of... In all cases involving more than $500 the clerk shall be allowed for like services For causes where issue is joined but no testimony is given, for causos, dismis ed or discontinued, the clerk shall
be allowed, for like services, one-half of the above fees, respectively. For affixing the seal of the court to any instrument, when required... For every search for any particular mortgage, or other lion
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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 such search is required to be made
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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, during office hours, be open to the inspection of any
person desiring to examine the same without any fees or charge therefor.
In cases of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heirs
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For recording proceedings of inquest, per folio
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For service as escheator
For every office found
For an affidavit in attachment.....
For approving bond in attachment
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For affidavit in distress cases
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For affidavit in replevin cases
For approving replevin bond
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For affidavit in trials of right of property
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Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
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For returning all notices, writs, attachment, warrants, and summonses, each
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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 his order to be paid by the ship 2.00 For serving any writ, warrant, attachment, or other compulsory process, each person For serving summonses
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For each bail bond
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On every commitment or discharge of prisoner For subpoenas, for each witness summoned
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For returning subpœna
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For each day's attendance upon court
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For levying execution
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For advertising property.for sale
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For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff For selling property under execution, when the amount collected does not exceed $1,000 If over 81,000 and not exceeding $5,000
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per cent. 8 per cent. per cent.
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For making collections under $200, In cases where no adjudication has taken place If the amount exceeds $200
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For travelling fees in serving all processes, each mile
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For serving every notice not heretofore provided for, in addition to the usual travelling fees...
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If an execution be paid and satisfied while in the hands of the marshal, and after he has made a levy on property to satisfy the same, he shall receive one-half the fees fixed for selling property under execution or attachment.
* Scale substituted for the original scale, 15th March, 1899.
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