FEES 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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In all cases where no specific damages are sought the fee shall be $5 for minor and $15 for greater cases.
99—Clerk's Feex,
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For issuing all writs, warrants, attachments, or other compulsory process For docketing every suit commenced For execntions
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For all snnimonses
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For all subpoenas and notices
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For filing and entering every declaratiou, plea, or other paper For administering an oath or affirmation, except to an associate For taking an acknowledgment
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For a copy of any entry or of any paper on file for each folio
For taking and certifying depositions to file (for each folio of 100 words): for the first 100 words, 50 cents; for
each succeeding folio For a copy of such deposition, furnished 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
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The docket fee of $1, hereinbefore allowed, sball cover all charges for making dockets and indexes, issuing venire for associates, taxing costs, and all other services not specified berein, 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 specified in the foregoing paragrapb, 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 issne is joined but no testimony is given, for canses, dismissed or discontinued, the clerk sball-
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 lien
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
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be made For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of oourt, 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 saine without any fees or charge therefor...
In cases of escheat the clerk shall receive for publication to heirs
For every office found
For service as escheator
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For recording proceedings of inquest, per folio
For an affidavit in attachment...
For approving bond in attachment
For affidavit in distress cases
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For affidavit in replevin cases
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For approving replevin bond
1.00
For affidavit in trials of right of property
50
Where bond is given in trial of right of property, for approving it
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1.00
100- Marshal's Fees,
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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
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5.00
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 returning all notices, writs, attachment, warrants, and summonses, each For each bail bond
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On every commitment or discharge of prisoner
2.00
For subpoenas, for each witness summoned ...
50
For returning subpoena
25
For each day's attendance upon court
3.00
For levying execution
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For advertising property for sale
2.00
For releasing property under execution by order of plaintiff
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For selling property under execution, when the amount collected does not exceed $1,000 bear If over $1,000 and not exceeding $5,000
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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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3.00
per cent.
8 per cent. **2 per cent.
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5 per cent.
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For serving every notice not heretofore provided for, in addition to the usual travelling fees... 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, 1889.
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