Fees to be taken by
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[MAY 8, 1858.
that if any Person shall, in his own Name, or in that of any other Person, do or perform any Act whateve belonging to the Office of a Proctor in consideration of any Gain, Fee, or Reward, or with a view t participate in the Benefit to be derived from the Office, Functions, or Practice of a Proctor, without being admitted and enrolled, every such Person shall be subject to certain other Penalties therein mentioned: B it enacted, Nothing in the said Act contained shall prevent any Proctor of the Court of Probate from acting as Agent of any Attorney or Solicitor in relation to any Matter Testamentary, or from allowing him to participate in the Profits of and incident thereto.
XCV. The Lord Chancellor, with such Assistance as is hereinbefore provided as to Rules and Orders eers of Court and to be made in pursuance of this Act, shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, Officers of County fix a Table or Tables of Fees to be taken by the Officers of the Court of Probate, and the Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies practising therein, including the District Registrars, and the Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies practising in District Registries, and of Fecs to be taken by the Officers of the County Courts, in respect of Business under this Act, and of Fees to be payable in respect of Searches, Inspection, and Printed and other Copies of and Extracts from Records, Wills, and other Documents in the Custody or under the Control of the Court of Probate, and the Judge of the Court of Probate, with such Concurrence as is herein-before provided in respect of the Amendment of Rules and Orders, is hereby empowered, from Time to Time after this Act shall come into operation, to add to, reduce, alter, or amend such Table or Tables of Fees, as he may see fit: Provided that such Tables of Fees and every Alteration of the same, except so far as respects the Fees which are to be taken by District Registrars, Proctors, and others, for their own Remuneration and to their own Use, shall be subject to the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and every such Table of Fees, and every Addition, Reduction, Alteration, or Amendment to, in, or of the same, shall be published in the London Gazette; and no other Fees than those specified and allowed in such Tables of Fees shall be demanded or taken by such Officers, and Proctors, Solicitors, and Attornies.
Taxation of Costs.
XCVI. The Bill of any Proctor, Attorney, or Solicitor, for any Fees, Charges, or Disbursements in respect of any Business transacted in the Court of Probate, whether contentious or otherwise, or any Matters connected therewith, shall, as well between Proctor or Attorney or Solicitor and Client as he tween Party and Party, be subject to Taxation by any One of the Registrars of the said Court, and the Mode in which any such Bill shall be referred for Taxation, and by whom the Costs of Taxation shall be paid, shall be regulated by the Rules and Orders to be made under this Act, and the Certificate of the Registrar of the Amount at which such Bill is taxed shall be subject to Appeal to the Judge of the said
Court.
Districts.
County of Northumberland (a) County of Durham
SCHEDULE (4.)
DISTRICTS and PLACES of DISTRICT REGISTRIES throughout ENGLAND and WALES.
Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. West Riding of the County of York,
Places of District Registries.
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Durham. Carlisle. Wakefield
North Riding ditto
York.
East Riding ditto (b) including the City of
York and Ainsty
York.
County of Lancaster, except the Ilundred of Salford and West Derby and the City of Manchester.
Lancaster.
Manchester.
Liverpool.
Chester.
City of Manchester and Hundred of Salford. Hundred of West Derby in Lancashire.
County of Chester (c)
Counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea.
Counties of Flint, Denbight, and Merioneth. County of Derby
County of Nottingham (4)
...
Counties of Leinster and Rutland.
County of Linenin (2)
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...
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Counties of Salop and Montgomery. Northern Division of Northampton, and Coun-
ties of Huntingdon and Cambridge. (ƒ) County of Norfolk (7)
Eastern Division of the County of Suffolk and
...
North Division of the County of Essex....} Western Division of the County of Suffolk. County of Bedford and Southern Division of)
Northamptonshire. (h)
Bangor. St Asaph. Derby. Nottingham.
Leicester. Lincoln.
County of Warwick (i) County of Stafford (k)
Districts.
Counties of Radnor, Brecknock, and Hereford.... Counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen (7), and Pem- broke (m) with the Deaneries of East and West Gower in the County of Glamorgan. Counties of Glamorgan (with the Exception of the Deaneries of East and West Gower) and Alonmouth.
County of Worcestor (n)
County of Gloucester (6), except the present)
Bristol County Court District. ... Bristol and Bath present County Court Districts, Counties of Oxford (p), Berks, Bucks,... Eastern Division of the County of Somerset,"
except the present Bath County Court Dis- trict, and the Part in Somersetshire of the present Bristol County Court District. Western Division of the County of Somerset. County of Devon (y)
Shrewsbury.
Peterborough.
County of Cornwall
County of Wilts
County of Dorsent (r),
www
Norwich. Ipswich.
Bury St. Edmunds.
Northampton.
County of Hants (s)
Places of District Registries.
Birmingham. Lichfield.
Hereford.
Carmarthen.
Llandaff.
Worcester.
Gloucester.
Bristol.
Oxford.
Wells.
Taunton.
Exeter.
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Bodmin.
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Salisbury,
1
Blandford.
Eastern Division of the County of Sussex. (t) Western Division of the County of Sussex. East Division of the County of Kent. (u)
Winchester.
Lewes. Chichester.
Canterbury.
The Divisions of Counties referred to in the Schedule are the Divisions of the same Counties described for Election Purposes in the Act of the Second and Third Years of King William the Fourth Chapter Sixty-four, and the Citics and Towns herein referred to are to be taken to include the Counties of such Cities and Towns as are Counties of themselves.
(a) Including the Towns and Counties of Newcastlo-on-Tyne and Berwick-upon- Tweed.
(b) Including the Town and County of Kingston-on-Hull.
(c) Including the City of Chester.
(d) Including the Town of Nottingham.
(e) Including the City of Lincoln.
(/) Including the University of Cambridge.
(7) Including the City of Norwich.
(A) Including the Town of Northampton.
(7) Including the City of Coventry,
(b) Including the City of Lichfield.
(1) Including the Town of Carmarthen.
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(a) Incheling the Town of Haverfordwest.
(n) Including the City of Worcester,
(e) Including the City of Gloucester.
(p) Including the University of Oxford.
(7) Including the City of Exeter.
(7) Including the Town of Poole.
(s) Including the Town of Southampton and Isle of Wight,
(4) Including such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Sussex.
(u) Including the City of Canterbury and such of the Cinque Ports and their Dependencies as are locally situate in the County of Kent.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint THOMAS LARKINS WALKER, Esquire, to be Assistant Engineer in the Surveyor General's Department.
The appointment to date from the 1st instant, and to be subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government.
By Order,
W. T. BRIDGES. Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 3d May, 1858.
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