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No2. 57.—Aṛgust 2, 1856.]
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
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The Fee payable to the sole Counsel or leading Counsel at the Trial or Hearing of a Cause, or any other Proceeding either
at Law or in Equity (except in the cases next specified) shall be at least, The following Scale of Fees is not to be exceeded in any of the cases specified, viz:---
Consultation or Conference;
Motion for leave to file a Claim in Equity, or to substitute Service of Process at Law, or in Equity, or to take a Document off the File of the Court at Law or in Equity, or for Contempt Process at Law or in Equity, or for time to plead or answer, or to discharge an order for time,
Motion of Course,
Every other Motion,
The Fee Payable to each Junior Counsel (where such is allowed) is not to exceed Two-thirds of the Fee allowed to his Senior Counsel, at any Consultation or Conference, or in any proceeding before the Court, and whether at Law or in Equity or elsewhere.
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No Fee to be allowed to a Junior Counsel in any case except upon good grounds shown to the satisfaction of the Taxing
Master.
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Refreshers are not to exceed the rate of One-half the amount allowed for the Original Fees, yet so as that in no case the
Fee payable as a Refresher shall be less than,
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Counsel attending Arbitrations or Commissions shall receive the like Fees as at Trials at Law or Hearings in Equity, save that they shall be further entitled to their Expenses, and also to a remuneration for every day after the first day, of,
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THE THIRD SCHEDULE TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE REFERS.
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Instructions to Sue or Defend,
SOLICITORS' COSTS.
$ cla. 4.00
Instructious to prepare Bill, Claim, Original Petition, Special Case, or Original Summons or answer Plea or Demurrer
or to advise thereon (including the perusal of papers), For entering Appearance in the cases aforesaid (including Instructions to appear) if for less than Three Defendants, The like for every Three Defendants over the First Three, a broken number of less than Three counting as Three, For preparing and filing a Bill, Claim, Original Petition, Special Case, or Original Summons (including sealing and issuing) or Answer, Plea, or Demurrer, a Fee to be regulated by the volume of Instructions, the nature and diffi- culties of the Case, and the Work performed.
For preparing, filling up, sealing and leaving any other Summons,
For Instructions and Attendances not by this Schedule provided for (if the Taxing Master shall allow the same), such reasonable Fees as he shall determine. But no allowance shall be made in respect of Instructions for Documents (not herein specified) to be brought into Judge's Chambers or the Office of the Court, save for Interrogatories, Examinations, and Affidavits, not being Affidavits of course or of the Party's own Solicitor or a Clerk of such. For making Copies to serve, or for the opposite Party, or fair Copies, per folio, For engrossing in all other Cases, per folio,
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For every Attendance to Bespeak, Deliver, Receive or File Documents, to make Payments, or to obtain Appointments, For every Attendance at Court, or in Chambers at the Hearing of any opposed Motion, Attendable Petition, or Original Summons, or Plea, or Demurrer, or before an Examiner or Commissioner, taking Evidence, per hour or broken hour,
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For the like at the Hearing of the Cause, Claim, Original or Court Petition, or Special Case, or Plea, or Demurrer,
or on further Directions, except in the Case next hereinafter specified,
For attending and conducting any matter, in Court whether at Law, in Equity, or elsewhere, under section Eight of this
Ordinance a Fee, not exceeding,
For every Attendance to instruct Counsel, Consultation, Conference, Meeting, Search, Inspection, or Reading over of
Documents, per hour or broken hour,
For every Attendance to marshal Evidence or take down the Statements of a proposed Witness, such Fee as the Taxing
Master shall think fit to allow, not exceeding for every hour or broken hour,
For every Attendance at Judge's Chambers at any Government Office or at any Public Office not hereinbefore provided
for, per hour or broken hour,
For every Attendance beyond Five Miles from Victoria, in lieu of the above rates of charge for attendances, but exclusive
of reasonable Expenses, per day,
For every letter, if not charged per folio,
If so charged, for every folio,
For translating any Document, per folio of the Original,
For draughting in all Cases not herein specified, per folio,
For Messages and Expenses according to the circumstances of each Case.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The subjoined amended Draft of the Ordinance for Seamen, is hereby published for general information.
By order of His Excellency The Governor in the Legislative Council,
Council Room, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1856.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. of 1856.
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L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
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By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Seamen.
. [ July, 1856.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say :--
Licensed Shipping I. His Excellency in Executive Council is empowered to grant unto such and so many Persons, and for such respective Periods and under such Conditions and Regulations, (whether with regard to forfeiture Agents to be appointed or otherwise,) as to His said Excellency in Council shall from Time to Time seem meet, (but always subject by the Governor in to the provisions of this Ordinance,) Licenses to act in this Colony in and about the Procuring, Supplying,
Council.
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