COURT 01' CHANCERY.
Lord Chancellor's
Secretary.
88 (Ireland.)-FIRST
REPORT 0/ COMMISSIONERS o« DUTIES, We subjoin a list of all fees which we recommend may, for the future, be claimed by the Secretary, or any person employed by him.
list of all the FEES which it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor's Secretary, or other person employed by him, to demand or accept for or on account of any or thing, done in or concerning the business of said Office, or under colour thereof.
For an archbishop, duke, marquis, or carl's patent For a viscount or baron's patent For a bishop, chancellor, or chief judge's patent For a baronet, dean, or judge's patent For each name or denomination in a fiant .--...
For a warrant for a custos rotulorum --------For a warrant for a justice of the peace --------For a warrant for a writ of ease -_ -.
For a warrant for a master extraordinary -------
For a warrant for a sheriff ----_--"," For a warrant for a writ de excommunicato capiendo ; for a writ of ad quodl damnum; for a commission of delegates ; for a commission of valuation ; for V a commission of lunacy; for electing a coroner ; to exonerate a coroner, each J For every other warrant to the hanaper For a fiat on a significavit ----------For a letter missive ---------For an order upon a petition, whether such petition shall be preferred in a cause,"!
or in a minor, or lunatic matter, or in a respondent case, or entitled both in a J-cause or matter, or in two or more causes ------For every decree or dismiss, of which a docket shall be presented for the lord\ chancellor's signature .--------.J
For a caveat -._---»----
For every injunction -----------For every writ of error which shall be signed by the lord chancellor For copies of judge's notes, or report of a trial, for the first office sheet of 72 words For every subsequent sheet of 72 words -------
Any one fraction of a sheet to be charged as an entire sheet, but not more than one fraction to be charged for on any onedocument.
or any Clerk act, matter, £.
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5 15 0 4 12 0 3 .9
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0 13 6 0 13 6 0 13 6 1 0 0
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CLERK OF THE CUSTODY OF PAPERS IN MATTERS OF IDIOTS
AND LUNATICS.
Clerk of Papers in Trus officer is in the nomination of the Lord Chancellor; and has usually been Lunatic Matters, the same person who filled the situation of'his Lordship's secretary.
The duties Appendix, N° 67.
of the office are few ; consisting of the custody and preservation of all petitions,
affidavits, reports and accounts, in matters of idiots and lunatics, and the making out and attesting copies of those documents; and of the orders, which may have been made on the petitions lodged with him.
Its emoluments, in the three years ending 1814, appear to have averaged £ 165.
per annum.
If this office had its existence, distinct from that of the secretary, previous to the year 1734, we must conclude, that no return was made of the fees attached to it, in pursuance of the Act of 1717, or of the subsequent orders of Parliament; as there is none to be found in the printed book of 1734.
We are, consequently, unable
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to institute any comparison between the ancient and modern charges of the office.
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Eor the purpose of future regulation, however, this is immaterial; smce all its duties, which are confined to the filing of certain documents, the attestation of their copies, and the making out of orders, have their parallel in other offices of this court; and may properly be adjusted, both with respect to reward and regu-lation, by their standard.
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The fees, as at present received in this office, are, in some instances, higher than the fees charged for similar services, in the other offices.
Eor instance, on filing reports, there is taken a fee of 6$.
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for the first sheet, and one shilling for every subsequent sheet; which exceeds, by 3*.
4J.
on the first sheet, the legal charge in the office of the Register.
So also, the fee for filing an affidavit, exceeds the charge for the same service in the Usher's office, without any assignable reason for the difference.
It appears to us to be reasonable, that the charges in this office should be made conformable to the fees, received for the similar services, in the office of the register and usher, with this view, we subjoin a List of such of the legal fees, which are
