HIGH BAILIFF'S FEES.

For keeping possession of goods till sale, per day, (including expenses of removal, storeage of goods, and all other expenses,) not exceeding five days,-sixpence in the pound on the value of the goods seized, to be fixed by appraisement in case of dispute.

BROKER'S AND APPRAISER'S FEES.

For the appraisement of goods, whether by one broker or more,-sixpence in the pound on the value of the goods appraised, over and above the stamp duty.

For the sale of goods, including advertisements, catalogues, sale and commission, and delivery of goods,-one shilling in the pound on the net produce of sale.

In all plaints for the recovery of debt or damages, all poundage, except where otherwise specified in this schedule, shall be estimated on the amount of the claim.

In replevins all poundage, except as aforesaid, shall be estimated on the amount of the alleged rent or damage, to be fixed by the Registrar.

In plaints for the recovery of tenements when the term has expired or been determined by notice, all poundage, except as aforesaid, shall be estimated on the amount of the weekly, monthly or yearly rent of the tenement, as such tenement shall have been let by the week or by the month, or for any longer period; and if no rent shall have been reserved, then on the amount of the half-yearly value of the tenement, to be fixed by the Registrar.

If in any plaint for the recovery of tenements a claim be made for rent or mesne profits, an additional poundage shall be paid on the amount of such claim.

In plaints for the recovery of tenements for nonpayment of rent, all poundage, except as aforesaid, shall be estimated on the amount of the half-yearly rent of the tenement.

In every case where the poundage would but for this rule be estimated on an amount exceeding twenty pounds, it shall be estimated at twenty pounds only.

In every case where the poundage cannot be estimated by any rule in this schedule, it shall be estimated on twenty pounds.

All fractions of a pound, for the purpose of calculating poundage, shall be treated as an entire pound.

Where the plaintiff recovers less than the amount of his claim, so as to reduce the scale of costs, he shall pay the difference, unless the reduction shall be caused by a set-off.

In cases of interpleader the Judge may allow at the hearing the actual costs incurred by the high bailiff in keeping possession of the goods claimed, and no more.

No increase of fees shall be made by reason of there being more than one plaintiff or defendant.

SCHEDULE (D).

R. Brandt, Esquire, Judge of the County Court of Lancashire,

F. Bayley, Esquire, Judge of the Westminster County Court of
Middlesex

..

J. Pollock, Esquire, Judge of the County Court of Lancashire,
holden at Liverpool
J. L. Adolphus, Esquire, Judge of the Marylebone County
Court of Middlesex; the Brompton County Court of Mid-
dlesex; and the County Court of Middlesex, holden at
Brentford

Mr. Serjeant Storks, Judge of the Shoreditch and Bow County
Courts of Middlesex
J. Pitt Taylor, Esquire, Judge of the Lambeth County Court of
Surrey, and the County Court of Kent, holden at Green-
wich and Woolwich

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

W. Walker, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Yorkshire, holden at Barnsley, Doncaster, Goole, Rotherham, Sheffield, and Thorne

T. H. Marshall, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Yorkshire, holden at Leeds, Dewsbury, Pontefract, and Wakefield

J. W. Harden, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Che-
shire, holden at Altrincham, Birkenhead, Chester, Knuts-
ford, Nantwich, Northwich, and Runcorn; and of the
County Courts of Lancashire, holden at Salford and War-
rington..
Mr. Serjeant Clarke, Judge of the County Courts of Stafford-
shire, holden at Oldbury, Walsall, and Wolverhampton ;
and of the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at
Dudley..

George Clive, Esquire, Judge of the Southwark County Court of Surrey

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

£1,500

D. D. Heath, Esquire, Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court of Middlesex

£1,500

Mr. Serjeant Jones, Judge of the Clerkenwell County Court of
Middlesex

£1,500

J. Stansfeld, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Yorkshire, holden at Halifax, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, and Todmorden

£1,500

Mr. Serjeant Manning, Judge of the Whitechapel County Court

of Middlesex Leigh Trafford, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Warwickshire, holden at Atherstone, Birmingham and Tamworth J. Addison, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Lancashire, holden at Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, Garstang, Kirkham, Lancaster, Poulton and Preston Mr. Serjeant Dowling, Judge of the County Courts of Yorkshire, holden at Easingwold, Knaresborough, Leyburn, Northallerton, Richmond, Ripon, Selby, Stokesley, Thirsk, Wetherby, Whitby and York..

F. Dinsdale, Esquire, Judge of the County Court of Leicester-
shire, holden at Lutterworth; of the County Court of
Northamptonshire, holden at Daventry; of the County
Court of Oxfordshire, holden at Banbury; of the County
Courts of Warwickshire, holden at Alcester, Coventry,
Nuneaton, Rugby, Solihull, Southam, Stratford-on-Avon
and Warwick; and of the County Court of Worcestershire,
holden at Shipston
W. Furner, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Sussex,
holden at Arundel, Brighton, Chichester, Cuckfield, East
Grinstead, Hastings, Horsham, Lewes, Midhurst, Petworth,
Rye and Worthing

T. Falconer, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of Brecknock-
shire, holden at Brecknock, Builth, Crickhowell and Hay;
of the County Courts of Glamorganshire, holden at Bridg-
end, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Swansea; and of
the County Court of Radnorshire, holden at Rhaiadr
J. St. John Yates, Esquire, Judge of the County Courts of
Cheshire, holden at Congleton, Hyde, Macclesfield and
Stockport; of the County Court of Derbyshire, holden at
Glossop; and of the County of Lancashire, holden at
Ashton-under-Lyne

£1,350

£1,350

RULES AND ORDERS

FOR REGULATING THE

PRACTICE OF THE COUNTY COURTS:

AND

FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS THEREIN.

WHEREAS by an act passed in the twentieth year of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Acts relating to the County "Courts," it is enacted, that "the Lord Chancellor may appoint five County Court Judges, and from time to time fill up any vacancies in "their number, to frame rules and orders for regulating the practice of "the Courts, and forms of proceedings therein, and from time to time "to amend such rules, orders, and forms; and such rules, orders, and "forms, or amended rules, orders, and forms, certified under the hands "of such Judges, or any three or more of them, shall be submitted to the "Lord Chancellor, who may allow or disallow or alter the same; and "the rules, orders, and forms, or amended rules, orders, and forms, so "allowed or altered, shall, from a day to be named by the Lord Chan"cellor, be in force in every County Court:"

And whereas, by virtue and in exercise of the power for that purpose given to the Lord Chancellor by the said recited Act, the undersigned James Manning, the Queen's ancient serjeant-at-law, John Herbert Koe, one of Her Majesty's counsel, Edward Cooke, John Worlledge, and William Furner, esquires, were, on the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, appointed by the Lord Chancellor to frame such rules and orders as to them should seem expedient, for regulating the practice of the Courts, and forms of proceedings therein:

In pursuance of the powers thereby vested in us, we, the said James Manning, John Herbert Koe, Edward Cooke, John Worlledge, and William Furner, have framed the following rules, orders, and forms, and we do hereby certify the same to the Lord Chancellor accordingly.

J. MANNING.
J. H. KOE.

E. COOKE.

J. WORLLEdge.
W. FURNER.

1. The rules of practice and the forms now in use in the County Courts, except in proceedings under the Charitable Trusts Acts, shall, on and from the first day of January, 1857, cease to be used, and in lieu

thereof the following shall on and from such day be the rules, orders, and forms adopted and used in the said Courts.

Sittings of the Court.

2. Every Judge shall appoint the days and hours for holding his Courts; and a notice of the day and hour on which each Court will be holden, shall, three calendar months before the holding thereof, be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court-house and in the Registrar's office; and whenever any day or hour so appointed for holding the Court shall be altered, notice of such alteration shall immediately be posted in like manner; but any Judge may from time to time hold additional and adjourned Courts.

3. Two Courts shall not be holden before the same Judge on one day, unless with the consent of the Lord Chancellor; but this rule shall not apply to the holding of an adjourned Court.

Interpretation.

4. In these rules the words "Home Court" shall mean the Court from which process is originally issued; and the words "Foreign Court" shall mean the Court of the district into which process is issued from another Court; and the words "Home District" shall mean the district of the Home Court; and the words "Foreign District" shall mean the district of the Foreign Court; and the words "on oath" shall mean "on oath vivá voce or by affidavit ;" and unless there be something in the context inconsistent therewith, the provisions of s. 142 of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, shall apply to the interpretation of these rules.

Infant.

5. Where an infant applies to enter a plaint for any cause of action (other than for wages or piece-work, or for work as a servant) he shall procure the attendance of a next friend, at the office of the Registrar, at the time of entering the plaint; and no plaint shall be entered until the next friend has undertaken, in the form set forth in the schedule, to be responsible for costs, who on entering into such undertaking shall be liable in the same manner and to the same extent as if he were a plaintiff in an ordinary suit; and the cause shall proceed in the name of the infant by such next friend, and the undertaking shall be filed by the Registrar; but no order of the Court shall be necessary for the appointment of such next friend. If the plaintiff fail in, or discontinue his suit, and do not pay the amount of costs awarded by the Court to be paid by him to the defendant, proceedings may be taken for the recovery of such amount from the next friend as for the recovery of any debt ordered to be paid by the Court.

Registrar's Duties.

6. The Registrar shall keep an office at each place where the Court of which he is Registrar is holden, and such office shall be kept open every day from ten o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, except on Christmas-day, Good Friday, or any day appointed by royal proclamation for a public fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, and except