1. In the preceding rules the following words (that is to say), "the Court," "information," "suit," and "cause," have the meanings mentioned in the Crown Suits, &c. Act, 1865, s. 6; and the term "a judge" means any judge of one of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Law at Westminster transacting business out of Court.

2. In the preceding rules the following words have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, over and above their several ordinary meanings, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to say):

(1.) Words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number include the singular number. (2.) Words importing the masculine gender include females.

(3.) The word "party or "parties" includes a body politic or corporate, and also includes Her Majesty's Attorney-General, or the AttorneyGeneral of the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, as the case may require.

(4.) The word "affidavit" includes affirmation.

For special cases, answers, examinations, demurrers, pleas, and

exceptions

For informations

For amended or supplemental information

For brief for moving for injunction..

For interrogatories for examination of parties or witnesses....

For special petitions.

For special affidavits

For brief in suit by information on cause coming on for hearing on
service of subpoena to hear judgment

To defend proceedings commenced by information
For instructions for order to revive or add parties......

As to informations and answers, affidavits and petitions, in lieu
of the fixed fees for instructions for and for drawing, the Queen's
Remembrancer is to be at liberty to take into his consideration
the special circumstances of each case, and at his discretion to
make such further allowance as shall appear to him to be just.

£ s. d.

0 13 4 220

0 13 4

1 1 0

0 13 4

0 13 4

0 6 8

1 1 0

0 13 4

0 13 4

The Preparation of Pleadings and other Documents.

(The folio to be seventy-two words, and the sheet ten folios.) For drawing informations, answers, pleas, demurrers, exceptions, interrogatories, and affidavits, per folio

For ingrossing, per folio

For drawing statements and other documents for the judge's chambers or Queen's Remembrancer, when required, including the fair copy thereof to leave in chambers, per folio...

For examining and correcting the proof of an information or answer, per folio

For revising the print of an answer before swearing or filing, per folio 0
For drawing special notice of motion

0

Or,

per

folio

0

0 2

1 0

220 O

For drawing such observations for counsel to accompany brief as may be necessary and proper, per sheet

For preparing and filing replication....

For drawing the brief on further consideration, per sheet

For drawing statement on which counsel to move for order to revive

or add parties, and copy

Or, according to circumstances, at per sheet

0 6 8

0 10 0

0 10 0

0 68

For drawing petition to revive, at per folio....

0 1 0

For drawing and copying certificate to appoint guardians ad litem
For amending each copy of an information to serve where no reprint. 0 13 4
For amending each brief information where no reprint

For drawing bills of costs, including the copy for the Queen's Remembrancer's office, per folio

0 08

The fee for drawing a document in all cases includes a copy, if required, for the use of the solicitor or client, or for the settlement of counsel.

Perusals.

For perusing the print of an information by the defendant's solicitors.

If exceeding sixty folios, at per folio

For perusing the print of an amended information

If amendments exceeding forty folios, at per folio...

For perusing an amended information when amended in writing

If amendments exceeding twenty folios, at per folio.

The solicitor of the party answering interrogatories, for perusing interrogatories

If exceeding forty folios, at per folio

For perusing an examination,
For perusing all special affidavits filed by an opposing party, at per
folio

For perusing copy supplemental statement under Crown Suits Act
For perusing copy order to revive..

Copies.

Subject to the foregoing regulations as to charges for copies, copies of all documents are to be at the rate of per folio

Or per sheet of ten folios at

Having regard to the preceding fees for perusal, the fee for abbreviating is to cease, and no close copies are now to be allowed as of course, but the allowance is to depend on the propriety of making the copy, which in each case is to be shown and considered.

For each copy of a summons to serve

For each copy of a notice of motion, order, or certificate to serve
Or at per folio

Attendances.

For attending on the Queen's Remembrancer's warrant
Or according to the circumstances, not to exceed per diem

For attending each counsel with his brief, case, or abstract, in a suit

For attending to present special petition, and for same answered
For attending on counsel and Court on motion of course, and for order
For attending on the day in which a cause or petition stands appointed
for hearing, or for which notice of motion has been given

For attending when heard

Or according to circumstances not to exceed per diem .......

For attending the Court on every special motion when made

Or according to circumstances, not to exceed

For attending on motion for or to discharge order for injunction or

other matter when heard, per diem

Or according to circumstances, not to exceed

For attending to get answer or special affidavit sworn

For attending examiner to procure appointment to examine witnesses
For attending the examination of witnesses before examiner
Or according to circumstances, not to exceed per diem........
But if without counsel the fee may, at the Queen's Remembrancer's
discretion, be increased to

For attending to settle and afterwards to read over the engrossment of an answer or examination

0 13 4

If the same exceed twenty folios and under fifty folios..

1 1 0

And for each additional thirty folios

0

6 8

For attending to insert an advertisement in Gazette..
For entering caveat with the Queen's Remembrancer
For attending to procure certificate of a caveat

For attending Queen's Remembrancer to certify abatement or settle-
ment of suit, and to have same so marked in the cause book
For attending the printer with an information or answer to be printed
For attending to get copies of information or interrogatories marked
for service

For attending to take instructions to appear, and to enter the appear-
ance of one or more defendants, not exceeding three...

If exceeding three, for every additional number not exceeding three...

The solicitor of the party filing an answer, for his attendance on the £ s. d. Queen's Remembrancer with and for the written and printed copies of an answer, and for certifying...

For the informant, or party having the conduct of the order, attending the Queen's Remembrancer with briefs and papers to bespeak minutes or order, not being an order of course

For ditto, for preparing list of evidence read, but only when required by the Queen's Remembrancer and certified by him

Or according to length, at per folio

Attending to settle the draft of any decree or order

Or, at the Queen's Remembrancer's discretion, not to exceed

In case the Queen's Remembrancer shall certify that a special allowance ought to be made in respect of any unusual difficulty in settling an order, he is to consider the same, and make such allowance to all or any of the parties as to him shall seem just.

For attending to procure certificate of pleadings

For attending to give consent to take answer without oath, and for other necessary or proper consent, of a like nature

For attendances in consultation or in conference with counsel
For attending Court on appointment of a guardian ad litem

0 13 4

068

0 6 8

0 1 0

0 13 4 2 2

0

068

0 68 6 8

0 13 4

0 13 4

Writs.

For every writ of subpoena duces tecum

For a writ or writs of subpoena other than subpœna duces tecum, if the number of names therein shall not exceed three

If exceeding three names, for every additional number not exceeding three

For preparing every other writing without order

For every writ under order, except special injunction
For special injunction, including engrossment
Or per folio....

Notices and Services.

For service of a notice of motion, exclusive of copy
For notice to a solicitor of appearance, answer, demurrer, plea, amend-
ment, and replication

026

026

For notice of filing affidavits or set of affidavits filed, or which ought
properly to have been filed together, to be read in Court.......
For notice of appointment or copy warrant for settling and passing
decrees or orders before the Queen's Remembrancer

026

For copy and service of a warrant on a solicitor....
For service of a judge's summons, exclusive of the copy.

0 2 6 026

026

For services of a party or witness, such reasonable charges and expenses as may be properly incurred, according to distance, or by the employment of an agent.

026

Oaths and Exhibits.

To the commissioner for oath in London according to statute
In the country'

To the solicitor for preparing each exhibit in town and country..
The commissioner, for making each exhibit

£ s. d. 0 1 6

0 2 6

0 1 0

01 0

Term Fee.

For a term fee, in all causes, for every term in which a proceeding by the party shall take place

And for letters, per term

In country agency causes the further fee for letters of..

Where no proceeding is taken which carries a term fee, a charge for letters may be allowed, if the circumstances shall require it. For any work or labour properly performed, and not herein provided for, such allowances are to be made as heretofore.

0 10 0 0 5 0 068

TREASURY SOLICITOR RULES, 1877.

RULES, DATED APRIL 26TH, 1877, TO BE OBSERVED WITH RESPECT TO MONEYS AND SECURITIES COMING INTO THE HANDS OF THE SOLICITOR TO THE TREASURY, IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ON BEHALF OF THE CROWN, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREASURY SOLICITOR ACT, 1876.

1. All Government securities received by or vested in the Treasury Solicitor under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act shall be carried to a public account in the books of the Bank of England, in the names of the Treasury Solicitor and the Assistant Paymaster-General, for the time being, to be called "The Crown's Nominee Securities Account."

The securities standing to the credit of this account shall be held by the said officers, subject to the specific directions of the Treasury.

2. All other securities coming into the hands of the Treasury Solicitor under the said Act shall be converted into money.

3. All moneys received by the Treasury Solicitor under the provisions of the said Act, and all moneys arising from the sale of any of the before-mentioned securities, or from dividends thereon, shall be paid to the cash account of the Paymaster-General at the Bank of England.

4. The Paymaster-General shall open cash accounts in his books, to be called, respectively, "The Crown's Nominee Reserve Account," and "The Crown's Nominee Current Account."

5. All moneys received by the Paymaster-General under Rule 3 shall be carried by him to the credit of the Crown's Nominee Reserve Account. The payments to be made out of this account shall be as follows, viz. :

(a) Payments for securities purchased (if any) for the credit of the Crown's Nominee Securities Account; and

(b) Payments to the Exchequer on account of surplus moneys not required for the purposes of the account (as provided in sub-sect. 2 of sect. 4 of the Act).