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ORDER altering and settling the FEES to be taken in the MASTERS' OFFICES and the REGISTRARS' OFFICE, made 23rd February, 1837.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Fees which are by the General Orders for regulating the Practice of the Court of Chancery, bearing date the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, directed to be taken by the Masters and their Clerks, and the Registrars and their Clerks, under the Act passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the Regulation of the Proceedings and Practice of certain Offices of the High Court of Chancery in England," should be varied and increased, or reduced in amount, or wholly omitted to be received, as hereinafter mentioned; Now I, the Right Honourable CHARLES CHRISTOPHER Baron COTTENHAM, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, with the advice and concurrence of the Right Honourable HENRY Baron LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls, and the Right Honourable Sir LANCELOT SHADWELL, Knight, Vice-Chancellor of England, do hereby order and direct that, from and after the 27th day of February instant, the Fees set forth in the First Schedule hereunto shall be the Fees to be received and taken by the Clerks to the Masters in Ordinary, in the place and stead of the Fees now received and taken by them pursuant to the said General Orders, bearing date the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirtythree; AND THAT the Fees set forth in the Second Schedule hereunto shall be the Fees to be received and taken by the Registrars and their Clerks, in the place and stead of the Fees now received and taken by them, pursuant to the said General Orders.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Fees to be received and taken by the Clerks to the Masters in Ordinary.

For every warrant

For drawing every report, exclusive of schedules of accounts of parties accounting before the Master, and exclusive of the fee on signing, per foo

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For drawing schedules of accounts of parties accounting before the Master, per folio

On signing every report and certificate...

For investigating every title brought in before the Mas-
ter to be settled, and perusing the abstract thereof,
upon the first 25 folios thereof

And upon every succeeding 25 folios thereof
For every advertisement issued by the Master..
Upon every peremptory advertisement for the sale of
property with the approbation of the Master, in addi-
tion to the foregoing fee, to be repaid, if the property
shall not be offered for sale
(In addition to the reasonable travelling expenses
of the Master's Clerk, to be received and retained
by him).

For signing the allowance of every deed, recognizance,
set of interrogatories, account, or other document al-
lowed and signed by the Master..

For every order upon a warrant..

For perusing and settling the draft of every deed brought before the Master to be settled (except lease for a year), where such deed shall not exceed 30 folios.... Where such deed shall exceed 30 folios and not exceed 50 folios

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And where such deed shall exceed 50 folios and not exceed 100 folios

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And where such deed shall exceed 100 folios
Fee on preparing every recognizance....
For taking the acknowledgment of any deed

For taking the acknowledgment of every married woman,
or such other fee as the Court of Common Pleas at
Westminster shall order to be paid for taking such
acknowledgment

For an examination fee on each witness, exclusive of
oath

For examining the engrossments of deeds, each skin
For comparing deeds, books and papers with the sche-
dule on their being deposited or delivered out, where
the schedule shall not amount to 50 folios
Where the schedule shall amount to 50 folios

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For attending any Court per day by the clerk

For searching for papers in a cause or matter not in immediate progress before the Master

For every oath...

For entering accounts of receivers, consignees, and com-
mittees, per folio in each book

For entering accounts of parties accounting before the
Master in a book, if required, per folio.

For every exhibit...

Where a Master shall be required to attend a party to administer an oath, there shall be paid a further fee of ten shillings over and besides the coach-hire or reasonable travelling expenses of the Master.......... For expunging scandal or impertinence out of every record or document referred, on every such record or document..

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

Fees to be received and taken by the Registrars and their Clerks.

£ 8. d.

For every decree or order on the original hearing of a cause, and on further directions, exclusive of the Master of the Rolls' fees on decrees of 6s. 8d...

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For every office copy thereof..

For every order on petition or motion of course, not exceeding one side

For every additional side of such order

For every order on other petitions where a reference is
directed, but the decision of the Master is not to be
final, and also where the petition is dismissed
For every office copy thereof

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For every order for a special injunction, or for the appointment of a receiver

For every office copy thereof

For every order for payment of money out of Court, and for no other purpose, where the sum or sums thereby specifically directed to be paid shall not exceed in the whole £100.

For every office copy thereof..

For every order for transfer out of Court, or sale, of any sum or sums of Government stock, or South Sea Annuities (excepting Long Annuities and annuities for terms of years) and for no other purpose, where the sum or sums thereby specifically directed to be transferred or sold shall not exceed in the whole £100 stock or annuities

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For every office copy thereof.

For every order for payment out of Court of any annuity or annuities, not exceeding in the whole £5 per annum, or of any interest or dividends upon stock or annuities, not exceeding in the whole £5 per annum, and for no other purpose

For every office copy thereof

For every other order for payment or transfer out of
Court

For every office copy thereof.

For every other order on special motions..

For every office copy thereof..

For every office copy thereof....

For every order on arguing exceptions

For every order on arguing pleas and demurrers.

For every office copy thereof..

For every order on petition of appeal or rehearing
For every office copy thereof....

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For every office copy thereof.

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For every copy of a petition of appeal or rehearing, per side

For every certificate signed by the Registrar for the
sale or transfer of annuities, stock, or Exchequer bills,
or for delivery out of the latter

For every other certificate signed by the Registrar.
For every copy of minutes of any decree or order, per
side

For every exhibit proved vivâ voce in court

For entering every plea or demurrer..

For setting down causes, exceptions, further directions, pleas, and demurrers, each (except for setting down causes on the Registrar's days)

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COTTENHAM, C.

LANGDALE, M. R.

LANCELOT SHADWELL, V. C.

ORDERS for better Regulating the HEARING OF CAUSES and other Matters in the COURT OF CHANCERY, 5th May, 1837.

The Right Honourable CHARLES CHRISTOPHER Lord COTTENHAM, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of the Right Honourable HENRY Lord LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls, and the Right Honourable Sir LANCELOT SHADWELL, Vice-Chancellor of England, doth hereby order and direct in manner following; that is to say,

I. THAT, from and after the 20th day of May now instant, every original information or bill of complaint filed in the High Court of Chancery, shall (at the option of the party, informant or complainant, by or on whose behalf the information or bill shall be filed) be distinctly marked at or near the top or upper part thereof, either with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls:" And that the Six Clerk and Clerk in Court, to whom the filing of the information or bill belongs, shall, in the books and indexes in which the same shall be entered, add to the entry thereof such distinguishing words or mark as may make it appear from such entry whether the information or bill is marked with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls:" And that, from and after the said 20th day of May, the Six Clerks and Clerks in Court are not to file any original information or bill of complaint which shall not be marked in the manner herein before directed.

II. That, in every cause in which the original information or bill shall be marked with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls," the Six Clerk to whom it belongs to give or sign the certificate that the cause is ready for hearing shall, upon

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