Costs.

except advertisements, which must in each case be authorised by the official receiver or the trustee, not exceeding

For the first 1007.

For the next 4007.

For the next 5007.

All above 1,0007.

No higher allowance to be sanctioned without leave of the Board of Trade.

Costs of Surveys, Dilapidations, and Specifications.

From 27. to 51. in discretion of taxing officer.

Accountant's Charges.

For preparing balance-sheet, investigating ac-
counts, &c., principal's time exclusively so
employed, per day of seven hours, including
necessary affidavit, or such. other sum as the
Court may under special circumstances order

Chief clerk's time

Other clerk's time, per day of seven hours

These charges to include stationery, except the forms used.

SELBORNE, C.

J. CHAMBERLAIN,

President of the Board of Trade.

SEALS OF COURTS.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.

I, the Right Honourable Roundell, Earl of Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Do hereby, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, Order that the High Court shall, from and after the first day of January 1884, have and use in respect of bankruptcy proceedings therein a seal describing such Court as "The Supreme Court of Judicature, Bankruptcy"; and that every County Court shall, from and after the time aforesaid, have and use the same seal as heretofore.

SELBORNE, C.

FEES AND PERCENTAGES.

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.

I, the Right Honourable Roundell, Earl of Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Do, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, prescribe that the fees and percentages in the scales hereto annexed shall, from and after the first day of January, 1884, be the fees and percentages to be charged for or in respect of proceedings under the said Act, and shall be taken in any Court having jurisdiction in Bankruptcy and in any office connected with any such Court, and in the Board of Trade and any office connected therewith, and by any officer paid wholly or partly out of public moneys attached to any such Court or to the Board of Trade.

SELBORNE, C.

SCALE OF FEES AND PERCENTAGES.

TABLE A.

Amount.

his debts

Every bankruptcy notice

£

s. d.

Every declaration by a debtor of inability to pay

Every bankruptcy petition .

Every bond with sureties

Every affidavit filed, other than proof of debts
Every subpoena not exceeding three persons

For taking an affidavit or an affirmation, or attes-
tation, upon honour in lieu of an affidavit or a
declaration, except for proof of debts, for each
person making the same.

And in addition thereto for each exhibit therein referred to and required to be marked. On every proof of debt For every witness sworn and examined by an officer of the Court or Board of Trade in his office, unless otherwise provided, including oath, for each hour or part of an hour

For an examination of witnesses by any such
officer away from the office (in addition to
reasonable travelling and other expenses) per
day

Every petition under Sect. 125 of the Act.
Every special proxy or voting paper

0.10

020
5 0

Costs.

Costs.

Amount.

Every receiving order under Sect. 103 of the Act
Every application for an order of discharge.

And for each creditor to be notified.
Every application to the Court under Sects. 18 and
23 to approve a scheme, a fee computed at the
rate of 11. upon the first 1007. or fraction of
1007., and 58. upon each 251. or fraction there-
of above 1007. on the gross amount of the
estimated assets.
Every application to the Court under Sects. 18 and
23 to approve a composition, a fee computed
at the rate of 17. upon the first 1007. or frac-
tion of 1007., and 5s. upon each 251. or fraction
thereof above 1007. on the gross amount of the
composition.

Every application for search other than by peti

tioner, trustee, banker, or officer of the Court.
Every application to a Court, except by the official
receiver

Every office copy, each folio of 72 words.
On every record of trial

or such less sum as the Court may specially
order.

Every allocatur by any officer of the Court for any
costs, charges, or disbursements, where the
amount allowed shall not exceed 47..

Where the amount exceeds 47., for every 27. allowed

or a fraction thereof

TABLE B.

Every application to an official receiver to appoint
a special manager

Every application by a committee of inspection to
the Board of Trade for a local banking account
Every order of the Board of Trade for a local bank-
ing account

£ s. d.

On one copy of the cash book showing assets realised, forwarded for audit by the official receiver or trustee, to the Board of Trade, a fee at the rate of 17. upon the first 1007. or fraction thereof, and 5s. upon each 257. or fraction thereof beyond 1007. on the gross amount of the assets realised and brought to credit.

This fee is not to be charged where a fee has been taken on an application under Sects. 18 or 23.

Every application under Sect. 162 to the Board of Trade for payment of money out of the bankruptcy estates account, 2s. 6d.

Costs.

TABLE C.

High bailiff attending Court each sitting
Serving every bankruptcy notice, bankruptcy peti-
tion, or subpoena within two miles, including
affidavit of service.
Executing every warrant of seizure, or search war-
rant, or warrant of apprehension, or order of
commitment within two miles of Court House
Keeping possession under a warrant for each day
the man is actually in possession; including
affidavit of possession being actually kept

(not less than 3s. 6d. of the above sum is to be

paid to the man in possession, and his receipt
produced.)

High Bailiff's, or (in the London Bankruptcy Dis-
trict) officer's, man travelling to place of posses-
sion, or to execute a warrant of or order of
commitment, or to serve a summons or subpoena,
or for any other purpose specially directed by the
Court, per mile.

99

His time, per day, where distance exceeds 10 miles.
His expenses, per day
If High Bailiff of a County Court or bankruptcy
officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court
personally to travel,
per mile.
If High Bailiff of a County Court or bankruptcy
officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court
personally to travel, his time, per day

.0 4 6

If High Bailiff of a County Court or bankruptcy officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court personally to travel, his expenses, per day

TABLE D.

. 0 10 0

On the net assets realised or brought to credit by the official receiver, whether acting as interim receiver or as trustee, not being assets received and spent in carrying on the business of the debtor, 67. per cent.

On every payment under Sect. 162 of money out of the bankruptcy estates account, 5s. on each 201. ad valorem on the amount paid.

Costs.

Room for meeting of creditors, summoned by official
receiver, for each creditor present personally or by
proxy at each meeting

For each notice to creditor of a meeting.
Keeping possession, per day

Travelling, and other reasonable expenses of official
receiver

For official stationery, books, and forms, each estate,
for every fifty creditors, or less

TABLE E.

£ s. d.

010

1

4 6

.100

For every order of administration under Sect. 122, two shillings in the pound on the total amount of the debts scheduled from time to time, excluding any fraction of a pound in such total.

TABLE F.

The fees and allowances payable on proceedings had after the thirty-first day of December, 1883, in respect of any matter which was pending in any Court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy on the said day shall be the same as if those proceedings had been taken before such day, and shall be applied to the same purposes.

We, the undersigned Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, do hereby sanction the foregoing scales of fees and percentages, and do direct that the fees to be taken by stamps shall be those mentioned in Tables A. and B., and that the fees mentioned in Tables C., D. and E., shall be taken in money, and that the fees and allowances referred to in Table F. shall be taken by stamps or money according as they have hitherto been taken in respect of all proceedings in the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal the stamps to be used shall be Judicature fee stamps; and in respect of all other proceedings the stamps to be used shall be bankruptcy fee stamps.

:

And we further direct that the stamp shall be affixed or the money paid in respect of every fee before the proceeding is had in respect of which the fee is payable, and that the charge to be made by the London Gazette for the insertion of each notice authorised by the Act or Rules shall be ten shillings, except in the cases of estates administered under Part VII. of the Act, in which cases the charge shall be three shillings and fourpence.