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1829. Sept. 17.
Procedure Code
Evidence – Procurement of Cofee

Morn. Herald, September 17, 1829.

Extract –
Expenses of Witnesses.

A correspondent, who was a witness on a trial at
the present Old Bailey Sessions, complains that, notwithstanding
the recent order of the Civic Authorities, forbidding the
traffic in tickets for a witness's expenses for attendance
and loss of time, the evil still exists to an increased degree,
from the limited time the Treasurer's Office (where the tickets
are payable) is kept open – viz. from 11 o'Clock till three
in the afternoon. This is attended with much inconvenience,
more especially to those witnesses who reside any
distance from the metropolis. The above correspondent informs
us that he resides at Hendon; he was in attendance three
days, for which he received a ticket, entitling him to receive
10s...gd., being the usual allowance of 3s...6d. per day.
On presenting the ticket at the Treasurer's Office, a few
minutes after three o'Clock, he was told that he was
too late; he must call on the following day. Rather than
be put to the loss of another day, in coming on purpose
to present this 10s...gd. ticket, he sold the ticket to a bystander,
who was on the look-out for such customer,
for the sum of five shillings, and was told by the purchaser
that it was not the first ticket he had purchased
that day, at a similar sacrifice on the part of
the holder.

At all Assize towns the Treasurer's Office is open as
many hours as the Court sits, and why it should be so
with the Treasurer for Middlesex's Office remains to be
explained.

From the Morn. Chron. of Sept. 25, 1829.

His Majesty's Law Commissioners "have recommended
to Parliament a considerable increase in the amount of
such fees" (of the Secondary's office.)

In Practice Statute law contravened.

Fees exacted from Petitioners to Common Council.

Identifier: | JB/081/413/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-09-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	413	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles	morn. herald, september 17th, 1829 / extract / expenses of witnesses / from the morn. chron. of sept. 25, 1829
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	26200
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