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1827. July 20.
Collectanea
Law Taxes
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and their clerks were deprived of the emoluments
they formerly enjoyed, a tax upon all future litigants
was imposed for their benefit. Since that time, another
act of Parliament, and sundry acts of Sederunt,
have extended the objects of this fund; and it has now
arrived at such a magnificent maturity, that if the
per centage allowed to the collection for receiving this
tax shall in any year fall short of £600, the said
collection shall in such year be entitled to retain
the full sum of £600, as the allowance for his trouble!

When £600 per annum is paid to a collector
for sitting in a room at the Register-house during a
few hours every week to receive this revenue, the amount
of it can not be very trifling; but its operation
will be best judged of by attending to the fact, that before
an cause can be heard for the first time, by the
Lord ordinary in the Outer House, upon a closed record,
made up according to the new system in the shortest
possible way, on a revised condescendence and answers,
the payments to the fee fund amount to £4. 1s 1d;
and when to this sum are added the fees of enrolment
(which go to the same fund) and dues of clerk's assistants
for lodging and borrowing the papers, the outlay amounts
to £8. 0s 8d , or £4. 0s 4d to each party. This, be it observed,
is the very lowest sum of the tax upon every
case, where the record is made up in the ordinary way.
If the correction of papers is continued through a third
and fourth re-revisal, the expense accumulates space
with enrolment for prorogations, &: and all this is
exclusive entirely of all the payments to counsel
and agents for this professional labours, and before
parties are in a condition to say one word to the
Judge on the merits of the cause.

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Identifier: | JB/109/264/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1827-07-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Procedure Code
Folio number	264	Info in main headings field	Collectanea
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	Admiral Pavel Chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	35919
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