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| <p>What is the fee for the service?<lb/>
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| Two shillings and sixpence.<lb/>
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| What is the whole, including the service?<lb/>
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| About a guinea and a half.<lb/>
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| If the party does not appear then an attachment issues?<lb/>
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| Yes.<lb/>
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| What are the fees upon the attachment?<lb/>
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| Thirteen shillings and fourpence; contempt, it may be two or three pounds more<lb/></p>
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| <p>Of the expense of the issuing subpoena, what part of it goes to you, what your emoluments upon each subpoena?<lb/>
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| My fee is, I think, 9 s. 8 d.<lb/>
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| Do you get anything upon the attachment?<lb/>
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| Yes 12 s. 10 d. I get about 6 s. 10 d. on each writ, merely the process if it is not settled; there are the subsequent proceedings upon the subpoena, my charge is 8 s. 10 d. and the charge is 12 s. 10d.<lb/></p>
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| <p>That is the whole of what you get if the debt is settled upon the attachment suing?<lb/>
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| Yes; but then the gentlemen employing me get considerably more.<lb/>
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| You think there are about two thousand issue in a year?<lb/>
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| Yes<lb/>
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| Do you keep a clerk for the purpose of issuing those writs?<lb/>
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| Yes<lb/>
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| Could you dispense with the service of that clerk if the writs were discontinued, or greatly reduced to number which there would be if there were none under ten pounds?<lb/>
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| I should have no other suits at all if they were taken away.<lb/>
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| If the writs cease to be issued should you have to pay expense of a clerk?<lb/>
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| My age is such, I cannot copy the declarations, I may still have to appear for defendants, and i must therefore have a clerk copy them.<lb/>
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| How many clerks do you keep now? <lb/>
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| I keep only one.<lb/>
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| It would still be necessary for you to keep that one?<lb/>
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| Yes.<lb/>
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| Do you hold your office for life?<lb/>
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| I do.<lb/>
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| Did you purchase it?<lb/>
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| I purchased it of one of the attornies; when one dies we purchase.<lb/></p>
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| What kind of estate have you?<lb/>
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| An estate for life, and the power of selling.<lb/>
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| (To Mr. Dar. Jun.) Do you know how the fact is with respect to this?<lb/>
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| There are four attornies in the office of Pleas, and each attorney has four side clerks in his division; upon vacancies occuring in the situation of side clerks, the attorney has the privilege of selling that vacancy.<lb/>
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| (To Mr. Dar.) You are the senior of the attornies?<lb/>
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| I am.<lb/>
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| Have you any particular privileges as being the senior?<lb/>
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| No; not unless there is a trial at bar, or anything of that kind.<lb/>
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| You say there are a certain number of subpoenas issued in a year; each of the four clerks has an equal right with yourself to issue them?<lb/>
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| yes<lb/>
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| Then it is divided between the four?<lb/>
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| Yes; there are sixteen side clerks and four attornies, each of them sue out subpoenas.<lb/>
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| Then you have only the sixteenth part?<lb/>
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