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ON COUNTY COURTS BILL

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Do any observations occur to you, that you wish to make upon the subject of
compensation? — I should apprehend that this Bill would take away nearly a sixth
part of the master's profits.

Mr. John Glass, called in; and Esamined.
YOU are clerk to the inner treasury of the court of Kind's Bench? — I am
deputy clerk.
Can you give the Committee any information with respect to the office which
Lord Kenyon holds? — My Lord Kenyon holds the office of custos brevium, and
Mr. Hammer is clerk of the treasury under my Lord Kenyon, and I am deputy to
Mr. Hammer as clerk of the treasury; but Mr. Hammer is also one of the clerks at
nisi prius for the Northern and Norfolk circuits, which appointment he holds under Lord Kenyon.

Can you give any information with regard to the mode in which the withdrawing
causes under 10l, will operate upon the fees of an y of the officers who hold situations
for life? — Yes; I do business for Mr. Hammer. What effect do you apprehend the withdrawing causes under 10l, will have upon
Lord Kenyon's place? — I cannot say to what amount.
Will it have a considerable effect? — Not very considerable, I should think. On what do Lord Kenyon's fees arise? — Upon the passing the records of nisi
prius, upon which the cause is tried, before the chief justice or the justices of the
different courts. Does that take place when the cause is not brought to trial? — Yes, at all times.
Does a fee arise to Lord Kenyon on every writ that is sued out? — No; that arises
with the chief clerk.
When a writ is sued out, does Lord Kenyon, in the process after that, always
receive a fee? — A fee arises to the clerk of the treasury, Mr. Hammer.
Does the clerk of the treasury always receive a fee when a write is sued out? —
Yes, upon all writes that are filed returnable in the King's Bench court.
What is that fee? — Writs of the present term are only sixpence, unless they are
post terminum, and then there is a further fee of sixpence a term.
Is any part of that paid over by the clerk of the treasury to any other officer? —
I believe Lord Kenyon receives an annual sum from the treasury.
A fixed payment? - Yes.
Then, as far as the treasury is concerned, Lord Kenyon's emoluments would not
be affected by the diminution of the fees? — No.

Identifier: | JB/004/042/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1825-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	county courts bill / minutes of evidence / taken before the select committee on the / bill / for preventing delays and expenses in the proceedings of county courts, and for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts, in england and wales
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	36
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(6-35)
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	1963
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