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30 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE
Stephen Richards,
Esq.
9 March,
1825.
a depreciation of the process to the amount one-third, yet before I made
a claim for compensation, I should choose to inform myself more correctly on
the subject, that is my general impression; and I am sorry to say that I think
that there are many of that description of writs that are sued for, particularly
under the Exchequer subpoena; that is the leading one. I conceive, the office of
clerk in court, an office independent of the solicitor; the very object of the com-
mission which has been lately sitting to inquire into the nature and fees of the
office in the preamble, to that part which relates to the office of Pleas, the com-
missioners state, that one of their duties is clearly to distinguish and define that
which is the clerks in court fee, and that which is the solicitors fee, and contra-
distinguish one from the other, and in that there is a long schedule of those fees
which they have admitted to be ancient fees; they generally have endeavoured
to confine them to the payments which were made in the year 1730.
Mr.Bryan Holme, called in ; and Examined.
Mr.
Bryan Holme.
YOU are one of the side clerks?- I am one of the side clerks in the Exchequer
of Pleas.
Did you purchase your place?- I did.
That was when you first came into the office?- My partner purchased his
place ; I was in partnership with Mr. Alexander, he purchased his place, and then
on his resignation, I purchased mine.
Of him?-No, of the attorney of court.
What did you give for it?-Three hundred guineas.
Did you give any thing besides that, at any other time, for the business?-No;
I gave Mr. Alexander two hundred guineas for his resignation of the situation to
me ; he retired from business, and it was part of the terms on which he did retire,
that I should give him two hundred guineas for resigning his situation as clerk in
court, and after he had done so, then I had the usual fee of three hundred guineas
to pay to the attorney of the court, Mr. Collett.
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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 |
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