COSTS.

Every application to an official receiver to appoint a special manager

Every application by a committee of inspection to the Board of Trade for a local banking account Every order of the Board of Trade for a local banking account

0 5 0

1 0 0

2 0 0

On one copy of the cash book, showing assets realized, forwarded for audit by the official receiver or trustee, to the Board of Trade, a fee at the rate of 17. upon the first 1007. or fraction thereof, and 5s. upon each 251. or fraction thereof beyond 1007. on the gross amount of the assets realised and brought to credit. This fee is not to be charged where a fee has been taken on an application under sections 18 or 23.

Every application under section 162 to the Board of Trade for payment of money out of the bankruptcy estates account, 2s. 6d.

TABLE C.

High bailiff attending Court each sitting
Serving every bankruptcy notice, bankruptcy peti-
tion or subpoena within two miles, including affi-
davit of service

Executing every warrant of seizure, or search war-
rant, or warrant of apprehension, or order of
commitment within two miles of Court-house
Keeping possession under a warrant-for each day
the man is actually in possession; including affi-
davit of possession being actually kept
(not less than 3s. 6d. of the above sum is to be
paid to the man in possession, and his receipt
produced.)

High bailiff's, or (in the London Bankruptcy Dis-
trict) officer's, man travelling to place of pos-
session, or to execute a warrant of or order of
commitment, or to serve a summons or subpoena,
or for any other purpose specially directed by the
Court, per mile

. 0 3 6

0 10 0

. 0 4 6

0

His time, per day, where distance exceeds 10 miles 0
His expenses, per day

If high bailiff of a County Court or bankruptcy officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court personally to travel, per mile

If high bailiff of a County Court or bankruptcy officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court personally to travel, his time, per day

. 007

. 0 10 0

SCALE OF
COSTS.

If high bailiff of a County Court or Bankruptcy £ s. d.
officer of Supreme Court directed by the Court
personally to travel, his expenses, per day.

TABLE D.

. 0 10 0

On the net assets realised or brought to credit by the official receiver, whether acting as interim receiver or as trustee, not being assets received and spent in carrying on the business of the debtor, 61. per cent.

On every payment under section 162 of money out of the bankruptcy estates account, 5s. on each 201. ad valorem on the amount paid.

Room for meeting of creditors, summoned by official
receiver, for each creditor present personally or
by proxy at each meeting.

For each notice to creditor of a meeting
Keeping possession, per day.

Travelling, and other reasonable expenses of official
receiver.

For official stationery, books, and forms, each estate,
for every fifty creditors, or less

TABLE E.

£

s. d.

.

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 4

6

1 0 0

For every order of administration under section 122, two shillings in the pound on the total amount of the debts scheduled from time to time, excluding any fraction of a pound in such total.

TABLE F.

The fees and allowances payable on proceedings had after the 31st day of December, 1883, in respect of any matter which was pending in any Court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy on the said day, shall be the same as if those proceedings had been taken before such day, and shall be applied to the same purposes.

We, the undersigned Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do hereby sanction the foregoing scales of fees and per-centages, and do direct that the fees to be taken by stamps shall be those mentioned in Tables A. and B., and that the fees mentioned in Tables C., D. and E., shall be taken in money, and that the fees and allowances referred to in Table F. shall be taken by stamps or money according as they have hitherto been taken: in respect of all proceedings in the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, the stamps to

be used shall be Judicature fee samps; and in respect of all other proceedings the stamps to be used shall be Bankruptcy fee stamps.

And we further direct that the stamp shall be affixed or the money paid in respect of every fee before the proceeding is had in respect of which the fee is payable, and that the charge to be made by the London Gazette for the insertion of each notice authorised by the Act or Rules shall be ten shillings, except in the cases of estates administered under Part VII. of the Act, in which cases the charge shall be three shillings and fourpence.

(Signed)

R. W. DUFF.
H. J. GLADSTONE.

SCALE OF

COSTS.

THE BANKRUPTCY REPEAL AND
INSOLVENT COURT ACT, 1869.

Short title.

32 & 33 VICT. c. 83.

An Act to provide for the Winding-up of the Business of the
late Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England,
and to repeal Enactments relating to Insolvency, Bank-
ruptcy, Imprisonment for Debt, and matters connected
therewith.
[9th August, 1869.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the winding-up
of the business of the late Court for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors in England:

And whereas the enactments described in the schedule to this Act relate to insolvency or bankruptcy, or imprisonment for debt, or to matters connected therewith, and the same either have ceased to be in force, or on the commencement of divers Acts of the present session will cease to be in force, and it is therefore expedient that the same be expressly repealed:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as The Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act, 1869.

88 2-5.

2. This Act shall not come into operation until the day on which the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, comes into operation, Commencewhich day is hereinafter referred to as the commencement ment of Act. of this Act.

PART I.

Temporary Provisions respecting Insolvent Debtors.

PART I.

of part of Act.

3. Words and expressions defined or explained in the Construction Bankruptcy Act, 1869, shall have the same meaning in this part of this Act.

of Insolvent

courts.

4. The Court of Bankruptcy in London shall have all Jurisdiction the jurisdiction, powers, and authorities possessed at the Debtors Court commencement of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, by the late and of county Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England (in this part of this Act called the late Insolvent Debtors Court) in relation to all matters then pending in that Court, and not completed at the commencement of this Act, and all matters at the commencement of this Act pending in that Court or in the County Courts under the Acts for the relief of insolvent debtors shall (subject to the express provisions of this part of this Act) be continued and completed therein as if this Act had not been passed.

Court.

5. Rules of Court may be made in manner provided by General rules the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, for the effectual execution of to be made by this part of this Act and of the objects thereof, and the regulation of the practice and procedure in proceedings thereunder, and the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, with respect to the making of Rules of Court shall apply accordingly.

Until rules have been made in pursuance of this section, and, so far as such rules do not extend, the principles, practice, and rules on which Courts having jurisdiction in

W.B.

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