tors or Attornies. Penalty 2001. Officers to keep Writing Clerks in their Offices, and pay them 14d. per Office Sheet: Officer not to permit Copies to be made elsewhere than in his Office by such Copying Clerks. Penalty 201. In case of want of Room Lord make annual Order for per in his own Name or in the Name of any other Person or Persons, as a Solicitor in the said Court of Chancery, or to be in Partnership with any Solicitor in the said Court of Chancery in Ireland; and that from and after the said First Day of Michaelmas Term it shall not be lawful for any Person who shall be hereafter appointed to hold any of the Offices of the said Court mentioned and specified in any of the Tables to this Act annexed, or who shall hereafter be appointed a Deputy or Clerk to any Person who now holds or shall hereafter hold any Office, to act or practise, either in his own Name or in the Name of any other Person or Persons, as an Attorney or Solicitor in any of the Courts of Law or Equity in Ireland; and every such Officer or Person who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or any other Person in Partnership with or in Trust for him, act as such Attorney or Solicitor, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall, for every Time he shall so act, forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. XIII. And be it further enacted, That all Officers of the said Court of Chancery, who shall be entitled to any Fees under the Provisions of this Act, shall employ in their respective Offices a sufficient Number of Writing Clerks, to make Copies of Bills, Pleadings, Affidavits, Orders, Decrees and other Things belonging to their respective Offices, and required by or on Behalf of the Suitors of the said Court, and to do and perform all other Business requisite to be done and performed in such respective Offices, so that the Business of any Suitor of the said Court shall not be unnecessarily delayed therein; and such Officer shall pay to every such Writing Clerk, for all Copies made by such Writing Clerk, after the Rate of not less than One Penny Halfpenny for every Office Sheet, consisting of Seventy two Words, of every such Copy made by such Clerk, and for a Part or Portion of any Office Sheet; and it shall not be lawful for any such Officer to cause or direct or knowingly permit any such Copy, or any Part thereof, to be made in any other Place, or by any other Person, than in the proper Office of such Officer, and by a Writing Clerk employed in such Office, and paid exclusively by such Officer after the Rate aforesaid at the least; and every such Officer shall be responsible for the Accuracy of every Copy so made in his Office, and for the same being duly compared with the Original from which it shall be made; and every such Officer who shall cause or direct or knowingly permit any Copy to be made contrary to this Act, or who shall not pay the Writing Clerk for writing the same according to the Rate by this Act directed at the least, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds. XIV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at any Time or Times it shall be ascertained by Affidavit or otherwise, to the Chancellor may Satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, or the Lord Keeper or the Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of Ireland, that any Officer of the said Court hath not in his Office sufficient Room for the reasonable Accommodation of himself, his Deputies and Assistants, and of a sufficient Number of Clerks to do and perform the Business so required to be done in such Office as aforesaid, then and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful to and for such Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Commissioners mitting Copies to be made out of the Offices. missioners, to make an Order declaring that the same has been so proved, and that it shall be lawful for such Officer to cause, direct or permit any such Copy, or any Part thereof, to be made in any Place and by any Person whatever; and that for every Copy or How such Part of a Copy which shall be so made in any other Place than Copies paid for. the said Office, such Officer, in ascertaining and charging his Fees in respect thereof, shall allow out of the Fees usually payable on such Copies or Parts of Copies One Penny Halfpenny for every Office Sheet thereof; and every such Order shall be good and valid, and shall be a sufficient Justification in all respects to any Person acting in pursuance thereof, for One Year from the Date thereof, unless sooner rescinded, and shall and may be renewed from time to time, until, by reason of new Buildings or new Arrangements or otherwise, sufficient Room shall have been obtained for the Purposes in that Behalf aforesaid; and the Residue only What deemed of the Fees to which such Officer would then be lawfully entitled, the lawful Fees in case such copying had been regularly done in his Office, which of Officers in shall remain after such Deduction as aforesaid, shall be deemed such Case. and taken to be the lawful Fees or Fee of such Officer in such Case. and mark Fees thereon. XV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be Solicitors may lawful for any Solicitor of the said Court of Chancery to prepare prepare Copies for the Attestation of the proper Officers of the said Court Copies of Decrees, of all or any such Decrees, Reports, Accounts, Affidavits and Affidavits, &e. others Matters or Things, as such Solicitor shall have occasion to file; and that every such Officer shall compare and attest such Copy, and shall in such Case deduct and allow out of the Fee payable to such Officer for such attested Copy the Sum of One Penny Halfpenny for every Office Sheet thereof; and shall mark the Fees on such Documents pursuant to this Act, as if such Copy had been prepared by such Officer; and further, that it shall and may be lawful for any Solicitor of the said Court of Chancery to prepare Drafts of Decrees, and all other Documents, in like Manner as the Solicitors of the said Court have heretofore been accustomed to do. &c. XVI. And be it further enacted, That in all Copics, Engross- In Copies, &c. ments, Exemplifications or Extracts of any Rules, Pleadings, Fraction of a Decrees or other Matters chargeable according to the Length Sheet, &c. may be charged as thereof, whether the Charge for the same shall be computed a whole Sheet, according to the Sheet, the Skin, the Roll or the Side, a Fraction of a Sheet, Skin, Roll or Side respectively, of any such Copy, Engrossment, Exemplification or Extract, may be charged for by any Officer as an entire Sheet, Skin, Roll or Side, provided that on each such Copy, Engrossment, Exemplification or Extract respectively, there shall be charged only One such Fraction of a Sheet, Skin, Roll or Side respectively. XVII. And be it further enacted, That in all Copies of Schedules and Accounts whatsoever issued from any Office in the said Court of Chancery, the Charge or Fee whereupon is or are or shall or may be lawfully computed according to the Contents, allSums of Money and Dates of the Year, and Days of the Month and Numbers, shall be expressed in Figures, and shall be charged as if the same were expressed in Figures, and not in Words, in Manner and according to the Directions following; (that is to say,) 4 GEO. IV. Dd One How Sums, Numbers shall be expressed and charged. Charge of Fees to be endorsed on all Copies and Documents. One Pound, or any Number of Pounds, shall be charged as One Word; One Shilling, or any Number of Shillings, shall be charged as One Word; One or more Penny or Pence, whether with or without any Fraction of a Penny, shall be charged as One Word; any Fraction of a Penny not joined with any Penny or Pence shall be charged as One Word, whether the same shall occur singly or shall be combined in any Mode or Form whatsoever; and any definite Number whatever shall be charged as One Word and ne more. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That upon the Back of all Copies, Engrossments, Exemplifications and Writings, which shall be issued from any Office of the said Court of Chancery, or by any Officer of the said Court, there shall be endorsed and written by the said Officer, or his sufficient Deputy or Clerk, the full Amount of all Office Fees charged on such Copy, Engrossment, Exemplification or Writing respectively, and the Rate of such Fees, and the Mode of Charge according to which such Fees shall be computed, and the Number of Sheets, Skins or Sides on which such Fees shall be charged or calculated; and upon any Taxation of Costs between Party and Party, or between Attorney and Client, such Copy, Engrossment, Exemplification or Writing, shall allowed on Tax- be produced before the Taxing Officer, in all Cases where it shall ation of Costs. appear to him practicable; and it shall not be lawful for the Taxing Officer to allow any Charge of any Solicitor or Attorney, with respect to any such Document so produced, upon which the Amount and Rate of Fees shall not be so endorsed, but that all and every such Charge shall be struck out of the Bills of such Solicitor or Attorney by such Taxing Officer. Charge of Do cuments not so endorsed not Taxing Officers to examine into justice of Charges on Bills of Costs. Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, &c. to receive all Fees at the Rolls Office, XIX. And for the Removal of Doubts as to the Extent of the Duty of the Taxing Officers of the said Court of Chancery, be it further enacted, That upon all Taxations of Bills of Costs, whether between Party and Party, or between Attorney and Client, it shall be the bounden Duty of the Taxing Officer, whether he shall be required so to do or not, and whether any Objection shall have been made or not, to examine and ascertain, by all reasonable Methods, that each and every Charge in any Bill of Costs contained (whether such shall be a Fee for Counsel, Solicitor or Officer of Court, or Stamp Duty, or any other Disbursement whatsoever, or any Charge for Business done by the Person charging the same,) is the proper Charge which, under the Circumstances of the Case, ought to be made; and that upon all such Taxation the Taxing Officer shall determine upon all Charges made by any Officer of the Court of Chancery, and allow only such as shall appear to him made according to the true Right of such Officer respectively. XX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Commencement of this Act, the Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, or the Clerk of the Enrolments, or any Clerk or other Person employed in the Rolls Office, to demand or accept, for or on account of any and pay there Act, Matter or Thing done in or concerning the Business of the out Quarterly Rolls Office, as the same are set forth in the Table (No. 2.) to this certain Salaries, Act annexed, or as may be payable under any Order or Orders &c. specified, to of Court made in pursuance of the Provisions in this Act conClerk of Enrol- tained, save and except only in such Cases where, under the Pro himself, to the 7 visisons visions of any Act of Parliament now in force in Ireland, any lesser ments, ComFees are appointed to be taken; and that the said Deputy Keeper paring Clerks, of the Rolls shall Quarterly and every Quarter, on the Twenty dental Exfifth Day of March, Twenty fourth Day of June, Twenty ninth pences; Day of September and Twenty fifth Day of December, or within Ten Days next after, retain and pay, out of the Produce of such Fees, the several Sums, Charges and Disbursements following, to and for the Use of him the said Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, and the several Officers following; that is to say, to and for the Use of him the said Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, the Sum of Two hundred and fifty Pounds, being One thousand Pounds yearly; to and for the Use of the Clerk of the Enrolments, the Sum of One hundred Pounds, being Four hundred Pounds yearly; to and for the Use of the Clerk for regulating the Pleadings after they are copied and compared, and for removing the Pleadings once a Year from the Inner Office into the Record Room, the Sum of Seven Pounds Two Shillings and Two Pence Farthing, being Twenty eight Pounds Eight Shillings and Nine Pence yearly; and to and for the Use of the Trainbearer of the Master of the Rolls, the Sum of Thirty seven Pounds Ten Shillings, being One hundred and fifty Pounds yearly; to and for the Crier of the Rolls Court, the Sum of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, being Fifty Pounds yearly; to and for the Housekeeper, the Sum of Six Pounds Five Shillings, being Twenty five Pounds yearly; to and for the Use of the Rolls Court Keeper, the Sum of Two Pounds Five Shillings and Sixpence, being Nine Pounds Two Shillings yearly; and to and for the Use of the conducting Clerks, copying Clerks and comparing Clerks, and the Clerks for engrossing Enrolments in the said Rolls Office, such Sum or Sums as shall be equal to the Rates and Amounts following; that is to say, to the conducting Clerks One Shilling for every Twenty Sheets, to the copying Clerks One Penny Halfpenny for every Sheet, and to the comparing Clerks Three Pence for every Twenty Sheets, of every Copy of every Bill, Answer, Plea, Replication, Rejoinder, Demurrer, Enrolment or other Pleading, Document or Matter whatsoever, which shall be made in the said Office; and to the engrossing Clerks One Shilling for engrossing every double Strip of Enrolment of every Patent, Deed or other Document or Matter which shall be enrolled in the said Office during the Quarter ending on such Twenty fifth Day of March, Twenty fourth Day of June, Twenty ninth Day of September and Twenty fifth Day of December, in every Year; and that the said Deputy Keeper of the Rolls do retain and pay out of the said Fees, for Parchment, Stationery, Coals, Candles, the Court Yard Keeper, and for such other incidental Expences as have been heretofore accustomed to be paid out of the Fees of the Master of the Rolls, for the Use of the said Rolls Office and the Rolls Court, such Sums respectively as shall appear necessary to the Commissioners for auditing of Public Accounts in Ireland to be continued to be paid; and such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, and deliver Acafter Payment of all the said respective Sums, Charges and Ex- counts thereof pences, shall, within Fourteen Days after such Twenty fifth Day Quarterly to of March, Twenty fourth Day of June, Twenty ninth Day of Sep- for auditing the tember, and Twenty fifth Day of December, in each Year, deliver Public Ac into the Office of His Majesty's said Commissioners for auditing counts. Commissioners the Public Accounts for the Time being, an Account, signed by such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, of all Fees received by him under this Act for the Quarter ending on such Twenty fifth Day of March, Twenty fourth Day of June, Twenty ninth Day of September and Twenty fifth Day of December, respectively, send an Account of all Fees received or receivable for the Crier of the Rolls Court, and of all Salaries and Sums of Money paid by him according to the Directions of this Act, properly vouched and verified on Oath, by an Affidavit at the Foot thereof, by such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, if required, before One of the Masters of the said Court of Chancery, who is hereby authorized and required to administer the Oath for that Purpose; and in case of the Death of such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, then his Executors or Administrators shall, within Six Calendar Months after his Death, deliver in like Manner to the said Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts an Account, signed by such Executors or Administrators respectively, of all Fees received, and of all Salaries and Sums paid by such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, from the latest Day to which he shall have so accounted to his Death; which Account shall be verified in like Manner by such Executors or Administrators, or some or one such Executor or Commissioners Administrator; and the said Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts, or the major Part of them, shall and are hereby reAccounts, and quired to inquire into, audit and settle, with all convenient Speed, Deputy Keeper every such Account so delivered, and to verify under their Hands of the Rolls to the Balance due thereon; and such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, pay over Surplus. or his Executors or Administrators, having Assets, shall, within Six Days after each such Account respectively shall be so audited and certified, pay into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland all such Sum and Sums of Money as shall be so certified as the Balance in his or their Hands; which Payment shall thereupon be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. to audit such Deputy Keeper counts, or pay Penalty. Acquittances for Payment into Exchequer to be produced to Commis. sioners. XXI. And be it further enacted, That in case the said Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, his Executors or Administrators, shall at any Time or Times neglect or make default in delivering in such Account as hereinbefore directed, to the said Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts, within the Periods aforesaid respectively specified for that Purpose, or in paying into the said Exchequer such Balance as aforesaid for the said Space of Six Days after such auditing, then and in every such Case such Deputy Keeper of the Rolls, or such Executors or Administrators, having Assets sufficient to make such Payment, shall pay into the said Exchequer, together with such Balance, Interest for the same at the Rate of Twenty Pounds per Centum from the Expiration of the said Period of Six Days, until paid in as aforesaid. XXII. And, to the end that the Payment of such Balance may be ascertained, be it further enacted, That upon Payment of such Balance, an Acquittance or Discharge for the same shall be signed by the proper Officer in the Exchequer, which shall be produced and exhibited by the said Deputy Keeper to the said Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts, with the next ensuing Quarter's Account, within One Calendar Month from the Date thereof, or by his Executors or Administrators within Three Calendar |