Star.
London, England, 1810-08-09 00:00:00

*194 0 0 Paid Deputy . 120 0 0

229 3 10 Ditto . . . .

100 0 0

851 1 6 Ditto . . • •

290 7 2

343 11 4 Ditto . . . . 79 0 10

X. 15,022 19 $

se. 1,356 13 0

OFFICES EXECUTZD IN PERSON.

•C. 15,022 19 S
The Clerk of the Rules on the Pleas side . . 3,383 11 7
The Clerk of the Papers on ditto . . . . 1,580 011
The Ckrk of the Inner Treasury . . . . "2S IS 5
The Clerk of the Outer Treasury . . . . 158 19 6
ThiClerk of NW Prius for London and otherCitles 689 1 1
Dino for Northern and Norfolk Circuits . . 517 10 8
Ditto for Home and Midland Circuits . . . 200 12 8
The Bagbrarer . ,

C. 21,964 1
The Commissioners are of opinion, that when the
Sale of Offices in the several Courts of Record at
Westminster shall be entirely prohibited, provision
may be made towards the payment of the Salaries to
the Lord Chief Justice and the other Judges of the
Court of King's Bench, and that the charge upon the
revenue may be lessened, if the Offices above-men-
oneJ, executed by Deputy, as well as the Offices of
Clerk of Nisi Prins for the Home and Midland, and
for the Northern and Norfolk Circuits, and for Lon-
don and other cities, where Assizes are held, were
executed in person, inasmuch as if that were done,
all the fees now payable might be received by the
principal Officers, who-may be authorized to retain
such proportion of them as may be thought proper,
regard being had tg the dignity of those Offices, and
to a proper remuneration for discharging the func-
tions of them ; and they might be accountable for the
residue of such fees.
Also, if the Mice of Prothonotary or Chief Clerk
of the Court of King's Bench were executed in per-
son, there might be no occasion for an Assistant to
the Secondary, or Master on the Plea side of the
Cotirt, according to the present establishment, and it
the office of Custos Brevium were so executed, he
might, with the assistance of Clerks to be paid by
himkelf, discharge all the function of the Clerks of
the Inner and Outer Treasury, and of the Clerks of
Nisi Prius, which last mentioned Officers are entitled
to very considerable fees for supposed transcripts of
the Nisi Prius Records from the Plea Rolls, which
transports are seldom, if ever made, the Nisi Prius
Records being now always engrossed by the Clerks
in Court, or Attornies for the parties, and the Clerks
of Nisi Prius doing little more than matters of form.
And with respect to the offices of Clerk of the rules
and Clerk of the Papers on the Plea side of the said
Court, both which offices are considered as being sale-
able, that after the sale of them shall be abolished,
it may be expedient that those Officers should receive
to their own use only a certain proportion of the fees
I elonging to the said offices, and should be account-
Ale for the residue, otherwise the abolition of the
• • sale, instead of lessening the charge on the Revenue,
mould operate to give these Officers as large a remu-
neration for their services only, as has hitherto been
received by them for their services and purchase =-
me)? together.
They are also of opinion that the offices of Clerk
of the Papers and Clerk of the Declarations may with
advantage to the suitors be executed by the same per-
t( n ; and that the pleas of the general issue should be
entered with him, instead of being entered with the
Clerk of the Dockets ; and, by this arrangement, a
Treater sum may be applied towards the payment of
the salaries of the Lord Chief Justice and the other
Jute' than could be done if all the officers now em-
ployed were lc be remunerated.
Taking the Amount of Fees received
in the Offices executed by Deputy at
It appears that the net Fees received by
those who executed tl.e Offices were
somewhat less than one-eleventh part
of them, being
Leaving a Balance of Fees received by
Officers not executitir any part of the
duties, of
To which, if there be added one-- kit ci for
example, of the Profits of the Offices
6 Clerk Rules

aC15,0211 19 4

1,156 13 0

13,660 1 3

of .. of the IL and Clerk of the By the Clerk of the Essoigns, after a U
Parer:, being -
And three•fourths, for example, of the By the Clerk of the Warrants, Inrohnests,
bificts of the three other Clerk of Nisi and Entreats, after i like payment -
Prins, being - --- - - T IPM 5 31 By the Clerk of the Juries, atter a like pay.
meat . r
I
Tice Aqnsal Amount of these sums whllbe '5169575 5 41 By the Clerk of the Errors in the Exchequer
From which, after there shall have been deducted Chamber, after a like payment -
such sums as, on account of the dignity of the offices,
may be thought gt t 9 be allowed to the ptilSipall The meant of the deductions will make
11 nun of • . 46,327 10 10i

• 70 0 0

461 If 0

.0 1 1 i
10100 II 7

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