New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-30
Judges Fees, &c.

~ - EesAF y ~ fFtSAHSs
The following section Of law proposed BY a
Committee Of Lawyers Of the Bar in this City. has
been sent TO Albany for the sanction Of our Leeisla.
ture:
The fees charged in this proposed law arc nu.
mefOus, and contain many items which never
should receive the countenencc OF the Legislature.
Fees on allowing any order to hold to bail wit
o. attachment, hsbess corpus certiorsri or order
FOR the removal OF a cause, or for the examination
OF any witness By deposition oHe dollar each order
On allowing any warrant Of arrest az Anst any fraud
ueni debtor any attachment against property or order
for creditors 70 show IL cases OF Insolvency o
dollars each order
Fees on hearing asbess corpus insolvency arrest Of
fraudulent debtor fire dollars in each case. Fecs up
on appointing trustees in any case sro dollars and upon
the allowance Of every other Chamber order or certf.
cate, or fat fly oes. And the numbers are legion in
our practice
Fees on every oath and affidavit. one sailing each
This is the old fee system greatly enlarged which has
been prsctced upon at Chambers BY our Judges,
which has brought cur laws into hatred and made the
practice Of the aw byword and reproach to the pro.
profession.
Let Judges have salaries bat no ees Let saito.s
know low much money they have to pay to enter sui,
how much on trial and how muck when the judgment,
record Is Gled
These payments are sufficient Tor any sutton. We do
nc. believe In the everlasting demand tor fees 81 every
turn and step in a cause.
This fee5 hiss been got up for the benefit Of Judges
and Clerks OF Court and msy amount to one hundred
dollars in contested cause Il is full time that the
whole fee system abandoned.
8. In all suits in the said Superior Court or Court
OF Common Pleas, In the supreme Court. where the
plaintiff or bis attorney SHALL reside Ia the said City and
the process sha be issued to be served in the said City
and County the when the suit Is commencedb
declaration snail be laid therein the painth moving
party or his attorney shall pay 10 the Clerk Of the
Court in the City OF Newiork the following fees, TO
wit sealing tie process, fling the declaration
the case may be- dollar rst entering the cause
the calendar for trial dollar and fty cents,
hing report OF referees or VI the clerk, or any as
sessment in which shall not have been placed
upon the calendar Tor trial dollar and fifty cents
on fTs entering the the calendar for hearing on
every enumerated motion one dollar and CITY cents
on calling the argument OF any non enumerated mo-
ton IN Court or al Chambers, one dollar on enter
Ing the rule for hna judgment dollar ding any
writ Of error 20 the Court Of Appeals tive dollars In
al suits in any Court or other civil proceeding, when
euy Of the services hereafter IN this section mentioned
shall be rendered In the said City Of New-lOrk, the
party requiring such service shall pay % the Judge
derng the service, ~ the Clerk Of his Court IN the
said Cry the following lees 10 wit On the edunistra
ton Of every oath twelve and half cents on allowing
any order to hold 10 bail writ Of attachment against tho
person habess corpus certorad, order for the
fnOyHl OF cause, tor the examination OF any wit
by deposition dollar; on allowing any warrant
of against any fraudulent debtor any attachment
against the estate Of any debtor any order tor credit
to show in Of insolvency, two dollars
deciding any arising upon habess corpus upon
proceedings In Insolvency upon any warrant OF ar
rest against fraudulent debtor i've dollars upon sp.
pointing trustees in any case, two dollars and upon
every other Chamber order, allowance city cents.
Whenever tho party paying any fees mentioned In this
section shall be entitled 10 recover costs against the
ether party such fees shall be included in the so
recoverable This section shal not be construed TO APP
ply 10 any Of the summary jurisdictions mentioned In
this Act.