NEW SCHEDULE OF COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 817, 14 January 1868, Page 2

NEW SCHEDULE OF COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.

We take the following new scale of costs’ which came into use on the Ist of January, from tbe New Zealand Gazette of the 21st ultimo. It will be seen by the above Gazette that the Resident Magistrates are appointed to their several districts under “Tbe Resident Magistrates Act, 1867 : - Colonial Secretary’s Office, (Judicial Branch), Wellington, 19th December, 1867Costs to Crown Solicitors and Crown Prosecutors, and Expenses to Witnesses, in Criminal Prosecutions, will be allowed as follows, from

Professional men, diem per ... 1 1 0 Female witnesses at the rate of two-thirds the allowance to male witnesses of similar rank. Travelling Expenses. Witnesses residin; at a distance exceeding one mile from the place of trial, expenses not exceeding Is 6d per mile one way. If there is a steamer or coach or other public conveyance, either the whole or part of the way, the actual cost of such conveyance in lieu of mileage. Where they travel by water, fore-cabin fare will be allowed to the first and second class of witnesses, and chief-cabin fare to the latter classes. Witnesses in the pay of the General or Provincial Governments will not be paid for their time, but only for extra costs occasioned by their attendance. E. W. Stafford.

the 1st of January, 1868 - £ s. d. Solicitor preparing case for ancl attending trial... 3 3 0 Counsel’s fee on trial, if indictment found o 2 0 When Subpoena required, same to be issued by Solicitor and served by police. Attendance for each Subpoena ... 0 3 4 Each copy of Subpoena 0 1 0 Eor each Subpoena duces tecum , in addition to the fee for attending for Subpoena, a fee for preparing, exclusive of formal matter, for each folio ... 0 1 0 For each copy of Subpoena, duces tecum in addition to abovementioned fee for Subpoena exclusive of formal matter, for each folio 0 0 6 For preparing any notice to produce, for each folio ... 0 1 0 Each copy for service, per folio 0 0 6 Instructing police as to service of Subpoena, or notice to produce 0 3 4 Allowances to Prosecutors and Witnesses. Labourers, per diem 0 6 0 Journeymen, &c., per diem 0 10 0 Master tradesmen, farmers, yeomen, and auctioneers, per diem 0 15 0