Madras in the Olden Time

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ncr's office twelve f.inams; to be paid out of that four fanams to the Court Serjeant. For a note to be delivered the Defendant's attorney before he is examined, two fanaras. Attorney's Fees. All persons that employ an Attorney to act for them in any cause is first to deposit in his hands 3 pagodas, of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ncr's office twelve f.inams; to be paid out of that four fanams to the Court Serjeant. For a note to be delivered the Defendant's attorney before he is examined, two fanaras. Attorney's Fees. All persons that employ an Attorney to act for them in any cause is first to deposit in his hands 3 pagodas, of which he is to give an account when the cause is ended. Attorney fee one pagoda. For writing petition eighteen fanams each side of a sheet of paper. Pleading each Court day and attendance nine fanams. Translating any paper eighteen fanams a side; to bo paid out of that to the Translator six fauamg. Attendance on a Client in the White Town nine fanams. Attendance on a Client in the Black Town twelve fanams. For drawing ont the interogatories in the -whole cause eighteen fanams. Sheriff's Fees. Commission upon all Levys and Executions 5 per cent, under 200 pagodas and 2, per cent on all above. For executing all warrants and summons ten fanams. N. B.?The Mayor and two cash keepers to draw 34 per cent, upon all deposited estates and money 1iaid into Court upon every cause that is decided; the interpreter to' have nine fanams. I'I'oa all summons to the Blacks he is to have one fanain. CHAPTER XXXVI. GOVERNORSHIP OF MR. JAMES MACRAE. 1728?29. The concluding years of Mr. Macrae's government, like those whose history has been recorded, are marked by events of a purely domestic nature. One little difficulty occurred with the French at the Mauritins, and another one with the Itnjah of Travancore, but both were of a trivial nature. The remainder of the entries we have preserved refer almost entirely to the administration of Governor Macrae within the Company's bounds; and to such little incidents as serve to illustrate the interna...