Friday, September 2, 2016

Payments of fees at small debts courts by postage or revenue stamps - 1884


Authorisation of Payments of fees at small debts courts by postage or revenue stamps in 1884
Mackay Mercury and South Kennedy Advertiser (Qld.), Saturday 27 September 1884, page 2

Government Gazette :— “All fees of Court authorised to be collected or received in the offices of the Registers of the several Small Debts Courts, in terms of schedule A of 'The Small Debts Act of 1867' (except bailiffs' fees), shall be collected by the several Registrars in duty, or postage stamps denoting the amount of such fees; such stamps shall be affixed to the paper or papers on which the proceedings are written or printed, in respect of which fees are payable; the Registrars shall obliterate or cancel all stamps affixed in terms of these regulations, by writing across the face of .the stamps the date of such obliteration or cancellation; with a view to ascertaining the amount of fees collected, every Registrar shall keep a fee-book in the form supplied to him by the Auditor General for the purpose; and shall forward an abstract of the same to the Treasury with his own returns at the close of every month.”