ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Preamble recites 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 64.

Recited Act repealed; Sect. 1.

No Parliamentary Agent, &c. to sue for Costs until his Bill has been delivered One Month. Evidence of Delivery of Bill. Judge may allow Delivery of Bill before One Month; 2.

Appointment of Taxing Officer; 3.

Clerk of the Parliaments or Clerk Assistant to prepare List of Charges; 4.

Taxing Officer may examine Parties and Witnesses on Oath, and call for Books and Papers, and demand such Fees as allowed by the House. Application of Fees; 5-7.

Taxing Officer, on Application, to tax Bills. No Application to be entertained after Verdict obtained; 8.

Taxing Officer to report to the Clerk of the Parliaments. If either Party complain, they may memorialize the Clerk of Parliaments, who may require a further Report. If no Memorial deposited a Certificate may be issued of the Amount due, which shall have the Effect of a Warrant to confess Judgment; 9.

Taxing Officer of either House may tax Costs not otherwise taxable, &c., and may request other Officers to assist, who shall have the same Powers, &c.; 10.

Taxing Officers to include certain Costs in their Reports, and Certificates of the same to be delivered; 11.

Officers of other Courts may request Taxing Officers of either House to tax Parts of Bills; 12.

Taxing Officer of either House may take an Account between the Parties; 13.

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ACT

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The more effectual Taxation of Costs on Private Bills in the House of Lords, and to facilitate the Taxation of other Costs on Private Bills in certain Cases.

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HEREAS an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Preamble. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, 7 & 8 G. 4. intituled "An Act to establish a Taxation of Costs on c. 64. "Private Bills in the House of Lords:" And whereas it is expedient to repeal the same, and to make more effectual Provision for taxing the Costs and Expenses to be charged by Parliamentary Agents, Attornies, Solicitors, and others, in future Sessions of Parliament, in respect of Bills subject to the Payment of Fees in Parliament, commonly called Private Bills, and to be incurred in complying with the 10 Standing Orders of the House of Lords relative to such Bills, and in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same through, or in opposing the same in, the House of Lords, and to facilitate the Taxation of other Costs incurred in respect of Private Bills, in certain Cases: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority

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7 & 8 G. 4. c. 64. repealed.

Recited Act Authority of the same, That, except as to any Costs, Charges, and Expenses which shall have been incurred in the present or any preceding Session of Parliament, the said recited Act shall be repealed.

Parliamen-
tary Agent,
Attorney, or
Solicitor not

to sue for
Costs until
One Month
after Delivery
of his Bill.

II. And be it enacted, That no Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, 5 or Solicitor, nor any Executor, Administrator, or Assignee of any Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, shall commence or maintain any Action or Suit for the Recovery of any Costs, Charges, or Expenses in respect of any Proceedings in the House of Lords in any future Session of Parliament relating to any Petition for a 10 Private Bill, or Private Bill, or in respect of complying with the Standing Orders of the said House relative thereto, or in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same through, or opposing the same in, the House of Lords, until the Expiration of One Month after such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, or Executor, Adminis- 15 trator, or Assignee of such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, has delivered unto the Party to be charged therewith, or sent by Post to or left for him at his Counting-house, Office of Business, Dwelling House, or last known Place of Abode, a Bill of such Costs, Charges, and Expenses, and which Bill shall either be 20 subscribed with the proper Hand of such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, or in the Case of a Partnership by any of the Partners, either with his own Name or with the Name of such Partnership, or of the Executor, Administrator, or Assignee of such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, or be enclosed in or 25 accompanied by a Letter subscribed in like Manner referring to such Evidence of Bill: Provided always, that it shall not in any Case be necessary, in Delivery of the first instance, for such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, or the Executor, Administrator, or Assignee of such Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, in proving a Compliance 30 with this Act, to prove the Contents of the Bill delivered, sent, or left by him, but it shall be sufficient to prove that a Bill of Costs, Charges, and Expenses, subscribed in manner aforesaid, or enclosed in or accompanied by such Letter as aforesaid, was delivered, sent, or left in manner aforesaid; but nevertheless it shall be competent for 35 the other Party to show that the Bill so delivered, sent, or left was not such a Bill as constituted à bonâ fide Compliance with this Act: Provided also, that it shall be lawful for any Judge of the Superior Courts of Law or Equity in England or Ireland, or of the Court of Actionbefore Session in Scotland, to authorize a Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, 40 Expiration of or Solicitor to commence an Action or Suit for the Recovery of his Costs, Charges, and Expenses against the Party chargeable therewith, although One Month has not expired from the Delivery of a Bill as aforesaid,

Bill.

Power to Judge to authorize

One Month.