For Attending the Master to file the same three Shillings. Drawing every Bill of Cost to be taxed per Sheet one Shilling and Sixpence. Drawing the Masters Report per Sheet one Shilling and Six pence. Fee in attending for the Report ten Shillings. Sollicitors fees upon special Matters where Services are necessary and not herein before provided for to be allowed at the discretion of a Master. The Sollicitor General to have the same as other Sollicitors, and one fourth part more in Causes which concern the King. THE SHERIFFS FEES. For all Services done by the Sherriff, the same Fee as for the like Services in the Supreme Court. THE SERGEANT AT ARMS HIS FEES. Taking a Prisoner into Custody Eighteen Shillings. Miliage for each Mile going and Coming nine pence. Every Day a Prisoner remains in his Custody, four Shillings. The Return of an Order One Shilling. Notice to the Officers of the Time of the Courts sitting, for every motion then made one shilling. Every hearing three Shillings. Serving every Summons to attend a Master twelve pence. Every Person in Contempt before being discharged of his Contempt shall, besides all other Fees pay the Sergeant at Arms Six Shillings and Eight pence. The service of every Subpoena if served by him four shillings. For every Mile going and coming Six pence. A List of Fees taken by the Council of Pro prietors. For every Warrant and Seal to Resurvey. Allowing every Survey. Every Warrant and Seal for Locating Lands Fees to the Council for every hundred Acres in the fifth Dividend Ditto on the fourth Dividend Endorsing every Deed where all Warrant is granted Examining the Council Minutes Settling the Accounts of any Proprietor vey. Allowing every Deputy Surveyor . 1. 1 A List of Fees taken in the Surveyor Generals Office. For inspecting, revising & Correcting the Re turns for the first hundred Acres for the second ditto for the third ditto for the fourth ditto & all others If less than 80 Acres and above 50 Acres. If less than 50 Acres, and all other under Recording the same per Sheet £. s. d. 6. 3. 2. 1. 6 3. 6 3. 7 For every Copy from the Records per Sheet. 1. 6 The foregoing are all the ffees Received by the Officers within the Colony of New Jersey and are Estab lished by Law or Ordonnance except those of the Proprietors Offices which were appointed by the Council of Proprietors Antecedent to the Law and have been taken by the Custom of that Board. Nor are there any other perquisites or Gratuitys received by the Officers in New Jersey for Services done by them upon any pretence whatever And the ffees are paid in Currency Sixty Per Cent worse than Sterling money of Great Britain. CHA READ D. Secr. Order in Council approving fourteen Seals for the several Colonies in America, and directing Secretary of State, Earl of Shelburne, to transmit the same to the Governors. L. S. [From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 106.] AT THE COURT AT ST JAMES'S THE 13TH PRESENT The Kings Most Excellent Majesty in Council. His Majesty in Council having this Day Approved of fourteen new Seals for the following Islands And provinces in America, (viz!)—— Jamaica Barbadoes Leward Islands Bahama Islands Bermuda Islands Nova Scotia Massachusets Bay New Hampshire New York Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Is hereby pleased to Order That the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretarys of State do Cause Warrants to be prepared for his Royal Signature, for Transmitting the said Seals to the Governors of the said Islands and provvinces, empowering them to make use thereof, And his Majestys said principal Secretary of State is hereby further Ordered, to Cause the said Warrants and New Seals, to be transmitted accordingly And to require the said Governors respectively to Return the Old Seals to the Council Office at Whitehall, in Order to their being Defaced by His Majesty at this Board. W. BLAIR. Report of the Lords of Trade to the Earl of Shelburne, of the establishment of the salaries of Governors, Judges and other officers principally concerned in the administration of Justice in the North American Colonies. [From P. R. O. B. T. Plantations General, N., No. 41, pp. 147 and 160.] April 16, 1767. To the Earl of Shelburne, One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. My Lord. In Obedience to His Majestys Commands signified to Us in Your Lordship's Letter of the 9th instant, we herewith inclose to Your Lordship a Report of the Civil Establishment of the Governors, Judges & other Officers principally concerned in the Administration of Justice in the several Colonies of North America, as far as can be collected from the Materials in this Office. We are My Lords Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble Servants Report of the Board of Trade of the Establishment of the Salaries of Governors, Judges & other Officers principally concerned in the Administration of Justice in His Majesty's Colonies in North America, as far as can be collected from the Materials in that Department. The Establishment in New Jersey consists of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice, two Associate Judges and an Attorney General. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice & Attorney General are appointed from Home, the Associate Judges are appointed by the Governor. All these Officers are intirely dependent upon the Assembly for their Support, and their Salaries which are voted from Year to Year and are sometimes more sometimes less as the Assembly thinks proper, and are given to the Officer by Name, and not to the Office. By the last Act for the Support of Government from May 1766 to May 1767, the Salaries are as follow, Letter from the Board of Admiralty to Secretary Lord Shelburne, transmitting an Account of the Establishment of the Admiralty Courts in the several Colonies in America. [From P. R. O., America and West Indies, Vol. 252 (270).] ADMIRALTY OFFICE: 30th April 1767 Rt Honble Earl of Shelburne. My Lord In obedience to the Kings commands signified to us by your letter of the 28th instant, We herewith trans |