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.”
