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Taxing officer shall be bound to examine the propriety of all charges in bills of costs.
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49. Upon all taxations of bills of costs, whether between party and party, or between attorney and client, it shall be the bounden duty of the taxing officer, whether he shall be required so to do or not, and whether any objection shall have been made or not, to take due care of the interest of the person or persons to be charged by such bill when taxed, and for that purpose to examine and ascertain by all reasonable methods that each and every charge in any bill of costs contained, whether such shall be a fee for counsel, solicitor, or officer of court, or stamp duty or any other disbursement whatsoever, is the proper charge which under the circumstances of the case ought to be made; and that upon all such taxations the taxing officer shall determine upon all charges made by any officer of any of the said courts, and allow any such as shall appear to him to have been made according to the true right of such officer respectively, and shall also determine whether any attendance or other business, matter, or thing, for which any charge shall be made in such bill of costs, actually took place or was actually performed, and whether the same was proper under the circumstances, and such as ought to be charged for in such bill of costs or not.
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