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Officers shall affix tables of fees in their offices under penalty of 20l. per day.
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8. Every officer of the said Court of Chancery shall, within three calendar months after he shall have taken the oath of office required by this Act, affix or cause to be affixed or hung up in his office a table of all such fees as it shall be then lawful to receive, pursuant to the directions of this Act, in his said office, in respect of the business thereof; and if at any time any of such fees shall be altered or abolished, or any new fee or fees authorized according to the directions of this Act, in respect of the business of such office, then and in every such case such officer shall, within one week from the time of such change, alter such table so kept in his office pursuant and according to such change and to the order for making the same; and such table shall at all times be written or printed in fair and legible characters, and shall be framed and glazed, so as to be preserved from being erased or altered in any other manner save as aforesaid, and shall be always kept affixed or hung up in such manner that the same shall be accessible to and legible by all persons resorting to such office; and in case such table shall not be so affixed or hung up, and continually kept so framed and glazed and legible in the said office, such officer shall, for every day on which such table shall not be so kept and legible as aforesaid in such office, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
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