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HOUSE OF COMMONS COSTS TAXATION ACT 1847 - SECT 8

On application, taxing officer to tax the bill.

8. If any person upon whom any demand shall be made by any parliamentary agent
or solicitor, or executor, administrator, or assignee of such parliamentary
agent or solicitor, or other person, for any costs, charges, or expences in
respect of any proceedings in the House of Commons in any future session of
Parliament relating to any petition for a 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, or carrying the same through, or in
opposing the same in, the House of Commons, or if any parliamentary agent or
solicitor, or the executor, administrator, or assignee of such parliamentary
agent or solicitor, or other person, who shall be aggrieved by the nonpayment
of any costs, charges, and expences incurred or charged by him in respect of
any such proceedings as aforesaid, shall make application to the said taxing
officer at his office for the taxation of such costs, charges, and expences,
the said taxing officer, on receiving a true copy of the bill of such costs,
charges, and expences which shall have been duly delivered as aforesaid to the
party charged therewith, shall in due course proceed to tax and settle the
same; and upon every such taxation, if either the parliamentary agent or
solicitor, or the executor, administrator, or assignee of such parliamentary
agent, or solicitor, or other person, by whom such demand shall be made as
aforesaid, or the party charged with such bill of costs , charges, and
expences, having due notice, shall refuse or neglect to attend such taxation,
the said taxing officer may proceed to tax and settle such bill and demand ex
parte; and if pending such taxation any action or other proceeding shall be
commenced for the recovery of such bill of costs, charges, and expences, the
court or judge before whom the same shall be brought shall stay all
proceedings thereon until the amount of such bill shall have been duly
certified by the Speaker as herein-after provided: Provided always, that no
such application shall be entertained by the said taxing officer if made by
the party charged with such bill after a verdict shall have been obtained or a
writ of inquiry executed in any action for the recovery of the demand of any
such parliamentary agent or solicitor, or the executor, administrator, or
assignee of such parliamentary agent or solicitor, or other person, or after
the expiration of six months after such bill shall have been delivered, sent,
or left as aforesaid: Provided also, that if any such application shall be
made after the expiration of six months as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
the Speaker, if he shall so think fit, on receiving a report of special
circumstances from the said taxing officer, to direct such bill to be taxed.


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