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TAXING MASTERS (IRELAND) ACT 1848
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CHAPTER CXXXII.
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An Act for the appointment of additional Taxing Masters for the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and to regulate the Appointment of the principal Assistants to the Masters in the Superior Courts of Law in Ireland. [5th September 1848.]
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[Preamble recites 8 & 9 Vict. c. 115. s. 1.]
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Tenure of taxing masters in Court of Chancery.
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[1.] The taxing of costs in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland shall be conducted by officers, to be denominated “the Taxing Masters,” each of whom shall hold his office during his good behaviour, and shall discharge his duties in person, except where otherwise provided by this Act, and may be removed from his office by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland for misconduct; . . .
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Additional taxing masters.
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2. . . . the Lord Chancellor of Ireland shall have power to appoint some fit and competent person to be another additional taxing master, being a solicitor who shall for not less than ten years have practised as a solicitor of the said court; and as often as any taxing master appointed under the said recited Act or this Act, or to be appointed, or any of his or their successors, shall die or resign, or be removed from his office, the Lord Chancellor shall have power to appoint a taxing master, qualified as aforesaid, in the room of the taxing master who shall so die, resign, or be removed:
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[S. 3 rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67. (S.L.R.)]
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Salaries and expences.
Expenses, &c. of offices.
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4. All salaries under the said recited Act or this Act shall grow due from day to day, but shall be payable on the fifth day of January, fifth day of April, fifth day of July, and the tenth day of October in every year, or on such other days as the Lord Chancellor shall from time to time by any order direct, and shall be paid to the parties entitled thereto, or their respective executors or administrators, by the Treasury, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and the expence necessarily incurred for hiring suitable offices for the business of such taxing masters, and also for the necessary books, stationery, and binding of books of costs, and other incidental expences of the said offices, including such expences of the nature aforesaid as have heretofore been incurred in the office of the taxing master, but were not provided for by the said recited Act, shall likewise be paid out of the said Consolidated Fund.
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[Ss. 5, 6 rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67. (S.L.R.)]
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Annual return of untaxed bills.
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7. Each of the said taxing masters shall make out and present to the Lord Chancellor an annual return, made up to the thirty-first day of December preceding, containing a statement of the number of untaxed bills of costs lodged with him for taxation during the year next preceding, and of the aggregate amount of the sums included in such bills of costs, also a statement of the number of bills of costs taxed by him during such preceding year, and of the aggregate amount of the sums included in such bills of costs, and also a statement of the number of bills of costs so lodged with him and remaining untaxed at the end of such year, and of the aggregate amount of the sums included in such last-mentioned bills of costs, together with such further information as to the business of the said office as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time require.
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[S. 8 rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67. (S. L.R.) S. 9 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]
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