In Re Amendments to Rules 1 and 10

Our attention has been called to the practice which prevails in the clerk’s office of sending original records to the printer to be printed, and of taxing in the bills of costs a fee for one manuscript copy of the record, when no such copy is in fact made.

On investigation we find that the statute regulating the fees of the clerk was passed in 1799, and that under this statute a table of fees was prepared, many years ago, by or under the direction of the court, which has been followed by the clerk in the taxation of costs ever since. No provision was ma.de, by rule or otherwise, for printing…