1 APPENDIX I.
2 FEES anp FINES.
3 TueRE are no correct returns from which it would be practicable to show the
4 number of suits pending,
5 or in course of adjustment, at auy date previous to the
6 10th of Revienes 1834, on which date fees were entirely abolished.
7 A ee to "thé Table in the margin will show the extent to which litigation
8 Suits pending at the end of 1835—3299
9 1838—6586 .
10 1840—2475
11 1847—1880
12 1854—3875
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17 increased from the time of the entire aboli-
18 tion of fees up to the year 1839, on the 5th «
19 of March of which year an order for the re-
20 covery of a fee equal in amount to the former
21 institution fee was ordered to be levied in all cases of fraud or falsehood.
22 As it soon became evident that
23 Per-centage of non-suits in 1840—
24 Suits decided in favor of Plaintiffs—2637
25 ‘ ohaeaaaaosy 4
26 Per- centage of non-suits,
27 Per-centage of non-suits in 1839—
28 Suits decided in favor of Plaintiffs—3070
29 ~ Defendants—3730
30 Per- -centage of non-suits, 54
31 the order referred to in the preceding para-
32 graph was not sufficiently effective, an order
33 sanctioned in the first instance by the Govern-
34 ment of India, and at a subsequent date by
35 the Home Authorities, was promulgated on
36 the 22nd of March 1841. The Tables for
37 1839 and 1840 given in the margin, which
38 show such an immense per-centage of non-suits, and proveso plainly, that at least
39 three-fifths of the claims filed must have been false and groundless, that the
40 necessity for the order of March 1841 will at once be apparent.
41 The effect of this order, which made the payment of a fre at the termination
42 Por-contage of non-suits in 1854—
43 Suits decided in favor of Plaintiffs—6451
44 » Defendants—1505
45 Per- -centage of non-suits,
46 Per-contage of non-suits in 1847—
47 Suits decided in favor of Plaintiffs—3060
48 i Defendants—9778
49 Per- -centage of non-suits, 16
50 of a suif an expense contingent upon a
51 non-suit ‘or an exaggerated claim, became
52 at once apparent, as will be seen froin the
53 Tables in the margin, which give the num-
54 ber of suits and non-suits, and the pro-
55 portional per-centage of the one to the other
56 at each subsequent interval of seven years.
57 A comparison of the Table of 1854 with that of 1838 will at once show how well
58 the Rules of 1841 have worked, for they prove ‘that the realization of the fee has
59 not checked what may be called legitimate litigation, for the aggregate number of
60 suits filed is not much less in 1854 than it was in 1838, whereas the difference in the
61 number of non-suits between the one period and the other actually amounts to 36
62 per cent. The per-centage of non-suiis for the past year being no more than 18
63 ber cent, ag compared with 54 per cent for 1838,