§ MR. HERSCHELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he will lay upon the Table of the House a statement showing approximately what would be the annual sum to be levied under "The Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865 (Amendment) Act," on the suitors in the next twenty-five years, in the shape of an increase of fees, and what percentage of increase on the present fees would result.
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON, in reply, said, that the annual sum to be levied under the Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, Amendment Act might be approximately stated at some £35,000 a-year, as far as could be seen at present; but he feared it would be impossible as yet to say what percentage of increase on present fees would result, because the Bill now before the House would spread that increase over a much larger area than that on which it would fall under the law as it stood.