§ Mr. CUNINGHAME GRAHAMI beg to ask the Attorney General whether Messrs. Hare and Company, agents to the Solicitor of the Treasury, will only get half the allowance fees or taxed costs in the case of "Mitchell v. Regina," and the other half go to the Exchequer receipts of the Crown; whether this arrangement is in contravention of 360 paragraph 32 of the Solicitors' Act of 1843; whether he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of the bill of costs in the case of "Mitchell v. Regina," both in the Court of Queen's Bench and in the Court of Appeal; and, what is t\he amount in each Court of the costs of the Crown?
* SIR R. WEBSTERIn reply to the hon. Member, I have to say that under an arrangement in force since 1806, Messrs. Hare and Company receive half the profit costs, plus disbursements, and pay over all sums received in respect of taxed costs. No portion of the costs in the case referred to will go to the Exchequer receipts of the Crown. Section 32 of the Solicitors Act, 1843, has no application to the case in question. I must decline to lay upon the Table the bill of costs in question. The costs of the Crown, as taxed in the Court below, amount to £160. The costs in the Court of Appeal have not been made out.