Collating fee

A document with the same wording for legal and business transactions, such as: a sovereign mining permit, used to have to be issued in numerous copies (in the example: – for the archives [also called repository in older documents], – for various ministries, – for the chief mine inspectorate, – for the divisional mine inspectorate, – for the local barmaster, – for a larger number of mine shareholders, adventurers, as the owners of the mining shares with the right to the yield and the obligation to pay subsidies if the mining union needed further funds) by several copyists; scribes, copyists); typewriters did not become popular until after 1880. Especially in the case of numerical data, this often resulted in copying errors (slips on the pen, clerical error). – A specially employed official (collator) therefore had to check and confirm with the authorities that the respective copy matched the original document. The costs incurred for this, together with the clerical fee, were passed on to the beneficiaries (here: the operators of a mining operation, the trades). – See certification fee, guarantee fee, chancery fee.

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