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17. The fees and charges to be allowed to attorneys for attending any summons or other application at the Judge's chambers, are laid down in the second Schedule, p. 398, of the Rules of 1936. There are two alternative provisions : (1) that the charges for attending any summons or other application at the Judge's chambers shall be Rs. 10 per hour, or (2) "where from the length of the attendance or the difficulty of the case the Judge shall think this fee an insufficient remuneration for services performed, such fee as the Judge may allow to the attorneys by a memorandum in writing expressly made for that purpose and signed by the Judge specifying distinctly the ground of such allowance". No such memorandum was made by the Judge at the time of making the order for the compulsory winding up. The schedule does not, however, preclude such a memorandum being made subsequently. Accordingly in In re Indore Malwa United Mills, Mathuradas Canjee Mattani, (unreported) B.J. Wadia J., sitting in chambers, on October 14, 1935, ordered the Taxing Master to allow certain specified charges separately in respect of the hearing of the petition and of the several interlocutory applications thereon, and on the chamber summons and other petitions in In re Indore Malwa Mills, made from time to time, and other proceedings before the Commissioner, whether the costs thereof had been by previous orders provided or not. Moreover in the mufassal the absence of such a memorandum does not for the reasons stated imply that the Judge has exercised his discretion and refused to make it.