CHANDRA SEKHARA SASTRY, J.

( 1 ) THESE cases are posted before me for determination of the question as to the amount of,court-rfee to be paid on the two appeals. The suits out of which these appeals arise are for recovery of money, and were dismissed and the res- puctive plaintiffs preferred the appeals for the sums due to them. The suits were properly valued as on the date of the plaint and the pro- per court-fee was paid thereon. The memorandum of appeals were valued by adding interest at the rate claimed till the date of the decree of the lower court to the principal amount claimed in the plaint. This they did and court fee was paid thereoa as prescribed by the Andhra Court Fees and Suits Valu- ation Act,- 1956. The appellants included the interest that accrued due pending the suit and upto the date of the decree in view of Explanation III to Section 49 of the Act. But the office is not satisfied with this. The office required the appellants to calculate the interest on the amounts claimed till the dates of the filing of the appeals and to pay the court-fee also on the amount of interest that would accrue till the dates of tht filing of the appeal. Since the appellants would not

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