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From: Sharon Colquhoun <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Re: HC Surrogate's prices
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:13:52 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0202171440040.13172-100000@melake.erols.com>


Are you saying that they charged you by how many
pictures YOU took with YOUR camera??? Talk about a
ripoff...I'm really hoping I misunderstood what you
wrote!!


--- Marshall Lake <> wrote:
>
> > I was at the Hunterdon County Surrogate's Office
> last Thursday,
> > February 14th, to retrieve documents. The price
> was $5.00 per page.
> > An elderly couple arrived behind me to request a
> copy of a will which
> > cost them a total of $140.00!
>
> I don't know what to say. Maybe they charge more
> when they do the copying
> for you? I had a digital camera with me and took
> pictures of the pages
> which were of an interest to me. I took 20
> pictures. When I left I told
> the lady at the desk how many pictures I took and
> she gave me a bill. I
> still have the bill. Let me get it ...... I was
> charged $12.50 (my change
> was $7.50 ... that's why I was thinking I was
> charged 7 and change). The
> itemization shows 10 copies at .75 per page and 10
> copies at .50 per page.
>
> One of the items on the bill is label "reason for
> copies: Genealogy
> Research". Maybe if you tell them you're doing
> genealogy research it's
> cheaper?
>
> --
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Harry and Sharon Moore Colquhoun
Belle Mead, NJ
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