Section 48:
Cost of serving summons or warrant to be deposited in Court.
The amount of the cost
of serving the summons, or if a warrant be issued as provided in the next succeeding Section, of serving
the warrant, shall in all cases to deposited in Court upon the same day or the day next following that on
which the plaint or statement of claim is presented to the Collector. If the said amount be not so deposited
(except in cases in which the Collector may allow the issue of summons free of cost under the discretion
reserved to him in Section CXLVI), the case shall not brought on the file of suits: but in such case the
plaintiff may present another plaint at any time within the period allowed by the rules for the limitation of
actions.