for every separate production.

Occasional addresses, prologues, and epilogues, were all rated as distinct stage plays, and the customary fees insisted upon.

One actor, long famous as "Little Knight," so far defeated this systematic extortion that he strung together a long list of songs, recitations, imitations, &c., which he wished to have performed at his benefit with any nonsense of dialogue that came into his head, and so sent them to be licensed as one piece.
They were licensed accordingly; the dialogue was all omitted, and the ingenious actor aided his benefit by saving L8 8s.

or L10 10s., which would otherwise have found their way into the pocket of the Examiner.
When the French plays were performed in London, in 1829, Colman insisted that a fee must be paid for every vaudeville or other light piece of that class produced.

As some three or four of such works were presented every night--the same plays being rarely repeated--it was computed that the Examiner's fees amounted upon an average to L6 6s.