Two guineas are paid for every play of three acts or more; under three acts the fee is L1 1s.

For every song sung in a theatre a fee of 5s.

is paid.

As Mr.Donne explained to the committee, he had examined between 1857 and 1866 about 1800 plays.
It is to be noted that in 1843 the Act for Regulating Theatres, commonly known as Sir James Graham's Act, became law.

By this measure the powers of the Lord Chamberlain were enlarged and more firmly established; he was empowered to charge such fees as he might deem fit in regard to every play, prologue, epilogue, or part thereof, intended to be produced or acted in Great Britain, although no fee was in any case to exceed L2 2s.