1812-(20) Sec. 10.

1. The clerks, sheriffs, and other officers, and persons hereafter named, shall be entitled to demand and receive for the services hereinafter mentioned, the fees thereto respectively annexed, and no more, to be paid, taxed, and collected, in manner hereinafter directed, that is to say:

TO CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURT.

Clerk of cir- For every writ, other than those hereinafter particularly

cuit court.

specified, with the endorsement,

A copy thereof,

Entering the sheriff's return, or a copy thereof,

Copy of a bail bond, .

Docketing every cause, to be charged but once,

Entering the appearances of any party, by attorney or

personally, to be charged but once,

For entering special bail in court,

For a bail piece, if required,

121

For filing declaration, plea, or demurrer, or other plead-
ings for each,

61

For entering every rule on the rule docket, at the re-
quest of the party, but not otherwise,

61

For every order made in court, not otherwise provided

for,

For a copy thereof, if required,

25

183

For every trial, swearing jury and witnesses, and re-
cording a general verdict,

621

For every trial where there is a special verdict, case
agreed, or points reserved, and swearing jury and
witnesses,

For entering up judgment, or a copy thereof,

For every scire facias, and recording the return,

For every execution fi. fa. or ca. sa. and recording the

For a copy

of

an execution and return,

25

For recording the award of arbitrators, viewers, audi-
tors, &c. for every hundred words,

For every order to witness for attendance, and copy
thereof, to be charged to the party for whom he is
summoned,

For issuing an attachment thereon, for non-payment,

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25

183

For taking bonds for injunctions, certiorari, superse

deas, or writ of error,

For a copy thereof, if required,
For filing such bond,

For recording the acknowledgment of satisfaction of a
judgment,

For a summons for witness or witnesses,

For administering an oath in court, not relating to the trial of a suit there depending, and certifying the

same,

For the copy of an account, for every hundred words, For filing every attachment granted by a judge or justice,

For each summons for garnishee or garnishees, on such attachment,

For swearing and taking the examination of a garnishee
or garnishees, or any attachment, and entering the
same on record,

For every subpoena in chancery, or writ of injunction,
For filing each bill, answer, or other pleadings in chan-

cery,

For an order to advertise, or order of survey and copy

thereof,

For recording a connexion of surveys in a surveyor's report, for every survey laid down in such connexion, with its references,

For a copy thereof, each,

For recording the report of the surveyor, for every

hundred words,

For a copy thereof, for every hundred words,

For a commission to take depositions,

For a copy of interrogatories to accompany such petition, for every hundred words,

For filing the depositions of each party,

For entering a decree in chancery, at large, for every

hundred words,

For every writ de idiota inquirenda, or writ of lunacy, For recording the return, and inquest thereon, for every hundred words,

For every writ of ad quod damnum, or other writ in

the nature thereof.

For recording the return, and inquest thereon, for every hundred words,

For every writ of certiorari, writ of error, prohibition, mandamus, or any other writ in the nature thereof,

For filing the same with the return,
For making a complete record of any cause, after final
judgment, for every hundred words, or copy of

the same,

For copy of any paper or record, not herein otherwise
provided for, for every hundred words,
For a search out of term time, for anything above a
years standing, where no copy is required, and for
reading the same,

For taxing costs, or copy thereof,

25

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50

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20

25

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10

12

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25

For

every necessary
fice is required, and affixing seal,

certificate to which the seal of of

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121

Taking any and every bond,

For every necessary certificate not otherwise provided
for, or copy thereof,

For

every

order of continuance in court,

For entering finding of indictments, or filing informa-
tion,

For arraigning prisoner, and entering plea,
For taking recognizance,
For swearing and entering grand juries, issuing sum-
monses on presentments, and informations, and for
witnesses, swearing juries, and witnesses on pre-
sentments, and indictment, where the party is not
convicted, taking recognizance of prosecutions, wit-
nesses, and defendants, certifying allowances to
the sheriffs, constables, and guards, and for all pub-
lic services not herein otherwise provided for, to
be paid from the public treasury on certificates of
the court, to which such clerk shall belong, a sum
per annum not exceeding.

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50

50

50 00

TO THE CLERKS OF THE COUNTY COURTS.

Clerk of the For the like services by them performed, the same fees as are herein allowed to the clerks of the superior

county court.

courts.

For recording the probate of any will, or testament, and
for letters testamentary thereon,

For recording a will, testament or codicil, for every
hundred words,

For administering oath to executors, or administrators,
and taking bond and recording the same,
For letters of administration and order granting the

1 00

121

1 00

For order appointing appraisers of an estate, and for copy, 25
For recording an inventory, appraisement, for execu-

tors, administrators, or guardian's accounts, for
every hundred words,

For recording certificate of marriage, to be paid when
license is issued,

For recording certificate of estray, and copy for adver-
tising at the court-house,

For an order binding out apprentice, and copy of the

same,

For recording indenture of apprenticeship,

For filing appeal from a justice of the peace. docketing
same, and all services incident thereto in court,

For recording a deed of bargain and sale of lands, slaves,
or other personal estate, whether by mortgage or
not, and every certificate thereon, for
dred words,

FEES-CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT-SHERIFFS.

For issuing a commission for taking the privy examina-
tion of a feme covert, &c. to a deed for lands,
For recording the same, with the return thereof, for
every hundred words,

For recording a letter of attorney with the certificate
thereon, or for a copy thereof, for every
hundred
words,

For recording any bond, note, article of agreement, or any other writing not herein provided for, for every hundred words,

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For a copy thereof, for every hundred words,
For entering and copying orders for viewing and open-
ing roads, for orders appointing overseers of roads,
and copying the same, for orders for appointing
overseers of the poor, and copying the same, and
for all other public services for which no particu-
lar fee is herein specified or allowed, to be paid
from the public treasury, out of the county funds,
on a certificate of the court to which the clerk be-
longs, a sum not exceeding per annum,

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25 00

Provided, That no fee shall be allowed for issuing scire facias against defaulting jurors, where they may be excused by the court.

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It shall not be lawful for the clerks of the circuit or [ 1832—(37) county courts to demand or receive any fees for swearing and Sec. 1.] certifying the attendance of any jurors in their respective

courts.

"Said clerks shall not be entitled to demand a fee from any Clerks not to witness for swearing, or certifying his attendance as a witness, demand fees but the fee for such service shall be taxed in the bill of costs, and collected as the other costs may be.

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TO THE CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT.

The clerk of the supreme court of errors and appeals shall be entitled to double the fees allowed by law to the clerks of the superior courts, for like services.

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from jurors for
certifying
tendance.
[b lb. Sec. 2.]
Nor for witnes-

ses,

Fee to be taxed in bill of costs.

[c 1816-(8)

Sec. 1.]

Clerk of the

supreme court.

TO THE SHERIFFS.

For levying an attachment on the estate of an absconding debtor,

Sheriff.

1 50

For summoning garnishee,

50

For selling property attached, the same as for selling on

For taking bail bond, assignment thereof, and returning

the same,

50

For summoning each witness,

For empannelling a jury in each cause, where a jury is sworn,

For executing a habere facias possessionem,

2 00

For making a deed to purchaser of real estate, sold or executed, .

2 00

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25

For removing a prisoner, for every mile going and returning,

For every day's attendance with such prisoner on the
judge, in vacation,

For committing a prisoner to jail, or releasement,
For victualling a prisoner per day,'

For serving a declaration in ejectment, and copy thereof,
on each tenant in possession.

For levying fieri facias, and making money thereon, for the first hundred dollars, five per cent.; for all sums above one hundred dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars, four per cent.; for every hundred dollars over, in said execution, two and one-half per cent.

For levying fieri facias, where sale is stayed by injunction, or supersedeas, or not sold for want of bidders, or other cause, one-half of the above commissions. For every ca. sa. on each defendant, and commitment, For making money on ca. sa. same commissions as are allowed on fieri facias.

For executing a condemned person, and all incidents thereto,

For putting a person in the pillory or stocks, by order

of court,

For whipping a free person by order of court,
For whipping a slave by order of court, to be paid

1 00

1 00

10 00

1.00

2. 00

by the owner,

100

For summoning a jury upon any inquisition in the county and attending on said jury and taking inquest, per

day,

2.00

For serving subpoena in chancery, for each defendant,
Returning same,

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12

For advertising such slave,

For serving scire facias on each defendant,

For serving every person with a summons not herein provided for,

For serving an attachment for contempt, and returning

same,

For victualling a runaway slave, in jail, per day,

For advertising and selling an estray,

For taking a bond, in virtue of his office, other than is herein provided for,

For taking bonds of every kind,

For empannelling grand juries, advertising and attending elections, serving all public orders, of all courts

For victualling a slave, 25 cents per day (by act of 1833). See "Prisons and prisoners,"- 19.

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