Entering the appearance of any party, by attorney or person

ally, to be charged but once,

For entering special bail in court,

For a bail piece, if required, .

For filing declaration, plea, or demurrer, or other pleadings, for each,

For entering every rule on the rule docket, at the request of the party, but not otherwise,

For every order made in court, not otherwise provided for,
For a copy thereof, if required,

For every trial, swearing jury and witnesses, and recording a
general verdict, .

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 return,
For every writ of elegit,

For recording the return thereof, for every hundred words,
For a copy of an execution and return,

For recording the award of arbitrators, viewers, auditors, &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,
For taking bonds for injunctions, certiorari, supersedeas, or writ
of error,

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

For a copy thereof, if required,

For filing such bond,

For recording the acknowledgment of satisfaction of a judg ment,

For a summons for witness or witnesses,

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 attach-

For swearing and taking the examination of a garnishee or gar-
nishees, 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 chancery,
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 a 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,

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15

50

15

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

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

ture thereof,

For recording the return, and inquest thereon, for every hun-
dred words,

For every writ of certiorari, writ of error, prohibition, man-
damus, 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 judg-
ment, for every hundred words, or copy of the same,
For copy of any paper or record, not herein otherwise provid-
ed for, for every hundred words,

For a search out of term time, for anything above a year's
standing, where no copy is required, and for reading the

same,

For taxing costs, or copy thereof,

Taking any and every bond,

For every necessary certificate to which the seal of office is re-
quired, and affixing seal,

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50

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50

50

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

For every order of continuance in court,

For entering finding of indictment, or filing information,
For arraigning prisoner, and entering plea,

For taking recognizance,

For swearing and entering grand juries, issuing summonses on
presentments, and informations, and for witnesses, swear-
ing juries, and witness on presentments, and indictment,
where the party is not convicted, taking recognizance of
prosecutions, witnesses, and defendants, certifying allow-
ances to the sheriffs, constables, and guards, and for all
public 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

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 courts.

county court.

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 tak-
ing bond, and recording the same,

For letters of administration, and order granting the same,
For order appointing appraisers of an estate, and for copy,
For recording an inventory, appraisement, for executors, ad-
ministrators, or guardians' 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 advertising 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 every hundred words,
For issuing a commission for taking the privy examination of
a feme covert, &c. to a deed for lands,

For recording the same, with the return thereof, for every hun-
dred 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, articles 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 opening
roads, for orders appointing overseers of roads, and copy-
ing the same, for orders for appointing overseers of the
poor, and copying the same, and for all other public ser-
vices for which no particular 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 belongs, a sum not exceeding per annum,
Provided, That no fee shall be allowed for issuing scire facias
against defaulting jurors, where they may be excused by the court.

25 00

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

demand fees from jurors

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

TO THE CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT.

attendance. [b Tb. Sec. 2.] Nor for wit

nesses.
Fee to be
taxed in bill

of costs.

"The clerk of the supreme court of errors and appeals shall be en- [c 1816—(8) titled to double the fees allowed by law to the clerks of the superior Clerk of the Sec. 1.] courts, for like services.

supreme court,

TO THE SHERIFFS.

For levying an attachment on the estate of an absconded debtor, 1 50 Sheriff. For summoning garnishee,.

50

For selling property attached, the same as for selling on a fieri

facias,

For serving capias ad respondendum, or other mesne process,

1 00

For returning writ in sheriff's office,

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For taking bail bond, assignment thereof, and returning the

same,

For summoning each witness,

For empannelling a jury in each cause, where a jury is sworn,
For executing a habere facias possessionem,

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2.00

5

For making a deed to purchaser of real estate, sold or executed, 2 00
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,1

2.00

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40

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

1 00

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 allow-
ed on fieri facias.

1 00

For executing a condemned person, and all incidents thereto, 10 00 For putting a person in the pillory or stocks, by order of court, 1 00 For whipping a free person by order of court,

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

owner,

For summoning a jury upon any inquisition in the county,
and attending on said jury and taking inquest, per day,
For serving subpoena in chancery, for each defendant,
Returning same,

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,1

For advertising such slave,

For advertising and selling an estray,

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

For taking bonds of every kind,

For empannelling grand juries, advertising and attending elections, serving all public orders, of all courts in his county, and for all other public services, not herein otherwise particularly provided for, a sum not exceeding per annum., to be allowed and certified by the superior court, and paid out of the public treasury,

Provided, That no fee shall be allowed for scire facias against defaulting jurors, where the same may be excused by the

court.

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

TO THE CORONER.

=For taking an inquisition on a dead body,

For all services done by him, the same fees as are allowed to sheriffs for similar services.

The fees allowed to coroners for holding inquests, shall be paid out of the county treasuries.

TO THE JUDGE of the COUNTY COURT.

For examining, stating, and reporting each account of execu-
tors, administrators, or guardians,

For sheet, more than one, contained in each account,
The judges of the county courts shall take and receive the
following fees, to be paid by the party applying for the
business, viz:

For granting letters testamentary, or letters of administration,
For order of appraisement,

For order of sale,

For all necessary orders on writs of ad quod damnum,

For all other necessary orders in the management and settlement of estates, each,

For all other orders in county business, except when the county or state is directly interested, each,

And on all judgments in civil cases in term time, the tax fee now allowed by law for a jury, shall be paid to the said judges. In all litigated cases, respecting wills, mills, and ferries,

All of which fees shall be taxed in the bill of costs, and collected by the clerks, and paid over to the judges.

TO NOTARIES PUBLIC.

For protesting any bill, registering and seal,
For attesting letters of attorney, and seal,

For notarial affidavit to an account or other writing, and seal,
For registering a foreign bill protested, with certificates,

For registering a protest of a bill of exchange, or note, for non

payment or non-acceptance,

For every oath or affirmation, and seal,

For a notarial procuration, and seal,

For certifying sales at auction, and seal,

For taking proof of debts, to be sent abroad, or proof and ac-
knowledgment of letters of attorney, and seal,
For protest in insurance cases, and seal,

TO COUNSELLORS AND ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

For prosecuting or defending a suit in the county court,
For like services in the superior courts,

For prosecuting or defending a suit in chancery, .

10 00 Coroner.

[a 1823-(5) Sec. 36.]

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1 Act of February 6, 1807. Sec. 2. "A sheet of writing within the meaning

of this act, shall contain one hundred words."