Clerk of
County
Court.

He shall receive no other fee for any service whatever in a criminal action, or proceeding, except for copies of papers; for each folio, fifteen cents; for the trial of each issue, where the charge is felony, four dollars.

FEES OF CLERK OF COUNTY COURT.

SEC. 4. For filing all the papers sent on appeal from Justice's Court, in each cause, and making the necessary entries concerning the same, one dollar and fifty cents.

For all other services, the same fees as are allowed in the District Court for similar services.

Clerk of
Court of
Sessions.

Clerk of
Probate

Court.

County
Recorder.

FEES OF CLERK OF COURT OF SESSIONS.

SEC. 5. The Clerk shall receive the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court in criminal cases.

FEES OF CLERK OF PROBATE COURT.

SEC. 6. For issuing letters testamentary, or of administration, forty cents.

For certificate of appointing Appraisers or Guardians, forty

cents.

For writing and posting notices, when required, for each copy, forty cents.

For recording wills, per folio, fifteen cents.

For all other services, the same as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for similar services.

For notice given by publication, in addition to the cost of publication, forty cents.

FEES OF COUNTY RECORDER.

SEC. 7. For recording any instrument, paper, or notice, when required, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For copies of any record or paper, per folio, fifteen cents. For filing or receiving every instrument for record, and making the necessary entries thereon, fifteen cents.

For making, in the several indexes required, all the entries required of the filing and recording any instrument, paper, or notice, for every such instrument, paper, or notice, twenty

cents.

For every certificate under seal to copies of papers, or records in his office, when required, forty cents.

For every entry of discharge of mortgage on margin of record, forty cents.

For searching records and files of each year in his office, when required, twenty-five cents.

For abstract or certificate of title, when required; for each conveyance, or incumbrance, certified, fifteen cents.

For recording every town plat, for every course, ten cents. For figures, and lettering plats, and maps, per folio, twentyfive cents; provided, the fees for recording any town plat shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars.

For taking and writing acknowledgments, including seal, for

the first signature, seventy-five cents; and for each additional one, twenty cents.

For filing and entering a minute of certificate of Sheriff's sale, forty cents.

For filing and entering a minute of certificate of tax sale, forty cents.

For recording marriage certificate, two dollars.

For filing and keeping each paper not required to be recorded, and indorsing same, if required, twenty cents.

FEES OF SHERIFF.

SEC. 8. For serving a summons and complaint, or any other sheriff. process by which an action or proceeding is commenced, on every defendant, one dollar.

For travelling in making service, per mile, in going, only-to be computed, in all cases, from the Court House of the countythirty cents; provided, that if any two or more papers required to be served in the same suit, at the same time, and in the same direction, one mileage only shall be charged.

For taking bonds or undertaking in any case in which he is authorized to take the same, forty cents.

For copy of any writ, process, or other paper, when demanded, or required by law, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For serving every notice, rule, or order, forty cents.

For serving a subpoena, for each witness summoned, forty

cents.

For travelling, per mile, in serving each subpoena, or venire, in going, only; but when two or more witnesses, or jurors, live in the same direction, travelling fees shall be charged only for the most distant, thirty cents.

For serving an attachment on property, or levying an execution, or executing an order of arrest, or order for the delivery of personal property, and with travelling fees, as on a summons, one dollar and twenty-five cents; but no travelling fees shall be allowed on such attachment, order of arrest, or order for the delivery of personal property, when the same accompanies the summons in the suit, and may be executed at the time of the service of the summons, unless for the first distance actually travelled, beyond that required to serve the summons.

For serving an attachment upon any ship, boat, or vessel, in proceedings to enforce any lien thereon, created by law, one dollar and twenty-five cents.

For making and posting notices, and advertising property for sale on execution, or under any judgment, or order of sale, not to include the cost of publication in a newspaper, one dol

lar.

For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution, or process, when lands and personal property has been levied on, advertised and sold-on the first one thousand dollars, two per cent., and all sums above that amount, one per

cent.

For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution, without levy, or when the land or goods levied on shall

>heriff.

not be sold, two per cent. on the first one thousand dollars, and one per cent. on all over that sum.

The fees herein allowed for the levy of an execution, and for advertising, and for making or collecting the money on an execution, shall be collected from the defendant, by virtue of such execution, in the same manner as the sum therein directed to be made.

For drawing and executing every Sheriff's deed, to be paid for by the grantee, who shall, in addition, pay for the acknowledgment thereof, three dollars.

For serving a writ of possession, or restitution, putting any person entitled, into possession of premises, and removing the occupant, five dollars."

For travel in the service of any process, not herein before mentioned, for each mile necessarily travelled, in going, only, thirty cents.

For attending, when required, on any Court, in person or by Deputy, for each day, to be paid out of the County Treasury, three dollars.

For bringing up a prisoner, on a habeas corpus, to testify or answer in any Court, or for examination as to the cause of his arrest and detention, or to give bail, forty, cents.

And for travelling each mile from the jail, in going, only, thirty cents.

He shall also be allowed such further compensation for his trouble and expense in taking possession of property under attachment, or execution, or other process, and of preserving the same, as the Court, from which the writ or order may issue, shall certify to be just and reasonable.

For holding each inquest, or trial of right of property, when required, to include all service in the matter, except mileage, three dollars.

For attending on Supreme Court, either in person or by Deputy, to be paid out of the State Treasury as other claims, for each day, five dollars.

For making every arrest in a criminal proceeding, one dollar and fifty cents.

For serving each subpoena in criminal proceeding, forty cents.
For executing every sentence of death, twenty dollars.
For summoning a grand jury, of twenty-four, eight dollars.
For summoning each trial jury, of twelve persons, four dol-

lars.

For each additional juror, twenty cents.

For service of any process in criminal cases, for each mile necessarily travelled, twenty cents.

And the same mileage for taking a prisoner before a magistrate, or to prison.

In serving subpoena of venire in criminal cases, he shall receive mileage for the most distant only, when witnesses and jurors live in the same direction.

For all services in Justice's Court, the same fees as are allowed to Constables in like cases.

SEC. 9.

FEES OF CONSTABLES.

For serving summons in a civil suit, for each defend- Constables. ant, seventy-five cents.

For summoning a jury before a Justice of the Peace, one dollar and twenty-five cents.

For taking a bond required to be taken, forty cents.

For summoning each witness, twenty cents.

For serving an attachment against the property of a defendant, seventy-five cents.

For summoning and swearing a jury to try the rights of property, and taking the verdict, one dollar and fifty cents.

For receiving and taking care of property on execution, attachment, or order, his actual necessary expenses, to be allowed by the Justice who issued the execution, upon the affidavit of the Constable that such charges are correct, and the expenses necessarily incurred.

For collecting all sums on execution, one and a half per cent., to be charged against the defendant in the execution.

Constables shall receive, in serving summons, attachment, order, execution, venire, notice, and subpoena, in civil cases, for each mile necessarily travelled, in going, only, but when two or more persons are served in the same suit, mileage shall only be charged for the most distant, if they live in the same direction, twenty-five cents.

For serving a warrant, or order, for the delivery of personal property, or making an arrest, in civil cases, seventy-five cents. For service and trial in criminal cases, the same fees as Sheriff's for similar service.

For all other services, except attending Court, the same fees as are allowed to Sheriffs for similar services.

FEES OF COUNTY AUDITOR.

SEC. 10. For filing Treasurer's receipts and issuing license, County to be paid by the party, twenty cents.

FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

SEC. 11. For filing each paper, twenty cents.

Auditor.

Justices of

Issuing any writ, or process by which suit is commenced, the Peace.

forty cents.

For entering such cause upon his docket, forty cents.

For subpoena for each witness, fifteen cents.

For administering an oath or affirmation, fifteen cents.

For certifying the same, twenty cents.

For each certificate, twenty cents.

For issuing writ of attachment, or of arrest, or for the delivery of property, seventy-five cents.

For entering any final judgment, per folio; for the first folio, seventy-five cents; for each additional folio, fifteen cents.

For taking and approving any bond or undertaking, directed by law to be taken or approved by him, twenty cents. For taking justification to a bond, forty cents.

For swearing a jury, twenty-five cents.

Justices of the Peace.

For taking depositions, per folio, fifteen cents.

For entering satisfaction of a judgment, twenty cents.

For copy of judgment, order, docket, proceedings, or papers, in his office, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For transcript of judgment, per folio, fifteen cents.

For issuing commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents.
For issuing supersedeas to an execution, twenty cents.

For making up and transmitting transcript and papers on an appeal, one dollar and fifty cents.

For issuing search warrant, seventy-five cents.

For issuing an execution, twenty cents.

For celebrating marriage, and returning certificate thereof to the Recorder, five dollars.

For all service and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace, in a criminal action or proceeding, whether on examination or trial, three dollars.

For taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, seventy

five cents.

For entering cause without process, seventy-five cents.

For entering judgment by confession, and only on affidavit, as required in the District Court, two dollars and fifty cents. For entering every motion, rule, order, verdict, or default, twenty cents.

For services as Associate Justice of the Court of Sessions, five dollars per day.

SEC. 12. All Acts, and parts of Acts, in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, so far as the same relate to the fees of the officers herein before named, in the County of Sonoma, are hereby repealed.

Appropriation.

CHAP. CLXXVIII.-An Act to provide for the Payment of Postage Stamps, Stamped Envelopes, and the Payment of Postage Bills of the present Session of the Legislature.

[Approved April 10, 1862.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby transferred from the one hundred thousand dollars heretofore transferred from the Swamp and Overflowed Land Fund to the General Fund, for legislative purposes, to the Contingent Fund of the Assembly, and the sum of two hundred dollars is transferred from the same fund to the Contingent Fund of the Senate, for the purpose of paying for postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and postage bills, of the present session of the Legislature.

SEC. 2. The Controller of State is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the above sums, or so much thereof as may be justly due, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same.

SEC. 3. This Act shall have effect from and after its passage.