AN ACT for discharging the collector of the town of Manchester for four pounds, lawful money, on the tax of said Manchester, on account of two counterfeit forty shilling bills, he took for said tax. Whereas, it is found by the Legislature that Robert Loggan, collector of taxes for the town of Manchester, did take two forty shilling bills, which were counterfeit, for State taxes (and condemned by the treasurer,) which he could not swear back on any person: therefore the said collector destroyed the same : Be it enacted, &c. that the treasurer be, and is hereby directed to discharge him four pounds, on the tax of said town. AN ACT for the regulation of Fees. Whereas, the fees heretofore granted to the officers of government, have been found, in some instances, inadequate to the services they were intended to compensate; Be it enacted, &c. that the fees to be taken by the several officers of this State, herein after mentioned, be as follows, viz. And there shall be paid into the clerk's hands for the 0 10 0 benefit of the judges attending, for each action tried, 0 18 And for each default or confession, Clerk of Supreme Court's Fees. For each days attendance on the court, while sitting, 060 Each mile's travel out, Entering each action for trial, Entering each judgment. 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 2 0 Filing each recognizance, testimony, and other ne cessary papers, each, Taking each recognizance in court, Every rule of Court, Every execution, 0 0 0 Copies of each paper, so much as shall be taxed by the court, according to the length. For other services, not herein particularly mentioned, such sum as shall be allowed by the court. County Court's Fees. 0 4066 To the jury, for each action tried, And there shall be paid to the clerk, for the benefit of the county treasury, for each action tried, For each default or confession, And for licence to each tavern-keeper, (whereof to the clerk two shillings,) Entering each judgment by default or confession, 0 Recording each judgment on demurrer and after verdict, Filing each recognizance, testimony, and other necessary papers, each, Taking each recognizance in court, Entering the common rule in ejectment, Every execution, Copies of each paper, such sum as shall be allowed by the court, according to the length. For attachments, summones, and other services prop. er to him, as in the justices' fees. For other services, not herein particularly enumerated, such sum as shall be allowed by the court. Councillor's and Justice's Fees. If the inventory exceed £50, 0 2 8 Receiving and proving each will, where the inventory does not exceed £50, 0 If the inventory exceeds £50, 0 020 3 Allowing of accounts, settling and dividing intestate estates, 0 Every necessary order or rule, Appointment of persons to inventory and appraise Appointing committee to set off widow's dower, Clerk of Court of Probate's Fees. Probate of a will, where the inventory does not exceed £50, Where it does exceed £50, Recording or copying a will, inventory, or other necessary paper, for each hundred words, Every citation, Every quietus or acquittance, Making out a commission to receive and examine the claims of creditors to insolvent estates, Registering the same, Entering an order upon the administrator to pay out the estate, in proportion, unto the several creditors returned by the commissioners, Entering every other necessary order or rule, Drawing and filing every guardian bond, For every other necessary service, not herein particularly mentioned, such sum as shall be allowed by the judge. Secretary of State's Fees. For recording laws in the State records, for every hundred words, 0 0 0 4 4 LAWS PASSED, OCTOBER, 1782. For receiving and filing each petition between party and party, For receiving and filing each petition for land, For copies of laws, petitions, &c., for each hundred words, For each citation between party and party, And there shall be paid to the Secretary, for the use of the treasury, on the filing of each petition between party and party, to be determined by the Assembly, For drawing, attesting and registering each charter of incorporation, 0 0 0 4 For attending the General Assembly, for each day, 0 12 Secretary of the Council's Fees. For each military commission, he finding blank, For each commission for judges of county and pro- Every order of Council for the benefit of particular persons, Affixing the State seal, each time, 143 4 6 690 0 2 0 0 6094 0 7 0 0411 0 Attorney's Fees. In taxing bills of cost, the party recovering to be al lowed for attorney's fees, at county courts, For man, horse, and expenses, each mile out, if he does not cross the green mountain, If across the green mountain, Serving every process, on each defendant, by reading, 0 0 4 If by copy, Bail bond, (if taken.) For levying each execution, to be one shilling for one For attending on a justice's court, when obliged to Sheriffs attending the General Assembly, supreme or county courts, per day, Constable for the like service, per day, Fees for plaintiff or defendant attending any court, per day, Witnesses for attending any court, per day, Plaintiff or defendant living out of the State, for crossing the line of the State, and from thence to court, 0 6 0 Fees for freeholders summoned to assess the damages sustained in laying out highways, shall be for each freeholder per day, 0 34 0 The sheriff attending on such freeholders, per day, 0 0 Jury for a justice's court, for each action tried, to be advanced by the party praying a jury, Brander and Recorder of Horses Fees. For branding and recording every horse kind, 09 Q 006 006 County Surveyor's Fees. For himself and horse, per day, beside expenses, Sheriff's and Constable's assistant's Fees. For each man that attends the sheriff or constable, per day, 0 6 0 040 |