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structions, all incidental charges inclusive, $2; for copies of all exhibits necessary to be filed by defendant, per copy sheet, 5d.

Attorneys in the County Courts. For commencing, and prosecuting, and defending a suit in the county court, £1; for defending a person charged by indictment or information, or sued on a forfeited recognisance, £1; for commencing, and prosecuting, and defending a summons and petition, under the summary jurisdiction, 12s 6s.; for stating objections, and bringing up an appeal, all charges inclusive, 14s.

dence, or where he may be found or taken, but not for returning, each mile, 3d.; for commitment and releasement of any prisoner, 2s. 6d.; for summoning all juries to the sheriff of each district court, £15 per annum, to be paid by the State; to the sheriff of each county for summoning all juries in his county, and for serving public orders for the benefit of the county, £5 per annum, to be paid by the county; for serving any order or rule of court, except public orders or rules, and delivering a copy, 2s.; for serving every writ of subpœna and tickets, and returning the same, 2s.; for Clerks of the Superior Courts of Law. For at- serving a bench-warrant or a warrant of a justice tending to sign a writ and affixing seal, 18.; for of peace, and return thereof, and proving service filing a declaration, plea, replication, demurrer, in the same manner as on services of writs, 48.; joinder in demurrer, or other pleading, 9d.; for for every return of a writ where the goods or percopying a declaration, or other writing, per copy sons are not to be found, 2s.; for dieting white sheet 5d.; for entering every special order of persons in the several jails and workhouses in the court, or copy, 6d.; for every search in the records, State, allowing one pound of bread and one pound where the cause is ended, 8d.; for signing every of flesh, wholesome provisions, per day, 1s.; for judgment, 28.; for attending drawing, a jury for dieting negroes or other slaves, allowing wholespecial court, 3s. 6d.; for each day's attendance at some food, per day, 8d.; for executing a person a special court, 3s. 6d.; for drawing a bail-piece, condemned to death, to be paid by the State, £1; attending and taking bail, 2s.; for recording every for putting a person in the stocks, branding, pillojudgment, or other writing, for every copy sheet, rying, whipping, or cropping, to be paid by the 5d.; for every recognisance, 28.; for receiving State, each, 5s.; for bringing up a prisoner on money in court, and paying it again, 1 per cent.; habeas corpus, and discharging or reconveying to for his attendance in every cause tried in court, prison, to be paid by the party if solvent, and, if swearing jury, and reading papers, and docketing insolvent, then by the State, 58.; for conveying a the same. 28.; for swearing every witness, 6d.; for prisoner on habeas corpus or otherwise from one every certificate, and signing, 6d.; for administer-district or county jail to another, every mile he ing every oath, 9d.; for recording the verdict, 6d.; for attending at the judge's chambers on a special argument, 2s.; for recording or copying a plat of land, and copy, 2s. 4d.; for issuing a certiorari, or other special writ, and sealing, 3s. 6d.; for making out a license for the admission of an attorney, administering the oath, and recording qualification, £1 10s.; for a dedimus potestatem, and sealing 28.; for filing and entering return thereof, 1s.; for entering a decree on summary process, and execution, 28.; for recording the brand and mark of a stock of cattle, 18. 6d.

Attorney General.-On papers returned, and no indictment given out, and nolle prosequi entered, £1 58.; where an indictment is found £2; upon bill of indictment found and tried before petit jury and verdict or confession, £3_10s.

shall necessarily ride, going to and returning from, for each mile, 3d.; all necessary expenses to be allowed the sheriff in addition to the immediate foregoing charge; for levying an execution on the goods of the defendant and selling the same, for all sums where the debt does not exceed £100, two and a half per cent. commissions, and for all sums where the debt exceeds £100, one per cent., where an execution shall be lodged in the sheriff's office, only to bind the property with directions not to levy, for entering the same in his books, 28. 6d.; for serving an execution against the body of defendant, and return, 78.; for every prisoner brought up for trial at the sessions, to be paid by the State, 1s. 6d.; for drawing each set of conveyances, £1 58.; for an inquisition by jury, taken on view of a dead person, and return, to be paid by Clerk of the Sessions and Peace.-On a nolle the State, £2; in all cases where the defendant, prosequi, 7s.; when a bill is found or thrown out, after the sheriff may have levied on their proper158.; upon bill found, and trial before petit jury, ty, shall settle with the plaintiff before actual sale, and verdict, £1; on each writ of venire for sum- the sheriff in such cases shall only be entitled to moning jurors, 18. 6d.; on each writ of habeas one-fourth per cent., besides all reasonable disbursecorpus, or bench-warrant, 78.; each writ of sub-ments, and also for fees for entering execution; pœna and tickets, 28.; for every order of bastardy, taking a recognisance, and all other proceedings, 2s. 6d.; for each order for restitution of goods 18. 2d.; on each certificate to the coroner, 8d.; for the whole fee of a tavern license and bond, 9s. 4d. Sheriffs. For serving every writ, or summons. or other process, taking bail, returning and proving service, and assigning bail-bond, 78.; for copy left at the defendant's residence, or where he cannot be personally arrested, returning and proving service, 58.; for mileage from the court-house of the districts respectively to the defendant's resi

but if the defendant shall pay the money to the sheriff, one per cent. in lieu of the one-fourth.

Coroner. For every service done by the coroner, the same fees as are payable to sheriff for the same services.

N. B. If there be no coroner within twenty miles of the body found, the inquest may be made, and the fees may be taken by any justice of the peace in like manner; and who shall, in that case, have all the powers of the coroner.

Justices of the Peace. For oath and warrant in all criminal cases, 28.; for a recognisance and

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nals of either House, to any person requiring the same, except a member of either branch of the Legislature, or the Executive, each copy sheet, 5d.; for every search, 8d.

Commissioner of Locations. For receiving applications, making entries, and granting warrants under hand and seal of office, 38.; for recording a plat and sending it to the surveyor general's office, 78.; for every search, 8d.

Register of Mesne Conveyances.-For a search, 8d.; for entering satisfaction on a mortgage, ls; for recording or copying deeds, each copy sheet, 5d.; for recording or copying a plat, 4s. 8d.; for a certificate from the office, 2s.

return, 28.; for a warrant in civil cases, 1s. ; for a commitment, 1s.; for a warrant of hue and cry, 18. 6d; for taking a deposition, 1s. 6d.; for administering every oath, 6d. ; for a probate to any writing, signing, and swearing witness, 1s. 6d. ; for examining and swearing witnesses, and hearing and determining the cause, 1s.; for every toll of estrays given in at the same time, and other incidental charges, agreeable to law, 3s.; for writing and signing an execution, 1s. 2d.; for issuing attachment, with the oath of the party, bond and return agreeably to law, 58.; for every appeal, with the proceedings, to the county court from a justice's judgment, bond and security inclusive, 3s. Constables. For serving a warrant, 2s. 6d. ; for Fees of the Ordinary. For a marriage license, summoning a witness, 18.; for summoning a cor- bond, and registering, £1; for a citation and reoner's jury and witnesses, all charges inclusive, cording, 2s. 6d.; for qualifying administrators, 10s.; for putting a person in the stocks, to be paid bond, letters of administration, and warrant of by the State, 2s. 6d. ; for serving an attachment appraisement, recording letters and oath, 14s.; on the effects of a person absconding, or about to for proving a will, probate, recording and filing abscond, making an inventory and return, return- the will, and certified copy, where it does not able to the county court, 48. 8d.; for the like ser- exceed four copy sheets, 9s. 4d.: and for every vices where the attachment is returnable before a other copy sheet, 5d.; for qualifying executors, magistrate, 2s. 4d.; for whipping a person by law-letters testamentary, and recording, 58.; for warful authority to be paid by the State, 2s. 6d. ; for levying an execution, 18.; for poundage or commissions on all sums levied, five per cent; for mileage in all criminal cases, attachments, and levying executions, and in no other cases, for each mile out, but not for returning, 3d.; for carrying a hue and cry, to be paid by the State, 88.; for his attendance in searching for stolen goods, for every day, at the request of the party complaining, 38.

Notary Public. For taking deposition and swearing witnesses, per copy sheet, 6d.; for every protest, 108.; for a duplicate of depositions, protest, and certificate, per copy sheet, 5d.; for each attendance on any person to prove any matter or thing, and certifying the same, 3s.; for every notarial certificate with seal affixed, 2s. 6d.

rant of appraisement, oath, and recording, 5s., and if renewed, 2s. 9d.; for filing renunciation of executors and recording, 2s. ; for a dedimus to prove a will, and qualifying executors, or administrators, and copy of oath, 78.; for guardianship bond, letters and recording, 148.; for entering caveat, or withdrawing, 28.; for a search, 8d.; for hearing a litigated cause, 148.; for swearing and examining each witness, 6d. ; for recording or copying any other writing, per copy sheet, 5d.; for filing petition for sale of testator's effects, examining into the propriety of the proposed sales, and endorsing order thereon, 4s. 8d.; for examining the accounts of executors and administrators, vouchers and filing, for the first year's accounts, 14s.; and for every other year, 5s.

County Attorney.-For commencing and prosClergy of every settled church, of every denom-ecuting an indictment, or information, tried by ination. For registering every birth, marriage, or petit jury or confessed, £1; for entering a nolle burial, 18. 6d.; for every search of the register, 8d.; prosequi by order of the court, 5s.; for commencfor every certificate from the register, 1s. 6d.; for ing and prosecuting a scire facias, on forfeited every citation read in church, 58. recognisances, 98. 4d.

Surveyor General. For every search, 8d.; for copying plat and certificate, 5s.; for receiving, recording a plat, and sending the same to the secretary's office, to be passed into a grant, 10s.; for a certificate in all other cases, 18. 6d.; for a deputation and instructions to a deputy surveyor, 58. Deputy Surveyor. For surveying every acre of land, one half-penny; for making out a fair plat, certifying, signing, and returning the same, 108.; for running old lines for any person, or between parties, where any disputes arise, or by order of court, while they are on the survey, 14s.; per day.

County Court Clerk's Fees.-For the whole fees of a tavern license, or permit to retail spirituous liquors, and bond, and furnishing rates, 9s. 4d; for every search, 8d.; for reading any paper or record filed in court, 6d.; for every writ issued, 28.; for an attachment granted by the justice of peace, returnable to the court, and putting the same upon the docket, 1s. 6d.; for every summons for a witness or witnesses, 18.; for entering every cause on the docket, to be charged but once, (except petition and summons,) 6d. ; for entering every special bail, 2s; for entering security for costs for persons out of the county, 1s. 6d. ; for entering the appearance of the defendants, (except on summons and petition,) 6d. ; for all subsequent proceedings to final judgment and verdict, 3s. 6d.; for all other proceedings, executions inclusive, 28.; for filing the papers of each party in every cause, Clerks of the Senate and House of Represent-where there is a jury or case agreed and argued, atives. For any copy or extract from the jour- 18.; for all and every other thing done by the

Powder Receiver and Inspector.-For every 100 lbs. weight of gunpowder received into the magazine, 38. per 100 lbs., to be paid, one half on receiving the same into the magazine, and the other half on delivering the same.

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clerk during the trial of any issue, 2s.; for entering every judgment and copy thereof, 18.; for every recognisance-for entering an appeal and taking bond, and for returning the same to the office of the clerk of the superior court, 4s. 3d.; for copy of proceedings of the cause, wherein the appeal is granted, for every copy sheet, 5d.; for an attachment, 1s. 5d.; for issuing petition and summons, and entering return thereof, 38.; for entering decree and execution on summary process, 3s. 6d.; for recording every judgment or other writing, per copy sheet, or copy thereof, 5d.; for entering every toll of estrays, keeping the same affixed up at the court house, and all other incidental charges, 3s.

County Clerk's Fees, on Letters of Administration granted by the County Courts. For a citation, 1s. 6d. ; for each administration bond, 18.; for letters of appraisement, 18.; for a dedimus, 18.; for probate of a will, 1s.; for granting letters testamentary, with the will annexed, 1s. 6d. ; for recording any of the above instruments, and the appraisement per copy sheet, 5d.; for examining the accounts of executors and administrators, vouchers, and filing the same, under the inspection of the court, for the first year's account, 5s.; and for every other year, 2s. 6d.

dence, 28. 4d.; on all sums where the execution does not exceed £15, 5 per cent. on the amount of property sold; on all sums above £15, and where the execution does not exceed £100, 24 per cent.; on all sums where the execution exceeds £100, 1 per cent.; and that ho commission shall be demanded where property is not actually sold. For making out and signing a bill of sale of other property, 4s. Sd.: Provided, That fees shall be allowed only for one bill of sale, where the same will be sufficient to convey the property sold to one person, or joint purchasers; unless the purchaser, or purchasers, shall choose more than one. For conducting a debtor, under confinement, before a judge or court, 4s. 8d.; for summoning a jury to try a caveat, and attendance, 48. 8d.; for summoning a special jury, and all other services, attending trials of appeal cases, 4s. 8d.; for a bail bond, 4s. 8d.; for making out and executing titles to land, 148.; (if wrote by the purchaser, 48. 8d.)

Sheriff's Fees, in criminal cases. For re-committing any person when a habeas corpus is brought to his relief, 48. 8d.; for summoning a jury, 4s. 8d.; on every copy of a mittimus, Is. 2d.; for every mile a prisoner shall be removed on a habeas corpus, 1s. 2d.; for removing a prisoner by habeas corpus, where no mileage is paid, per day, 4s. 8d.; for executing a criminal, 37s. 4d.; for conducting a prisoner, before a judge or court, to and from jail, 4s. 8d.; for executing a warrant of escape, 3s. 6d., for each mile to serve, the same, 2d.; for executing and returning a bench warrant, 4s. 8d; for each mile to serve the same, 2d.; for putting a person into the stocks, 2s. 4d.; for whipping, cropping, or branding a criminal, 4s. 8d.; for apprehending a person suspected, if committed or held to bail, 48. Sd.; for each person, not exceeding two, who may be employed to guard a prisoner to jail, per day, 4s. 8d.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of the public officers of this State, or other person or persons, entitled to fees by this act, and in the foregoing lists particularly mentioned, shall take or receive any further, other, or greater fee or reward for any of the services in the said foregoing lists respectively mentioned, or shall invent or contrive any other or further fee or reward for any of the said services, then, and in every such case, the person or persons so offending, upon due proof and conviction, shall forfeit for the first offence, four times the amount of the sum so taken, paid, or received, to be recovered in any court of record in this State; one half Coroner's Fees.-For summoning an inquest to be paid to the person who shall sue for the same, on a dead body, and returning the inquisition, and the other moiety to be paid into the public 46s. 8d.; for providing a coffin, and burial expentreasury for the use of the State, except in such ses, 14s. In all other cases, the same as the counties where county courts are established; in sheriff. which cases, the said last-mentioned moiety shall be paid for the use of the county; and for the second offence shall stand divested of his office, and be rendered incapable of re-appointment to the same; and on information from the court, under hand and seal, the Governor shall fill the vacancy, if the Legislature should not be sitting; and if in the county courts, the vacancies shall be filled up by the justices of the said county.

STATE OF GEORGIA.

Register of Probate's Fees.-For receiving application, and granting citation, 4s. 8d.; for signing a warrant of appraisement, 2s. 4d.; for signing the probate of a will, 48. 8d.; for recording a will or other paper, per copy sheet, 34d.; for a certified copy of a will or other paper, per copy sheet, 34d.; for receiving an appraisement, and recording the same, if under $100, 2s. 8d.; if above $100, 48. 8d.: for receiving application, and granting letters dismissory, 4s. 8d.; for granting citation to show cause why administration should not be repealed or set aside, 9s. 4d.; for granting letters of administration, or letters testamentary, 9s. 4d.; for entering a caveat against administration being granted, or will proven, 4s. 8d.; for every marriage license, 48. 8d.; for attending judges for determining a caveat, per day, 4s. 8d.

Fees and compensation paid to Attorneys at Law, Prothonotaries, Registers, and Clerks of judicial courts, to Sheriffs and Coroners, to Grand and Petit Jurors, and Witnesses," in the State of Georgia. Sheriff's Fees, in civil cases. For serving a copy of a process, and returning the original, 78.; Fees of the Attorney General -For drawing if more than one defendant, for each additional a capias against a person indicted and not bound copy served, 2s. 4d.; for levying execution on the over, or against a person presented by a grand body or property, 7s.; for summoning each evi-jury, 18. 2d.; for drawing a capias against a de

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nals of either House, to any person requiring the same, except a member of either branch of the Legislature, or the Executive, each copy sheet, 5d.; for every search, 8d.

Commissioner of Locations.-For receiving ap plications, making entries, and granting warrants under hand and seal of office, 38.; for recording a plat and sending it to the surveyor general's office, 78.; for every search, 8d.

Register of Mesne Conveyances.-For a search, 8d.; for entering satisfaction on a mortgage, 18; for recording or copying deeds, each copy sheet, 5d.; for recording or copying a plat, 4s. 8d.; for a certificate from the office, 2s.

return, 28.; for a warrant in civil cases, 1s.; for a commitment, 18.; for a warrant of hue and cry, 18. 6d; for taking a deposition, 1s. 6d.; for administering every oath, 6d.; for a probate to any writing, signing, and swearing witness, 18. 6d. ; for examining and swearing witnesses, and hearing and determining the cause, 18.; for every toll of estrays given in at the same time, and other incidental charges, agreeable to law, 3s.; for writing and signing an execution, 1s. 2d.; for issuing altachment, with the oath of the party, bond and return agreeably to law, 5s.; for every appeal, with the proceedings, to the county court from a justice's judgment, bond and security inclusive, 3s. Constables. For serving a warrant, 2s. 6d. ; for Fees of the Ordinary. For a marriage license, summoning a witness, 18.; for summoning a cor- bond, and registering, £1; for a citation and reoner's jury and witnesses, all charges inclusive, cording, 2s. 6d. ; for qualifying administrators, 10s.; for putting a person in the stocks, to be paid bond, letters of administration, and warrant of by the State, 2s. 6d.; for serving an attachment appraisement, recording letters and oath, 14s.; on the effects of a person absconding, or about to for proving a will, probate, recording and filing abscond, making an inventory and return, return- the will, and certified copy, where it does not able to the county court, 48. 8d.; for the like ser- exceed four copy sheets, 9s. 4d.: and for every vices where the attachment is returnable before a other copy sheet, 5d.; for qualifying executors, magistrate, 2s. 4d.; for whipping a person by law letters testamentary, and recording, 5s.; for warful authority to be paid by the State, 2s. 6d. ; for rant of appraisement, oath, and recording, 58., and levying an execution, 18.; for poundage or com- if renewed, 2s. 9d.; for filing renunciation of exmissions on all sums levied, five per cent; for ecutors and recording, 2s. ; for a dedimus to prove mileage in all criminal cases, attachments, and a will, and qualifying executors, or administrators, levying executions, and in no other cases, for and copy of oath, 78.; for guardianship bond, leteach mile out, but not for returning, 3d.; for car-ters and recording, 14s.; for entering caveat, or rying a hue and cry, to be paid by the State, 8s.; withdrawing, 28.; for a search, 8d.; for hearing a for his attendance in searching for stolen goods, litigated cause, 148.; for swearing and examining for every day, at the request of the party com- each witness, 6d. ; for recording or copying any plaining, 38. other writing, per copy sheet, 5d.; for filing petition for sale of testator's effects, examining into the propriety of the proposed sales, and endorsing order thereon, 4s. 8d.; for examining the accounts of executors and administrators, vouchers and filing, for the first year's accounts, 14s.; and for every other year, 58.

Notary Public.-For taking deposition and swearing witnesses, per copy sheet, 6d.; for every protest, 10s.; for a duplicate of depositions, protest, and certificate, per copy sheet, 5d.; for each attendance on any person to prove any matter or thing, and certifying the same, 38.; for every notarial certificate with seal affixed, 2s. 6d. County Attorney.-For commencing and prosClergy of every settled church, of every denom-ecuting an indictment, or information, tried by ination. For registering every birth, marriage, or petit jury or confessed, £1; for entering a nolle burial, 1s. 6d.; for every search of the register, 8d.; prosequi by order of the court, 58.; for commencfor every certificate from the register, 1s. 6d.; foring and prosecuting a scire facias, on forfeited every citation read in church, 58. recognisances, 98. 4d.

Surveyor General. For every search, 8d.; for copying plat and certificate, 5s.; for receiving, recording a plat, and sending the same to the secretary's office, to be passed into a grant, 10s.; for a certificate in all other cases, 18. 6d.; for a deputation and instructions to a deputy surveyor, 5s. Deputy Surveyor.-For surveying every acre of land, one half-penny; for making out a fair plat, certifying, signing, and returning the same, 108.; for running old lines for any person, or between parties, where any disputes arise, or by order of court, while they are on the survey, 14s.; per day.

County Court Clerk's Fees.-For the whole fees of a tavern license, or permit to retail spirituous liquors, and bond, and furnishing rates, 9s. 4d.; for every search, 8d.; for reading any paper or record filed in court, 6d.; for every writ issued, 28.; for an attachment granted by the justice of peace, returnable to the court, and putting the same upon the docket, 1s. 6d.; for every summons for a witness or witnesses, 18.; for entering every cause on the docket, to be charged but once, (except petition and summons,) 6d. ; for entering every special bail, 28; for entering security for costs for persons out of the county, 1s. 6d. ; for entering the appearance of the defendants, (except on summons and petition,) 6d. ; for all subsequent proceedings to final judgment and verdict, 3s. 6d.; for all other proceedings, executions inclusive, 28-; for filing the papers of each party in every cause, Clerks of the Senate and House of Represent-where there is a jury or case agreed and argued, atives. For any copy or extract from the jour- 18.; for all and every other thing done by the

Powder Receiver and Inspector.-For every 100 lbs. weight of gunpowder received into the magazine, 38. per 100 lbs., to be paid, one half on receiving the same into the magazine, and the other half on delivering the same.

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Fees and compensation paid to Attorneys at Law, Prothonotaries, Registers, and Clerks of judicial courts, to Sheriffs and Coroners, to Grand and Petit Jurors, and Witnesses," in the State of Georgia. Sheriff's Fees, in civil cases. For serving a copy of a process, and returning the original, 78.; Fees of the Attorney General -For drawing if more than one defendant, for each additional a capias against a person indicted and not bound copy served, 28. 4d.; for levying execution on the over, or against a person presented by a grand body or property, 7s.; for summoning each evi-jury, 1s. 2d.; for drawing a capias against a de