The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-04-02

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the asylum Tor me Blind, Tor the quarter end
ing April first, onethousand eight hundred an
ffty-two, the sum of two thousand dollars.
JAMES @. JOHNSON,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
/ WILLIAM MEDlLL,
President of the Senate.
| March l6, 1852. ,l5
No. &c. AN ACT 81
Regulating the fees of Witnesses in Civil and
Criminal Gases.
Sec. /. Be II enacted By the General Asse,,bl,
Of The State Of Ohio, That witnesses in civil ca.
ses shall hereafter be allowed the following fees:
For each days attendance at the court Of com.
mon pleas or other court Of record, or before
any officer authorised TO take dispositions under
a subpoena, to be paid by the party at whose in
stance he or she is summoned (on demand) and
taxed in the bill ofcost, seventy-fve cents, and
five cents per mile, from his or her place Of res
idence, to the place of holding said court, or
place Of taking depositions. For attending
a coroner's inquest, seventy FIVE cents per day,
and the mileage aforesaid, to be paid out of the
county treasury. For attending at any trial be-
fore ajusiice ofthe peace or mayor of any incor-
Porated city or town, to be paid for as is proyi-
ded in this act in the courts Of record, the sum
Of fifty cents per day, and the mileage aforesaid;
Provided, that no mileage shall be allowed in
any case where the distance from the place of
theresiaence ofthe witness to the place where
called to testify, is less than three miles.
Sec. 2. That Witnesses attending under re.
cognizance. or subpoena issued by order Of the
prosecuting attorney, or defendant, before the
court OF common pleas, or other court of record,
in criminal cases, shall be allowed the follow.
ing fees: For each days attendance, seventy
i've cents, ana FIVE cents per mile, as in civil ca
ses; to be taxed in only one case, when attend
ing In more cases than one, on the same days.
unless otherwise directed BY the special order
Of the court. F ~
Sec. .: That in all cases, except those spec
flied in this act, each person summoned as
witness, shall be allowed the sum Of fifty cents
per day f,r each day attendance and the mile.
age specified in this act; and all persons who
shall be called upon to testify in a cause in
which they are not summoned, shall receive the
sum Of twenty. five cents, to be paid as provid.
ed in this act.
Sec. 4. That for the purpose of ascertain.
ing the mileage to which any witness nav be
entitled, it is hereby made the duty of the sher.
III, or other officer serving writ Of subpoena,
70 endorse on the writ the number Of miles TO
which each witness may be entitled; and all iu
dicial officers returning witnesses under recop-
nizarce to any court in this State, for the trial
oicnminal causes, shall endorse on their tran
script, the number Of miles to which each wit
ness may be entitled. The act heretofore pass.
Cd regulating the fees Of witnesses in civil and
criminal cases, and the act amendatory thereto.
passed March 1th, 1888, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. That in all cases where a physician
OF surgeon shall make post mortem examina.
ton, at the instance Of the coroner or other Of.
fcer, said physician or surgeon shall be- allow.
cd such compensation Of his services, as the
court OF common pleas for the proper county
may direct. JAMES @. Johnson.
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
WILLIAM MEDILL,
:. 80 President Of the Senate.
SEcRETARy or STATE's 0FrIcr
Columbus. March l8, 1852. {
certify that the foregoing law is correctly
copied from the original roll on file in this
once. WILLIAM TREvITT,
Secretary Of State.
AUDrToR's 0RFIcE, ScIoro CouNrY.
March "a, 1852
hereby certify that have compared the A.
boye with the copy furnished BY the Secretary
Of Estate and fnd il correct. G,
s5s GEO. A. WALLER, AS. c.