The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1854-06-08
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for each offence, and also double the
amount of fines by him received and 30
detained, to be recovered by indictment
in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 20. The clerk Of said court
shall collect five cents for each writ by
him signed in civil actions, which sum
shall be by him paid over to the General
Treasurer, and taxed for the plaintiff, If
he recover judgment.
! See. 2l. In all civil action that shall
be brought before said court, there shall
be an entry fee of seventy-fvs cents, to
be paid to the clerk Of said court at the
time of entering such case, and by him
paid over to the General Treasurer, once
in three months and no action shall be
considered as entered, nor shall it be re-
ceivcd by said court, until said entry
fee shall be paid aud no fec shall be
taxed by said court for the rendition of
Judgment in any civil case there shall
also be taxed in each civil case that shall
be entered in said court, in which judg-
ment shall be rendered, the sum of fifty
cents for attendance of the party recov-
ering judgment, but the said sum of fifty
cents so taxed for attendance as aforesaid
shall not be received by the clerk of said
court, but shall be taxed in the bill of
costs to and for the use Of the party re-
covering judgment; PrOrided, dtuays,
that when an appeal shall be taken from
said court, in any civil cause, the clerk
thereof shall receive all the taxed costs
that are paid upon such appeal, and shall
account for the said attendance fee Of
fifty cents with the party recovering
judgment iu said court, or his attorney
of record, and shall pay over all tho
other costs in each case so appealed as
aforesaid to tho persons by law entitled
to the same.
Sec %. Said court, except as here
inbeforc provided, shall tax the same
fees as may be allowed by law to be
taxed by justices of the peace in similag
cases.
Sec. %. The salary of the clerk Of
sdlu COutb Sudll pe tue sum VI Oue tuOu-
sand dollars annually, and the salary Of
each of the other members of said court
shall be eight hundred dollars annually,
to be paid out of the general treasury in
equal quarterly payments.
Sec 2I. The records and papers Of
the present and former court Of magis-
trates, in the city Of Providence, shall
be placed in the custody of the clerk Of
the court hereby constituted, who shall
have full power to issue executions and
to certify copies of, and in general do all
things pertaining to, such records and
papers, and in the same manner and with
the same effect as he is authorized to do
in relation to the records of the court
hereby created; and the court estab-
lishcd by this act is hereby authorized to
take jurisdiction over all writs, COM
plants, warrants, citations, and all other
processes, which at the time this act
takes effect shall be then pending or
commenced in the said present court of
magistrates, or shall be issued out of, or
rcturnable to, said present court, in the
same manner and TO toe same extent as
if said wrts, complaints, warrants, cita-
tionS, or other processes, were pending
or commenced in, or were issued out OF,
or were returnable to the court created
by this act.
Sec. %. All acts now in force, in
amendment of or in addition to the act
entitled " An act for the relief of poor
persons imprisoned for debt" comforting
special powers upon a single member Of
the court of magistrates in the city Of
Providence, with any other justice of the
peace or judge of a court, shall extend
to either member of the court hereby
established.
Sec. 90. An act, entitled "An act
to establish court of magistrates in the
city of Providence" passed at the May
session of the General Assembly, A. ID.
1888, and the several acts in amendment
thereof, and all other acts and parts of
acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby
repealed"
Sec. 27. This act shall 20 into
operation on the first day Of June, A. d.
1854, except the part, hereof, which