The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-04-08
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AN ACT

AN ACT
To prescribe Mr frss to be charecd and received
by Justices Of Ire Peace ia H. scrrrM ron.-
ties in this State, and in the Chyof Bali-
| more.
WHEREAS, by the at Of January session
, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-ninc
civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace was
extended to the sum of one hundred dollars
aad uhercas the duties and labors of Justices
Of the peace were thereby greatly increased,
and it is right and proper that every person
who dcvotes his time and labor to the public
should receive Il reasonable and adequate COM
pensation for his services: Therefore,
SECTION |. Be II enacted by the Gcncrd A.
scmjly Of .HrMmd, That it shall and may
be lawful for tie several justices Of the peace,
in the several counties of this State to have,
charge, and be entitled to receive the fees al
lowed and limited in the following table, and
such fees shall be taxed and paid by the party
against whom judgement shall be rendered,
to wit: in all cases, when the demand in
controversy does not exceed fifty dollars, the
following fees to wit: for issuing each suln-
mons in debt or damages fifteen cents: for
each summons for witnesses, including all the
witnesses applied for at the same time, twcrl-
ty-livc cents: vcnrc to summons lrCchodcrs,
twenty-five cents; iicri fa"ias, twenty-five
cents, vcndiioni cxponas, thirtytivc cents:
scirc Eacias, thirty-ilvc cents, every >upcrScdc-
as, each jus ice, fifteen cents every oath or
affirmation, five cents: probate Of account, ton
cons: every Judgement rendered where there
is 10 trial, fifteen cents: every judgement ron
| tlcrCd on trial, iify cents: commitment, tif.
teen cents; rtlcascmcnt, ten cents: warrant of
attachment, twenty I've cents; vcnirc to sum
mon jury in a case Of forciblc entry and de-
and return thereon, four dollars; warrant of
restitution, scvcntyivc cents; taking every
acknowledgement Of every d,,d, twenty-five
cents, from each person making an acknowl
cdg,mcnt; taking any other acknowledgement
fifteen cents; taking n bail piece TO the circuit
courts, twenty-five cents a pass, twenty-five
cents, certificate of stray forty cents; issuing
summons in rcpltvin, twenty-five cents; iss,l-
ing writs Of attachment, twenty five cents;
taking rcplcyin or other bonds, twenty-five
cents: and in all cases where the demand in
controversy exceeds the sum of fifty dollars,
they shall respectively charge, have, and be
entitled to receive the following fees, to wit !:
for issuing each summons in debt or damages
and making docket entry twenty-five cents:
rendering judgement Oh trial cases, ore dol
lar; entering judgement by confession, TWEEN
tv-tirc cents; entering continuance, ten cents,
70 be paid by the party applying for the same
provided Objection he made by the opposite
party: search or transcript from Docket ton
cents; and they shall charge, have, and lie en-
titled to receive the following fees, in criminal
cases, to be paid by the county, for issuing
each States writ, twenty-five cents; search
warrant, twenty-five cents; taking recogni-
zancc of witness, each, fifteen cents; to any
justice of the peace for holding an inquest up
on IL deceased person, the sum of five dollars.
SECTION ,. Aad be it enacted, That justices
of the peace be, and they arc hereby author
lied to have, receive, and charge all and any
fees, which they are now authoriz,@ by law
to have, receive and charge, other than those
enumerated and prescribed by the first sec
ton of this law.
ACKNOwL JUDGEMENT OF DEEDs.-Wc stated
heretofore that the Legislature at its late
session passed an act, to go into operation on
the lst inst, authorizing a single Justice of