The Georgetown news., 1855-10-04
CAeaO Justice

The act OF the last session OF The l-eElS!a-
ture took effect in this (El Dorado) county
on last Monday. We publish below for
the information of our readers-and more
particularly for the benefit of officers and
suitors-the fees Of Justices Of the Peace
and Constables. Justices fees are reduced
at least fifty per cent. by this act, and Con-
stables fees are also materially reduced
Our officers have been doing very good
business heretofore, and although their fees
are very much reduced, it is probable that
the new law viii not materially reduce their
receipts in the aggregate, as the tendency
of this act will be to increase the business
of Justices Courts. The law is generally
regarded by the people as quite an I'M
provement on the former:
FEES OF JUSTICES OF TIE PEACE.
SEC. 35. For filing each paper twenty
five cents. Issuing any writ or process, by
which suit commenced, fifty cents. For
entering each cause upon his docket, fifty
cents. For subpoena to each witness, TWEEN
ty-live cents. For certifying the same,
twenty-five cents. For each certificate fifty
cents. For issuing writ of attachment, or
Of arrest, or for delivery of property, one
dollar. For entering any final Judgment
per folio, for the first folio, one dollar; for
each additional folio, thirty cents For ta-
king or approving any bond or underta-
king, directed by law to be taken or ap-
proved by him, with the justifcations there
to, one dollar. For swearing jury, fifty
cents. For taking dispositions per folio,
thirty cents For entering satisfaction of
a judgment, fifty cents. For copy ofa judg-
ment, order, docket proceedings, or papers
in his office, for each folio, thirty cents
For transcript ofjudgment, per folio, thirty
cents. For issuing commission to take tes-
timony. one dollar. For issuing supersedas
to an execution, fifty cents. For making
,up and transmitting transcript and papers,
on appeal, two dollars. For issuing pn ex-
ecution, fifty cents. For celebrating mar
riage, and returning certificate thereof to
the Recorder, five dollars. For all service
and proceedings before a Justice of the
Peace, in a criminal action or proceeding
whether on examination or trial, three dol
lars. For taking bail after commitment by
another magistrate, in criminal cases, one
dollar. For entering cause without process
one dollar. For entering judgment by con-
fession, and only on affidavit, as required in
the District Court, three dollars. For en-
tering every motion, rule, order, verdict or
default, twenty-five cents. For services as
Associate Justice of the Courts of Sessions
five dollars per day together with fifty cents
per mile necessarily travelled, in going only
and once only during each term Of the
court.
FEES OF CONSTABLES.
SEC. 81. For serving summons in civil
suits, for each defendant, one dollar. For
summoning a jury before Justice of the
Peace, three dollars. For taking q bond
required to be taken, fifty cents. For sum-
mOning each witness, twenty-five cents
For serving an attachment against the
property of defendant, two dollars. For
summoning and swearing jury to try the
rights of property, and taking the verdict,
three dollars. For receiving and taking
care of property on execution, attachment
or order his actual necessary expenses, to
be allowed by the justice who issued the ex-
ecution, upon the affidavit of the Constable
that such charges are correct, and the ex-
penses necessarily incurred. For collecting
all sums on execution, four per cent, to be
charged against the defendant in the execu-
ton. COnstables shall receive. in serving
summons, attachments, order, execution,
venire, notice and subpoena, in civil cases,
for each mile necessarily Travelled in going
only, (but when two Or more persons are
served in the same suit, mileage shall only
be charged for the most distant, if they live
in the same direction,) fifty cents. For
serving warrant or order for delivery of
personal property, or making an arrest in
civil cases, two dollars. For service and
travel in criminal cases, the same fees as
Sheriffs for like services For oil other ser
vice, except attending Court, the same fees
as are allowed to Sheriffs for similar servi-
ces.