Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-12-07
DECEMBER 7, 1866.

read as follows: Grand aud petit jurors
fees in the county courts sh all be, for
travel, eight cents per mile; for attendance
per day two dollars; to each talesmen at
the rate of two dollars per day.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
the first day of December, A. ID. 1866.
Approved Nov. ~, 1866.
An act in amendment of section forty-four
chapter one hundred and twenty-six, of
the General Statutes, relating to the
Jailors' fees.
II IS hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. Section forty-four of chapter
one hundred and twenty-six of the Cen
eIal Statutes, is hereby amended so as to
read as follows: There shall be paid to the
keeper Of jails as follows: For the commit
ment of each prisoner, to be paid by the com-
miting officer, thirty-forr cents; for the dis
charge of each prisoner, twenty five cents ;
for each bond for the liberties of the yard,
fifty cents; for fuel, diet and washing for
State prisoners. State or town paupers,
three dollars and fifty cents per week ;
for each bail piece, to be paid by the bail,
twenty-five cents.
Sec 2. This act shall take effect from
the first day of November, 1866.
Approved, Nov. IL, 1866.
An act regulating the fees of persons act
ing under the authority of the Probate
Court, and in amendment of section fif-
ty Of chapter one hundred and twenty
six of the General Statutes
His hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. l. Section fifty of chapter one
hundred and twenty-six of the General
Statutes, is hereby amended so as to read
as follows: Persons acting under the au-
thority of the probate court shall be paid
as follows Each days attendance by exc
cutor, administrator, trustee, agent or
guardian, on the business of their appoint
ment, two dollars; each days attendance
of commissioners, appraisers or commit
tee, two dollars and the probate court
may allow in cases of unusual difficulty or
responsibility, such further sum as the
court may judge reasonable.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Nov. 9, 1866.
An act relating to Probate fees and salaries
II as hereby enacted, sc.
See. |. In addition to the fees now re,
quired by law to be paid to the judge o.
probate for the benefit of the State. there
shall be paid the following:
For each order of public notice fifty
cents; for granting each license TO sci
personal estate, one dollar; for each hear
ing on citation as provided in section sever
OF chapter fifty-two and section twenty
four OF chapter seventy-two of the Gene
raj Statutes, three dollars for each day
tor granting authority to purchase rea
eatate. two dollars for each inquisition o
lunacy, two dollars for each order to re
move transient insane pauper to the in
sane asylum, two dollars; for making
dividend to creditors five dollars instead Of
two dollars, as now required by law; for
the distribution or division of each estate,
if the same amounts in value to the sum
of ten thousand dollars, ten dollars in ad-
dition to the fee now required by law for
each adoption. three dollars: for approx
ing each bond in case of assignment for
the benefit of creditors. two dollars for
granting letters of administration or tes-
tamentary upon estates when the assets
do not exceed ten thousand dollars, there
shall be paid the sum of two dollars as
now required, and in addition thereto the
sum of one dollar for each five thousand
dollars and each fraction thereof in excess
of ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Instead of the fees now re-
quired by law to be paid for records and
copies Of records there shall be paid to the
registers of probate for their own use the
sum of ten cents per folio.
Sec. 3. If any judge of probate shall
neglect for the space of one month from
the first days of June and December in
each year, to comply with sections twenty
one and twenty-five Of chapter one hun
dred and twenty-six of the General Stat
utes, lie shall forfeit and pay the sum of
two hundred dollars, to be recovered in an
action on the case in the name of the
State, and it is hereby made the duty of
the Auditor of Accounts to see that the
provisions of this section are complied with.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect on
the first day of December, A. d. 1866.
Approved Nov. l5, 1866.
An act iii addition to number thirty-two
of the acts of 1865, approved Novem-
Der 9, 1865" relating TO the fees of
sheriffs and constables.
Il as hereby enacted, &c.
Sec. /. Whenever any sheriff or con-
stable shall have put into his hands, a
complaint signed by the States attorney,
charging any person with having COM
mitted crime, within the county fer
which the States Attorney acts, the pun
ishment of which is Imprisonment in the
States Prison, with proper warrant an
nexed thereto, and which warrant said
States Attorney shall have certified in
writing that the person SO charged with
crime, ought TO be sought after and pur-
sued, AMI such officer shall have returned
said complaint and warrant to the author
ity issuing the warrant, with his return
thereon setting forth particularly his do
ipgs by virtue of the same, such officer
shall be entitled to ten cents for each mile
travelled by him in such search and pursuit,
within the limits of this State, notwith-
standing he does NOT find and arrest tho