The Placer herald., 1870-04-23
An Act to Regulate the Fees of Justices
and COnstables in Placer County.


and COnstables in Placer County.
The People Of the State of California. repre-
sented IN Senate and assembly do enact as
f0U0,cS:
JUSTICES FEES.
SECTION l. For fling each paper twenty y-fve
cents; issuing any writ or process by which suit
is commenced, one dollar; for entering such
cause on his docket, fifty cents; for subpoena to
each witness twenty-five cents; for administer
ing an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents;
for certifying the same, fifty cents; for each GER
tifcate, fifty cents; for issuing writ OF attachment,
or OF arrest, or for delivery of property, two
dollar For entering any final judgment, three
dollars; for taking or approving any bond or
undertaking directed by law to he taken or ap-
proved by him, Fifty cents for taking jusifca-
tion bond, one dollar; for swearing jury, one
dollar; for taking dispositions, per folio, thirty
cents; for entering satisfaction Of judgment,
fifty cents; for copy of judgment, order, docket.
proceeding or paper in his Office for each folio,
thirty cents; for transcript of judment per folio,
thirty cents; for issuing commission to take tes
timony, one dollar; for issuing supcrsedeas to an
execution. fifty cents; for making up and trans.
mtting transcript and papers on appeal, two
dollars, for issuing search warrant one dollar;
for issuing execution, fifty cents; for celebrating
marriage and returning certificate to Recorder,
five dollars; for all service and proceedings be-
fore Justice OF the Peace in a criminal action
or proceeding, whether on examination or trial,
three dollars; for taking bail after commitment
in criminal case, one dollar; for entering cause
without process, one dollar; for entering judg-
ment Ivy confession and only on affidavit as re
quircd in the District Court, three dollars for
entering every motion, rule, order, verdict or
default, twenty-five cents
CoNsTABIE's FEES.
SECTION 2.-For serving summons in civil suit
'or each defendant, one dollar for sumnoning
jury before a justice of the Peace, three dollars;
for taking bond required to be taken. dol
lar; for copy of any writ, process or paper when
required by law, for each folio, thirty cents for
tummoning each witness, fifty cents; for serving
an attachment or levying an execution against
the proper ry of q defendant, three dolars 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 ex
ecuton attachment or order-his actual ncces-
sary expenses TO be allowed by the Justice who
issued the Execution, upon the affidavit of the
Constable that such charges are correct and the
expenses necessarily incurred; for collecting all
sums on execution three per cent to be charged
aganst the defendant in Execution; Constables
shall receive in serving summonses, attachments,
orders, executions, venire notice and subpoena in
civil cases, for each mile necessarily Travelled, in
going only, but when two more persons are
served in the same suit, mileage shall only be
cha rged for the most distant, i: they live in the
same direction, forty cents; for serving n war
rant or order or delivery of personal property,
or making an arrest in civil cases, two dollars;
for making and posting notices and advertising
property for sale on execution or under any judg-
mcnt order Of sae not to inc lude the cost of
publication in newspapers, three dollars; for
serving every notice rule or order, one dollar
the fees herein allowed for the levy of an execu-
ton and for advertising aud for making or col.
lecting the money on an Execution, shall be col
lectcd from the defendant by virtue of such Exc
cuton in the same manner rs the sum therein d-
rectcd TO be made; for drawing and Executing
every COnstable's deed to be paid for by the
grantee, who shall in addition pay for the ac-
acknowledgement and stamp thereof. three dollars
for travel in the services in every process not
hereinbelore mentioned for each mile necessarily
travelled. in going only, forty cents; for making
every arrest in criminal proceeding, three dol
lars; for serving each subpoena in criminal pro-
ceedngs, fifty cents: for summoning each jury in
criminal cases, three dollars; for service of any
process in criminal cases for each mile travelled,
twenty cents, and The same mileage for taking
prisoner before a magistrate or to prison. In
serving subp9nas or venires in criminal cases he
shall receive milagc for the most distant only,
where witnesses or jurors live in the same d-
rectOn.
SECTION 3.-This Act shall he IN force from
and alter its passage.
Ell. LEWIS, President pro tenn
G. II. RODGERS, Speaker of House.
Approved April 4th, A. d. 1870.
H. H. HAIGHT, Governor.