The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-05-08
[oFr1cIAL.]
The Laws of South Carolina.

The Laws of South Carolina.
Acts and Joint Resolutions passed By III
General Assembly at the Session Of 1872
-'73.
An ACT to regulate the fees Of Probate
Judges, Clerks Of Courts, Trial Justices
and other officers herein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the State Of South Caro-
lima, now met and sitting in General Assem-
bly,, and by the authority Of the same:
SECTION 1. That the fees which probate
Judges, clerks of courts, trial justices and
other officers herein mentioned shall be au-
thorized to receive in tho several cases here
in specified shall be as follows: =.
Sec. 2. Judges of Probate: For petition
for letters, &C., fifty cents; for citation, fifty
cents; qualifying executors, Eaduinistrators
or guardians, and issui 3ettsrs 70 same, ,one
dollar and fifty cents; 4aking bond Of admin.
istrators or guardians, one dollar; issuing
warrant of appraisenent, one, dollar, proving
will in common form, one dollar; proving VIII
in solemn form, five dollars; fling and entering
renunsistipu ef exscutor, one dollar ded'-
mus potestatim to prove will or qualify exec.
utor, two dollars; receiving, examining and
fling annual return, one dollar; for first and
final returns, sech .thrsa dollars; order for
sale of personal properly, one dollar; hear
ing and fling petition for guardiaps and ap-
pointment, two dollars; entering caveat and
withdraviag ssnA one, dollar; hearing ltigas
ted case, three dollars, and twenty-five cents
additional for each witnessed examined; Is
suing summons for each witness, when not
issued by an attorney, thirty cents; for every
rule issued against defaulting witness or
party failing 10. account two dollars. for
procesdings in pertition Of eal:cstate, FIVE
dollars, and fifty cents additional on eve-
ry hundred dollars, or fractional part there
Of, for which the land may be sold, or, in
case of partition i'm lind, for which it may
be assessed : Prouided. That in no case shall
the fees and allowances so received agggre-
gate more than twenty-five dollars: Provi-
ded, further, That in cases Of partition in
kind no commission shall be charged; for ap-
pointing guardians, ad Item, one dollar; COM
missions on all moneys received and paid
out, two per cent. on the first three hundred
dollars, and one per cent on all over that
amount; for search for each paper, ten cents;
for certificate and seal, fifty cents; for final
discharge Of executor, administrator or guar
dian, one dollar; for proceedings in dover,
inclusive Of all charges, except recording,
ten dollars; for proceedings in lunacy, inclu-
sive, FIVE dollars; for recording all papers
proper to be recorded, or furnishing copy Of
any paper in his Office, per copy sheet of
one hundred words, each figure containing
one word, fifteen cents; for all services in
setting off the homestead, including the title
and record of proceedings; FIVE dollars.
Sec. 3. Clerks of Courts: For signing and
sealing sub writs, fifty cents; for administer.
ing oaths, twenty-five cents; for taking and
fling bonds in trover, attachment and other
cases, one dollar; for signipg and sealing
commission to examine witness, fifty cents,
recording plats, under order Of court, one
dollar; rule Of survey, fifty cents; each official
certificate under seal, fifty cents; issuing at
tachment for contempt, or other special writ,
fifty cents; signing and sealing writ Of ha-
5ere facias posse;aonens, fifty cent?; receiv-
ing and paying over money officially, under
three hundred dollars, one per cent. over
that amount, one-half Of one per cent. on
bill, noM prosegss, bsfore given out, one
dollar; on bill thrown out BY grand jury, or
found and no1le proseqsi abated, discontin.
ued or struck off, two dollars; on bill found
and verdict by petit jury, two dollars; issuing
bench warrant, one dollar; issuing scire .fa-
cias, one dollar; issuing each execution in
sessions, one dollar; signing and sealing writ
Of haJeas corpus, one dollar; issuining war
rant or taking recognizance or other services
in the sessions, the same fees allowed to trial
Justices; each writ of penire .facias, inclu-
ding all services incident to summoning ju-
rors, two dollars and fifty cents; preparing
and issuing certificates for grand, pstit jurors
and constables, and furnishing return to
county commissioners for each week of every
term Of court, five dollars furnishing adyer-
tisement in case Of escheat, exclusive Of
printers bill, and recording proceedings
thereon, three dollars; for advertising and
giving notice to managers Of elections, six
dollars; for license to an attorney, all incl
dental services included. five dollars; filing
and entering notice Of aliens intention Of be-
come citizen, one dollar; fling and record
ing report Of alien, one dollar; administering
oaths Of intention, fifty cents; fling and en-
tering application to become citizen, and
administering oath, one dollar; for giving
certificate Of citizenship, one dollar; for Ia
king remuneration Of dover or inheritance,
two dollars; for official record of estray, and
filing papers, one dollar; every search Ter a
paper, ten cents; every seach, with certi6-
Gates, fifty cents; swearing trial justice or
constable in Office, and certificate, and taking
bond, one dollar; recording the bonds Of
county officers, and certifying to same, one
a IL.