Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-23
Sunth Garolina Iaws.
THE NEW FEE BILL.

Representatives, of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same:
| Section /. That the fees which probate
Judges, clerks of courts, trial justices, and 9TH
er officers herein mentioned, shall be author.
lied to receive, in the several cases herein
specified, shall be as follows:
Section g. Judges Of Probate. For petition
for letters, &C., one dollar; for citation, fifty
cents; qualifying executor, administrator or
guardian, and issuing letters to same, two dol
lars; taking bond Of administrator or guar
| dian, one dollar; issuing warrant of appraise-
ment, fifty cents; proving will in common
form, one dollar proving will in solemn form,
five dollars; filing and entering remuneration
of executor, one dollar, dedimss potestatum to
prove will or qualify executor, two dollars
receiving, examining and filing annual returns,
one dollar and fifty cents for first and final
returns, each, three dollars order for sale of
personal property, one dollar; hearing and
filing petition for guardians, and appointment,
two dollars entering caveat and withdrawing
same, one dollar; for hearing litigated case,
three dollars, and twenty-five cents additional
for each witness examined issuing summons
for each witness, thirty cents; for issuing rule
against defaulting witness, or party failing to
account, two dollars; for every attachment is.
sued on!return of such rule, one dollar; for
certifying papers and furnishing proceedings
in case of appeal, three dollars for proceed
ings in partition of real estate, FIVE dollars
and fifty cents additional on every hundred
dollars, or fractional part thereof, for which
the land may be sold, or in case of partition
in kind, for which it may be assessed Provi.
ded, that in no case shall the fees and allow,
ances so received aggregate more than twenty
FIVE dollars; and, provided further, That in
case of partition i'll kind, no commission shall
be charged; for appointing guardian ad Htem
three dollars; commissions on all moneys re-
ceived and paid, two per cent. on the first
three hundred dollars, and one per cent. on
all sums over that amount for search for
each paper, fifteen cents for certificate and
seal, fifty cents; for final discharge of execu
tor administrator or guardian, two dollars
for proceedings in dover, inclusive of all
charges, fifteen dollars for proceedings in lu.
macy, inclusive, 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 counting a
word, fifteen cents for proceedings and service
setting off homestead, including title, five dol.
| lars.
Sec. 3. Clerks Of Couvts.-For the trial oi
every case, two dollars; for filing papers,
twenty-five cents; for entering judgment, fifty
cents for signing and sealing sub writ, fifty
cents for administering oaths, twenty-five
cents; for taking and filing bonds in attach
ment and other cases, one dollar; for signing
and sealing commission to examine witness,
one dollar for recording plats under order
of court, one dollar; for rule of survey, fifty
cents; for each official certificate under seal,
fifty cents; for issuing attachment for con-
tempt or other special writ, one dollar; for
signing and sealing writ of habere tacias pos.
sessionem, fifty cents; for receiving and pay
ing over money officially, under three hun
dred dollars, two per cent over that amount,
one per cent. on bill, nolle prosequi, before
given out, one dollar; on bill thrown out by
grand jury, or found and nolle prosequi abated,
discontinued or struck off, two dollars on bill
found and verdict by petit jury, three dollars
issuing bench warrants, one dollar and fifty
cents; issuing each execution in sessions, one
dollar and fifty cents, signing and sealing
writ of habeas corpus, one dollar and fifty
cents issuing warrant or taking recognizance,
or other services in the sessions, the same fees
allowed to trial justices, each writ Of venire
tacias, including all fees incident to summon
ing jurors, two dollars and fifty cents; pre-
pairing and issuing certificates for grand and
petit Jurors and constables, and furnishing
return to county commissioners for each week
of every term of court, five dollars furnish
ing advertisement in case of escheat, exclusive
of printers bill, three dollars for advertising
and giving notice to managers of elections,
six dollars for licenses to an attorney, all in
cidental services included, five dollars; filing,
recording and entering notice of aliens inten-
ton to become citizen, one dollar filing re-
port of alien, one dollar; administering oath
of intention, one dollar; filing and entering
application to become a citizen, and admins
tering oath, two dollars; for giving certificate
of citizenship, one dollar; for taking renun-
citation of dover or inheritance, two dollars /;
for official record of estray, and filing papers,
one dollar; every search for paper, fifteen
cents every search with certificate, fifty
cents; swearing trial justices or constables in
office, and certificate and taking bond, one
dollar and fifty cents; recording the bonds of
county officers and certifying to same, one
dollar and fifty cents; for every probate in
writing, twenty-five cents; for signing deda-
mus potestatem, two dollars for copying pa
pers, per copy sheet of one hundred words,
each figure counting word, fifteen cents; for
signing and sealing each execution and re-
moval, fifty cents for copying and recording
deeds, mortgages and other papers, per copy
sheet of one hundred words, each figure count
ing word, fifteen cents; for every certificate
on deeds or other papers, twenty-five cents !;
on every appeal from trial justices, all serv-
ces included, two dollars for entering satis-
faction on mortgages, fifty cents for record
ing and copying plats of not more than six
corners, one dollar for every corner, more
than six, ten cents; for filing every rule or or
der for arbitration, fifty cents; for filing afi-
davit for continuance when so ordered, twen-
ty-fve cents; for granting charters Of incor-
poration, two dollars, except for churches,
which shall be one dollar; for recording or
copying all other papers necessary to be re-
corded, not hereinbefore mentioned, per copy
sheet of one hundred words, each figure
counting word, fifteen cents.
Sec 4. Trial Justices and Justices Of the
Peace.-Oath and warrant in any criminal
case, fifty cents; each recognizance, fifty
cents commitments and release, each fifty
cents administering and certifying oath, in
writing, other than above, twenty-five cents
issuing writ of habeas corpus by two Justices,
Jointly, two dollars; issuing summons and
CODY for defendant in civil cases, fifty cents !;
issuing copy for each additional defendant
over one twenty cents; issuing summons to