New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-05


| required by law, in each case, one dollar.
For swearing witnesses, five cents.
For reading indictments or information
| and plea to Jury, twenty five cents.
| For receiving, reading, recording and
fling indictment of grand jury, fifty cents.
For notice of arraigDment TO principals
and security, twenty-five cents.
For issuing cspiss, fifty cents.
For entering sentence of Judgment, fifty
| cents.
For copy of sentence with certificate and
seal, fifty cents.
For calling, fOrfeiting and entering judg
ment on appearance bond, one dollar.
For notice of judgment, twenty five cents.
For calling and continuance in each case,
ten cents.
For each and every order of court entered
on the minutes, not otherwise provided for,
| ten cents.
For copies of same and certificate with
seal, fifteen cents.
For filing return on all .writs, ten cents.
| For each commitment, fifty cents.
For each subpoena dtceS tecuna, fifty cents.
For entering nolle prOsequi and order
diseharging prisoner, fifty cents.
For filing plea and abatement of special
plea in bar, or plea in quasi information or
indictment, ten cent?.
For appointment of counsel and copy of
same, fifty cents.
For motion asking for new trial or in
arrest Of Judgment, and copy, twenty-five
cents.
For transcript of appeals to the Supreme
Court, for each hundred words, fifteen
cents.
For taking affidavit and swearing to the
same, twenty-five cents.
SEC. ). Be it further enacted, ETC., That
clerks OF courts shall have the same RENE
dies for collection of costs in criminal cases
that they have in civil suits, and shall be
liable to all the penalties for overcharges
and extortiOn as in civil cases; that the
clerks of court shall, whenever any person
has been convicted in any criminal prosecu-
ton, only be entitled to collect any of
the foregoing costs from such person,
and not from the State or parish; but
in all cases of acquittal, or whenever q
nolle prosequi has been entered by the die
trict attorney or the district attorney pro
tempore, said costs must be paid by the
police jury of the parish, on the approval
of the district judge.
| Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the clerks and sheriffs are required to keep
constantly posted up in their offices copies
of this fee bill, certified by the judge; and
on failure to comply with this section they
shall be subject to fine of fifty dollars per
week for the benefit of the parish, to be re-
covered by the police jury before any court
OF competent jurisdiction.
SEC. Z. Be it further enacted etc., That
whenever any clerk of court shall retire
from Office, he shall cause to be filed in the
case and with the proceedings in which he
may be entitled to costs, within thirty days,
specific bills of his fees; and in default
thereof or If any item should be overcharged,
the whole of the costs in the case in which
the overcharge is made shall be forfeited,
and such clerk forever barred from collect
ing the same; and in the event of the death
OF the clerk, his legal representative must
have this requirement attended to, on pay
. Al + - NE,I
he shall be responsible to the estate for any
loss resulting from such neglect or forfeit
ure; that the costs of the clerk, witnesses
fees, cost of taking dispositions and copies
OF acts used on the trial, and all other costs,
which the court may legally allow in any
case, shall be taxed as costs.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted. etc., That
before any clerk shall file any suit in the
district or parish court, the party applying
to file such suit shall deposit with the
clerk ten dollars, and the filing of the suit
shall be evidence that such sum has been
paid and deposited with the clerk; such
, sums shall be held by the clerk TO pay the
costs of clerk and sheriff in suoh cases, the
clerk retaining one half and the other hall
to be paid over to the sheriff as fast as his
z | fees accrue until the amount to which he is
entitled is exhausted; and the clerk shall
be liable under his bond for the proper
| appropriation of said amount. The
| Cl6Ekb anu bu6Elu5 Will Do tullUl6U 10 COL
lect the residue of their costs in every case,
3 every six months, that is, all the costs due
| them on the first day of January of each
Q / year shall be considered on that day due
: and oOlleetible, and all the costs due on the
D fret day of July of each year shall be then
Q due and oollectible. The costs shall be col
lected as follows: The clerk or sheriff shall
: make out a bill of their respective costs due
: and cOlleotiblc, and shall swear to the cor
: reotness of the same, and that the same ID
due; and such cost bills shall be presented
to the judge of the court in which the CASE
was filed or is pending, who shall examine
j. the same and, il he shall find them correct
he shall approve the same, and on which
= cost bill, 80 approved, the clerk shall issue
execution against the principal and secu
8 rites for costs, and the same shall b.
colleotible by the sheriff as on Othel
+ executions, and the security for cost
shall not be entitled to the plea of
: discussion. Execution shall not be ISSUED
in any such bill of costs until ten days aftel
such bill of costs shall have been demanded
!. by the sheriff or his deputy of the principa
or security, which demand shall be made
= to appear by return to that effect on SAID
bill of costs, made and signed by the sheriff
or his deputy; provided, that in case wher'
A there has been written confession of judg
ment, signed at or before the filing of thu
= suit. the party fling the same shall not b.
q Il
= the confession Of Judgment and recording
4 proceedings, as is provided for by this acI
! and provided further, that if at OF befOrt
!. the time of filing the suit there has been {
j. written waiver of citation and petition
the party filing the suit shall b.
required to deposit only five dollars. to b.
Il disposed of as required in the first part o
J, this section; and, provided further, that il
any part of the money SO deposited remain
y after paying the taxed costs of suit accrued
at the date of rendering final judgment il
J; the case, the same shall be returned to tht
i party originally depositing it; and, provided
+ further, that whenever the said deposit shall
be exhausted In the payment of taxed costs
J, the clerk may require a further deposit o
D ten dollars, or shall be entitled to demand
and receive the costs as they shall accrue
: SEC. g. Be it further enacted, etc., Tha
1 all laws, or parts of laws, contrary to or il
conflict with this act be and the same ar
4 hereby repealed, and that this act take of
feet from and after its passage.
i. (Signedl +, ID. ESTLLETTE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Z (Signed) G. C. ANTOINE,
!. Lieutenant Governor and President Of tn
/ Approved, November 81, 1876.
i tSigned) VIM. p. KELLOGG,
: Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true COPY
4. G.. LLoREHs,
) Assistant Secretary of State.
AN ACT
To incorporate the town of Amite City, il
J, the parish Of Tangipahoa, to define il