New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-03
No., IO2.
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AN ACT
EMILE HONORE,
Secretary of State.

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To establish the fees, costs and charges of
the civil sheriff in and for the city OF New
Orleans, parish of Orleans, and to su-
thOrize the said. officer to demand surety
and payment for his costs and charges,
and to exempt the city of New Orleans
from all liability for sheriff fees in cases
in which the city of New Orleans sues for
any tax or other dues levied in course of
law, and in which Judgment was rendered
in favor of the city of New Orleans, ex-
penses incurred by the sheriff, caused in
carrying out instructions of the proper
officers of the city, excepted.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That the civil sheriff for the parish
of Orleans shall be entitled to demand and
receive the following fees OF office, and no
more:
For receiving service and return of cita-
ton, for each defendant the SUM of one
dollar.
For receipt and service of petition, on
each defendant the sum Of fifty cents shall
be allowed.
For service of each subpoena, or return of
same not found, forty cents.
For zach attachment for any witness or
other party to be brought into court forth
with or at subsequent period, one dollar.
For ever order of court, not otherwise
provided for in this act, fifty cents shall be
| allowed.
For any writ of fieri faeias, seizure and
sale or executory process, writ OF dis
tringas, prohibition, Injunction, attachment,
provisional seizure, sequestratiOn, or any
| other conservatory writ commanding the
sheriff to execute any mesne or final judg'
ment of the court, including return thereon,
| the sum of two dollars shall be allowed.
For every notice of seizure required by
law to be served, including writing of the
same and return, fifty cents, except for re.
eording seizure in mortgage office, in which
case one dollar shall be allowed for sheriff
| fees.
For keeping property under seizure when
stored in warehouse, the usual charge OF
warehouse keepers shall be allowed, and
no more; provided, that this shall not be so
construed as to bar the sheriff from the col
| lection of insurance effected covering the
property seized, or other incidental expense
necessary for the keeping of property so
For keeping property when keeper or
| guardian is required, two dollars per day
shall be allOwed, and in all leases in which the
property under seizure is OF nature or
| kind recurring the constant attention of the
sheriff, one or more additional keepers at
the same rate OF compensation shall be
For commission on sales under any writ
or order of court, the following rates are
established:
On ali sums up to the first five hundred
dollars, two per cent; after the first five hun
/ dred dollars up TO fifteen hundred dollars,
| one per cents and all sums in excess of tt-
teen hundred dollars one-haf per cent shall
/ be allowed.
For commission on moneys realized under
mesns or final process, there shall be al
| lowed on all sums up to five hundred dol
/ lars two per cent, and after the hrst nVe
hundred and up to fifteen hundred dollars
/ one per cent, and all sums in excess OF nj
/ teen hundred dollars, one half of one per
cent shall be allowed; provided, no com
mission shall be charged in cases In when
nothing is realized by the plaintiff In ex-
ecutien or other writ.
For all expenses incurred In any proceed
ing, the current customary rates shall be
| allowed.
For advertising the rates established by
axiating lava shall be allowed and no more.
For mileage, when travel by water OF
into any other parish "a necessary, the