The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-01
LAWS OF
CHAPTER 40.
FEEs-REGuLATING PAYMENT OF.

AN ACT to Regulate the Claim and Payment OIL Certain Fees and Allowances
BE it enacted by tie Council and House of Representatives. of
The 1srratory0 Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every officer
authorized to issue the writ of subpoena in this Territory,
to put the names of all the witnesses for the plaintiff or
prosecutor on one writ, and for the defendant on a sepa-
rate writ, and every such officer, who, by the laws of this
Territory. shall be entitled to fees for the issuance of
such writ, shall, with the fee bill for the same presented
for allowance to the board of county commissioners, or
other board or officer whose duty it is to allow or pay
such bill or claim for such fees, make affidavit that the
names of all such witnesses demanded to be subpenaed
at any one time, were stated in the writ issued in pursu-
ance of such demand, and not otherwise, and no fee bill
for issuing subpenas shall be allowed without such an
affidavit. Nor shall any costs for the issuance of
subpoena in any civil case be taxed unless all the names
of witnesses required on a single precipe be incorporated
in a single writ of subpoena.
SEC. 2. In all cases where fees are allowed by law for
the attachment of any official seal to any paper, no fees
shall be allowed for the attachment of such seal, unless
the law expressly provides that such seal shall be so
attached, or where such paper would not be of authority,
or due notice without the attaching of such seal, and any
paper or certificate that would be of sufficient notice or
authority without the attaching of such seal, the attach
ment of such seal to such paper or certificate shall be
ignored in the payment of any fees allowed by law for
the issuance OF such paper or certificate.
SEC. 3. In all cases where mileage is allowed by law,
no mileage shall be allowed where services are rendered
more than once In any given place from the point of
departure by virtue of one process or authority, except
the distance from one point to another, on the same
service in the same place. Nor when in passing from
one place to another on the same journey to perform such
service, as by law mileage is allowed, shall mileage be
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to the other in accordance with the fact. And if any
officer or other person who is by law allowed mileage for
any services rendered, shall at the same time receive
more than one writ or process to serve, or authority to
render more than one service at the same, place he shall
be entitled to mileage only for the actual number of
miles travelled, allowing a full mile for every person
served with notice or process or every service rendered
in the same place and during the same journey. And
his return or claim for such mileage shall show the
actual number of miles necessarily travelled from the place
where he received his authority to the place where the
actual service was made or rendered, allowing a full mile,
as above provided for, and mileage shall not be allowed
as if each service made or rendered was a distinct service
from the point of departure or place where the authority,
writ or process was received, and no mileage shall be
allowed without such showing made explicitly and dis
tinctly. Should any false statement of mileage appear
or be proved, then no mileage whatever shall be allowed
for any service performed by virtue ofthe authority, writ
or process by which such services were rendered, and
nothing in this act shall be construed as to excuse the
maker of such false statement from criminal process.
SEC. 4. If a witness or juror shall be summoned to
serve in more than one criminal case in the same court,
on the same day, such witness or juror shall be entitled
to but one days service, which shall be taxed as costs in
the first such case. And it is made the duty of the officer
so swearing said witness or juror, to keep a proper
account of the same, in order that not more than one
payment shall be made under such circumstances. This
shall also apply to grand juries and witnesses before
grand juries.
SEC. 5. No officer whose duty it is to be in constant
attendance upon any court, and who may be sworn as a
witness in any case then pending in such, court, shall be
entitled to witness fees in such case.
Approved December IL, 1879.