The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-01-08

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FEES OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
AN AcrtoEaabnsh and Regulate the Feesa N Compensation If onccr and for
Other Purposes.
BE ii enacted by tie Council and House of REPRESENTATIVES of
the Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION l. That the officers and persons herein
named shall be entitled to receive for their services the
fees and compensation herein allowed, and no other.
except as may be otherwise provided by law.
SEC. 2. The clerks of the district courts shall be emit
tied to receive the following fees for their services
lndexing case, twenty-five cents; entering action on
appearance docket, twenty-five cents; entering action
on trial docket, twenty-five cents; entering action on bar
docket, twenty-five cents issuing any writ, except as
herein otherwise provided, seventy-ive cents; certified
copy OF writ, nifty cents; issuing subpenas (ll names
furnished in one precipe to be included in same subpoena.
unless otherwise directed), twenty-five cents; entering
every order, rule or plea on journal, forty cents; entering
verdict, twenty-five cents; entering judgments, not
exceeding five folios, fifty cents; entering appearance for
defendant, fifteen cents; every issue joined, fifty cents
each entry on appearance docket, other than docketing
action. ten cents; filing each paper, ten cents; entering
sheriffs return on venire, fifty cents making out adver-
tisement for nonresident, seventy-tive cents entering
defendants confession, fifty cents bringing a particular
record into court, twenty-five cents; taking dispositions,
per folio, twenty-five cents; calling jury and entering
appearance OH journal, fifty cents administering oath in
court, ten cents; taking and certifying affidavit, fifty
cents approving bond or undertaking, including iustih-
cation, seventy-fve cents; impanneiing and Swearing
jury, fifty cents; taxation of costs, twenty-five cents
docketing Judgment or execution, fifty cents; entering
satisfaction of Judgment, twenty-five cents; making any
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paper. per folio, where no fee is allowed, fifteen cents;
certificate and seal, fifty cents; each entry on index, five
cents; issuing commission to take dispositions, seventy
five cents; taking and entering recognizance in court,
fifty cents; certifying record to the supreme court, one
dollar.
Sec. 3. The sheriff of each county shall receive for
his services the following fees: Serving and returning
any writ, process, order or notice, except as hereinafter
otherwise provided, for the first person, fifty cents; each
additional person, twenty-five cents; serving warrants,
one dollar; serving order of attachment, replevin, one
dollar and fifty cents; making levy under execution, fifty
cents; appra1Sement OF property, one dollar: return of no
property found, twenty-five cents; return of not found,
each person, five cents approving and returning under
taking, bond or recognizance, seventy-fve cents adver-
Using property for sale, one dollar; commissions for col
lecting money on sale, first $4,000, three per cent;
second 100000, two per cent, and all over 81, 600. 90, one
per cent. and one-half the foregoing rates on collections
without sales; sheriff's deed and acknowledgment, three
dollars summoning jury, each juror, twenty-five cents;
summoning talesmen, each, fifteen cents for every mile,
over the second mile, necessarily travelled in serving any
writ, process, order, ,venire or notice, fifteen cents;
executing writ of habeas corpus, seventy-fve cents
executing order of commitment, seventy-ive cents keep
ing and subsisting prisoners, per day, sixty cents; for
one Jailor, per month, fifty dollars; executing judgment
IN capital cases, covering all expenses, one hundred
dollars. The sheriff shall be collector and shall be
entitled to the following fees For the collection of
taxes, for any amount collected from one taxpayer, not
exceeding five dollars, twenty per cent. for any amount
collected from one taxpayer, over five dollars and not
exceeding ten dollars, fifteen per cent. for any amount
collected from one taxpayer, over ten and not exceeding
fifty dollars, ten per cent. for any amount collected from
one taxpayer over fifty and exceeding one hundred dol
la[s' " per cent. 1or any amount over one hundred
dollars and not exceeding five hundred, three per cent.
Ior any amount over hVe hundred dollars and not exceed
ing one thousand dollars, two per cent. for any amount
over one thousand and not exceeding five thouand dol
lars, one per cent. for any amount over five thousand
dollars, one-half of one per cent. EroUided, That the
whole amount received by the sheriff for the collection of
taxes shall not exceed 100000 in any one year: on
moneys received from other sources than taxes the
collector shall receive five per cent, hut this section
shall not be construed to allow said collector any fees for
paying over to the treasurer any money he may receive
as collector. The collector shall be entitled to receive
the following fees: For the sale of personal property
for taxes, one dollar; advertising property for sale, one
dollar: certificate of purchase of real property sold for
taxes. one dollar; certificate of redemption, fifty cents:
sheritfs deed for land sold for taxes, two dollars.
SEC. 4. The county and prosecuting attorney of the
several counties shall be allowed by the board of county
commissioners, as compensation for services rendered
within their respective counties, a salary as follows In
counties of less than five thousand inhabitants, twelve
hundred dollars; and i'll any county where the popula-
ton shall exceed five Thousand inhabitants, he shall also
receive a compensation at the rate of one hundred dollars
for every five hundred inhabitants, over five thousand:
said salaries shall be payable in quarterly installments by
the proper county; whenever the prosecutor or defend
ant Is adjudged to pay the costs, the court shall tax as
costs the following fees, for the benefit of the county: For
drawing Indictment for felony, five dollars; for drawing
indictment for m~isdemeanor, three dollars; for trial in
other cases, fifteen dollars; for action on forfeited recog-
nizance, ten dollars; in case where prosecution is dis
missed, two dollars and a half; for examination of person
charged with an ofense before a Justice of the peace, five
dollars for trial of misdemeanor before same, five dollars:
it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each
county to examine the bonds of every county officer
before such bond or bonds are approved by the board