Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-31
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NO. 8.
Fees and Fixing the Salary of the Clerk of the
Supreme court.
Be it Enacted BY the Legislative assembly of the
State of North Dakota:
SECTION l. There shall be a clerk of the
supreme court, who shall be appointed by
the Judges of the supreme court and who
shall hold his office during the pleasure of
said Judges.
SEC. 9. The clerk of the supreme court,
before he enters npOn the duties of his Of
fee, shall take and subscribe the oath re-
quired by the constitution of the state OF
North Dakota and execute a bond to the
state Of North Dakota, with one or more
surctiessto be approved by the governor in
the penal sum OF $1,000, conditioned for the
faithful performance Of his duties, which
bond shall be for the use of the state.
and with said oath, filed in the office of
the secretary Of state. The said clerk
may appoint a deputy, who shall take and
subscribe the oath required by the cOnsti-
tuition. which shall be filed in said court;
the said clerk is responsible for the acts Of
his deputy.
SEC.3. The said clerk unless otherwise
provided for by law, shall secure the neces-
sary records, seals, stationery, postage,
lights, fuel and furniture for the use of the
supreme court, the same to be paid for out
of the state treasury by the proper account
ing officers thereof, upon the certificate or
order of said clerk, endorsed as correct by
one of the Judges of the supreme court.
the duties assigned him by the law, and
the rules OF said court. Whenever the clerk
is unavOidably absent and unable to per-
form his duties, his deputy may perform
all the duties of saidsoffice.
SEC. s. Whenever a syllabus is filed by
the judges of the supreme court, as re-
quired by law, the clerk shall Immediately
of to the publishers of such daily papers in
the state of North Dakota as consent to
publish the same without charge, accom-
panied with the title of the action.
SEC. 6. The clerk shall receive III an
nual salary of one thousand five hundred
dollars, payable in equal monthly Install
mentS at the end of each month; such an
nual salary shall commence to run at the
date of filing his oath of office and entering
upon his official duties.
SEC. 7. The following are hereby de-
clared to be the fees which shall be charged
by the said clerk for performing official
acts:
For drawing a writ of error; or other
process issued under the seal of said court,
one dollar.
Affixing the seal to any process OF the
court, twenty-five cents.
Filing papers. ten cents for each paper.
Reading and filing any petition relating
to any proceeding in court, ten cents.
Entering the appearance or default OF
appellant or plaintiff. or of defendant or
respondent, fifteen cents.
Entering every rule or order, fifteen
cents for each folio.
A certified copy of every such rule OF
order, and of all papers, ~pleadings and pro-
ceedings filed with MIN, ten cents for
each folio.
Entering a decree or sentence, ten cents
fOr each folio.
Entering a Judgment or order, fifteen
cents for every Judgment debtor; ten cents
for each folio more than two.
Engrossjng a remiuter to be sent to a
district court, ten cents for each folio.
Every certificate. twenty-five cents
Taxing costs, fifty cents.
Entering satisfaction of record, fifteen
cents.
Taking security, fifty cents.
Entering each cause in the calendar and
making a copy for the bar, ten cents.
Searching records and files in his office,
twenty cents for the records and files of
each year.
For services required by law or the rules
of the court, not herein provided for, such
fees as the court directs.
Admission of attorneys, three dollars.
" AlSlh oINll hCCp Oil LSp
rate ]accountof all official fees received by
him, and on the first day of January. April,
July and October of each year, he shall
file with the auditor Of the state of North
Dakota a true detailed statement of such
fees for the quarter preceding such filing,
which statement shall be verified as true
and correct by the affidavit of such clerk
appended to such statement of fees. With
his said statement he shall file with the
said auditor Of the state of North Dakota
a receipt from the treasurer of the state OF
North Dakota, showing all of said monies
SO received to have been covered into the
treasury of the state of North Dakota.
SEC 8. In addition to the salary herein
before prescribed the said clerk shall re-
of the supreme court of the state of North
Dakota, when held at points other than the
OF the said state, the sum of 5 cents
per mile for each and every mile necessarily
travelled in going to and returning t'Om
said session or sessions, and in addition
the sum of 20 for each and every day when
the said clerk is in actual attendance upon
the said session or sessions of the said
court, said mileage and per diem to be in
lieu OF any other travelling expenses to be
allowed said clerk. Upon filing with said
auditor an itemized statement, verified by
the oath of said clerk, showing the mileage
and per diem as aforesaid, the auditor
shall draw a warrant upon the state treas
urer in favor of said clerk for the amount
so shown to be due under such statement.
SEC. 10. All acts and parts of acts in
herewith are hereby repealed.
SEC. II. That, whereas, it is essential
that the fees and salary of the clerk Of the
supreme court should be established and
defined rs soon as practicable and at a
therefore, for the reasons aforesaid, this
act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage and approval.
Approved December IS, 1889.
NO. IL.
An Act Providing Clerk Hire for the Various
State Offices, and Making Appropriation
Therefor.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the
Sfufo nf North n rL.ofo