The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-04-19
(First published April 10, 1881
House Bill No. 293.
AN ACT

AN ACT
Regulating the fees and salaries of the county
treasurer, county clerk, county attorney,
register of deeds, clerk of the district court,
sheriff, and probate judge of Sumner county.
Be ii enacted By the Legislature Of the Shte Of
Kansas:
SECTION /. The county treasurer of Sumner
county shall be allowed by the board ofcounty
commissioners of said county, as full cOmpen-
sation for his services, the following salary
Three thousand dollars per annum Said salary
shall be paid out OF the county treasury in
quarterly installments, upon the order of the
board of county commissioners; but the
amount collected by the said county treasurer,
respectively as fees under the existing laws,
for the preceding quarter, shall be first de-
Quoted from said quarterly installment. Moth
ing in this act shall be construed as affecting
the law in relation to mileage in settling with
the state treasurer.
SEC. 2. The county clerk of Sumner county
shall be allowed by the board OF county COM
missioners as full compensation for his SER
vices, the sum oftWenty-three hundred dollars
per annum. Said salary shall be paid out of
the county treasury, in quarterly installments,
upon the order of the county commissioners.
The amount collected by the county clerk, re-
spectively, as fees under existing laws, during
the preceding quarter, shall be first deducted
from said installment; but the last quarters
salary OF the term shall not be paid until
thirty days after the expiration of said term,
and not until the county commissioners have
found, upon examination, that all the work of
the Office has been completed to the end of the
term. No additional allowance shall be made
for an assistant to the county clerk, or for SER
vices performed in his Office, than as herein
before allowed
SEC. s. The county attorney of Sumner
county shall be allowed by the board of county
commissioners, as full compensation for his
services, salary of fifteen hundred dollars per
annum. Said salary shall be paid quarterly
out of the county treasury, upon the order Of
the board OF county commissioners; but this
act shall not be construed in any way to affect
the fees now provided by law for said county
attorney,
SEC. L. The register of deeds of Sumner
county shall receive, as full compensation for
his services, such fees as are now provided by
law; but he shall keep an accurate account of
all fees charged by him, and If in any one
quarter of the year he shall receive more than
three hundred dollars, he shall pay over one
half OF such excess to the treasurer of said
county, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one
of which he shall file with the county clerk;
and the sum so paid over shall become part
OF the general fund OF the county.
SEC. D. Every officer above named, whose
duty 1t Is to keep an accurate account OF fees
as hereinbefore prescribed, shall make q re-
turn thereof verified by his affidavit, and file
the same with the county clerk Of said county
at the end OF each quarter; and any officer neg
lecting or refusing so to do shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten
dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
and no salary or part thereof shall be paid or
allowed until such return has been made.
SEC. 6. The clerk of the district court of
Sumner county shall charge and collect, for
the services required by law to be performed
by him, the. following fees: For filing each
paper, five cents; docketing each action on ap-
pearance docket, ten cents; dOcketing action
on trial and bar docket, each, seven cents;
each entry on appearance docket other than
docketing action, five cents; entering every
ordeH motion, rule, plea, report, verdict, or
arraignment, seven cents entering judgment,
not exceeding five folios, forty cents; each ad-
ditional folio, eight cents; entering satisfac-
ing, five cents; issuing any writ, except as
otherwise provided, twenty cents; issuing sub
p9na, all the names contained in one precipe
to be contained in one subpoena, fifteen cents;
issuing any order of attachment, replevih,
arrest execution sale, or order to carry SEN
tence OF criminal into execution, thirty-tive
cents; issuing commission to take dispositions,
twenty-five cents; administering oath in open
court, five cents; impaneling and swearing
jury, thirty-hve cents taking and certifying
affidavit, twenty cents; approving bond, in
Guiding justification, thirty-Rve cents docket
ing Judgment twenty cents taxing costs and
making fee-bill, per folio, eight cents; making
record or copying any paper required to be
copied, per folio, five cents; certifying fees OF
jurors and witnesses TO county board, each
name, three cents; entering declaration OF
alien to become citizen, and certified copy OF