The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-13

Az the justices of the peace in the
city are agitated.
There is good reason for this mental
disturbance too, for if all reports be
true there is an intense possibility that
the fees of their several offices are in
jeopardy; or rather the fees which
they might have collected will not come
in as anticipated.
1t viii be remembered that at the
last session of the legislature there
was a fee bill passed, the same being
a portion of the general revenue law,
which prescribed the fees which should
be collected by all officers and turned
over to the several, or proper treasur-
les. Justices of the peace, constables,
notaries public, ETC., were allowed Ger
tain fees for their own use and it is
on the Justices portion of the bill the
trouble is likely to arise.
When the bill reached the senate
after having been toyed with by the
house there was the following inserted
by the upper house:
Section 146. Justices of the peace
may, for their own use, collect the
following fees and no others. For
fling each paper, 10 cents. For issuing
each process, writ, order or paper re-
quired by law to be issued, so cents.
For entering every cause on the docket
and indeXing same, % cents. For adj
ministering oath or affirmation 10 cents.
For each certificate or affidavit, %
cents. For entering final judgment,
not exceeding two folios, 80 cents, for
each additional folio 10 cents. For
taking and approving bond or under
taking, including the justification of
sureties, 80 cents. For taking deposit
tions, per folio, 10 cents. For entering
satisfaction of Judgment, % cents
Well. This amendment reached the
house and it refused to concur, or
rather restored the old fee bill with a
few slight notifications and caused to
be inserted the following:
For entering cause without process.
so cents. For entering judgment by
confession, 81. For hearing testimony
or argument on the trial of a civil or
criminal case or proceeding, per day
So; but no per diem shall be charged
in default cases, provided: that where
proceedings in any case occupy por-
lions of more than one day not
more than OnA per diem shall be
charged; unless the total number Of
hours occupied in the trial or hearing
exceeds six hours shall it be reckoned
as day for the purpose of fixing per
diem compensation.
A conference committee was appoint
ed and the senate amendment was re-
jected and the house amendment
adopted.
The bill was engrossed and signed by
the governor. Now it is shown by the
printed copy of the law that the senate
amendments were allowed to stand and
the house amendments rejected.
Such was the statement OF a leading
justice of the peace yesterday evening
too late to go to the Office of the secre-
tary of state and verify. But in all
probability this is rhe case. The Her
aids informant stated last evening
that unless he could be satisfied he
was in error he would be compelled to
resign, and that every justice in the
state would have to do the same, as
under the law they could not make
enough to pay office rent.
The matter will be vigilantly inquired
into today and the original bills as they
came from the legislature will be care
fully examined. 1t is evidently a mis-
take in the engrossment of the bill.