The Advocate and news., 1899-03-22

tho ann OF three dollars per day and shall
each be allowed and received five cents per
mile for each mile actually and necessarily
Travelled IN the transaction OF any or the
duties OF said office TO be paid out OF the
County treasury In quarterly instruments:
Provided, that the salary OF each Com
missioner shall not exceed In any one year
the following amounts: In counties having
population OF
1000 and less, not to ex-
More lore than than 1000 and not
more than 6,OOO.............. $50 per annum
more than 10000. 175 per annum
More than 10000 and not
more than 5,OOO............. 200 per annum
More than 1900 and not
more than 0,000...,..,,..... $50 per annum
More than 10000 and ont
more than &,O0O............ 800 per annum
more than ,OOO.........." 400 per annum
More than 5000 and not
more than 81, S5,OOO............. 500 per annum
More than 5000 and not
more than 45,000............. 700 per annum
More than 5000 and not
more than $4,000. ............. 800 per annum
More than so 50OO0.............. 800 per annum
Provided, that the salary herein provided
shall be In full for all services Of every Kind
performed by such Commissioners.
Section 20 Justices OF the Peace in their
respective jurisdictions shall receive the
fees herein set out and no more: For is-
suing any writ, summons, order of attach
ment, garniShment or execution, htteen
cents. For issuing each writ twenty-five
cents, making entry upon justices docket
required by law ten cents; for each OF the
first twenty entries; and five cents for each
additional entry Of one folio or less; enter
Ing any order Of dismissal, adjournment or
continuance, Of summons for Jury or other
order Of two folios or less, fifteen cents;
each additional folio, five cents; all trans
cripts per folio, five cents; any certificate
or jurat, fifteen cents; Acknowledgement
of any instrument, twenty-five cents; filing
each paper, not exceeding ten In number
FIVE cents; each additional paper, three
cents; approving bond or undertaking, tif-
teen cents; administering each oath, hYe
cents; and In the trial Of any case all wit
nesses for each side shall be sworn when
produced, and one charge shall be made for
administering such oath; jury trial, each
day, fifty cents; trial by the court, each
day fifty cents; transmitting papers,
TWENTY-FIVE cents; for rendering Judgment,
twenty-five cents; for entering judgment,
ten cents; satisfaction Of judgment,
twenty-five cents; all names In one precipe
shall be in one subpoena, unless otherwise
ordered; for performing the duties of coro-
ner the same as fees are allowed by law
TO coroners; marrying and making return,
two dollars: Provided that II person
charged with felony shall be discharged
by the officer taking his examination, or II
recognized or committed for any such Of
fense and no indictment or information be
preferred against him, the costs shall be
paid by the prosecuting witness, unless
the court shall find that there was probable
cause for instituting prosecution, and that
the same was not Instituted for malicious
motives; and whenever It shall appear to
the court or jury trying any person for an
offense less than felony that the prOsecu-
ton has been Instituted without probable
cause and from malicious motives, the
name OF the prosecutor shall be ascertained
and stated In the findings, and such prOsecu-
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may be committed to the county jail until
the same are paid or secured to be paid.
Section o. The number Of inhabitants
shall be determined for the purposes Of this
act, from the last returns Of the assessors
in each year In their respective counties.
Provided however, that the County Com
mlssioners Of the several counties OF the
State having more than fifty thousand In
habltants may pay such further sums, not
specified In the previous sections, for clerk
hire, as they may deem proper; also
further provided, that the County Commits
sloners In case Of fee offices, may make
up the deficiency In the several counties or
any part of such deficiency as they may
Section & 1t is hereby made the duty of
the Board Of County Commissioners Of
each county in this State, at Its regular
quarterly sessions, to examine the Appear
ance Dockets in the office OF the Clerk Of
the District Court In their respective coun-
ties and determine the amount OF stenO-
graphers, fees collected by the said Clerk
of the District Court during the preceding
three months. Said Board of County Com
missioners shall make a report in triplicate,
duly certified to by the chairman Of said
Board, showing the amount as collected,
one copy Of which report shall be filed in the
office OF the County Clerk, one copy shall
be forwarded by the Chairman Of said
Board to the Treasurer OF the State at To-
peka, and one copy shall be delivered to the
Clerk Of the District Court, and by him at
tached to his statement Of regular quarterly
remittance of stenographers' fees to the
State Treasurer.
Section s That Sections 2, 4, 6, Z, 8, o.
To- 12 49, IA, II, 49, 10, 20, and q OF chapter 1S1
of the Session Laws Of 1897, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Section 4. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after its publication in
the official State paper.
hereby certify that the above bill origi-
mated in the House, and passed that body
February 2Sd, 1899.
s. ]. OSBORN,
Speaker of the House.
CHAS. r. LOBDELIl,
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the Senate March I'd, 1899.