Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-27
FEES OF PROBATE JUDGES.
They Are Compensation for Various Glasses of Services.

Few people have any definite idea of the variety of fees received by probate judges of Connecticut. The contest for the nomination for pro- bate judge in Hartford has raised the question of the compensation of the office. Section 4,S61 of the gen. eral statutes enumerates the probate court fees. The section is as follows:
 The fees of courts of probate shall be for granting administration, re- ceiving, and probate of will, or ap- pointing conservator or guardian, one dollar.
 Making out a letter of adminis- tration, or taking a bond, twenty five cents. Except that for taking a bond on an order of sale of the real estate of minor the fee shall be fifty cents.
 For recording probate bond, twenty-five cents.
 Receiving an inventory, for each thousand dollars, thirty cents; for each thousand dollars thereof, ex- ceeding ten thousand dollars, and not exceeding twenty thousand dol lars, twenty cents; for each thousand dollars thereof exceeding twenty thousand dollars, fifteen cents.
 Hearing an application for the ap- pointment of trustee of an insol- vent debtor, two dollars; every con- tinuance of such hearing, twenty-five cents; hearing an application of such debtor for benefits; two dollars and fifty cents; hearing in regard to -estate of such debtor ip settlement in another state, one dollar and fifty cents; granting him a certificate of discharge. one dollar; for issuing a summons to require attendance of an insolvent debtor, or witness for ex- animation. fifty cents; for holding an examination, two dollars; for each page of disposition taken thereon, twenty-five cents.
 For adjudicating upon the account of an administrator, executor, guard ian, or trustee, one dollar and twen- ty-five cents.
 Order to an executor, administra- tor, or trustee, to make payment to creditors out of any estate, or ad- justing and settling advancement to children. two dollars.
 A citation when legally required, allowing an appeal from the doings of commissioners, or a motion to re- view the same, or notice to a cor poration of devise or bequest to it, fifty cents.
 Hearing and judgment on return of a citation, when adverse parties appear. two dollars; when there is no such appearance. one dollar.
 Appointment of arbitrators, and a hearing upon and acceptance of their report. the same fees as are paid in the superior court.
 Proceedings to commit and com mitment to the Connecticut Indus trial School for Girls, the same fees as justices of the peace
 Appointing a physician to investi- gate the facts in case of paupers or indigent persons claimed to be in- sane, and accepting the return of such physician. each fifty cents.
 Hearing and judgment on an ap- plication to remove any person to the Connecticut Hospital for the In- sane, or to an inebriate asylum, one dollar.
 Hearing. accepting and approving or rejecting any agreement for the adoption of minor child. one dollar and fifty cents.
 Each order. appointment. decree. or judgment, or approving each re- turn or report not otherwise provide for. seventy-five cents.
 Each filing and indorsement of any paper or document, twenty cents.
 Records and copies. at the rate of. a page. forty cents.
 Travel to hold court in an adjoin- ing district. going and returning, ten cents a mile.
 For making a certificate of dis tribution. the same as is allowed for copies of probate records.
 For each order. appointment. de- cree. judgment. or approval of inven- tory. or report required by the laws relating to the succession tax. one dollar.