The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-04-24
THE FEE SYSTEM
EIGHTY YEARS AGO

Judge w. E. Smith furnishes US
with the following extracts from the
laws of 1847 which show that the fee
system of Florida, Notwithstanding its
faults, has improved some in eighty
years:
Section 3 of the Fees of Sheriffs
/. They shall receive for levying
writ of fieri facias, attachment or
other process, each levy, one dollar.
For arresting each defendant or
| prisoner under capias, ca. sa., search
or other warrant or writ, one dollar.
Executing habere facias possession
EN-, one dollar.
Each service of writ in actions at
law or chancery, OR other process, fif-
| ty cents.
Record and return of every writ or
process, ten cents.
| Each copy of any process contain
ing one hundred words or less, twenty
cents; if containing more than ONT
hundred words, at the rate of ten
cents for every subsequent one hun
dred words.
Writing, taking and approving each
bond, seventy-five cents.
Calling jury in each suit, twenty
five cents.
Mileage, the distance to be esti-
mated to and from the courthouse to
+! the residence or abode of the person
served with process, going and re-
turning, per mile, three cents.
For committing prisoner to Jail I'm.
der ca. sa., capias, mittimus, or other
process, one dollar.
Each re-commitment of prisoner,
under order of court, fifty cents.
Releasing each prisoner, twenty
five cents.
Executing writ of habeas corpus,
one dollar.
j Conveying prisoner to Jail after ar
rest, or removing prisoner, per mile,
ten cents.
Whipping person under sentence
| of the court, two dollars.
Confning persons in pillory, under
sentence of court, two dollars.
Branding prisoner, five dollars.
Mailing ears of prisoners to posts,
under sentence of court, three dollars.
Hanging a prisoner under judg-
ment and sentence of court, ten dol
lars.
Collecting money under execution,
attachment, or other process, where
there is an actual sale; on the first
three hundred dollars, three per cent.
and all sums exceeding three hun
dred dollars, and less than two thous-
and dollars, two per cent. and on
balance of all sums exceeding two
thousand dollars, one per cent; and on
all sums exceeding three hundred dol
lars and less than two thousand dol
lars, one per cent. and on balance of
all sums exceeding two thousand dol
lars, one-half per cent.
Advertising property for sale ac-
cording to law, under legal process,
fifty cents.
For keeping each slave, taken un-
der execution, attachment, or other
process, such slave to be allowed half
pound cooked meat per day, and
one pound of bread per day, or it's
equivalent, thirty cents.
For keeping horses, cattle, or other
stock, taken under legal process such
reasonable allowance as the Judge OF
Justice from whose court the process
may have issued, may deem just and
proper.
And for actual and necessary ex-
penses paid out or in the levy and safe
keeping of personal property, or in
the arrest, safe keeping and punish
ment of criminals, (as are not pro-
vided for by law such reasonable al
lowance as either of the Judges or
Justices from whose court the process
may have issued, shall deem just and
proper: Provided, however, that there
shall not be allowed for interpreters
to the courts, more than three dollars
per day; for bailiffs, more than one
dollar per day each; for servants to
attend on the courts, more than sew
enty-fve cents per day; for each per-
! son as a guard, more than one dollar
and fifty cents per day; for horse
hire, more than one dollar per day;
for boat and hand hire per day, four
dollars, for each day employed in ac-
tual service; for erecting gallows,
more than ten dollars; for erecting
pillory, more than three dollars; and
for all stationery, wood and candles,
furnished for the use of the court, the
Judges shall make specific requisi-
ton on the sheriffs for the amount to
be furnished, which shall be the sher-
ifs voucher therefor.
For executing deed for real estate
Ito be paid by purchaser,) one dol
lar.
Executing bill of sale for personal
property, to be paid by purchaser, one
dollar.
Summoning grand and petit jurors,
under venir facias, for each term of
the court, mileage included) TWEEN
ty dollars.
Summoning each juror under spe-
cial venire facias, or summoning
talesman, or bystanders, by order of