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SEC. 30. To the Sheriff for serving executions issued by a Justice of the Peace.-For all executions for debts not exceeding fourteen dollars, the sum of forty cents; for all executions on debts above fourteen dollars, and not exceeding thirtytwo dollars, at the rate of five per cent. on the sum actually levied and raised; and that no mileage or other fees shall be paid or allowed to any sheriff on any execution issued by a justice of the peace.

SEC. 31. Appraisers appointed by the register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration, for any estate not exceeding one hundred and thirty-six dollars, by them appraised or valued, shall have and receive at the rate of two cents for every dollar; and for all estates above one hundred and thirty-six dollars, and not exceeding three hundred dollars, at the rate of one cent for every dollar: and for all estates exceeding three hundred dollars, at the rate of one cent for every three dollars, and no more.

SEC. 32. And be it enacted, That the act entitled "An act for appraisement of goods taken in execution," shall be, and is hereby, repealed. SEC. 33. To a Constable for serving a warrant or summons in cases of debt.-For every warrant or summons, including mileage, and all services, except summoning of witnesses, until judgment is obtained, 32 cents; for summoning witnesses or auditors for the trial of any matter before a justice of the peace, 10 cents each, and mileage; for serving every warrant in criminal matters, including mileage, 50 cents; for summoning every witness, 10 cents, and mileage; for conveying any person to jail under a commitment, 20 cents, and mileage.

ment, or other end thereof, the sum of four hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more; for any fee in the high court of chancery, and court of viceadmiralty, six hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more; for any fee in the commissary's court, four hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more; for any fee upon any writ of error or appeal which shall be before his Excellency the Governor and Council,* six hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more; and to His Majesty's attorney general for any action in the provincial court, at the suit of His Majesty, indictment, presentment, or information, the sum of four hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more.

November session, 1805, ch. 65, s. 16.

That all attorneys practising in the court of appeals of this State shall be entitled to receive the same fees as attorneys were entitled to receive in the late General Court.

The following fees are allowed to the several officers hereinafter mentioned by the act of November, 1770, ch. 25, to wit:

To the Register in Chancery.-A subpoena ad respondendum, with not more than three names and return, 12 pounds of tobacco; every name more than three, 2 pounds; an injunction, and return, 38 pounds; a writ of sequestration, and return, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; an audita querela, and return, 86 pounds; filing every bill in chancery, 20 pounds; every court the same shall continue to be charged to the complainant only, 20 pounds; filing every answer in chancery, 17 pounds; every oath to the same if taken in court, 6 pounds; recording every return of commission and deposition, per side, and so, pro rata, 8 pounds; a writ of ad quod damnum, and return, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; every order STATE OF MARYLAND. on motion, 12 pounds; for a ne exeat, and return, April session, 1715, ch. 48, s. 7. 64 pounds; for drawing any matter or thing not Fees allowed to Attorneys at Law in the courts mentioned that passeth the seal, if it exceeds one of law and equity in the State of Maryland.-side, computing seven words to be a line, and fifThere shall be paid to any attorney or other person practising the law in any of the county courts of this province, for bringing, prosecuting, or defending any action, of what nature or quality soever, to final judgment, agreement, or other end thereof, the sum of one hundred pounds of tobacco, unless the principal debt and damage, or balance of any debt and damage sued for and recovered, do exceed the sum of two thousand pounds of tobacco or ten pounds sterling; that then the said attorney shall have two hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more; and to any attorney or other person practising the law in the provincial court, high court of chancery, commissary's court, or for prosecuting or defending any appeals, writs of error, or any other matter or thing whatsoever, before his Excellency the Governor and Council, the several sums hereafter expressed and set down; that is to say, for prosecuting or defending any cause, plaint, or action, of what nature soever in the provincial court,* to final judgment, agree

This court was afterwards called "The General Court."

teen lines to a side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for recording the same, per side, as before, 8 pounds; search the first year, nothing; for all searches above one year, if the matter searched be found and no copy taken, 15 pounds; if copy taken, no charge for the search; for filing every plea in chancery if not recorded, 4 pounds; for filing every demurrer in chancery, if not recorded, 4 pounds; for recording the same per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; an attachment of contempt, and return, 8 pounds; a proclamation of rebellion, and return, 64 pounds; a commission of rebellion, and return, 64 pounds; filing accounts, books of accounts, bonds, deeds, or other papers or writings, referred to and made part of any bill in chancery, plea, answer, or other pleadings or process thereupon, if not recorded, 4 pounds; for recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing every return of commission and deposition, if not recorded, four pounds; for recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, four pounds; for filing

• This court was afterward organized, and called "The Court of Appeals."

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every deposition taken in court of chancery with- search or copy of judgment, 8 pounds; scire faout commission, if not recorded, four pounds; for cias against special bail, per side, and so pro rata, recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, four without any charge for search or copy of judgpounds; filing every petition in chancery and or- ment, 8 pounds; a replevin, and return, 12 pounds; der thereon if not recorded, 4 pounds; for record- a procedendo, and return, 16 pounds; a writ of ing the same, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; restitution, and return, 16 pounds; drawing dedifiling every bond with or without security if not mus potestatem to examine evidences, 32 pounds; recorded, 4 pounds; for recording the same, pera habeas corpus, and return, 22 pounds; an elegit, side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for every subpœna and return, 22 pounds; a warrant of survey, and with not more than three names and return, 12 return, 32 pounds; a certiorari, and return, 32 pounds; for every name more than three, two pounds; a commission of audita, and return, 32 pounds; a commission to examine evidences, per pounds; a writ of diminution, and return, 16 side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for copy of any pounds; a writ of error to the county court, and matter or thing herein before-mentioned, if re-return, 38 pounds; a scire facias thereupon, and quired and delivered, per side, and so pro rata, 8 return, 16 pounds; a supersedeas thereupon, and pounds. return, 16 pounds; entering an acknowledgment To the Clerks of the General Court on the of deed of conveyance in court, six pounds; reWestern and Eastern Shores, respectively.-A cording a conveyance, per side, and so pro rata. recordari and return, 6 pounds of tobacco; a writ 8 pounds; filing every recognisance taken out of of inquiry of damages and return, per side, and so court, if not recorded, 4 pounds; recording the pro rata. 8 pounds; for entering an appeal, eight same, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; taking pounds; a commission to take acknowledgments every recognisance in court, with or without sureand return, 64 pounds; a writ of covenant to pass ties, 4 pounds; appearance of the principal to a fine, and return, 8 pounds; a writ of assize, and every recognisance, 8 pounds; for filing or taking return, 51 pounds; a writ of melius inquirendum every special bail in or out of court, 8 pounds; an or monstraverunt, and return, 64 pounds; any attachment with scire facias, and return. 26 warrant or license, 8 pounds; any other pass or pounds; discharging every recognisance with or discharge, 8 pounds; writing a sheriff's commis- without security, 12 pounds; a copy of every resion, bond, and recording it, 150 pounds; for filing cognisance, 12 pounds; every process to appreevery special plea and every other pleading to hend a criminal, issued by order of court, and remaking up the issue for each if not recorded, 4 turn, 16 pounds; appearance of the person chargpounds; for recording the same, per side, and so ed to every indictment or verdict, 8 pounds; scire pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing every account, if not facias against security for cost on a recognisance, recorded, 4 pounds; for recording the same, per per side, and so pro rata and return, without any side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing plots or charge for search or other matter, eight pounds; warrant of survey out of the General Court, and swearing every jury, 46 pounds; swearing every depositions if not recorded, 4 pounds; for record-bailiff, 4 pounds; every oath taken in court, four ing depositions, per side, and so pro rata. 4 pounds; pounds; duces tecum, and return, per side, as betaxing and filing bill of costs, 8 pounds; a copy fore, 8 pounds; affixing the seal of the court to thereof, if demanded, with the articles at large, 8 the copy of any judgment or a transcript of any pounds; issuing every execution, and filing the judgment or any record or certificate, 12 pounds; same, and return, without any charge for copy of taking security on condemnation on attachment, judgment, 14 pounds; habere facias possessionem, 6 pounds; a writ of restitution, per side, and so and return, 16 pounds; a writ of posse comitatus, pro rata, 8 pounds; entering action agreed, struck and return, 51 pounds; a writ of discharge, if any, off, or abated, 2 pounds; a scire facias on a certiand return, 51 pounds; writing and recording a orari, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a scire commission for every county court, 210 pounds; facias on audita querela, per side, and so pro rata, issuing and filing every common writ and return, 8 pounds; commission to examine evidences, per 12 pounds; filing every declaration if not record-side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; an attachment on ed, 4 pounds; for recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; every appearance entered of either party in the General Court, six pounds; entry of defendant's imparlance, four pounds; a continuance or reference to be charged to the plaintiff only 4 pounds; making up the issue or issues in every suit, when done by the clerk, 20 pounds; rule to plead for trial when ordered by the court, 4 pounds; a venire facias for jurors, if issued by the order of the court, 16 pounds; a copy of the panel, 4 pounds; entering panel, 4 pounds; entering every verdict, 4 pounds; entering and signing judgment, 26 pounds; a short copy of the judgment, if demanded, 16 pounds, a transcript of the whole proceedings, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; scire facias on a judgment, per side, and so pro rata, without any charge for

non-compliance with the common rule in ejectment, per side, and so pro rata, eight pounds; a general court commission, per side, and so pro rata, eight pounds; a summons in partition per side, and return, and so pro rata, eight pounds; a writ of partition, and return, per side, and so pro rata, eight pounds; an attachment in partition and return, per side, and so pro rata, eight pounds; an habere facias seisinam, and return, per side, and so pro rata, eight pounds; every respite and continuance, 14 pounds; every order in criminal cases, 8 pounds; every indictment, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a copy of every indictment, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; filing plea to the same, 8 pounds; recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; confession to every indictment, 8 pounds; every indict

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ment, after the first name, 10 pounds; allowance or out of court, two pounds; a writ of inquiry of of a writ of error, 10 pounds; rule of trial, eight damages, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for pounds recording the verdict, 4 pounds; enter- entering an appeal, 4 pounds; a return of a certiing conviction and signing judgment, 25 pounds; orari or habeas corpus, and copy of the record, every death warrant, 36 pounds; a writ of with- per side, and so pro rata, four pounds; entering a ernam, and return, 25 pounds; a writ of estrepe-writ of error, 4 pounds; every oath taken in court, ment, and return, 25 pounds; for issuing commis-3 pounds; proving a deed or writing, 4 pounds; a sion to trustees under the act for regulating attachments, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; filing same, and the return and proceedings of the trustees, 8 pounds; attachment of contempt, per side, 8 pounds; writ of dower, per side, 8 pounds; summons in dower, 8 pounds; for entering admission of guardian or next friend, 8 pounds; for entering commitment, 8 pounds; for entering suggestion of death, 4 pounds; for filing warrant of attorney, 4 pounds; entering award of execution, 8 pounds; filing bail piece, 4 pounds; filing supersedeas, 4 pounds; subpoena ad justificandum, 8 pounds; a retorno habendo, and return, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a writ of distringas, and return per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a commission of oyer and terminer, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a commission of jail delivery, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a dedimus potestatem to swear the judges of assize or sheriff, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; a writ of publication to the laws, 12 pounds; search the first year, nothing; for all searches above one year, if the matter searched for be found, 14 pounds; for recording or copying any matter or thing in this table enumerated, for which no other allowance hath been already made, and not prohibited to be recorded, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; appearance and surrender in discharge of bail, eight pounds; filing every affidavit, 4 pounds; entering every default on recognisance, 4 pounds; entering list of common law fines, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for copy thereof, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for entering security for costs, 8 pounds; copy of orders for witnesses' attendance, 4 pounds; for entering amerciament on sheriff or coroner, on mesne process, 8 pounds; filing award, 4 pounds; for recording the same, per side, and so pro rata, 9 pounds.

To the Clerks of the County Courts.-For issuing every common writ and return, 10 pounds of tobacco; filing every declaration, if not recorded, 2 pounds; a copy of the same, if demanded, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; every appearance entered of either party, 4 pounds; entry of imparlance, 2 pounds; for every continuance or reference, to be charged to the plaintiff only, three pounds; every subpoena, including all persons, applied for at the same time, 6 pounds; rule to plead, or trial moved for and entered, 2 pounds; for making up the issue or issues in every suit, when done by the clerk, 6 pounds; entering and signing judgment, 15 pounds; a venire facias for jurors, if issued by the court, 6 pounds; entering the panel, 2 pounds: copy of panel, two pounds; taxing and filing bill of cost, five pounds; copy thereof, if demanded with the articles at large. 5 pounds; issuing every execution, and filing the same, without any charge for copying judgment, 10 pounds; for filing every special bail, taken in

copy of the same, if required, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for entering fieri facias, where the same is executed, and schedule returned, but in no other case, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; the same fees in elegits, 4 pounds; recording the mark of cattle or hogs, 3 pounds; taking and certifying acknowledgments of land in court, five pounds; recording a conveyance of land, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; allowance of habeas corpus, 4 pounds; for all searches the first year, nothing; for all searches above one year, be the time of what length soever, if the matter searched for be found, 10 pounds; if copy taken, then, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; every scire facias, per side, and so pro rata, without any charge for search or copy of judgment, 4 pounds; attachment on scire facias, 18 pounds; short copy judgment, if expressly demanded, 10 pounds; habeas corpus, and filing the same, and return, 8 pounds; elegit, and filing the same, and return, 8 pounds; duces tecum, and return, 40 pounds; taking security on condemnation, 8 pounds; entering action agreed, discontinued, struck off, or abated, two pounds; commission to examine evidences, and return, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; a continuance or reference to be charged to the plaintiff only, two pounds; for filing every special bail, 2 pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing every replication, 3 pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, four pounds; for filing joinder, surrejoinder, two pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, four pounds; and for every other pleading for making up the issue for each, 2 pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing demurrer and joinder in demurrer, each, 2 pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for filing every account, 2 pounds; if recorded, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for recording or copying any matter or thing not herein enumerated, if requested by the party, for which no other allowance hath been already made, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for entering return of every writ or other process, 2 pounds; for filing every paper not herein before mentioned, 2 pounds; for every rule, by order of court, 2 pounds.

Criminal Fees.-Filing every recognisance taken out of court, if not recorded, 2 pounds; for taking every recognisance, with or without sureties, in court, 3 pounds; appearances of the principal to every recognisance, 5 pounds; discharging of recognisance, with or without security,8 pounds; every process to apprehend a criminal, issued by order of court, 10 pounds; every appearance of the person charged to every presentment or indictment, 5 pounds; every respite and continuance, 5 pounds; for every order, 4 pounds; a copy of recognisance, with or without security, 8 pounds; for filing every indictment or informa

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tion, 5 pounds; for recording the same, per side. and so pro rata, 2 pounds; a copy of the panel, 2 pounds; for recording the verdict, 10 pounds; entering and signing judgment, 15 pounds; a copy of the indictment, per side, and so pro rata 5 pounds; entering a plea 5 pounds; confession of indictment 5 pounds; for recording or copying any matter or thing not herein enumerated, if re-writ of ad quod damnum or melius inquirendum, quested by the party, for which no other allowance hath been already made, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for copy of every matter not hereinbefore enumerated, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; for entering the panel, 2 pounds; for issuing every warrant of execution 8 pounds.

By November, 1787, ch. 34, there shall be a deduction of one-fourth part from all officers' fees allowed by this act, which are chargeable by law to the State, or any county, except sheriff's fees, for the imprisonment of persons criminally charged.

Chancery proceedings in County Courts.-Entering motion, and order thereon, 4 pounds; entering and signing decree, 15 pounds; taxing and filing costs, 5 pounds; copy costs, with articles at large, if demanded, 5 pounds; affixing the seal to any transcript or certificate, 5 pounds; filing every bill, 2 pounds; filing every answer, 2 pounds; filing every plea, 2 pounds; filing every demurrer, 2 pounds; filing accounts, book of accounts, bonds, deeds, or other papers or writings referred to, or made part of any bill in chancery, answer, or other pleadings or process thereupon, for each, 2 pounds; filing every return of commission and depositions, 2 pounds; commission to examine witnesses, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds; filing every return of commission and depositions, 2 pounds; filing every deposition, if taken in court and without commissions, 2 pounds; filing every petition, and order thereon, 2 pounds; entering every appearance, 3 pounds; filing every bond, with or without security, 2 pounds; for recording or copying any matter or thing not herein enumerated, if requested by the party, and for which no other allowance hath been made, per side, and so pro rata, 4 pounds.

turn, 200 pounds; serving a copy of declaration or short note, 4 pounds; summoning appraisers, to value goods taken by attachment, fieri facias, or replevin, for each appraiser summoned, 23 pounds; swearing the said appraisers, every oath, 10 pounds; serving an attachment on judgment or execution, and return, 8 pounds; executing a and return, per day, 75 pounds; empannelling a jury on the same, 180 pounds; swearing the said jury, for every oath, 10 pounds; taking an inquisition, and returning the same with the said writ, 75 pounds; serving a writ of re-restitution, and return, 112 pounds; empannelling a jury to inquire of a forcible entry and detainer, 180 pounds; to each person summoned as an evidence on the same, 23 pounds; for summoning chain carriers, each, if required, 23 pounds; for swearing chain carriers, every oath, 10 pounds; for an arrest on a warrant, and return, in criminal cases, 18 pounds; for serving duces tecum, and return, 18 pounds; return on an attachment, when mesne process, 8 pounds; for laying an attachment in any garnishee's hands, for each garnishee 23 pounds; for all goods and chattels which any sheriff shall attach and take into his possession, or wherewith he shall be chargeable, the same fees as on executions; returning fieri facias on replevin, each, 8 pounds; the same fees on fieri facias or replevin as upon attachments; also, the same fees on appraisement and sale of goods distrained and sold for rent; serving writ of retorno habendo, and return, 75 pounds; serving a writ of distringas, and return, 75 pounds; serving the return of elegit liberato, 75 pounds; empannelling jury on elegit or extent, 180 pounds; for swearing the same, each, 10 pounds; serving writ of restitution, and return, 112 pounds; summons in partition, for every person summoned, and return, 23 pounds; serving writ of partition, and return, 26 pounds; empannelling jury thereon, 180 pounds; swearing the jury, each, 10 pounds; attendances, per day, 75 pounds; serving an attachment in partition, and return, 90 pounds; returning writ, inquiry of damages, 75 pounds; empannelling jury thereon, 180 pounds; swearing the same, each, 10 pounds; attendance per day, 75 pounds; proclamation of rebellion, and return, 90 pounds; serving withernam, and return, 75 pounds; and the same fees allowed as upon replevins.

By the 4th section of the act of November, 1779, ch. 25, it is provided, that poundage fees on any writ of capias ad satisfaciendum shall not be demanded or taken for any greater sum than the real debt, bona fide due and claimed by the plaintiff, amounts to.

To the Sheriff-Serving writ, and return. 27 pounds; taking bail bond, 14 pounds; collecting officers' fees, for every hundred, six per cent.; for every commitment and releasement, 16 pounds; empannelling a jury, 90 pounds; serving scire facias, including the persons summoned, 23 pounds; serving citation, 23 pounds; executing a warrant of resurvey, per day, 75 pounds; summoning evidences to prove the bounds of land, for each person summoned, 23 pounds; if empowered to swear evidences, for every witness sworn by him, 10 pounds; serving a subpoena, and return, 23 pounds By the 2d section of the act of November sesfor keeping a prisoner in jail, and finding him vic-sion, 1790, ch. 59, the sheriff, on the service of any tuals, per day, 12 pounds; serving a writ of pos- execution for money or tobacco, shall charge and session in ejectment, and return, 112 pounds; writ receive at the rate of seven and a half per cent. of seisin on a common recovery, and return, 10 for the first ten pounds in money, or 1,000 pounds pounds; serving an ejectment, and return, 51 of tobacco; and three per cent. for the residue, in pounds; every election, for one or more members, the same species the execution shall issue for. On 1,000 pounds; serving an attachment of contempt, execution or attachment on lands held for years, or and return, 38 pounds; serving writ of estrepement, a greater estate, only one-half the poundage fees; and return, 75 pounds; serving ne exeat, and re-and if the estate in land shall not be chargeable by

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appraisement, and delivered to the plaintiff, or by sale of the sheriff, one-quarter part of the poundage fees only shall be chargeable.

To the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.-Recording every writ of error, scire facias, and return, per side, and so pro rata, computing one hundred and five words to a side, the like for recording a transcript, the like fees for recording errors per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; entering and signing judgment, 47 pounds; taxing and filing a bill of cost, 8 pounds; copy of the same, if demanded, 8 pounds; filing bill of cost from the general, chancery, or any other court, 8 pounds; writ of diminution, and return, 22 pounds; writ of possession, or any other execution and return, 20 pounds; entering any motion or order, filing or recording any bond in court, entering any petition, entering and drawing any affidavit or deposition taken or returned into court, copy errors, recording proceedings transmitted from the chancery court, or copy the same, filing and recording any plea, replication, or demurrer, or copy the same in common law proceedings, entering and reference in court, and copy the same, or copying any other proceedings per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; issue and rule, 24 pounds; affixing the seal of the court to any copy of proceedings or exemplifications, 131 pounds; and for all other services the same fees as taken in the general court; the clerk of every court of delegates to have the same fees that are allowed and limited by this act to the clerk of the court of appeals, and no more.

The court of appeals being abolished by the Legislature, a new court was established, to be held on the Western and on the Eastern shores; and by the 15th section of the act of November session, 1805, ch. 65, it is enacted that the clerks of the court of appeals for the Western and Eastern shores, respectively, shall have the same fees for their services as the clerks of the county courts are entitled to for the same or similar services by

law.

Crier's Fees in General Court.-Swearing every jury, 106 pounds; swearing every witness, 10 pounds; swearing the baliff, 10 pounds; every oath taken in court, 5 pounds; every special bail, 54 pounds; clearing every prisoner by proclamation, if required, 60 pounds; for every recognisance, 20 pounds.

by proclamation, if required, 30 pounds; for calling every recognisance, 16 pounds.

To the Registers of the Land Office on the Western and Eastern shores, respectively. For a common warrant and entry, 33 pounds; for renewing the same, and entry, whether in or out of date, 33 pounds; for recording certificate, per side, computing one hundred and five words to a side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for making out a grant, 90 pounds; for recording the same, 67 pounds; for special warrant on the proclamation of escheat, or re-survey, including petition and order thereon, 250 pounds; for searching for any matter or thing first year, nothing; if the matter searched for be found, 14 pounds; for a special warrant for vacant cultivation, including petition, and order thereon, 150 pounds; for renewing every special warrant, whether in or out of date, 33 pounds; entering every caveat, and order, 24 pounds; for every deed or assignment, 75 pounds; for drawing a petition, at the request of the party, 54 pounds; for all copies, per side, as before, 8 pounds; for filing every paper, at the request of the party, 4 pounds; for entering every application for warrant, 10 pounds; for copy thereof, per side, and so pro rata, 8 pounds; for every seal, 10 pounds.

How the fees allowed in tobacco are to be payable, &c.-October session, 1780, ch. 23, s. 3. All fees and allowances made in tobacco shall be paid and discharged in tobacco, at the rate of 12s. 6d. per cwt., or in specie, valuing dollars at 7s. 6d.

Fees allowed to the Registers of Wills, in the several counties of the State, by the act of November session, 1797, ch. 76.-For every probate of will, where no controversy or letters granted, including demand, and all oaths necessary thereto, 80 cents; for granting letters of administration, swearing the administrators, taking bond, issuing warrant to appraisers, and warrant to swear them, or for probate of any will, granting letters testamentary, if required, taking bond. issuing warrant to appraisers to swear them, $3 20; dedimus potestatem, to take answer, per side, and so pro rata, 8 cents; for recording wills, inventories, accounts, or copying the same, per side, computing seven words to the line, and fifteen lines to a side, and so pro rata, 8 cents; taxing and filing costs, 8 cents; copy costs, if demanded and delivered, 8 cents; for drawing definitive sentence on plenary proceedings, and recording the same per side, and Coroner's Fees.-Viewing the body of any per-itive sentence, per side, and so pro rata, 8 cents; so pro rata, 8 cents; a writ of execution or definson or persons murdered or slain, or otherwise seal to definitive sentence, if required, 30 cents; seal dead, by misadventure, to be paid out of the goods to a writ of execution of definitive sentence, 30 cts; and chattels of the party so dead, if any there be, copy of every libel, answer, replication, or rejoinder, otherwise to be levied by the commissioners of the county where such accident shall happen, 250 of witnesses, per side, and so pro rata, 10 cents; per side, if demanded, 8 cents; drawing deposition pounds; arresting or summoning any sheriff sued filing interrogatories, per side, and so pro rata, 4 or prosecuted in any court, and for taking security, cents; every common citation, per side, and so pro 26 pounds; the same fees allowed wherein the rata, 8 cents; every special citation, per side, sheriff is plaintiff or defendant, on all processes and so pro rata, 8 cents; every attachment 30 cts; to the sheriff, and no more. attachment on decree, per side, and so prorata. 8 cts; subpoena for costs, 20 cents; every appearance of the party, 8 cents; entering of every return of process, 8 cents; quietus est, nothing; for a continuance or reference, to be charged to the libellant

Crier's Fees in the County Court.-Swearing every jury, 36 pounds; swearing every bailiff, 4 pounds; every other oath in court, 3 pounds; for special bail, 20 pounds; clearing every prisoner