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Report of the Committee on Federal Relations. 1839 86 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0328 and id is 1 raw text is: 86 Dec. 1839. SEc. 13. Every qualified Constable shall be exempt from ordi. Exempt from nary militia duty, for and during the term he shall be in office. etia destri. SEc. 14. Constables shall execute all the duties prescribed for bed by act of them in the Act entitled An Act, more effectually to prevent 35 Free Negroes and other persons of col6r from entering into this State, and for other purposes, pnssed in December, 1835, in manner and form as is directed in said act. Fees. SEc. 15. Constables shall be entitled to receive the following fees for the following services, and no more, viz: For sum. moning freeholders to try question before Magistrates, between Landlord and Tenant, to be paid by the unsucccssful party, ten dollars; for summoning a Coroner's jury and witnesses, to be paid by State, five dollars; for serving a summons, rule, or notice by a Magistrate, in a civil case, besides mileage, at the rate of five cents per mile going, but not returning, seventy-five cents; for serving attachment on a person abscondingor about to abscond, and making inventory and return, besides mileage, at the rate aforesaid, and five per cent, on amount of sale of effects sold, two dollars; for hanging a slave or free negro according to sentence, to be paid by the State, five dollors; for whipping slave, or inflict- ing other corporal punishment, according to sentence, to be paid by State, two dollars; for selling estray, five per cent. on the proceeds; for levying execution, advertising sale, and paying over proceeds, besides mileage aforesaid, and five per cent. on amount to be collected, to be paid by defendant in execution, one dollar; for overy day employed in searching for stolen goods, to be paid by party complaining, one dollar; for serving a warrant in any State case, besides mileage as aforesaid, to be paid by the State, if the proceedings be stopped at the instance of the State, if the Grand Jury find no bill, or if the defendant be acquitcd, or if it appear that, though convicted, the defendant was discharged, from inability to pay costs; otherwise, to be paid by the defendant; one dollar : And if any Constable shall take other or greater fecs than those herein specified, he shall be liable to pay to the party ag- grieved, at the rate of ton dollars for every one dollar so taken, recoverable by petition in the Summary Process, before the Court of Common Pleas:

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