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An Act to regulate the Fees of Sheriffs, Magistrates, and Constables, and certain Fees of Clerks. 1839-1840 104 (1840)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0330 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 TAT'tTES AT LAl1C:t A. D. 1840. riay' ddee to the terms of this Act, or until the expiration of' the terrnf of their leases ; at either of which periods, they shall be entitled to grants for their respective leaschold possessions. New Agent to VIII. The Agent appointed under the fifth section of this Act, is hcrcbv report to Legis- required to report to the next session of the Legislature, as to wherc land can r, be purchased, the quantity, and the tornis on which the suic can be procured, the compensation of said Agent, for the time hli ay be aniployedT, shill be three dollars per diem. Nocontractbe- IX. And no contract nade between tle lessees of the Cafawba Indian tween Lesees and Indees lands, and-the said Indians, since the date of the said agreentnt, or which Aince agree- may hereafter lie made, whordby the rents reserved iii the lease, subsisting at ment, to be fhe date aforesaid, may be reduced, shall be allowed to be valid or offectual. ,valid. In the Senate Ilouse, the eighteenth day ofDecember, in the year ofour Lord, one thausand eight hundred and folty, and in the sixty-fifth year of the Sovereignty and IndependeCe' of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, Preslcent of the Senate. D. L. WA RDLAW, Speakcr of the House of TEprosentatives. Im 2808. AN ACT TO REGULATE TiE FEES or SirtIFFs, MAGISTRATES, AND &XN STABLES, AND CERTAIN FEES or CLERKS. Feftf ras 1. Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of Rpreosenta- pealed., ives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That so much of the Acts passed on the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, as pro. seribes the fees of Sheriffs, Magistrates, and Constables, be, ind the sane is hereby repealed, and that the several fees hereinafter mentioned, and no others, shall be received and taken by the said oflicers. Feir of If. Sherifs.-For entering. every writ, process, execution, or other paper, sherifs. in writ or execution book, arid making the cdoisoMents thereon, twenty-five cents; for serving every writ, not otherwise herein specified, or summons ih power or partition, besides mileage, one dollar; for serving every summary process, when the debt or demand is Over fifly dollars, rule, notice, or order of c6urtrbesides mileage, one dollar; in all cases of summary process, where the dbbt or demand is-under fifty dollars, only one half the costs allowed by' this Act Shall- be charged mileage from cou rt house to deforidant's or wit- ness's residence, or place where fbund, going, but not returning, five cents p6r mile ; for bail bond, or other bond or mortgage taken oflicially, one dolw lar commitment atid release of each prisoner, fifty cents; serving each venire for -grand jury, ten dollars; for petit juries, twcnt) dollars ; serving subpana writ, fifty cents, and mileage on each ticket; serving bench or other warrants, suire facia, from court of sessions, or writ of attachmont for contempt, besides mileage, one dollar and fifty cents; search for persons or goods, not found, and returned on the execution of non est inventils, or nulke bona, fifty cents; dieting white persons, thirty cents per day; dieting btlaves or free negros, eighteen cents per day; executing convict, in- cluding all charges for burying and other expenses, twenty dullars; 104

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