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An Act to amend the act, entitled, an act to reduce into one act the several acts concerning Constables 1820 32 (1820)

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bonds, ke. nqt •s. plaintiff had not an adequate remedy at law, or that the right of
sinled.       the plaintiff to such note, bill, bond, or writing obligatory, is con-
tested by the obligee or payee thereof, or by the person who shall
appear, on the said note, or writing obligatory, to be the last as-
s rnee thereof.
Repeal of 107th  2. Be -it farther enacted, That the one hundred and seventh
section (if act of section of the act, entitled, an act reducing into one all acts and
Dee'r gist, Sis parts of acts, concerning the superior courts of chancery, which
o7S,e .6, p passed the twenty-first (fay of Decomber one thousand eight hun-
Sir).  '      dred and eighteen, be and the same is hereby repealed. And, in
In maklng up  m waking up complete records of causes decided in the superior
complete rcords
of causes, clerks courts of chancery, the clerks of the saud courts shall be govern.
to be governed by ed by the provisions of the ninety-ninth section of the act passed
99titsectionor act on the twenty-fifth of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
fo r i i taton  o f  ,
fo, ,titsc.  entitled, e an act for limitation of actions, for preventing frivol-
secR. code ous and vexatious suits, concering jeofails, and certain proceed-
0i 18U9, a. 128, p. ings in civil cases: 1 ro i ded, holcever, T1hat no papers shall be
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Wa1t _   sh.. inserted in making up such records, except such as were read at
be inserted; whiat the hearing, or were ordered by the court to he so inserted; and
omitted,      that all papers shall be omitted which are directed to be omitted,
either by the agent of the parties, or by order of the court, on
Proviso as to  motion or either party : .Alnd provided moreover, 'hat no clerk
clerk's fee.  shall be entitled to any fee for making a complete record in any
Time within   suit in chancery, after the first day of June next, unless lie sha l
which such re. have perfrmt that duty within three months after it shall have
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mad,.  b   devolved on him, or unless, for good cause shewn, the court shall
made..       order otherwise.
Commencement.   3. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof.
CHAPTER 52.-An act to amend the act, entitled, I an act to reduce into one
act the several acts concerning Constables?
(Passed March 2d, 181.)
Fees of conata.  1. Be it enacted by the General Assemnb1ii, That, from and after
bles.        the passage of this act, the fees of constables siall be as follows :
For serving a warrant, thirty cents; for summoning a witness,
twenty-one cents; for summoning a coroner's jury and witnesses,
three dollars and fifteen cents; f6r putting in the stocks, forty.-
two cents; for wippiug a slave, (to be paid by the owner,) fifty
cents; for serving an attachment, returnable before a justice,
sixty-three cents; for summoning each garnishee on an attach-
ment, twenty-one cents; for serving -in attachment, returnable to
a county court against an abscondir.- debtor, sixty-three cents ;
for serving a warrant of distress, sixty-three cents; for serving
an attachment for rent, sixty-three cents; for every bond taken
from the purchaser on a sale for a distress for rent, sixty three
cents ; for removing every person suspected of being chargeable
to the county, to be paid by the overseers of the poor, for every
mile, four cents, the same for returning; for carrying any person
to jail on a warrant from ajustice, for every mile, ten cents; for
arrests in criminal cases and summoning witnesses, the same fees
as are allowed sheriffs in civil cases for like services, to be paid
out of the public treasury; for constables and guards employed
in conveying prisoners to the county jail,  the same allowances as

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