Fees. OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. SEC. 12. For filing each paper, twenty-five cents. For issuing any writ or process by which a suit is commenced, fifty cents. For entering cause upon the docket, fifty cents. For subpoena, to each witness, twenty-five cents. For administering an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents. For issuing writ of attachment, or arrest, or for the delivery of property, one dollar. For entering any final judgment, per folio, for the first folio, fifty-cents. For each additional folio, twenty cents. For taking and approving any bond or undertaking directed by law to be taken or approved by him, twenty-five cents. For swearing a jury, twenty-five cents. For taking depositions, per folio, fifteen cents. For entering satisfaction of judgment, twenty-five cents. For copy of judgment, order, docket proceedings, or paper in his office, for each folio, fifteen cents. For issuing commission to take testimony, fifty cents. For issuing supersedeas to an execution, twenty-five cents. For making up and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, two dollars, which shall be the only charge. For issuing search warrant, fifty cents. For issuing an execution, twenty-five cents. For celebrating marriage, and returning certificate thereof to the Recorder, ten dollars. For all service and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace, in a criminal action or proceeding, whether an examination or trial, three dollars, which shall be the only charge. For taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, one dol lar. For entering cause without process, fifty cents. For entering judgment by confession, and only on affidavit, as required in the District Court, one dollar. SEC. 13. Interpreters and translators may be allowed such compensation for their services as the Court shall certify to be necessary and just, to be taxed and collected as other costs; but the same shall not exceed, per day, six dollars. SEC. 14. For each mile actually run with the compass and chain, five dollars. For each mile run with compass alone, one dollar. For each lot laid out and platted in a town, or any city or town site, one dollar. For each copy of a plat and certificate, one dollar. For recording a survey, per folio, twenty-five cents. For calculating the quantity of each division made in a tract of land, town lots excepted, and for erecting a monument at the corner of any survey, when required, two dollars. For travelling to the place of survey, for each mile, in going only, seventy-five cents. The distance shall be computed from his place of residence, or from where his office is kept, to the place of survey; and if the County Surveyor shall be required and duly notified, verbally or otherwise, to make other surveys while in the discharge of Fees.. his official duty in the field, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the place last surveyed by him; but if the distance shall be greater than the place last surveyed, where his services are required, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the county seat of the county in which he lives; and in no case shall constructive mileage be allowed. For ascertaining the location of every town lot in an old survey, and measuring and marking the same, two dollars. Expenses of assistants shall be an additional charge, to be agreed upon between the parties. SEC. 15. No other fees shall be charged than those specially set forth herein; nor shall fees be charged for any other services than those mentioned in this Act. SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of each and every one of said officers, herein before mentioned, to keep, severally, a book, to be called the "Fee Book," in their respective offices, open to the inspection of any one desiring to inspect the same; in which book shall be stated the fees charged, and the services for, in detail, and the title of the case in which they are charged; and it shall be the duty of the District Attorney to inspect said book at least once in three months; and the foreman of each and every grand jury shall also have the same before him, and shall examine the same. SEC. 17. It shall be the duty of the District Judge to give this Act specially in charge of the grand jury. SEC. 18. Any officer who shall violate any of the provisions of the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of this Act, shall be indicted, and if found guilty, shall be fined in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than (at the discretion of the jury) five thousand dollars. SEC. 19. If any officer shall take more fees than are herein allowed, he shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction, shall be removed from office, and shall pay such fine and suffer such imprisonment as the jury trying the case may inflict; provided, such fine shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and such imprisonment six months confinement in the County Jail. SEC. 20. Every officer whose fees are ascertained by this Act, shall publish and set up in his office fair tables of his fees, according to this Act, within one month from its passage, in some conspicuous place, for the inspection of all persons who have business in his office, upon pain of forfeiting for each day of his omission to do so, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which may be recovered by any person, by action, before any Justice of the Peace of the same county, with costs. SEC. 21. When, by law, any publication is required to be made by an officer of any suit, process, notice, order, or other paper, the costs of such publication shall be tendered by the party, if demanded, to whom such order, or process, or notice, or other paper was granted, before such officer shall be compelled to make publication thereof. SEC. 22. If any Clerk, Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, or Constable, shall not have received any or all of his fees which may be due him for services rendered in any suit or proceeding, he may have execution therefor in his own name against the party from whom they are due, to be issued from the Court in which the action is pending. SEC. 23. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Acts and orders. Tax legalized. Purchase affirmed. CHAP. CXXXVII.—An Act to legalize certain Acts and Orders of the County Commissioners of Ormsby County. [Approved December 24, 1862.] Be it enacted, by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, as follows: SECTION 1. The acts and orders of the Board of County Commissioners of Ormsby County, dated the fourteenth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fourteenth day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which first named order is in the words and figures following, to wit: "Ordered, That a tax of two per cent be levied upon the taxable property of the county, viz: one tenth of one per cent to United States Government; four tenths of one per cent for Territorial purposes; six tenths of one per cent for county purposes (General Fund); six tenths of one per cent for Building Fund; three tenths of one per cent for Contingent Fund,' and which second named order is in the words and figures following, to wit: "Ordered, That this Board hereby agrees to purchase of A. Curry, Esq., the stone building known as the Great Basin Hotel, situated on the corner of Carson and Musser streets, in the Town of Carson City, Ormsby County, N. T., for the sum of $42,500, in accordance with the second and last proposition of said Curry, proceeding, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be completed, and that the Chairman of this Board be and he is hereby authorized to sign, on behalf of the County of Ormsby, all necessary papers to consumate such purchase," be, and the same are hereby legalized and affirmed as legal acts or orders of said Board of Commissioners, and shall have legal effect from and after the date of their passage, and due entry upon the record of their proceedings. SEC. 2. All bonds or other evidences of indebtedness heretofore or that may hereafter be issued under the acts and orders mentioned in section first of this Act shall be binding and of legal effect. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. |