sioners of any city of the fourth class now or hereafter operating under a commission form of government, as provided by Section 3606b, 1915, Kentucky Statutes. § 17. All other acts or part of acts in conflict herewith or hereby repealed, but this act is not to go in force and effect until on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 115. AN ACT providing a stenographer in the County Attorney's office in counties containing a city of the first class. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That in all counties in this Commonwealth containing a city of the first class, there is hereby created the office of stenographer to the county attorney; to be appointed by the county attorney for a term of four years, but removable by him at any time; the salary of said stenographer to be $720.00 per year, and payable out of the county levy in regular installments of $60.00 per month. It shall be the duty of said stenographer to do the stenographic work and typewriting required in the county attorney's office, and by virtue of the office shall have the same power of administering an oath as a notary public. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 116. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1731, and to repeal Section 1732 of Article IV. of Chapter 47, Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, relating to fees that may be charged by county judges, city or police judges and justices of the peace. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Section 1731, Article IV. of Chapter 47, Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so that when amended and re-enacted the same will read as follows: Section 1731. County Judges, City or Police Judges and Justices of the Peace-Fees That May be Charged by.-County judges, city or police judges and justices of the peace, for all services rendered. in the quarterly courts, city or police courts and justices' courts, so far as the same apply when the jurisdiction is concurrent with the circuit courts, shall be entitled to charge and receive the same fees allowed by law to clerks of circuit courts for similar services. In all cases or proceedings in said courts where amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, is fifty dollars or under, and for certain other services rendered in the performance of other official duties hereinafter specified, the fees of county judges, city or police judges and justices of the peace, so far as the same apply, shall be: For issuing each summons or warrant not hereinafter provided for, each order of attachment, order of injunction, order of delivery, or supersedeas For each copy thereof For entering return thereon $0.25 .15 .10 For each subpoena for a witness or witnesses...... .20 For each attachment of a witness or witnesses..... .25 22222 .25 .25 .25 For each copy of a judgment or execution, when For each distress warrant for rent .25 .25 .25 For filing a claim or appeal or any paper or pleading in a case, each .10 For docketing a cause at each term .05 For endorsing steps at each term. .05 For indexing each name of a party to an action, proceeding or execution, to be charged once in each case For entering or noting of record in an order book each order or direction of the court, for an order filing any pleading or other paper, cach motion, demurrer, disposition thereof or ruling of the court or any other step taken, each .05 .20 For presiding at final trial in misdemeanor cases 2.00 For each writ of forcible entry and detainer....... .50 For presiding at and superintending trial of writ of forcible entry and detainer, per day...... 1.50 For each day's actual attendance of a justice of the peace as a member of the fiscal court or at the meetings of the fiscal court, to be paid out of the county levy 3.00 For certifying copy of judgment and amount of costs on appeal .25 For taxing costs of each party or parties at each term when judgment for costs is rendered, or on final judgment .10 For entering each witness's attendance, and giving certificate thereof .15 For each trial by a jury, including all services incident thereto in a civil case... .60 For entering and giving a post notice of an estray, waif boat, watercraft or wreck........ For order causing bulls, studs or jacks running at large to be altered For order commanding owner of distempered cattle to confine them .25 .25 .25 For copy of record certified two cents for every twenty words. For holding an inquest, when coroner cannot attend, a justice of the peace shall receive the same fees allowed a coroner. (Fee for holding examining court, see Sec. 353.) For settling accounts of fiduciaries county judges shall receive per day 1.50 2. That Section 1732, Article IV. of Chapter 47, Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed. § 3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 117. AN ACT to regulate the time of holding the terms of circuit court in the Thirteenth Judicial District and the length of said terms and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the time for holding the terms of the circuit court in the Thirteenth Judicial District shall be as follows: Boyle county at Danville, on the 1st Monday in January; on the 2d Monday in April; and on the 2d MonFday in September and continue eighteen juridical days each. Mercer county at Harrodsburg, on the 4th Monday in January; 1st Monday in May and continue eighteen juridical days each; and on the 1st Monday in October, and continue twenty-four juridical days. Lincoln county at Stanford, on the 3d Monday in February, and continue twelve juridical days; on the 4th Monday in May and the 1st Monday in November and continue eighteen juridical days. Garrard county at Lancaster on the 2d Monday in March, and the 4th Monday in November, and continue eighteen juridical days each and on the 4th Monday in August, and continue twelve juridical days. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Because of the reason that the time for holding circuit court in one of the counties in the district under the old provision of the statute comes in June, and in order to have court held under the provisions of this act an emergency is declared to exist. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) |