For making transcript of record on appeals, ten cents for every hundred words.

For certificate and seal to transcript of record, fifty cents. For filing any paper in any suit not otherwise provided for, five cents.

D. Sec. 498. Act 1857, p. 190.

for examining

Sec. 759. The sheriff or constable serving notice, subpena, or attachment, on witnesses to be examined before the clerk out of Fees of clerks court shall be entitled to charge the same fees and mileage al- witnesses out lowed by the fee bill for serving subpenas, and the clerk taking such depositions shall be allowed to charge and receive the following fees, and no more, to wit:

For issuing each notice to parties, with seal, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same.

For issuing each subpena or attachment, with seal, twentyfive cents, including copy of the same.

For swearing each witness, twenty cents.

For writing each caption and deposition of each witness and certificate, for each one hundred words, twenty cents.

For affixing seal, twenty-five cents, which fee shall be charged like other costs, with the costs of the suit in which they are taken.

D. Sec. 633. Act 1866, p. 114.

CLERKS' FEES IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Sec. 760. The clerks of courts of this State shall be entitled

of court.

criminal cases.

to charge the following fees, and no more, in all criminal cases: Legal fees in For filing affidavit and registering same, ten cents.

For filing appearance bond, ten cents.

For filing testimony, ten cents.

For filing information, ten cents.

Orders bringing accused into court and remanding from court to prison, in each case, for one or more accused, twenty-five

cents.

For arraignment of one or more accused, and entering the several pleas in each case, fifty cents.

For notice of trial to principal, twenty five cents.

For subpenas to witnesses, copies and seal, fifteen cents.
For attachments to bring witnesses, twenty-five cents.

For calling, presenting, swearing and impanelling petit jury, in each case, fifty cents.

For copy of indictment or information and jury list, to be served on accused when required by law, in each case, one dol

lar.

For swearing witnesses, five cents.

For reading indictments or information and plea to jury, twenty-five cents.

For receiving, reading, recording and filing indictment of grand jury, fifty cents.

Collection of fees.

For notice of arraignment to principals and security, twentyfive cents.

For issuing capias, fifty cents.

For entering sentence of judgment, fifty cents.

For copy of sentence, with certificate and seal, fifty cents. For calling, forfeiting and entering judgment on appearance bond, one dollar.

For notice of judgment, twenty-five cents.

For calling and continuance in each case, ten cents.

For each and every order of court entered on the minutes, not otherwise provided for, ten cents.

For copies of same and certificate, with seal, fifteen cents.
For filing return on all writs, ten cents.

For each commitment, fifty cents.

For each subpena duces tecum, fifty cents.

For entering nolle prosequi and order discharging prisoner, fifty cents.

For filing plea in abatement of special plea in bar, or plea in quasi information or indictment, ten cents.

For appointment of counsel and copy of same, fifty cents. For motion asking for a new trial, or in arrest of judgment and copy, twenty-five cents.

For transcript of appeals to the supreme court, for each hundred words, ten cents.

For taking affidavit and swearing to the same, twenty-five

cents.

Act 1868, p. 180. Act 1870, No. 49, p. 106. Act 1870, No. 101, p. 161. Sec. 761. The clerks of courts shall only be entitled to collect any of the foregoing costs from parties in prosecutions for fines or penalties condemned to pay the costs, and not from the State or parish; and they shall have the same remedies for the collection thereof, that they have for the collection of costs in civil suits, and shall be liable to all the penalties for overcharges and extortion as in civil cases.

Act 1870, No. 49, p. 106. Act 1870, No. 101, p. 161.

SHERIFFS' FEES.

Sec. 762. The sheriffs throughout the State shall be entitled
Sheriffs' fees. to demand the following fees of office, and no more, to wit:
For serving writs of arrest or order of sequestration, and re-
turn thereof, two dollars.

For serving citation and petition on each defendant, one dollar.
For serving subpena on each witness, forty cents.

For serving attachment and return, one dollar and fifty cents. For keeping personal property on attachment under seizure, or otherwise legally in the hands of the sheriff, at the discretion of the court.

For taking bond in all cases when by the law the sheriff is to take bond, and assigning the same, fifty cents.

For making an actual levy under a fieri facias, and return of money made without sale, one dollar and fifty cents.

For return of fieri facias, no property found, one dollar. For levying fieri facias or order of seizure, and making sale, for the first five hundred dollars, two per cent; for each one hundred dollars, over the first five hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, one per cent; for all sums after the first thousand dollars one-half of one per cent; Provided, That no percentage shall Provided. be allowed to the sheriff on any moneys made on such execution or orders of seizure, over and above the amount for which they were issued.

For each conveyance of land sold under execution, whether including one or more adjudications, one dollar.

For serving writ of distringas and return, one dollar and twenty-five cents.

For serving summons for contempt and bringing party into court, one dollar.

For impaneling and calling petit jury, one dollar.

For serving venire for petit jury, to be charged but once in each case, and only in cases in which a jury is prayed for, one dollar; confessions of judgment exempt from this charge.

For serving writs of habeas corpus and return, two dollars. For notifying the creditor of insolvent debtor to attend meeting, for each, twenty-five cents.

For attendance in supreme court per day, two dollars.

For keeping and maintaining prisoner in jail per day, fifty cents.
For committing prisoners to jail in civil cases, one dollar.
For executing any person condemned to capital punishment,
to be paid by the parish, twenty-five dollars.

For serving any order of court not otherwise provided for, fifty cents.

For advertising any sale made by the sheriff, when done in writing, for each offering, ten cents for every hundred words.

The sheriffs and constables throughout the State, shall be entitled to demand five cents for every mile they may actually and necessarily travel, in going to and returning from the service of any process, and when they shall necessarily be obliged to travel. by water, except in steamboats, the charge shall be double; but this item shall be so construed as to allow mileage only to and from the place where the process was actually served, and in no case shall mileage be allowed for a greater distance than the place of residence of the person on whom the process was served.

C. P. 659; D Sec. 3560. Act 1867, p. 341. Act 1870, No. 101, § 2. Sec. 763. The sheriffs shall be allowed a commission of one per cent. on all sums under five hundred dollars, and one-half Commissions per cent. on all sums above five hundred dollars, collected by when there is them under a writ of fieri facias or any other writ, without a sale. no sale.

D. Sec. 1035, 3561, 3573. Act 1855, p. 162. Act 1870, No. 101.

of sheriffs

Sec. 764. The clerks and sheriffs are required to keep con- Fee bill to be stantly posted up, in their offices, copies of this fee bill, in French kept posted up and English, certified by the judge, and on failing to comply with sheriff.

by clerk and.

Compensation of clerk and sheriff in crim

this section, they shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars per month, for the benefit of the parish, to be recovered by the police jury before any court of competent jurisdiction.

D. Sec. 3562.

Sec. 765. Every sheriff in this State shall be entitled to one hundred dollars per annum; and each and every clerk of the several district courts to fifty dollars per annum, as a cominal matters. pensation for their services in matters of a criminal nature, pending in their respective courts.

Mileage for conveying prisoners.

how made out.

D. Sec. 3563,

Sec. 766. The sheriffs throughout this State shall be entitled to demand for transportation of prisoners, for mileage, six cents for each mile he may necessarily travel, both in going and returning, and for the expenses of one prisoner conveyed as aforesaid, he shall receive five cents per mile for going only; and for each additional prisoner thus conveyed, the sum of three cents for each mile.

D. Sec. 3564. Act 1870, No. 101, § 2.

Sec. 767. No sums shall be paid to any sheriff for any services, His accounts, as specified in the preceding section, unless his account shall name the prisoners so conveyed; and when certified by the judge as regards the distance, shall be paid on the warrant of such judge.

computed.

D. Sec. 3565.

Sec. 768. The distance for which sheriffs are to be paid, is to Distance, how be computed from the jail of the parish from whence the prisoner was removed to the jail or penitentiary in this State to which the sheriff was ordered to conduct such prisoner, and where they did actually deliver him.

admitted.

D. Sec. 3566.

Sec. 769. Whenever it shall be made known to the judge of the district, by petition and oath of any individual, that any Lunatics, how lunatic or insane person within his district, ought to be sent to, or confined in the insane asylum of this State, it shall be the duty of the said district judge to issue a warrant to bring before district judges. him, in chambers, said lunatic or insane person, and after proper inquiry into all the facts and circumstances of the case:

Duty of the

Duty of the sheriffs.

If in his opinion he ought to be sent to, or confined in said insane asylum, he shall make out his warrant to the sheriff of the parish, commanding him to convey the lunatic or insane person to the insane asylum, for which duty, the sheriff shall have the right to demand the same fees, as are now allowed by law, for the conveyance of convicts to the penitentiary of this State, Compensation which shall be paid out of the parish treasury, upon the order of the district judge, and likewise all other expenses previously incurred, in bringing said insane person before the district judge. D. Sec. 3574, 1768, 1965. Act 1855, p. 453.

to sheriffs.

Fees of notaries and re

corders.

Sec. 770. Every notary public, recorder of mortgages, and parish recorder acting as notary public or recorder of mortgages

in this State, shall be entitled to demand and receive the following fees of office, and no more, to wit:

For writing original acts of any kind, including recording the same, for every hundred words, twenty-five cents.

For every necessary seal and certificate to every notarial act, seventy-five cents.

For making copies of all official documents, ten cents for every hundred words.

For seal and certificate to any copy, fifty cents.

For proving up an act under private signature, fifty cents. For recording an act under private signature, ten cents for every hundred words.

For certificate of record and seal to an act under private signature, fifty cents.

For recording acts under private signature, which have been proved up otherwise than before the parish recorder or notary, ten cents for every hundred words.

For certificate of mortgage with seal, one dollar, and for every hundred words, after the first four hundred, twenty cents. For canceling a mortgage, one dollar.

The parties to a notarial act may, by written clause in the act, dispense with the certificate of mortgage required by article three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight of the Civil Code, and the notary or parish recorder shall not in such case be entitled to charge for such certificate.

For fixing seal on effects of intestates, two dollars.
For removing the same, with proces verbal, one dollar.
For swearing each appraiser or expert, twenty-five cents.
D. Sec. 3143. Act 1870, No. 101, § 10.

Sec. 771. The register of conveyances and recorder of mortgages of the city of New Orleans shall be entitled to the following fees of office:

For each registry of a mortgage, one dollar and fifty cents.
For certificate of mortgage, one dollar.

For canceling a mortgage, one dollar.

For each registry of conveyance, one dollar.

For certificates of conveyance, one dollar.

For any other certificate required of them in their respective

offices under the provisions of law, fifty cents.

D. Sec. 3172. Act 1870, No. 101, § 10, 12.

Sec. 772. For every record of birth and death, and for regis- Fee for recordtering the same, henceforward the sum of fifty cents shall be al- ing birth or lowed.

D. Sec. 348. Act 1855, p. 41.

death.

fees for marks

Sec. 773. The recorder shall be entitled to demand and receive twenty-five cents for each and every brand and mark, or Recorder's brand or mark alone, when one only is used; and whenever a and brands. certificate of the recorder is required, he shall be entitled to demand and receive twenty-five cents for the same.

D. Sec. 885. Act 1855, p. 37.