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Fees of re

ing bonds.

Sec. 774. The recorder shall be entitled to charge for each

corder for tak-bond, taken and approved by him, one dollar, and each certified copy thereof the same amount and no more, to be paid by the obligor.

Fees of justices in civil

cases.

In criminal prosecutions.

to keep the

Orleans to pay

D. Sec. 353. Act 1855, p. 81.

FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Sec. 775. Justices of the peace shall be entitled to demand the following fees, to-wit:

For each order issued on the demand of the party, fifty cents.
For rendering judgment by default, fifty cents.

For rendering a final judgment, one dollar.

For administering an oath when the affidavit is written, and signing the same, twenty-five cents.

For administering an oath and writing the same, for every twenty words, twelve and a half cents.

For filing petition, answer, or answer to interrogatories, each twenty-five cents.

For citation or process to compel appearance, fifty cents.

For filing the same when returned and noticing return, twelve and a half cents.

For summons for witness, twelve and a half cents.

For each necessary certificate, twenty-five cents.
For swearing each witness, twelve and a half cents.
For entering judgment in each case, fifty cents.
For issuing attachment, seventy-five cents.

For receiving and entering return on attachment, twelve and a half cents.

For entering satisfaction on judgment, twenty-five cents.
For issuing fieri facias, one dollar and seventy-five cents.
For filing fieri facias when returned and recording return,
twenty-five cents.

For issuing a warrant in a criminal prosecution, one dollar.
For each summons for witness, twelve and a half cents.
For taking their deposition and writing the same, twenty-five
cents each.

For examination of the party and writing the same, one dollar.

For taking the recognizance of the party or the witnesses in the cases directed by law, twenty-five cents.

D. Sec. 2075, 2089, 2090, 2091. Act 1855, p. 162.

Sec. 776. Whenever a complaint shall be made before a jusPersons bound tice of the peace, or the recorder of either district of the city peace in New of New Orleans, the object of which will be to have the person costs. complained of bound to keep the peace, the costs incurred shall be paid by the person bound; but when it shall appear to the magistrate that the complaint be founded on frivolous or malicious motives, the costs shall be paid by the party complaining. D. Sec. 1010, 1046, 2058. Act 1855, p. 151.

Sec. 777. The constables throughout the State shall be enti- Fees of contled to demand the following fees:

For serving a State warrant, to be paid by the parish, fifty

cents.

For serving a summons and warrant for debt, fifty cents.
Summoning each witness, fifty cents.

Serving an execution for debt, fifty cents.

Selling property taken under execution, for each dollar, five

cents.

For conveying a prisoner to jail, one dollar.
Serving peace or search warrants, one dollar.
Serving attachment, fifty cents.

D. Sec. 623.

stables.

Fees of con

Sec. 778. Constables for the parish of Orleans shall be entitled to demand and receive the following fees of office, and no stables in the more, to wit:

For serving citation, fifty cents.

For serving notice of trial, fifty cents.

For serving subpena, fifty cents, and attachment for witnesses,

fifty cents.

For serving a rule or motion, fifty cents.

For serving notice of judgment, fifty cents.

Return of fieri facias, no property found, fifty cents.

For return of fieri facias, satisfied, one dollar.

For levying fieri facias and making sale, five per cent.; however no percentage shall be allowed to constables on any money made on execution over and above the amount for which they may have a writ in their hands.

For serving provisional seizure, one dollar.

parish of Orleans.

For serving attachment, bail writ, sequestration and injunction, each one dollar; for taking bond in any case, fifty cents. The constable may be allowed whatever expenses he may necessarily incur in keeping property while under seizure; Pro- Provided. vided, the same does not exceed one dollar a day.

For serving notice of appeal, fifty cents.

For all other process not herein before provided for, fifty

cents.

only liable for first writ,

Sec. 779. In all cases before any justice of the peace of the State, where a writ or order of provisional seizure, attachment, sequestration, or final seizure, has been issued, under which any vessel, steamer, or other water-craft, is being placed in the hands Vessels, etc.. of any constable, the said vessel, steamer, or other water-craft, costs under the shall not be subject to any other costs than those accrued on the where more first writ so issued; and any other writ or order of provisional than one writ seizure, attachment, or final seizure, shall be levied on the first against them. writ or order in the hands of the said constable without any other costs whatever.

D. Sec. 638. Act 1858, p. 171.

See. 780. So long as any vessel, steamer, or other water-craft, shall remain in the hands of the constable, the court shall not

has issued

Relative to keepers.

Fees of con

leans, when demandable

allow costs for more than one or two keepers, if the case require it, and the costs of said keeping, in case of the dissolution of the writ or order under which the vessel, steamer, or watercraft, was seized, shall be borne in proportion by the parties having wrongfully prayed for the same.

D. Sec. 639.

Sec. 781. Three months after the institution of any suit, constables in the parish of Orleans may demand their fees from stables in Or- the plaintiff or party by whom they are due, and upon failure to from nanti, pay, the justice may, after proof has been adduced of the corfrom plaintiff. rectness of the account contradictorily with the party against May be collec- whom the motion is made, issue a fieri facias in favor of the constable; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to time after prevent any constable from collecting his fees from the defendant at any time after judgment against such defendant. Act 1855, p. 110.

ted from de

fendant at any judgment.

ner.

Sec. 782. A coroner shall receive for every inquest held, Fees of coro- twenty-five dollars; for every viewing of a body in which no inquest is held, five dollars; for every burial performed at his expense, twelve dollars; and for all other fees, including the swearing and qualifying of a jury, the administering of oaths, the returning of the proces verbal, and the summoning of witnesses, five dollars.

Penalty for

than the fees

act.

D. Sec. 668. Act 1868, p. 204, § 20.

Sec. 783. If any officer shall demand or collect any other or greater fees than are particularly and specially herein set forth, he shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and on charging more conviction thereof, be condemned to pay a fine of not less than allowed by this one hundred dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and liable to be dismissed from office, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the court, on the complaint of any person aggrieved, to summon the officer complained of to appear before him in open court, by rule, after ten days' notice, to show cause why the penalties of this section should not be enforced. The fines and forfeitures collected under this act are in the city of New Orleans to be for the use and benefit of the charity hospital, and in the other parishes to be paid over to the parish treasurer of the respective parishes of the State, and it shall be the duty of the district attorney to collect and pay over the

same.

D. Sec. 868, 869, 870. Act 1861, p. 186. Act 1870, No. 101, § 12,

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