For record, or copies of deeds, containing conditions or additional certificates of acknowledgments, a further sum in the proportion of twenty-five cents, for each page of two hundred and eighty words of such additional matter. For recording a deed of such length as to make it necessary to transcribe the whole of it in manuscript, a sum equal to twenty-five cents for each page of two hundred and eighty words. For recording attachments of land, a sum equal to twenty-five cents for every two hundred and eighty words. For recording a release of such attachment, ten cents. For making a memorandum of the discharge of a mortgage deed, five cents. For recording an execution levied on real estate, and the officer's return thereon, a sum equal to twenty-five cents for every two hundred and eighty words. For recording each certificate of lien on buildings, twenty-five cents. For recording each certificate discharging such lien, twelve and one-half cents. For registering and numbering each dog, fifteen cents. For making a certificate of the amount of stamps affixed to an instrument to be recorded, ten cents. For recording any instrument or document, not herein specifically named, and for all copies of records or papers on file in his office, a sum equal to twenty-five cents for every two hundred and eighty words. For issuing a certificate of license for marriage, fifty cents. 12. OF REGISTRARS. SECT. 14. The fees of registrars shall be as follows, to wit: For ascertaining and recording each birth, marriage, and death, ten cents. For issuing a certificate of license for marriage, fifty cents. For each name on such abstract over two hundred, two cents. For recording the name of each orphan or half orphan child, as required by law, twenty-five cents. 13. OF POUNDAGE. SECT. 15. The fees for poundage shall be as follows, to wit: For each horse, ass, mule, swine, or head of neat cattle, taken up, damage feasant, twelve cents. For each goat so taken up, three cents. For each sheep so taken up, two cents. For each horse, ass, mule, swine, or head of neat cattle, taken up at large on the highway or commons, fifty cents. For each sheep so taken up, ten cents. For each goose so taken up, twelve cents, one-half of which fees shall be paid to the pound-keeper, and the other half to the impounder. SECT. 16. The fees of sheriffs, and constables, shall be as follows, to wit: Each sheriff, attending the general assembly, the supreme court of errors, or the superior court, three dollars per day. Each sheriff's deputy, attending as above, three dollars per day. Each constable, attending as above, one dollar and twenty-five cents per day. Each officer, who summons the jury, and attends the court in trial of forcible entry and detainer, for such attendance, two dollars for the first day, and one dollar for each subsequent day. Each sheriff, for returning votes to the secretary, nine cents per mile, going and returning. For distributing laws and public documents, five dollars per year, from the state treasury. For each mile of travel, by sheriffs, constables, or other persons, to serve writs, or other process, ten cents, to be computed from the place of the officer's abode to the place of service, and from thence to the place of return; also, for travel across any toll-bridge, or ferry, actually passed, in making the service of a writ, or execution, the sum by law payable at such bridge, or ferry, for man and horse, if actually paid on the service or return of such writ or execution, but not any sum for passing a turnpike gate; also, for money paid to a town clerk, for recording attachments of land. Each constable, for summoning jurors to attend the superior court, the same for travel to serve as above, but nothing shall be allowed for travel to return the summons, from the state treasury. For serving every summons, by reading, whether by sheriff, constable, or other person, nine cents. For serving every summons, by a copy, twelve cents. For serving an attachment, by reading, or copy, twelve cents. For taking bail, and bail bond, on each writ of attachment, if returnable to a justice of the peace, thirty-four cents; if returnable to a city, or superior court, and the demand therein shall be five hun. dred dollars, or less, fifty cents; if the demand shall be more than five hundred dollars, one dollar. For taking bail, and a bail bond, of a person committed to jail on mesne process, the same as above, and five cents per mile, for travel to and from jail. In all cases, except in writs and declarations on promissory notes, or book debts, according to the ordinary forms, when necessarily served by copy, and the copy, exclusive of the indorsement, shall make a page of twenty-eight lines, ten words in a line, for each page, twenty-five cents. For each indorsement of service, that shall make fourteen lines, ten words in a line, twelve cents. For every additional page, or part of a page, of such copy, or indorsement, at the same rate; and for a copy of the indorsement, when necessary to be made, and it shall make half a page, as aforesaid, or more, at the same rate. For levying and collecting an execution, when the money is actually collected and paid over, or when the debt is secured and satisfied by the officer, to the acceptance of the creditor, when the amount of the execution does not exceed three dollars and thirty-four cents, the officer collecting the same shall be allowed seventeen cents, and two per cent. on the amount of the execution above that sum; and when the execution shall be levied on the body of the debtor, and he shall be committed to jail, one per cent. on the amount of the execution shall be allowed to the officer, and no more. On the levy of any execution on real estate, there shall be allowed to each appraiser, sixty-seven cents per day. To a surveyor, when necessarily employed, one dollar and fifty cents per day. To each chain-bearer, necessarily employed, sixty-seven cents per day; which sums, with those paid to the justice and town clerk, shall be, by the officer levying such execution, indorsed thereon, together with his own fees. For attending the trial of any action, before a justice of the peace, when such attendance is necessary, sixty-seven cents. For committing any person to jail, on mesne or final process, twenty cents per mile for travel, from the place of the court to the jail, in lieu of all other expenses. For summoning and attending a jury, for re-assessing damages on a highway, three dollars per day. Whenever any claim shall be made for compensation, to any person, for time and expenses, in keeping, securing, or removing, property taken on attachment, or execution, the person who served the attachment, or execution, shall make out his bill on the same, specifying the items, to wit: the labor done, and by whom, the time spent, the travel, the money paid, if any, and to whom, and for what; and in case of attachment, the court in which the bill of costs shall be finally taxed, may allow therefor such sum as is just and reasonable, and the same shall be taxed, with the costs in the action. No sheriff, constable, or other officer, shall make any items of fees, not specified in this act, for the service or return of any civil process whatever, nor for any other service in civil causes, but shall be wholly confined to the fees specified in this act.* 15. OF JAILERS. SECT. 17. The fees of jailers shall be as follows, to wit: For the commitment and discharge of each prisoner, fifty cents, in the whole, for all key fees, on any one debt, mittimus, or warrant. For boarding each prisoner, such sum as shall, from time to time, be allowed by the county commissioners in the respective counties, not exceeding three dollars a week. For every bond for the liberties of the prison, one dollar. $1,00 13,350.00 25.00 and on any greater sum than 13,350 dollars, three-sixteenths of one per cent. But if any person shall be confined on two or more executions, and separate bonds shall be necessary, the amounts of the several executions shall be added together, and a computation of fees made upon the total, on the principles aforesaid. * A note, given to an officer for fees larger than the statute allows, is void. Preston . Bacon, 4 C. R. 471. A levy upon real estate, in which illegal charges are included, and too much land is set off to the creditor, is void. Beach . Walker, 6 C. R. 190. 16. OF COURTS OF PROBATE. SECT. 18. The fees of the courts of probate shall be as follows, to wit: For granting administration, or appointing a conservator, seventyfive cents. For making out each letter of administration, twenty-five cents. For receiving and probate of each will, seventy-five cents. For each decree, limiting the time for exhibiting the claims of creditors, fifty cents. For receiving and probate of each inventory, a commission, at the rate of fifteen cents for each and every thousand dollars thereof. For an order appointing appraisers, fifty cents. For an order of notice, to attend the appointment of commissioners, fifty cents. For an order appointing commissioners, fifty cents. For accepting and approving a report of commissioners, fifty cents. For an order to an executor, administrator, or trustee, to make a payment to creditors, out of any estate, one dollar. For an order to sell real or personal estate of a deceased person, or of an insolvent debtor, or the real estate of a person under a conservator, fifty cents. For accepting a return of the sale of estate, fifty cents. For setting out personal property to a widow, seventy-five cents. For each order for setting out dower, fifty cents. For receiving and approving the return of setting out dower, fifty cents. For stating and settling the account of an administrator, executor, conservator, or trustee, of an insolvent debtor, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For an order extending the time of settling an estate, fifty cents. For each order of notice, to settle an executor's, administrator's, conservator's, or trustee's account, fifty cents. For adjusting and settling advancements to children, on making an order of distribution, in case such advancements are claimed to have been made, one dollar. For each order of distribution, seventy-five cents. For receiving and approving a distribution, seventy-five cents. For making an order for the support of family, during the settlement of an estate, fifty cents. For taking a bond from heirs to refund, if debts afterwards appear against the estate, twenty-five cents. For the appointment of a guardian, twenty-five cents. For each guardian's bond, twenty-five cents. For each order of notice to a guardian, to settle his account, fifty cents. For hearing and adjusting the accounts of a guardian with his ward, seventy-five cents. For each order to sell land, by authority of the general assembly, fifty cents. For an order of notice, on application for the sale of real estate belonging to minors, fifty cents. 1863. The price of stamp may be charged and collected. For an order to sell such estate, seventy-five cents. For receiving and approving the returns of sale of real estate of minors, fifty cents. For taking bond, on granting an order for the sale of such estate, fifty cents. For an order of notice, or decree, removing or appointing a trus tee, each fifty cents. For taking bond of trustee, twenty-five cents. For taking all other bonds, whenever necessary, each twenty-five cents. For hearing and adjusting the accounts of any trustee, other than a trustee of the estate of an insolvent debtor, seventy-five cents. For a citation, when by law required, fifty cents. For hearing and judgment, on return of the same, when adverse parties appear, and a trial is had, one dollar. For a judgment in such case, when adverse parties do not appear, fifty cents. For hearing an order, upon an agreement by the guardian of a minor to make partition of minor's land, seventy-five cents. For hearing and allowing a motion to review the report of commissioners, fifty cents. For allowing an appeal, taking bond, and making out judgment, thirty-four cents. For making a record, at the rate of twenty-five cents for each page, containing two hundred and eighty words. For making a record, containing less than half a page, twelve and one-half cents. For making a copy, when requested, the same sum as is herein provided for making records. For travel to the probate office in an adjoining district, when desig nated, cited, and qualified, to hold a court therein, nine cents a mile, to be paid by the parties chargeable with the fees in the settlement of the estate for which said court is holden. The fees herein stated shall include all charges which may be made by the judges of probate, and their clerks, other than such as are allowed by some particular statute. SECT. 19. The fees of the judge of probate, for services in cases of estates of insolvent debtors, shall be: For the hearing upon an application for the appointment of a trus tee, two dollars. For every continuance, twenty-five cents. For every decree, setting out furniture to a debtor, seventy-five cents. For every order, making an allowance for support of family, sev enty-five cents. For hearing on application for the benefit of the one hundred and thirty-second section of an act for the settlement of estates, testate, intestate, and insolvent, two dollars and fifty cents. For hearing in regard to estate in settlement in other states, one dollar and fifty cents. For granting certificates of discharge, one dollar. SECT. 20. Any public officer, who shall be required by law to affix any revenue stamp to any certificate, or other instrument, in writing, made or issued by him, shall be entitled to charge and collect the price thereof, in addition to his other fees or compensation, to be paid by the person for whose benefit such certificate or other |