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Fees of
sheriffs.
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For serving any writ of arrest
For serving any writ of summons or of attach-
ment, issued by either division of the supreme

court....

For serving any writ of summons, of attachment, or other civil process, issued by a district court, wherein the ad damnum, debt, damages or property claimed is more than one hundred dollars, excepting a writ of replevin.....

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For serving a writ in any action brought to recover possession of lands or tenements..

For serving any other writ issued by a district court, excepting a writ of replevin..

50

For taking bail by bond or indorsement on a writ of arrest..

50

For taking bond for the debt on a writ of attachment, if the amount of said bond be five hundred dollars or under....

If over five hundred dollars....

For taking bond for goods and chattels attached, the same as taking bond for a debt.

For taking an inventory of goods and chattels attached, for every hour after the first necessarily employed..

For every page of one hundred words of such inventory.

Excepting writs issued by a district court, for every copy of a writ, or for every copy of a writ having thereon a reference to the property attached, or time or place of attachment, or for every copy of a writ with the officer's doings thereon, required to be left with or for, or to be mailed to any person, for every one hundred words...

For every copy of a writ issued by a district

court....

For committing a person on original writ or mesne process...

For serving a writ of replevin, including taking bond and delivering property...

For every hour necessarily employed in making an inventory of the property replevied.....

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For every page of one hundred words of such inventory.

If the damage laid in a writ of arrest, attachment or replevin be over five hundred dollars, in addition one-twentieth of one per centum for all

sums over.

For every return on a writ, setting forth that the defendant cannot be found, or that no goods and chattels and real estate and shares in any banking association and personal estate in the hands of a trustee, or either, as the writ shall command the attachment thereof, can be found.

For serving an execution, when the money due thereon is collected or paid during commitment, and does not exceed four dollars..

If above four dollars and not exceeding seven. If above seven dollars and not exceeding twenty dollars. . . . .

If above twenty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars..

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If above hundred dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars....

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If above fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars...

If above two hundred dollars, two dollars and one-tenth of one per centum; none of the less sums to be included in the greater.

For serving an execution by levy on real estate....

For serving an execution by levy on personal estate the same as for serving a writ by attachment of like property.

For serving all executions where the money due thereon is collected or paid during commitment, and does not exceed four dollars

For committing a person on execution For delivering possession of lands while actually employed, by the day

For advertising real or personal estate to be sold at auction...

For advertising every adjournment of the same.
For selling at public auction real or personal

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Fees of
sheriffs.
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estate, if sold for one hundred and fifty dollars
or under, two per centum.

If sold for over one hundred and fifty dollars
and under three hundred dollars, one and one-
half per centum.

On all sums over three hundred dollars and under one thousand dollars, one per centum, and all over one thousand dollars, ten dollars and onetenth of one per centum in addition, to be computed on the amount of the sales, and none of the less sums to be included in the greater.

For serving a subpoena on a witness, if not more than one mile from the place of appear

ance..

For serving a divorce citation... .

For travel per mile to serve a subpoena or writ, to be computed from the place where the same is returnable; and if more than one person is named therein, the travel shall be computed from the place of service which shall be nearest, adding thereto the extra travel which shall be necessary to serve it on the others...

For serving a warrant or capias in a criminal case and conveying the prisoner to court, if not more than one mile...

For every original commitment of a prisoner in such case to any jail or to the state prison or other place of commitment..

For every subsequent commitment on same complaint....

For travel with a prisoner in custody in such case to court, county jail or to the state prison or other place of commitment, per mile..

For attending a district court by the day, in a criminal case..

For attendance by sheriff's upon either division of the supreme court, and upon the district courts of the sixth and twelfth judicial districts, each, whether sitting at the same time or not by the dav...

For actual attendance by deputy-sheriff's, other officers and waiters, by the day...

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For attending the district court of the tenth judicial district, by the week...

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The fees of sheriffs and deputy-sheriffs for serving writs and executions in scire facias against bail in criminal cases shall be the same as above provided for similar service of writs and executions in civil cases; and when the amount of such fees shall be certified to the state auditor by the clerk of the court to which such writ or execution shall be returned, the state auditor shall draw his order upon the general treasurer in favor of the sheriff or deputy-sheriff who shall have served such writ or execution for the amount of such fees.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 445.

1897.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON Passed Feb. 5,
PERMANENT CAMP GROUNDS TO MAKE CERTAIN ADDI-
TIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS AT SAID GROUNDS AND AP-
PROPRIATING THE SUM OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
THEREFOR.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The joint special committee appointed by the General Assembly at its January session, 1892, for the selection and fitting up of a permanent camp ground for the State militia, is hereby authorized to extend the wharf at said ground, and to carry out the additions and improvements set forth in its report to the General Assembly at this session, at an expense, including the indebtedness for work already done under previous enactments, of not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and said sum or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the state auditor is hereby authorized to draw his order on the general treasurer for such sum or so much thereof

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Passed Feb. 5, 1897.

Additional distribution of re

general's re

port of 1865.

as may be necessary, upon receipt of vouchers approved by the chairman of said committee.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its passage.

CHAPTER 446.

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 705 OF THE PUBLIC
LAWS. ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CORRECT, REVISE AND
REPUBLISH THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT OF 1865,"
PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1888, AND OF
THE SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT THEREOF.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. In addition to the copies of the adju vised adjutant- tant general's report for the year 1865, as corrected, revised and republished, directed to be distributed by Chapter 705 of the Public Laws and of the several acts in amendment thereof, copies of said record shall also be distributed as follows: one copy to each surviving regular and volunteer commissioned officer, appointed from Rhode Island, in the United States navy, and in such service during the war of the rebellion: provided, however, that no person shall receive more than one copy of said record under the provisions of this act or of the acts of which this act is in amendment.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Passed May 4, 1897.

CHAPTER 447.

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 171 OF THE GENERAL
LAWS, ENTITLED "OF CERTAIN FISHERIES."

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 29 of Chapter 171 of the General Laws is amended so as to read:

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