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Taking an acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, with a certificate thereof, twenty-five cents.

Taking a bond or recognizance, twenty cents.

Certificate for the admission of lunatic into the hospital, thirty cents. Every trial on complaint for unlawful detention of lands and tenements, fifty cents.

And for any other service not specifically provided for, such fees as are allowed to justices for similar services, subject to the regulation of the circuit court.

CONSTAPLE'S FEES.

SEC. 10. The fees of a constable shall be as follows:

For serving a writ or process under which the body is taken, fifty

cents.

Serving a writ, summons or process, other than a subpoena, where the body is not taken, twenty-five cents.

Levying on property, and advertising the same, without sale, where the money is not paid to him, fifty cents.

Serving a subpoena, twenty cents.

Returning any writ or other process, five cents.
Summoning a jury in any case, fifty cents.
Attending a jury trial, twenty-five cents.
Executing a writ of possession, one dollar.
Commitment to jail, twenty-five cents.

Taking and returning any bond required by law to be taken by him, twenty-five cents.

For selling personal property on execution, a commission of five per cent. on any sum not exceeding ten dollars, and three per cent. on any excess above that amount; but when the money is paid to him. without sale, one-half of said commission only shall be allowed; and in no case shall commission be charged upon any sum greater than that actually due and claimed by the plaintiff.

Where, by virtue of any writ or process, a constable is authorized or required to take and keep possession of any personal property, he shall be allowed the necessary expenses of keeping or removing the

same.

And for any service not herein specifically provided for, such fees as are allowed to constables for similar services, subject to the regulation of the circuit court.

FEES OF JURORS.

SEC. 11. The fees of jurors shall be as follows:

Every juror shall receive in the circuit or criminal court, to be paid out of the United States treasury, two dollars per day.

Every grand juror shall receive for his services as such, to be paid out of the United States treasury, two dollars for each day's attendance. Every juror for attending a trial before a justice of the peace shall receive fifty cents for each day of his attendance, to be paid in the first instance by the party directing the venire, and to be taxed with the costs of the action.

Every juror sworn upon a coroner's inquest shall receive two dollars per day for his attendance.

Every juror sworn before the marshal or other officer, in pursuance of law, shall receive two dollars per day for his attendance, to be taxed with the costs of the action or proceeding.

Talesmen shall receive the same amount per day as jurors, to be paid in like manner.

FEES OF WITNESSES.

SEC. 12. The fees of witnesses shall be as follows:

For each day's attendance in the circuit, criminal, or orphans' court, one dollar and fifty cents for each witness.

For each day's attendance before a justice of the peace, thirty-five cents for each witness.

For each day's attendance before arbitrators, referees, marshal, coroner, or other officer, one dollar for each witness.

Witnesses residing outside the District of Columbia shall be allowed five cents per mile for travelling from their place of residence to this District, and five cents per mile for returning.

Witnesses shall claim their fees on the day of trial, before any justice of the peacc.

FEES OF NOTARIES.

SEC. 13. The fees of notaries public shall be as follows:

For each certificate and seal, fifty cents.

Taking depositions or other writing, for each one hundred words,

ten cents.

Administering an oath, five cents.

Taking acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, with certificate thereof, twenty-five cents.

Every protest of a bill of exchange or promissory note, and recording the same, one dollar.

Each notice of protest, twenty cents.

FEES OF COMMISSIONERS.

SEC. 14. Any commissioner authorized to take depositions and acknowledgment of deeds, shall be entitled to receive the same fees as are allowed to justices of the peace for the same services.

FEES OF COUNTY SURVEYOR.

SEC. 15. The fees of the county surveyor shall be as follows:
For surveying, per day, five dollars.

Calculating the quantity of less than six courses or lines, seventyfive cents.

Every course or line more than six, four cents.

Making a plat of six courses or less, seventy-five cents.

Every course more than six, four cents.

Recording a plat and certificate, if not more than six courses, seventy-five cents.

Every course above six, four cents.

Copy of a plat and certificate, where there are not more than six courses, seventy-five cents.

Every course above six, four cents.

Every search where no copy is required, twenty-five cents.

SEC. 16. The criers of the circuit and criminal courts of this District shall be appointed by said courts respectively, and shall receive three dollars for each day they shall attend their respective courts in session, to be paid out of the treasury of the United States.

SEC. 17. Bailiffs, appointed for the purpose of keeping order in court, attending juries, or executing any order of the court, during its session, shall each receive two dollars per day, to be paid out of the treasury of the United States. Bailiffs shall be appointed by the courts respectively, not exceeding, however, three for the circuit and criminal courts each, and one for the district and orphans' courts each.

SEC. 18. In all copies, transcripts, or records, authorized by law, or required by any person, the fees to which any officer shall be entitled therefor shall be ascertained by accounting four figures therein used to express numbers, sums, or dates, as one word.

SEC. 19. Every officer whose fees are herein ascertained, shall pub

lish and set up in his office a fair table of his fees according to this chapter, within one month after the passage thereof, in some conspicuous place, for the inspection of all persons who have business in his office. If any such officer shall neglect or refuse so to do, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars.

SEC. 20. The fees allowed by this chapter shall be payable at the time the service is rendered; and any officer, where it is not otherwise expressly provided by law, may refuse to perform any service in any action or proceeding in which there are any fees due to him. (criminal proceedings excepted) from the person applying, unless such fees are paid, or secured to be paid.

SEC. 21. When by law any publication is authorized or required to be made by any officer, the costs of such publication shall be first tendered by the party, if demanded, before the officer shall be compelled to make publication.

SEC. 22. If any clerk, register of wills, marshal, justice of the peace, or constable, shall not have received the fees which may be due him for services rendered in any action or proceeding, he may have execution therefor, in his own name, against the party from whom they are due, to be issued from the court or by the justice before whom the action or proceeding is or was pending. The words "person" and "party," in this section and the two preceding sections, shall not be construed to include the United States.

SEC. 23. Every officer, upon receiving any fees for any official duty or service, shall, if required by the person paying the same, make out in writing and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, and shall receipt the same; and if he refuse or neglect to do so, he shall be liable to the party paying the same for three times the amount so paid.

SEC. 24. The compensation in this chapter directed to be paid out of the United States treasury, shall be paid to the parties respectively by the marshal, and allowed in his accounts.

TITLE V.

CHAPTER 10.

OF THAT PART OF WASHINGTON COUNTY WHICH LIES OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF WASHINGTON CITY AND GEORGETOWN.

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