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For entering every order of court, twelve cents and one half; if morethan one hundred words, then, at the rate of twelve cents and one halfper hundred;
For recording or copying any paper, for one hundred words, twelvecents and one half; seal and certificate, thirty-seven cents and one half;
For filing petition or report, and entering the same on record, (if ne-cessary,) fifty cents ; if more than one hundred words, at the rate of twelvecents and one half per hundred;
For entering judgment, or rule of court, twenty-five cents; copy ofsame, if demanded, for every hundred words twelve cents and one half;seal and certificate, thirty-seven cents and one half;
For entering every motion in court, twelve and one half cents;
For entering appointment of guardian, with certificate and seal of saidappointment, one dollar; every additional word included in the same cer-tificate, twelve and one half cents;
For issuing attachment and entering motion therefor, seventy-fivecents;
For taking a recognisance, twenty-five cents;
For warrant to marshal to summon jury, under seal, seventy-fivecents;
For entering panel of jury, and swearing them, fifty cents;
For taking, filing, and recording, every bond, not above provided for,one dollar;
For passing an account against the estate of a deceased person, twelveand a half cents; to be paid by the applicant, and not to be refunded.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the respective officers, whosefees are by this act specified, are hereby required to make fair tables oftheir fees, agreeable to this act, and to set up the same in their respectiveoffices, within six months after the passing of this act, in some conspicu-ous part of their office, for the inspection of all persons who may havebusiness in said offices; on pain of forfeiting, for each day the same shallbe missing through said officer’s neglect, the sum of ten dollars, to berecovered as debts of the same amount are recoverable, one half to thecounty, and the other half to the informer.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, if a register of wills, or anyperson for him, shall take greater fees than herein before expressed, suchofficer shall forfeit and pay the party injured fifty dollars, to be recoveredas debts of the same amount are recoverable. Provided, always, Thatthe judges of the orphans’ court may allow to the registers [register] ofwills, reasonable fees for any service he may have rendered, not specifiedin this act.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the register [registers] of willsof the counties of Washington and Alexandria, in the District of Colum-bia , shall be allowed by the levy courts of their respective counties, forall record books and dockets necessarily furnished for their respectiveoffices, which allowance shall be levied and collected as other countycharges are.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Recordingand copying pa-pers.
Filing peti-tions or reports.
Enteringjudgments, &c.
Entering mo-tions in court.
Entering ap-pointment ofguardian, &c.
Issuing at-tachments, &c.
Taking arecognisance.
Warrant tosummon jury.
Entering panelof jury.
Taking, filing,&c., bonds.
Passing ac-counts, &c.
Fair tables offees to be madeout by the offi-cers whose feesare by this actspecified.
Register topay fifty dollarsto any personfrom whom heshall take great-er fees than ex-pressed in thisact.
Statute I.
Chap. CXC1I .—An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange astock , hearing an interest of four and one half per cent.,for certain stocks bearingan interest of six per cent .
May 26, 1824.[Obsolete.]
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America , in Congress assembled , That the President of the Uni-ted States be, and he is hereby, empowered to borrow, on or before thefirst day of April next, on the credit of the United States , a sum not ex-ceeding five millions of dollars, at a rate of interest, payable quarter yearly,Vol. IV—10 G
The Presidentempowered toborrow a sumof money notexceeding$5,000,000.