Clerk of the County Court. Clerk of the Clerk of the Probate Court. For receiving and entering each verdict of a jury, seventy-five cents. For entering every final judgment, for the first folio, one dollar; for each subsequent folio, twenty-five cents. For filing judgment-roll, twenty-five cents For entering judgment on judgment-docket, thirty-five cents. For every certificate under seal, seventy-five cents. For searching the files of each year, in his office-but not to charge suitors or attorneys-seventy-five cents. For issuing every commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents. For taking down testimony of witnesses during trial, for each folio, twenty-five cents. For issuing every execution or other final process, seventy-five cents. For issuing every decree, or order of sale of mortgaged property, seventy-five cents. For issuing writ of injunction or attachment, seventy-five cents. For entering judgment by confession, the same fees as in other cases for entering judgment. For receiving and filing every remittitur from Supreme Court, and accompanying papers, fifty cents. For taking each bond required by law, fifty cents; for justification thereto, fifty cents. For acknowledgment of deed or other instrument, including all writing and the seal, for each name thereto, seventy-five cents. When the Court is sitting as a Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, he shall receive, for the trial of each issue, three dollars. He shall receive no other fee, for any services whatever, in a criminal action or proceeding, except for copies of papers, for each folio, twenty-five cents. SEC. 3. The fees of the Clerk of the County Court shall be allowed as follows: For filing all the papers sent on appeal from Justices' Courts, in each cause, one dollar. For all other services, the same fees as are allowed in the District Court for similar services. SEC. 4. The Clerk of the Court of sessions shall receive the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court in criminal cases. SEC. 5. The fees of the Clerk of the Probate Court shall be as follows: For issuing letters testamentary, or of administration, seventyfive cents. For certificate of appointment of appraisers or guardians, seventy-five cents. For writing and posting notices when required, for each copy, fifty cents. For notice given by publication, in addition to the cost of publication, fifty cents. For recording wills, for each folio, twenty-five cents. For all other services, the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for similar services. SEC. 6. The fees of the County Recorder shall be as fol- County lows: For recording any instrument, paper, or notice, when required, for each folio, twenty-five cents. For copies of any record or paper, per folio, twenty-five cents. For filing or receiving every instrument for record, and making the necessary entries thereon, twenty-five cents. For making, in the several indexes required, all the entries required of the filing and recording any instrument, paper, or notice, for every such instrument, paper, or notice, twenty-five cents. For every certificate, under seal, to copies of records or papers in his office, when required, fifty cents. For every entry of discharge of mortgage on margin of reccord, twenty-five cents. For searching records and files of each year, in his office, when required, twenty-five cents. For abstract or certificate of title, when required, for each conveyance or incumbrance certified, seventy-five cents. For recording every Town-plat, for every course, fifteen cents. For figures and lettering plats and maps, per folio, seventy-five cents. For taking and writing acknowledgments, including seal, for each signature, fifty cents. For filing and entering a minute of certificate of Sheriff's sale, twenty-five cents. For filing and entering a minute of certificate of tax sale, twenty-five cents. For recording marriage certificate, seventy-five cents. For filing and keeping each paper not required to be recorded, and indorsing same, if required, twenty-five cents. SEC 7. The fees of the Sheriff shall be as follows: For serving a summons and complaint, or any other process by which an action or proceeding is commenced, on every defendant, one dollar and fifty cents. For traveling, in making such service, per mile, in going only, to be computed in all cases from the Court-house of the County, thirty cents; Provided, that if any two or more papers require to be served in the same suit, at the same time, one mileage only shall be charged. For taking bond or undertaking in any case in which he is authorized to take the same, one dollar. For copy of any writ, process, or other paper, when demanded or required by law, for each folio, twenty-five cents. For serving every notice, rule, or order, seventy-five cents. Recorder. Sheriff. Sheriff. For serving a subpoena, for each witness summoned, twentyfive cents. For traveling, per mile, in serving each subpoena or venire, in going only, but when two or more witnesses or jurors live in the same direction, traveling fees shall be charged only for the most distant, thirty cents. For serving an attachment on property, or levying an execution, or executing an order of arrest, or order for the delivery of personal property, and with traveling fees, as on a summons, two dollars. For serving an attachment upon any ship, boat, or vessel, in proceedings to enforce any lien thereon created by law, three dollars: For making and posting notices and advertising property for sale on execution, or under any judgment or order of sale, not to include the cost of publication in newspaper, two dollars. For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution or process, when lands or personal property has been levied on, advertised and sold, on the first one thousand dollars, three per cent; on all sums above that amount, one and half per cent. For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution without levy, or when the land or goods levied on shall not be sold, two per cent. on the first one thousand dollars, and one and a-half per cent. on all over that sum. The fees herein allowed for the levy of an execution, and for advertising, and for making or collecting the money on an execution, shall be collected from the defendant by virtue of such execution, in the same manner as the sum therein directed to be made. For drawing and executing every Sheriff's deed, to be paid for by the grantee, who shall, in addition, pay for the acknowledgments thereof, three dollars. For serving a writ of possession or restitution, putting any person entitled into the possession of premises, and removing the occupant, three dollars. For travel in the service of any process not herein before mentioned, for each mile necessarily traveled, in going only, thirty cents. For attending, when required, on any Court, in person or by deputy, for each day, to be paid out of the County treasury, four dollars. For bringing up a prisoner on habeas corpus, to testify or answer in any Court, or for examination as to the cause of his arrest and detention, or to give bail, one dollar and fifty cents. He shall also receive, for his trouble and expense in taking possession of property under attachment or execution, or other process, and in preserving the same, such compensation as the Court from which the writ or order may issue, shall certify to be just and reasonable. For holding each inquest or trial of right of property, when required, to include all service in the matter except mileage, four dollars. For attending on Supreme Court, either in person or by de puty, to be paid out of the State treasury as other claims, for each day, four dollars. For making every arrest, in a criminal proceeding, two dollars. For serving each subpoena, in criminal proceedings, twentyfive cents. For executing every sentence of death, thirty-five dollars. For service of any process in criminal cases, for each mile necessarily traveled, fifteen cents; and the same mileage for taking prisoners before a magistrate, or to prison. In serving subpoenas or venires in criminal cases, he shall receive milage for the most distant only, when witnesses or jurors live in the same direction. clause. For all services in Justices' Courts, the same fees allowed to Constables. SEC. 8. The first, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and Repealing tenth, sections of an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees in office, approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, so far as the same applies to the County of Amador, are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the other provisions of said Act applicable to said County; but such provisions shall apply and extend to the officers and fees herein named. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect at the expiration of the Take effect. terms of office of the present incumbents. CHAP CLXIV.-An Act for the relief of Michael Fennel. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Controller of State is hereby authorized and $5,000. required to draw his warrant in favor of Michael Fennel, (for loss sustained on contract for the erection of the north wing of the Insane Asylum,) for the sum of six thousand dollars, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated. $270. CHAP. CLXV.-An Act to appropriate money to pay Chas. Forman, and Alfred H. Estill, for writing Senate Journals, Ninth Session. [Approved April 6, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and seventy dollars ($270) is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to pay Chas. Forman and Alfred H. Estill, for writing up Senate Journals, Ninth Session of the Legislature. Change of name. CHAP. CLXVI.-An Act to change the Name of Jacob Schlechwey to that of Jacob Robinson. [Became a Law by operation of the Constitution, April 6, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the name of Jacob Schlechwey be, and the same is hereby, changed to that of Jacob Robinson, and, by such latter name, shall enjoy and obtain all legal rights that he might or could have under his former and original name. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. [This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, (Sundays excepted,) and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a law this sixth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. FERRIS FORMAN, Secretary of State.] Corcoran. CHAP. CLXVII.-To appropriate Money for the payment of certain Claims. [Approved April 6, 1859.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The following sums of money are hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz., the sum of two hundred dollars, for the purpose of paying F. E. Corcoran, as Superintendent and Architect of the west wing of Insane |