For issuing notice of judgment, with seal, twenty-five cents. For issuing citation of appeal, with seal and certificate, fifty cents. For copy of citation, with seal and certificate, forty cents. For issuing attachment to bring person into court, with seal, forty cents. For issuing venire facias in each case in which a jury may be prayed for in the district court, to be charged but once, and that upon filing the petition, thirty-five cents. For swearing jury, twenty-five cents. For swearing each witness, five cents. For entering final judgment, and no matter how many parties, to be charged but once in each case, seventy-five cents. For every interlocutory judgment, no matter how many parties, thirty cents. For each order of court entered on the minutes of the court, not otherwise provided for, fifteen cents. For copies of the same, with seal and certificate, twenty-five cents. For filing and registering returns on all writs, ten cents. For setting cause for trial and calling the same, ten cents. For affixing certificate and seal of court to all other records or documents other than those herein specified, thirty cents. For notice of creditors of insolvents to attend meetings, each ten cents. For taking and filing bonds in all cases when required by law, fifty cents. For recording and registering deeds of conveyance for property sold and transferred by sheriff, for each hundred words, ten cents. For entering satisfaction of judgment, seventy-five cents. For issuing commissions to take testimony of witnesses or answers to interrogatories, with seal, one dollar. For recording the petition, answer and judgment, in each case, ten cents for every one hundred words. For every confession of judgment when no papers are issued by the clerk, for all his services in such cases, seventy-five cents, and no more, shall be allowed. However, in all cases he shall be allowed ten cents per hundred words for recording the petition and other papers. For making out the papers in each confirmation or appointment of a tutor, curator, administrator, testamentary executor, one dollar and fifty cents. For copy of the same, with certificate and seal, fifty cents. For each writ or decree ordering or assessing estimate, fifty cents. For affixing seals on any act when required by law, twenty-five cents. For probate of a will, including the proces verbal, fifty cents. For each audience, including family meetings, one dollar. For taking bond, in all cases, one dollar. For copy of all acts, for each one hundred words, ten cents. Act 1870, No. 75-minors; Act 1870, No. 101, sec, 1; Act 1872, No. 24, p. 71-transcript; Act 1876, No. 94, p. 149; Act 18-0, No. 47, p. 46; Act 1830, No. 136—Orleans; Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 89, p. 127. SEC. 758. The several clerks of the district courts throughout the State shall be entitled to demand and receive for all services on the application of any foreigner to become a citizen, including copy, certificate and seal, one dollar. For all services in administering oath of allegiance, recording evidence of residence, etc., of any foreigner becoming naturalized, including copy, certificate and seal, one dollar and fifty cents. For issuing marriage license, two dollars.' For taking down testimony on the trial of any suit, ten cents for every one hundred words. For every order entered on the minutes discontinuing or dismissing any suit, ten cents. For making transcript of record on appeals, ten cents for every hundred words For certificate and seal to transcript of record, fifty cents. For filing any paper in any suit not otherwise provided for, five cents. Act 1870, No. 101, p. 161; D. sec. 498; Act 1857, p. 190; Act 1872, No. 24, p. 71; Act 1879, No. 2, p. 12; Act 1877, No. 15. Fees allowed to clerks of courts throughout the State. SEC. 759. The sheriff or constable serving notice, subpoena or attachment, on witnesses to be examined before the clerk out of court, Fees of clerks shall be entitled to charge the same fees and mileage allowed by the witnesses out of for examining fee bill for serving subpoenas, and the clerk taking such depositions shall be allowed to charge and receive the following fees, and no more, to-wit: For issuing each notice to parties, with seal, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For issuing each subpoena or attachment, with seal, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For swearing each witness, twenty cents. court. Legal fees in criminal cases. For writing each caption and deposition of each witness and certificate, for each one hundred words, twenty cents. For affixing seal, twenty-five cents, which fee shall be charged, like other costs, with the costs of the suit in which they are taken. Act 1870, No. 101, p. 161; D. sec. 623; Act 1866, p. 114; Act 1830, No. 136 Orleans. CLERKS' FEES IN CRIMINAL CASES. SEC. 760. The clerks of courts of this State shall be entitled to For flling testimony, ten cents. For filing information, ten cents. Orders bringing accused into court and remanding from court to prison, in each case, for one or more accused, twenty-five cents. For arraignment of one or more accused, and entering the several pleas in each case, fifty cents. For notice of trial to principal, twenty-five cents. For subpoenas to witnesses, copies and seal, fifteen cents. For attachments to bring witnesses, twenty-five cents. For calling, presenting, swearing and empanneling petit jury, in each case, fifty cents. For copy of indictment or information and jury list, to be served on accused when required by law, in each case, one dollar. For swearing witnesses, five cents. For reading indictments or information and plea to jury, twentyfive cents. For receiving, reading, recording and filing indictment of grand jury, fifty cents. For notice of arraignment to principals and security, twenty-five cents. For issuing capias, fifty cents, For entering sentence of judgment, fifty cents. For copy of sentence, with certificate and seal, fifty cents. For calling, forfeiting and entering judgment on appearance bond, one dollar. For notice of judgment, twenty-five cents. For calling and continuance in each case, ten cents. For each and every order of court entered on the minutes, not otherwise provided for, ten cents. For copies of same and certificate, with seal, fifteen cents. For filing return on all writs, ten cents. For each commitment, fifty cents. For each subpoena duces tecum, fifty cents. For entering nolle prosequi and order discharging prisoner, fifty cents. For filing plea in abatement of special plea in bar, or plea in quasi information or indictment, ten cents. For appointment of counsel and copy of same, fifty cents. For motion asking for a new trial or in arrest of judgment, and copy, twenty-five cents. For transcript of appeals to the supreme court, for each hundred words, ten cents. For taking affidavit and swearing to the same, twenty-five cents. Collection of SEC. 761. The clerks of courts shall only be entitled to collect any of the foregoing costs from parties in prosecutions for fines or penal- fees. ties condemned to pay the costs, and not from the State or parish; and they shall have the same remedies for the collection thereof that they have for the collection of costs in civil suits, and shall be liable to all the penalties for overcharges and extortion as in civil cases. Act 1870, No. 49, p. 106; Act 1870, No. 101, p. 161. SHERIFFS' FEES. SEC. 762. The sheriffs throughout the State shall be entitled to demand the following fees of office, and no more, to-wit: For serving writs of arrest or order of sequestration, and return thereof, two dollars. For serving citation and petition on each defendant, one dollar. For serving attachment and return, one dollar and fifty cents. For keeping personal property on attachment under seizure, or otherwise legally in the hands of the sheriff, at the discretion of the court. For taking bond in all cases when by the law the sheriff is to take bond, and assigning the same, fifty cents. For making an actual levy under a fieri facias, and return of money made without sale, one dollar and fifty cents. For return of fieri facias, no property found, one dollar. For levying fieri facias or order of seizure and making sale, for the first five hundred dollars, two per cent.; for each one hundred dollars over the first five hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, one per cent.; for all sums after the first thousand dollars, one-half of one per Sheriffs' fees. Provided. Commissions of sheriffs when there is no sale cent.; provided, that no percentage shall be allowed to the sheriff on any moneys made on such execution or orders of seizure over and above the amount for which they were issued. For each conveyance of land sold under execution, whether including one or more adjudications, one dollar. For serving writ of distringas and return, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For serving summons for contempt and bringing party into court, one dollar. For empanneling and calling petit jury, one dollar. For serving venire for petit jury, to be charged but once in each case, and only in cases in which a jury is prayed for, one dollar. Confessions of judgment exempt from this charge. For serving writs of habeas corpus and return, two dollars. For notifying the creditors of insolvent debtor to attend meeting, for each, twenty-five cents. For attendance in supreme court per day, two dollars. For keeping and maintaining prisoner in jail per day, fifty cents. For committing prisoners to jail in civil cases, one dollar. For executing any person condemned to capital punishment, to be paid by the parish, twenty-five dollars. For serving any order of court not otherwise provided for, fifty cents. For advertising any sale made by the sheriff, when done in writing, for each offering, ten cents for every hundred words. The sheriffs and constables throughout the State shall be entitled to demand five cents for every mile they may actually and necessarily travel in going to and returning from the service of any process; and when they shall necessarily be obliged to travel by water, except in steamboats, the charge shall be double. But this item shall be so construed as to allow mileage only to and from the place where the process was actually served, and in no case shall mileage be allowed for a greater distance than the place of residence of the person on whom the process was served. C. P. 659; D. sec. 3560; Act 1867, p. 341; Act 1870, No. 101, sec. 2; No. 101, p. 161; Act 1877, Ex. S., No. 73, p. 110; No. 99, p. 163; No. 55, p. 86; No. 99, p. 163; No. 7, p. 8; Act 1879, No. 2, p. 12; Act 1880, No. 136, p. 187-Orleans. SEC. 763. The sheriffs shall be allowed a commission of one per cent. on all sums under five hundred dollars, and one-half per cent. on all sums above five hundred dollars, collected by them under a writ of fieri facias, or any other writ, without a sale. D. sec. 1035, 3561, 3573; Act 1855, p. 162; Act 1870, No. 101. |