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For taking an acknowledgment or proof of a deed or other instrument, to include the seal and the writing of the certificate, for the first signature, one dollar, and for each additional signature, fifteen cents.

For administering an oath or affirmation, twenty cents.

For every certificate, to include writing the same, and the seal, seventy-five cents.

FEES OF THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT.

District
Court.

SEC. 3. For entering each suit on the Clerk's register of Clerk of actions, and making the necessary entries therein during the progress of the trial, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For issuing every writ or process, under seal, forty cents.
For issuing subpoena for one or more witnesses, twenty cents.
For filing each paper, fifteen cents.

For entering every motion, rule, order, or default, twenty

cents.

For entering every discontinuance, dismissal, or nonsuit, twenty cents.

For entering every cause on the calendar, and making a copy thereof for the bar, for each term of the Court, twenty cents. For calling and swearing every jury, forty cents.

For receiving and entering each verdict of a jury, forty cents. For entering every final judgment, for the first folio, seventyfive cents; for each subsequent folio, fifteen cents.

For filing judgment roll, twenty cents.

For entering judgment on judgment docket, twenty cents.
For entering satisfaction of judgment, forty cents.

For administering every oath or affirmation, fifteen cents.
For certifying every oath or affirmation, fifteen cents.

For copy of any proceeding, or record of paper, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For every certificate under seal, forty cents.

For searching the files of each year in his office, (but not to charge suitors and Attorneys,) twenty-five cents.

For issuing every commission to take testimony, forty cents. For taking down testimony of witnesses during the trial, for each folio, fifteen cents, to be paid by the party requiring the

same.

Eor issuing every execution or other final process, forty cents. For issuing every decree or order of sale of mortgaged property, forty cents.

For issuing writ of injunction or attachment, forty cents. For entering judgment by confession, the same fees as in other cases of entering judgment.

For receiving and filing every remittitur from Supreme Court, and accompanying papers, forty cents.

For taking each bond required by law, forty cents; for tak

ing justification thereto, thirty cents.

For acknowledgment of deed or other instrument, including all writing, and the seal, for the first name thereto, seventy-five cents, and each additional name, fifteen cents.

When the Court is sitting as a Court of criminal jurisdiction,

Clerk of
County
Court.

Clerk of
Probate

Court.

County
Recorder.

he shall receive for the trial of each issue, when the charge is misdemeanor, three dollars.

He shall receive no other fee for any service whatever in a criminal action or proceeding, except for copies of papers, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For the trial of each issue, when the charge is felony, four dollars.

FEES OF THE CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT.

SEC. 4. For filing all the papers sent on appeal from Justice's Court, in each cause, and making the necessary entries concerning the same, one dollar and fifty cents.

For all other services, the same fees as are allowed in the District Court for similar services.

FEES OF THE CLERK OF PROBATE COURT.

SEC. 5. For issuing letters testamentary, or of administration, forty cents.

For certificate of appointing Appraisers or Guardians, forty cents.

For writing and posting notices, when required, for each copy, forty cents.

For recording wills, per folio, fifteen cents.

For all other services, the same as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for similar services.

For notice given by publication, in addition to the cost of publication, forty cents.

FEES OF COUNTY RECORDER.

SEC. 6. For recording any instrument, paper, or notice, when required, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For copies of any record, or paper, per folio, fifteen cents. For filing or receiving every instrument for record, and making the necessary entries thereon, fifteen 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 cents. For every certificate, under scal, to copies of papers or records in his office, when required, forty cents.

For every entry of discharge of mortgage on margin of record, forty 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, fifteen cents.

For recording every town plat, for every course, ten cents. For figures, and lettering plats and maps, per folio, twentyfive cents; provided, the fees for recording any town plat shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars.

For taking and writing acknowledgments, including seal, for the first signature, seventy-five cents; for each additional one, twenty cents.

For filing and entering a minute of certificate of Sheriff's sale, forty cents

For filing and entering a minute of certificate of tax sale, forty cents.

For recording marriage certificate, two dollars.

For filing and keeping each paper, not required to be recorded, and indorsing same, if required, twenty cents.

FEES OF COUNTY AUDITOR.

SEC. 7. For filing each Treasurer's receipt, and issuing licen- County ses, to be paid by the party, twenty cents.

FEES OF JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

SEC. 8. For filing each paper, twenty cents.

Auditor.

Justices of

Issuing any writ, or process, by which suit is commenced, the Peace.

forty cents.

For entering such cause upon his docket, forty cents.

For subpoena for each witness, fifteen cents.

For administering an oath or affirmation, fifteen cents.
For certifying the same, twenty cents.

For each certificate, twenty cents.

For issuing writ of attachment, or of arrest, or for the delivery of property, seventy-five cents.

For entering any final judgment, per folio, for the first folio, seventy-five cents; for each additional folio, fifteen cents.

For taking and approving any bond or undertaking directed by law to be taken or approved by him, twenty cents. For taking justification to a bond, forty cents.

For swearing a jury, twenty-five cents.

For taking depositions, per folio, fifteen cents.

For entering satisfaction of a judgment, twenty cents.
For copy of judgment, order, docket, proceedings, or papers,

in his office, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For transcript of judgment, per folio, fifteen cents.

For issuing commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents.
For issuing supersedeas to an execution, twenty cents.

For making up and transmitting transcript and papers on an appeal, one dollar and fifty cents.

For issuing search warrant, seventy-five cents.

For issuing an execution, twenty-five cents.

For celebrating marriage, and returning a certificate thereof to the Recorder, five dollars.

For all services and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace, in a criminal action or proceeding, whether on examination or trial, three dollars.

For taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, seventyfive cents.

For entering cause without process, seventy-five cents.

For entering judgment by confession, and only on affidavit, as required in the District Court, two dollars and fifty cents. For entering every motion, rule, order, verdict, or default, twenty cents.

For services as Associate Justice of the Court of Sessions, four dollars per day.

Constables.

County
Surveyor.

FEES OF CONSTABLES.

SEC. 9. For serving summons in a civil suit, for each defendant, seventy-five cents.

For summoning a jury before a Justice of the Peace, one dollar and twenty-five cents.

For taking a bond required to be taken, forty cents.

For summoning each witness, twenty cents.

For serving an attachment against the property of a defendant, seventy-five cents.

For summoning and swearing a jury to try the rights of property, and taking the verdict, one dollar and fifty cents.

For receiving and taking care of property on execution, attachment, or order, his actual necessary expenses, to be allowed by the Justice who issued the execution, upon the affidavit of the Constable that such charges are correct, and the expenses necessarily incurred.

For collecting all sums on execution, one and one half per cent, to be charged against the defendant in the execution. Constables shall receive in serving summons, attachment, order, execution, venire, notice, and subpoena, in civil cases, for each mile necessarily travelled, in going only, but when two or more persons are served in the same suit, mileage shall only be charged for the most distant, if they live in the same direction, twentyfive cents.

For serving a warrant, or order, for the delivery of personal property, or making an arrest in civil cases, seventy-five cents. For services and trial in criminal cases, the same fees as Sheriffs for similar service.

For all other services, except attending Court, the same fees as are allowed to Sheriffs for similar services.

FEES OF COUNTY SURVEYOR.

SEC. 10. For the first mile actually run with compass and chain, two dollars and fifty-cents.

For each succeeding mile, one dollar and seventy-five cents. For each mile run with compass alone, one dollar and twentyfive cents.

For each lot laid out and platted, in any city or town, one dollar and twenty-five cents.

For recording a survey, seventy-five cents.

For calculating the quantity of each division made in a tract of land, town lots excepted, seventy-five cents.

For travelling to the place of survey, for each mile, in going only, twenty-five cents; the distance shall be computed from his place of residence, or from where his office is kept, to the place of survey; and if the County Surveyor shall be required and duly notified, verbally or otherwise, to make other surveys while in the discharge of his official duty in the field, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the place last surveyed by him; but if the distance shall be greater from the place last surveyed, where his services are required, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the county seat of the county in which he lives; and in no case shall constructive mileage be allowed.

For ascertaining the location of every town lot in an old survey, and measuring and marking the same, one dollar and fiftycents.

For copies and certificates, per folio, fifteen cents.

For erecting a monument at the corner of any survey, when required, one dollar.

For erecting a monument when running a line at a variation or offset, when required, fifty cents.

For copy of plat of any survey, and certificate required by law to be transmitted to the Surveyor-General, one dollar, to be paid by the party requiring the survey; expenses of assistants shall be an additional charge, to be agreed upon between the parties. SEC. 11. This Act shall be in force from and after the first Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

SEC. 12. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict or inconsistent Acts with the provisions of this Act, so far as the same relates to the repealed. fees of the officers herein before named in the County of Alameda, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. CCCLV.-An Act in addition to an Act entitled an Act to regulate Elections, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.

[Approved April 25, 1863.]

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

make list of

vice of the

States, and

tary of State.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Adjutant-General of Adjutantthe State, on or before the fifteenth day of July, A. D. eighteen General to hundred and sixty-three, to make a list, as nearly perfect as electors in practicable, of the names of all the electors resident of the State military serof California, who shall then be in the military service of the United United States; which names shall be arranged in alphabetical deliver to order, and said list shall give the rank of each of said electors the Secre in said service, if a regimental or staff officer, the number of the regiment to which he is attached, and if a line, or non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, the number of the regiment, battalion, squadron of cavalry, or battery of artillery, and the letter of the company in such regiment, squadron, or battalion, to which he belongs, and also, the county of his residence in this State; said list shall be delivered by the Adjutant-General to the Secretary of State on or before the said fifteenth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Secretary of

SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall classify and arrange the Duties of list returned to him as aforesaid, and shall make therefrom sepa- State. rate lists of the electors belonging to each regiment, battalion, squadron, and battery, from this State, which shall then be in the service of the United States, and shall, on or before the twentieth day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, transmit, by mail or otherwise, to the commanding officer of each regiment, battalion, squadron, and battery, as

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