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each suit and of each executive as required by law, for each transcript,
twenty-five cents; for certificate of the attendance of a witness or juror,
five cents; for certificate under seal of the qualifications of any judge, or
one or more justices of the peace to any instrument of writing, including
all searches made for the purpose of said certificate, twenty-five cents; for
certificate under seal of an admission of any attorney, $1.00; for recording
anything required by law to be recorded, and for copies of any papers for
each ten words or figures and pro rata, one and one-quarter cents; for
arraigning a criminal, fifty cents; for drawing, empaneling and swearing
a petit jury and entering the same on the docket, seventy-five cents; for
drawing, empaneling and swearing a grand jury and entering the same
on the minutes of the court, $1.25; for each oath taken in court and enter-
ing the same, five cents; for each entry necessary to be made on the docket
or minutes of the court; for making alphabets, except those above men-
tioned, five cents; for making alphabets and lists of transfers of property,
for each ten words and so pro rata, except alphabets to dockets, one and
one-half cents; for extracting all deeds, for each ten words or figures and
pro rata, one and one-half cents; for copying surveyors' photos, or record-
ing the same, the same per diem allowed to surveyors for making them; all
original papers, to which a party is entitled, to be delivered without charge
for a search; no search to be charged for looking for any judgment, or other
record, or thing, of which a copy is required or which may be necessary
to be recited in any suit or process; no charge to be made for any docket
entry not actually made, for receiving and paying over all public money
for licenses, fines or otherwise, five per centum, except the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, who shall receive one per centum commission for
receiving or paying over such public money; for entering satisfaction of
judgment on justices' docket, fifteen cents; for granting hawkers' and
peddlers' license, to be paid by the hawkers or peddlers, $1.00; provided,
however, that the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City shall be
authorized to charge for the issue and entry of every summons for appear-
ance before the Grand Jury the sum of forty cents; for the taking and
entry of every recognizance the sum of one dollar; for the taking and entry
on the parole docket of every affidavit of parole, the sum of one dollar; for
the entry of every case on the special docket or the Grand Jury docket, the
sum of seventy-five cents for each ease, and for the issue of every summons
for appearances in the Criminal Court, the sum of forty cents.
This section, et seq., referred to in construing art. 15, sec. 1, of the Constitution and,
act of 1910, ch. 180 (creating the public service commission)—see notes to the former
and to art. 23, sec. 347, of the Code. Thrift v. Laird, 125 Md. 64.
The parties whose deeds are shown on a general alphabetical index must pay for
the work thereon. Peter v. Prettyman, 62 Md. 572.
An abstract company authorized by its charter to make and procure copies and ab-
stracts from the public records, must obtain such copies through clerk and upon pay-
ment of prescribed fees. Belt v. Prince George's Abstract Co., 73 Md. 292.
This schedule of fees is not applicable to criminal cases, heard before a justice of
the peace. Robey v. Prince George's County, 92 Md. 158.
As to clerks of courts, see art. 17. As to fees of clerks in Baltimore City, see also
art. 17, sec. 21.
See notes to sec. 6.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 12A. 1914, ch. 67.
13. In all cases of appeals to the Court of Appeals, both at law and in
equity, the Clerk of the Court from which said appeal is taken shall
charge but ten cents per hundred words and no more for making up the
record of same, and when typewritten copies of any of the papers, or of
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