636 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747.

	Session Laws	Cryer's Fees in the County	Court
	County Court Cryers	Swearing every Jury, Swearing every Bailiff, Every Oath, For Special Bail,	36 4 3 4ths 3 20 3 4th	For Good Behaviour, Clearing every Prisoner by Proc- lamation or Acquittal,	20 30	1 4th

	Deputy- Commis- saries	And whereas, for want of an enlargement of the Jurisdiction of the several Deputy-Commissaries within this Province, and their being enabled to pass Accounts where the amount of the Estate exceeds the Sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money, many of the In- habitants are put to great inconveniencies and expence, either by being obliged to repair to the Commissary-General for the Passing of such Accounts where the Estate as aforesaid exceeds the Sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money, or for obtaining special Commis- sions from the Commissary-General, directed to the several Deputy- Commissaries, enabling them so to do: For prevention of which Evil,
	p. 36 To Pass Ac- counts of 150 l.	Be it Enacted, That the Deputy-Commissaries within this Prov- ince, in their respective Counties, shall be, and by virtue of this Act they are, hereby authorized and impowered, to pass any Accounts of the Estates of deceased Persons without any special Commission from the Commissary-General, where the amount of the Inventory of such Deceased's Estate, does not exceed the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds Current Money.
	Pauper Estates under 30 l.	And whereas Pauper Estates by former Laws of this Province, do not exceed Ten Pounds Current Money; Be it also Enacted, That during the continuance of this Act, all Estates not exceeding Thirty Pounds Current Money, shall be deemed Pauper Estates, and that in such case there shall be no larger or other Fees taken by any Deputy-Commissary than is by a former Act settled as to Pauper Estates not exceeding Ten Pounds, nor any Fees at all by the Com- missary-General. And whereas it is greatly complained of to this present General Assembly, that in many or all the Courts of this Province, the Clerks and Registers of such Courts greatly multiply Fees, by entering
	Unnecessary Fees not to be charged	unnecessary Motions, Petitions and Orders; Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cases Civil and Criminal, wherever any Motions are made, or Petitions tendered for any Order, no Entry shall be made of them, nor any Charge either for Motion, Petition or Order, unless it shall be particularly required by some Party to the matter, over and above the Sum allowed by this Act to be charged; and that then and in such case only, the Party at whose request such entry of Motion, Petition or Order, shall be made, shall be charged therewith, and liable therefore, in
	Officers Charging Fees not allowed by this Act, to pay 5000 lb. Tob.	such manner as by this Act is directed, and that the adverse Party shall not be liable for the Cost of such entry of Motion, Petition or Order, over and above the Sum allowed by this Act to be charged. And be it further Enacted, That no Officer or Officers, their Clerks, Ministers, or Servants, in this Act mentioned, shall charge