Acts. 357

Pounds of Tobacco.
Arresting or summoning any Sheriff sued or prosecuted in any
Court, and for taking Security, 30

Liber H. S.
No. I

Arresting, summoning, or attaching any other Person or Per-
sons, wherein the Sheriff is Plaintiff, such Fees as are
allowed to be taken by the Sheriff in such Case, and no more.

Cryer's Fees in the County Court.

[Fees to the
Coroner.]

p. 96

Pounds of Tobacco.
Swearing every Jury, 36
Swearing every Bailiff, 4
Every Oath, 3
For special Bail, 20
For Good Behaviour, 20
Clearing every Prisoner by Proclamation or Acquittal, 30

[Fees to the
Cryer of the
County
Courts.]

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
Inhabitants are put to great Inconveniences 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 Commissions
from the Commissary-General, directed to the several Deputy-Com-
missaries, enabling them so to do: For Prevention of which Evil,

[Deputy
Commis-
saries to pass
Accounts of
Estates, to
the Amount
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.

[Without
any special
Commis-
sion.]

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 Commissary-
General.

[Pauper Es-
tates under
30l.]

And to prevent the Clerks and Registers of the several Courts
within this Province from multiplying Fees, by entring unnecessary
Motions, Petitions, and Orders; Be it Enacted, 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
25

p. 97

[Unneces-
sary Mo-
tions, &c.
not to be
charged.]