MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

1887

cents per mile, for each and every mile that his place of resi-
dence shall be distant from the place of holding said courts, the
said allowance of three cents per mile to be levied, collected
and paid, in the same manner, and at the same time, with his
•per diem allowance, and he shall be entitled to receive said
allowance or sum of three cents per mile for each day said
witness may attend said court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
sheriff summoning such witnesses, to return to the clerk or re-
gister, as the case may be, of the court to which such witness
shall be summoned, the distance of which each witness resides
or lives from the place of holding said court ; and the said
cleikor register shall return a list of said witnesses, with the
distance of their icspective residences, to the levy court of
Dorchester county, that they may be the better enabled to make
said levy aforesaid.

Sheriff to
return
distance to
court.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That each and every justice of
the levy court in Dorchester county shall be entitled to receive
one dollar and twenty-five cents for each and every day he
shall attend said court, and each and every trustee of the poor
in Dorchester county shall be entitled to receive one dollar and
twenty-five cents per day for each and every day he shall at-
tend trustee meetings at the poor-house in said county ; and
the said justices of the levy court, and the said trustees of the
poor, shall be entitled, in addition to their per diem allowance,
to receive six cents per mile for each and every mile that his
residence shall be distant from the places at which said levy
court and said trustees of the poor shall meet or sit, the said
mileage to be allowed and paid for each and every day he shall
attend said court or said trustee meetings.

Allowances
to levy
court and
trustees of
poor.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the county
shall certify to the levy court the distance or number of miles
that each member of the levy court, and each trustee of the poor
may or shall reside from the place or places of meeting of the
said levy court and trustees of the poor, respectively ; which
said certificate shall be full authority to the levy court to em-
power them to cause a levy to be made on said county for the
amount which to them may seem necessary to meet the provi-
sions of this act.

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to establish Magistrates'
Courts in the several Counties of this State, and to prescribe their Juris-
diction, so far as it relates to Dorchester County.-— 1837, ch. 202.
See ante page 1 197.

Clerk to
return
distance*

WHEREAS, by the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
chapter two hundred and one, establishing magistrates* courts

Preamble.