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Where actions are entered, agreed, struck off, discontinued or abated,

or are otherwise ended before final judgment or decree, the pro-

ceedings shall not be recorded, unless at the request of the plaintiff

or defendant, or his agent or attorney, signified in writing to the

clerks, and if recorded without such request no fees shall be paya-

ble therefor— Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 10, .....

154

Every officer mentioned by this- act shall set up, and constantly keep

in the roost public place in his office, a fair table of the fees thereby

rated and established, under the penalty of £50, for every month's

neglect— Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 10, ......

154

On refusal or neglect by any person to pay the officers' fees, the sheriff,

after the 10th of August, may distrain his goods and chattels, and

sell them after five days, at public auction, to be done without fee

or reward, and the overplus returned to the debtor — Nov. 1779,

ch. 25, sec. 17,* ..........

155

On such refusal to pay, or on neglect or refusal to shew goods to be

distrained, Sec. the sheriff may take such person in execution for

the sum due— -Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 18,| .....

155

The sheriff shall, on or before the 20th October yearly, pay to each

creditor all the money he shall or might have received in satisfac-

tion of their several and respective debts — Nov. 1779. ch. 25, sec.

18, . . . . . . . . . . . .

155

If payment is not made, the sheriff shall forfeit and pay to the party

grieved double the money, if he shall sue the sheriff only, to be

recovered in the manner therein prescribed — Nov. 1779, ch. 25,

sec. 18, ............

155

If the party sues on the sheriff's bond, he shall recover only his debt,

interest aud costs — Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 18,

155

So much of this act as requires fees of officers to be delivered to the

party before the first day of May, repealed, and the sheriff shall

not execute for the same, until after the expiration of sixty clays

from the time the fee shall be delivered, unless such person is

about to abscond or conceal his effects, and non-residents or not

assessed may be required to pay the fees at the time of rendering

the service, or give security for payment of the same — 1822, ch.

219, ............

787

Attorneys' fees by this act are levyable by execution as other officers'

fees, and the sheriffs are obliged to levy and execute the same —

1715, ch. 48, sec. 1, .........

41

No prosecution shall be commenced for any penalty or forfeiture under

this act, unless within one year — Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 19,

155

All fees and allowances to officers and others, given in tobacco, shall

be paid in tobacco at 12s. 6d. per hundred, or in specie, valuing

dollars at 7s. 6d. at the election of the person charged — Oct. 1780,

ch. 23, ...........

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Officers' fees in special courts, viz.

* See note thereto. + See 1822, ch. 219.