LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

901

Cents.

For recording or copying all plots made by surveyors, and

which may be filed in office, when so required either by

law or an individual, the same fees as are by law limited

and allowed to surveyors for the performance of like or

similar services.

For alphabeting every instrument, proceeding, paper, or

other matter, recorded in the office, and endorsing or

entering thereon a certificate referring to the record, for

every ten words and figures necessarily written for that

purpose, and so pro rata, 1 1/4

But this provision shall not be so construed as to extend to

any alphabets or indexes made to the dockets of actions,

suits or prosecutions.

For any other service, matter or thing, not herein before

particularly enumerated, and for which no specific allow-

ance may have been already made, the same fees as are

herein after prescribed and allowed to the clerks of the

several county courts of this state, for the like or similar

services, and no more.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the com-
mencement of the operation of this act, there shall be limited
and allowed to the register in chancery, the following fees,

To the
register in
chancery.

which may arise or become due for services thereafter rendered

in virtue of his office, and no more, viz.

Cents

For issuing under seal of office a subpoena ad respondendum,

an attachment of contempt, a writ of error, an injunc-

tion, every execution or attachment on a decree, every

commission, a ne exeat, a habere facias possessionem, a

writ de lunatico inquirendo, a writ of sequestration, or

other special writ; or any other writ or process not

herein particularly enumerated ; for every ten words or

figures of any or either of them, and so pro rata, 1 1/4

For the docket entry of the return of any writ or process, 5

For filing every bill or petition, every answer or plea,

every demurrer, every commission and deposition, ac-

counts, books of account, bonds, deeds, or other papers

or writings referred to and made part of any bill, plea,

answer, or other pleadings or process thereupon, (to be

charged but once,) for each, 5

For an appearance docketed or entered of each or any in-

dividual party, complainant or defendant, whether in

proper person, or by solicitor, 5

For the docket entry of every continuance, or reference, of

a cause, to be charged to the party complainant or plain-

tiff only, 5

For the docket entry of every imparlance, 5