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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all Sections of the several Ar-
ticles of the Code of Public Local Laws of this
State, relating to the fees of Justices of the Peace,
be and the same are hereby repealed.
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Repealed
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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section
seventeen, eighteen and nineteen of Article thirty-
eight of the Code of Public General Laws, rela-
ting to the fees of Justices of the Peace, be re-
pealed, and the following sections he adopted in
lieu thereof;
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Additional
adopted.
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17. The Justices of the Peace of this State shall
he entitled to receive the fees allowed in the fol-
lowing table, and such fees shall he taxed and paid
by the party against whom judgment shall be ren-
dered, to wit ; For issuing each summons in debt
or damages, or writ of replevin, twenty-five cents;
for each summons for witnesses, including all the
witnesses applied for at the same time, twenty-five
. cents; for venire to summon freeholders, thirty-
five cents; for fieri facias, thirty-five cents; for
venditioni exponas, thirty-five cents; for scire
facias, forty-five cents; for every superdeas, twenty
cents; for every oath or affidavit, ten cents; for
probate or account, ten cents; for every judgment
rendered where there is no trial, twenty-five cents;
for every judgment rendered on trial, sixty cents;
for every warrant of attachment against a resident
debtor, forty-five cents; for every attachment
against a non-resident or absconding debtor, one
dollar; for attachment of contempt, twenty-five
cents; for venire to summon a jury in a case of
forcible entry and detainer, and summons to ten-
ant, one dollar; for taking inquisition and return
thereof, four dollars; for warrant of restitution,
one dollar; for taking every acknowledgment of
every deed or other instrument of writing from
each person making an acknowledgment, thirty
cents; for a certificate of estrays, forty cents; for
issuing writ of attachment by way of execution,
forty-five cents; for taking replevin or other
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Fees of Jus-
tices of the
Peace.
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