2942 ARTICLE 13.

of the officers aforesaid, or any other person, and allowed and levied for
by former boards of county commissioners, but which were not expressly
authorized by law, shall not be allowed to have or take the force and effect
of law, but such usage or custom is hereby disallowed and forbidden; and
the county commissioners, in adjusting said accounts and claims, shall be
governed by the rates of fees as fixed and set forth in the fee bill regulat-
ing the fees of said officers, respectively, in the code of public general laws;
and they shall not be liable to be compelled by mandamus, or any other
process issued by any court, to levy for any object or purpose not expressly
provided for by law.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 204.

229. No person shall be compelled to pay any of said officer's fees
until there be presented to him or her a fee bill signed by the officer to
whom the fees are due, expressing the particulars for which such fees are
charged, and specifying fully and particularly, without abbreviation, each
and every item; and said fee bill shall not contain a charge for a fee for
any service not expressly provided for by law, or a greater fee than is
so provided, nor any charge for a fee for any service not performed at or
before the time when such bill of fees is rendered; except that for record-
ing deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and judgments of justices of the peace,
the clerk of the circuit court may demand and receive payment therefor
upon their deposit for record in his office.

1916, ch, 680, sec. 205. .

230. No judge of the circuit court, nor any other judge shall allow any
of the officers aforesaid, or any other person or attorney, under any pre-
tense whatsoever, any fee or fees under the denomination of compensatory
fees for any service not specified, limited and appointed by the code of
public general laws, or by some other law of this State.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 206.

231. All the officers named and referred to in Sections 225 to 228,
shall make fair tables of their respective fees, as specified, limited and
appointed by the code of public general laws, and post up and keep the
same posted up, in their respective offices, in some conspicuous and con-
venient part thereof, for the inspection of all persons who shall have busi-
ness in said offices; and if any of said officers shall neglect to keep posted
up a table of the fees of his office as aforesaid, such officer shall be liable
to a fine of ten dollars for each and every week he neglects or refuses to
comply with the provisions of this section, to be collected in the same
manner as other fines are collectible.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 207.

232. If any of said officers, namely: the Clerk of the Circuit Court,
the sheriff, the Register of Wills, or the State's Attorney of said county,
shall knowingly demand or receive for any service or duty a fee not