88 FEES OF OFFICERS. [ART. 38.
ARTICLE XXXVIII.

Fees of Officers.

ATTORNEYS.

Chapter 131 repeals tection 9 and enacts the following as a substitute therefor:

SEC. 1. Attorneys at law shall be entitled to demand and re-
ceive the following fees, to wit: For bringing, prosecuting or
defending any suit or action at law in any of the courts of this
State of original jurisdiction, five dollars; for prosecuting or
defending any cause, plaint or action in any of the courts of
equity in this State, ten dollars; for prosecuting or defending
any cause in any of the Orphans' Courts in this State, ten dol-
lars; for prosecuting or defending any cause in the Court of
Appeals, ten dollars; for prosecuting or defending in any crimi-
nal cases in any of the courts of this State having criminal juris-
diction where the punishment for the offence charged is death or
confinement in the penitentiary, ten dollars; in all other crimi-
nal cases, three dollars and thirty-three cents.

In force from March 18, 1865.

CONSTABLES.

Chapter 67 amends sections 12, 13, as follows:

2. The several constables in this State shall be entitled to
demand and receive the following fees, to wit:

For serving State warrant and return, seventy-five cents; for
serving search warrant, seventy-five cents; for serving summons
in civil suit and return, forty-five cents; for serving summons
for witness and return, each witness, twenty cents; for serving
scieri facias and return, forty cents; for levying fieri facias and
return, twenty cents; for delivering a person committed over to
the jailor, seventy-five cents, and five cents per mile for every
mile he may have to travel, and the actual necessary traveling
expenses of each prisoner; for summoning jury on inquest,
each juror, fifteen cents; for levying attachments for contempt,