ART. 13.] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 1319
said county, by any of the officers aforesaid, or any other person,
and allowed and levied for by former boards of county commis-
sioners, 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 regulating 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.
1886, ch. 36.
70. 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 partic-
ularly, without abbreviation, each and every item; and said fee
bill shall not contain a charge for a fee for any service not ex-
pressly 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 recording 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.
1872, ch. 117.
71. No judge of the circuit court, nor any other judge, shall
allow any of the officers aforesaid, or any other person or attor-
ney, under any pretence 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.
Ibid.
72. All the officers'named and referred to in sections 66 to 69,.
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
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