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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 131.

Passed March
18, 1865.

AN ACT to repeal section nine of Article thirty-
eight, of the Code of Public General Laws,,
relating to fees of officers, and to substitute there-
for the following.

Repealed.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bty of Maryland, That section nine, of Article
thirty-eight, of the Code of Public General Laws,
relating to fees of officers, be and the same is
hereby repealed, and the following enacted as a
substitute therefor.

Attorneys' fees

Sec. 9. Attorneys at law shall be entitled to
demand and receive the following fees, to wit :
For bringing prosecuting or defending any suit
of 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 dollars; for
prosecuting or defending apy cause in trie Court
of Appeals, ten dollars; for prosecuting or defending
in any criminal oases in any of the courts of this
State having criminal jurisdiction where the pun-
ishment for the offence charged is death or confine-
ment in the penitenuary, ten dollars; in all other
criminal cases, three dollars and thirty-three cents.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.