1436 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

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 forbid-
den; 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 pro-
cess issued by any court, to levy for any object or purpose not
expressly provided for by law.

204. No person shall be compelled to pay airy of said offi-
cer'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 serv-
ice 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.

205. 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 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 gen-
eral laws, or by some other law of this State.

206. All the officers named and referred to in sections 200
to 203, shall make fair tables of their respective fees, as speci-
fied, 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 convenient part thereof, for
the inspection of all persons who shall have business 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 sec-
tion, to be collected in the same manner as other fines are col-
lectible.

207. If any of said officers, namely: the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court, the sheriff, the Register of Wills, or the State's