748 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 443

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 36 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland be and the same is hereby amend-
ed, by repealing and re-enacting, with amendments, Section
12 thereof, as enacted by Chapter 222 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1892, entitled "An
Act to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12 of
Article 36 of the Code of Public General Laws," title, "Fees
of Officers," sub-title, "Clerks of Courts."

SEC. 12. The Clerk of the Court of Appeals, the clerks
of the Circuit Courts and the Clerks of the Courts of the
City of Baltimore may charge the fees herein allowed for
the performance of their respective duties, to wit: For filing
any paper, or thing, required to be filed, and entering the
same on the' docket or minutes of court to be charged but
once, five cents; for docket entry of any judgment or decree,
twenty-five cents; for entering the naturalization of an alien
with certificate under seal, including all oaths taken thereon,
fifty cents; for entering the declaration of intention of an
alien to become a citizen with certificate under seal, and all
oaths taken thereon, fifty cents; for granting any license of
any kind; fifty cents; for taxing the costs in any suit or
proceeding, to be charged but once, fifteen cents; for a tran-
script thereof with the items thereof, at large when demanded,
to be charged to any person requiring the same, ten cents;
for every search for matter above a year's standing, however
remote the period may be, if found, fifteen cents; for affixing
the seal to every paper, or thing when required, except writs
and process, ten cents; for issuing writs or process of any
kind under seal for every ten words and so pro rata, one
and one-quarter cents; for issuing summons for witness, in-
cluding the names of all witnesses applied for at the time,
fifteen cents; for issuing summons for witnesses DUCES TECUM,
twenty cents; for. short copy of judgment not under seal,
fifteen cents; for transcribing the docket entries in each suit
and of each executive as required by law, for each transcript,
twenty-five cents; for certificate of the attendance of a witness
or juror, five cents; for certificate under seal of the quali-
fications of any judge, or one or more justices of the peace
to any instrument of writing, including all searches made
for the purpose of said certificate, twenty-five cents; for cer-
tificate under seal of an admission of an attorney, $1.00; for