THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   303

CHAPTER 208
(Senate Bill 317)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 10 and
13 of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edi-
tion), title "Fees of Officers", sub-titles "Attorneys" and "Clerks
of Court", respectively, relating to the fees of attorneys and the
Clerk of the Court of Appeals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly af Maryland,
That Sections 10 and 13 of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Fees of Officers", sub-titles "Attorneys"
and "Clerks of Court", respectively, be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

10. Attorneys at law shall be entitled to demand and receive 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...$ 5.00

for prosecuting or defending any cause, plaint or action, in-
cluding all proceedings to collect money due on mortgage, in
any of the courts of equity of this State...................................................$10.00

for prosecuting or defending any cause in any of the orphans'
courts in this State............................................................................................................$10.00

for prosecuting or defending any cause in the court of
appeals ..................................................................................................................................$10,00

for prosecuting or defending in any criminal cases in any of
the courts of this State having criminal jurisdiction, when
the punishment for the offense charged is death or confine-
ment in the Penitentiary.............................................................................................$10.00

In all other criminal cases................................................................................................$ 5.00

13. The Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland may charge
and shall be entitled to receive the fees hereinafter set forth for the
performance of his duties, as follows:

(1)   for filing the record in any appeal and all duties incident
thereto, [$10.00;] $20.00;

(2)   for filing a motion for re-argument and all duties incident
thereto, $5.00;

(3)   for a certificate under seal of the admission of any attorney,
$5.00;

(4)   for any copy of a certificate under seal of the admission of
any attorney, $1.00;

(5)   for furnishing copies of laws [and opinions] per hundred
words, 12 1/2;

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.