to be noted. In all cases, in which any claim shall be made for any Items of fees compensation to any person, on the service of an attachment or execution, for time and expenses, in keeping, securing or removing property taken thereon, the person, who served such attachment or execution, shall make out his bill on the same, for such compensation, specifying the items therein, to wit, the labor done, and by whom, the time spent, and how long, the money paid, if any, and to whom, and for what; and in case of attachment, the court, in which the bill of costs shall be finally taxed, may, on consideration, allow therefor, such sum as is just and reasonable, and the same shall be added to, and taxed with the costs in the action. ecutions. For levying and collecting every execution, where the money is actually collected and paid over, or where Collecting exthe debt is secured and satisfied by the officer, to the acceptance of the creditor, when the amount of the execution does not exceed three dollars and thirty-four cents, the officer collecting the same, shall be allowed seventeen cents, and two per cent on the amount of the execution, above that sum; and when the execution shall be levied on the body of the debtor, and he committed to gaol, one per cent on the amount of the execution, shall be allowed to the officer, and no more. For attending the trial of any action, before a justice of Attending a the peace, where such attendance is necessary, sixty- justice court. seven cents. For committing any person to gaol, on mesne or final Travel for process, twenty cents per mile for travel from the place commitment. of arrest to the gaol, in lieu of all other expenses. SECT. 13. No sheriff, constable or other officer shall No other fees add, or make any other items of fees, not specified in to be charged this act, for the service, or return of any civil process &c. in civil by sheriffs, whatever, nor for any other purpose, in civil causes, but causes. shall be wholly confined to the fees in this act speci fied. Fees for Parties in civil actions. SECT. 14. For attending court, per day, twenty-five Parties. cents. For travel to court, per mile, three cents. Fees for Witnesses in civil causes, taxable in a bill of costs. SECT. 15. For attending court, per day, thirty-four Witnesses. cents. For travel to court, per mile, five cents. Fees for laying out and viewing Highways. highways. SECT. 16. To each committee-man, from the county Laying out court, for laying out a highway, per day, three dollars. To each juryman, for viewing, and reassessing damages on highways, per day, one dollar and fifty cents. Town-clerks. Attorney. Gaolers. To the sheriff or deputy-sheriff, for summoning and at- SECT. 17. For recording a deed, seventeen cents. For other copies and records, the same fees as are allow- For recording a marriage, birth or death, twelve cents. At the county court, sixty-seven cents. SECT. 19. For each commitment and discharge of pris- For dieting each prisoner, per week, such sum as shall be, do. do. do. do. do. do. do. 13,350, 25 00 Writs, &c. and on any greater sum than 13,350 dollars, three sixteenths of one per cent. But if any person shall be confined on two or more executions, and separate bonds be necessary, the several sums of the executions shall be added together, and a computation of fees, made upon the total, on the principles aforesaid. Fees for Writs, Petitions, &c. taxable in bills of costs. SECT. 20. For each common and ordinary writ and declaration on book or note, exclusive of duty, signing, and bond, fifty cents. For all other writs and declarations, or petitions, which do not exceed one page, of two hundred and eighty words, exclusive of duty, signing and bond, fifty cents. For each succeeding page of the same number of words, fifty cents. For bills in form and reports of auditors, twenty-five cents per page. Fees of Grand-Jurors. Grand-jurors. SECT. 21. For attending the superior or county court, each, per day, sixty-seven cents. For travel to court, per mile, six cents. For attending before a justice court, when their attendance is necessary, each, per day, fifty cents. Fees of Witnesses in criminal causes. SECT. 22. For attendance in superior or county court, For travel to court, per mile, six cents. Fees of Sheriffs and other officers, in criminal causes. SECT. 23. For each arrest, fifty cents. Witnesses, in criminal caus es. Sheriffs, &c. in criminal For travel with a prisoner, to court, to gaol, or to new-gate causes. prison, per mile, twenty-five cents. For travel, to make arrest, per mile, five cents. For attending court with prisoner, when necessary, per day, one dollar. For setting a prisoner at the bar of a court, each time, For holding a prisoner in custody, by order of court, one causes. SECT. 24. For the arraignment of a prisoner, one dollar. For a mittimus, twenty-five cents. For a capias, twenty-five cents. Fees of Justices of the Peace, in criminal causes. Clerks in criminal causes. Justices of SECT. 25. For drawing each complaint of grand-juror, or peace in crim- For each trial and judgment, when final, fifty cents. Fees of State's Atttornies. inal causes. State's attor SECT. 26. For conducting and pleading each criminal nies. For drawing an indictment, or information, one dollar. may establish school districts. Place for erecting school-house, how fixed. Power to dis districts. SECT. 3. Each school society shall have power to divide itself into and establish proper and necessary districts for keeping schools, and to alter them from time to time as there may be occasion: and whenever it may be necessary and convenient to form a district of two or more adjoining societies, such district may be formed by the vote of said societies, and altered or dissolved at their pleasure and every such district shall be under the inspection and superintendence of the society where the school-house shall be situated: and when such district shall agree to build a school-house, the place on which the same shall be erected, shall be fixed by a committee agreed on by said societies, upon application of said district, or any part thereof; and the committee shall return their doings, in writing, to the clerk of the society within the limits of which the place shall be fixed; which shall be recorded. SECT. 4. Every school society shall have power, on solve or alter application duly made, by any district, incorporated by incorporated special act of the general assembly, lying within the local limits of such society, to dissolve or alter such district, in the same manner as if said district had been constituted by such society, in case two thirds of the inhabitants of said district, present at a legal meeting, warned for that purpose, and qualified to vote, shall agree to make such. application. Whenever the parts of any district, incorporated by special act of the general assembly, shall be situated in two or more distinct school societies, such district shall not be dissolved but by the vote of each of said societies, on application to them respectively made as aforesaid. Or annex them to other districts. May appoint a committee nex any SECT. 5. Each school society shall have power to andistrict within its limits, formed by an act of the general assembly, to other adjoining districts, or to form it into two or more districts, as may be most convenient ; provided, such district, in a legal meeting, shall consent to waive the benefit of the act of incorporation; and when such district shall be annexed to other adjoining districts, the funds of such district, if any there be, shall be divided as they shall agree, by a major vote, in a legal meeting and when such district is divided into two or more districts, the funds shall be distributed in proportion to their respective lists. SECT. 6. Each school society, at their annual meeting, shall have power to appoint a proper person to be a com ciently convenient so long as nearly all the members, living within the same local limits, belonged to the same ecclesiastical society. But when various religious societies were formed in the same limits, it was found more convenient to form all the inhabitants within the limits of ecclesiastical societies into school societies, and separate them from the ecclesiastical societies. trict. His duty. tricts. mittee for each school district, whose duty it shall be to for each dismanage the concerns of the district, and to provide an instructor for the school, with the assent of the district, and the approbation of the visitors of the school society. SECT. 7. The inhabitants of school districts, shall, in their lawful meetings, by a major vote, have power to Powers of appoint a clerk, who shall be sworn, and whose duty it school disshall be to make true entries of all their votes and proceedings, and to give attested copies thereof, which shall be legal evidence in all courts; to appoint a treasurer, who shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of his trust, and who shall receive all monies belonging to the district, and pay out the same to the order of the district, or the committee, and render his account annually; to make rules relative to the school-house, and to damages done the same, and to the furniture and appendages, and relative to the wood to be supplied by the inhabitants; and to compel obedience, by denying the privilege of the school, to the children of those who refuse a compliance with such rules; to build and provide a school-house; and to lay taxes, for the purpose of building and repairing, or otherwise procuring, a school-house for said district, of furnishing the house with the necessary appendages and accommodations, and of purchasing suitable ground on which to erect such school-house, and of supplying wood; and to appoint a collector to collect such taxes as by them shall be laid, who shall have the same power to levy Collector. and collect such taxes, by warrant from a justice of the peace, as collectors of town taxes have by law, and shall be responsible, in the same manner, for any neglect. And every person who shall be duly chosen, by any school district, to be a collector, and shall neglect or refuse to serve in such office, if he be able in person to execute Penalty for the same, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, to the neglect to treasurer of the school society, in which the district is serve. located, unless he can make it appear, that he is oppressed by such appointment, and that others are unjustly exempted; any justice of the peace to hear and determine the same. And the several school societies and school Constables may be apdistricts, are authorized to appoint either of the consta- pointed. bles of the town or towns in which such school society or district may be situated, to be collector of the taxes of such school society or district, whether such constable belong to said district or society, or not; and when any collector shall die or resign, it shall be the duty of the society or district, to appoint a collector, within three Vacancies to months thereafter, in the place of the one who may have died or resigned. And whenever a district shall agree to build a school-house, the place where it shall be erect be filled. |