CHAP. 149. TITLE ELEVENTH. Of duties payable by certain public officers; their compensa tion; and of costs in civil and criminal cases; and the col lection and disposal of fines and costs. CHAPTER 149. Of the duties payable by public officers. 150. Of the salaries of public officers, and the expenses of the members of the state government. 151. Of the regulation of fees, and of costs in certain cases. 152. Of the taxation of costs, and the collection and disposal of fines and costs in criminal prosecutions. Duty payable to state, or County trea surers, on com missions 1820, 102, §1,2. 1821, 103. 1825, 286, § 1. Sheriffs. Clerks of courts. County attorneys. Judges of probate. Registers of probate. CHAPTER 149. OF THE DUTIES PAYABLE BY PUBLIC OFFICERS. SECT. 1. Duties payable to state, or county SECT. 3. Duty payable by attorneys at law, treasurer, on commissions. 2. How county treasurers shall ac- to county treasurers. 4. Duty payable by inspectors of fish, to treasurers of towns. SECTION 1. No person, appointed to either of the offices, specified in this section, shall be entitled to receive his commission, until he shall have paid to the treasurer, either of the state or of his county, the sum hereby designated to be paid for such commission, that is to say: Sheriffs of the counties of York, Cumberland, Lincoln, Kennebec and Penobscot, respectively, fifty dollars, and of all other counties, twenty five dollars each; Clerks of the judicial courts for the counties of York, Cumberland, Lincoln, Kennebec and Penobscot, forty dollars, and for other counties, twenty five dollars each; County attornies, five dollars each; Judges of probate, seven dollars each; Inspectors general, excepting inspectors of hops, and of butter Inspectors gen- and lard, twenty dollars each; eral. Justices. Justices of the peace, five dollars each. SECT. 2. Every county treasurer; whenever he shall render his accounts to the state, shall specify all sums received by him for duties, under the foregoing section, together with the name of the individual, and office for which the same was paid. SECT. 3. No person shall be admitted as an attorney in any district court, until he shall have paid to the treasurer of the county, where he is admitted, the sum of twenty dollars, and shall produce his receipt therefor to the court. SECT. 4. Every inspector of fish shall, on being qualified for such office, pay to the treasurer of the town or plantation in which he shall reside, five dollars; and every such treasurer shall pay over all moneys, so received, to the treasurer of the state, on or before the twentieth day of January annually. CHAPTER 150. OF THE SALARIES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS; AND EXPENSES OF THE SECT. 1. Salaries payable at the state treas- SECT. 5. Inability or neglect of the register ury. Also at the county treasury. 2. Other emoluments, pertaining to certain of the same offices. 3. Amount of fees, which may be retained by clerks of the judicial courts. 4. Compensation of counselors, senators and representatives, secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives. of probate, to be certified by the 6. Register pro tem. to receive a pro- 7. County to provide books for records CHAP. 150. SECTION 1. The following public officers shall be entitled to Salaries payareceive salaries, in quarterly payments, on the first day of January, ble at the state April, July and October of each year, at the following annual rates, 1820, 106, § 1. that is to say: From the treasury of the state: Governor, fifteen hundred dollars; Treasurer of the state, nine hundred dollars; Secretary of state, nine hundred dollars; Adjutant general, seven hundred dollars; Land agent, one thousand dollars; treasury. 1. 1820, 54, § 10. 1836, 236, § 1. 1839, 373, § 10. 1822, 205. 1839, 408, § 1. Warden of the state prison, seven hundred dollars; Judges of the supreme judicial court, each, eighteen hundred dollars; Judges of the district courts, each, twelve hundred dollars; Attorney general, one thousand dollars; Reporter of the decisions of the supreme judicial court, six County attorneys, in the respective counties of York, two hundred and fifty dollars, Cumberland, four hundred dollars, Lincoln, two hundred and seventy five dollars, Oxford, one hundred and fifty dollars, Kennebec, three hundred dollars, Somerset, two hundred dollars, Penobscot, four hundred dollars, Hancock, one hundred and fifty dollars, Washington, two hundred dollars, Waldo, one hundred and fifty dollars, Franklin, one hundred dollars, Piscataquis, one hundred dollars, Aroostook, one hundred dollars. And from the treasurer of their respective counties: Judges of probate in the counties of York, three hundred dollars, Cumberland, four hundred dollars, Lincoln, three hundred dollars, Kennebec, three hundred dollars, Also at the 1828, 395, §1,2. 1837, 255. 1836, 224. Hancock, two hundred and twenty five dollars, 1837, 254. 1834, 120. 1839, 383, 393, $1. CHAP. 150. 1840, 3, § 3. 1835, 186, § 1, 2. Other emolu Oxford, two hundred dollars, Somerset, one hundred and fifty dollars, Penobscot, two hundred and seventy five dollars, Franklin, one hundred dollars, Piscataquis, sixty dollars, Aroostook, fifty dollars; Registers of probate in the counties of Oxford, three hundred and fifty dollars, Penobscot, five hundred and fifty dollars, Washington, four hundred dollars, Waldo, three hundred dollars, Franklin, one hundred and fifty dollars, Piscataquis, one hundred and twenty five dollars, Aroostook, one hundred dollars; Judge of the municipal court in Portland, in the county of Cumberland, seven hundred dollars; Recorder of the same court, four hundred dollars. SECT. 2. The foregoing salaries shall be in full of all fees and ments, pertain- emoluments, pertaining to such offices, excepting as follows: First. The secretary of state shall be entitled to retain such fees, as may be received in his office for special services; ing to certain of the same offi ces. 1837, 302. 1824, 282, § 23. 1820, 54, § 10. 1826, 343, § 3. Amount of fees, which may be retained by clerks of the judicial courts. 1820, 90, § 2. Second. The warden of the state prison shall have the exclu sive use and occupation of such part of the keeper's house and buildings in Thomaston, belonging to the state, appurtenant to said prison and yard, as the governor and council may direct, and the free use of store rooms, and fuel for his use, which shall be furnished by the prison without charge; Third. The reporter of the decisions of the supreme judicial court may retain, to his own use, the profits arising from the publication of his reports; Fourth. The register of probate shall be entitled to fees for all copies of papers, by him furnished by request, excepting one of each of the following papers, to be furnished by him, when demanded, to executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, widows, heirs or other parties, principally interested, to wit: all wills proved, inventories returned and accounts settled, partitions of real estate and assignment of dower, and all other orders and decrees of the court of probate. SECT. 3. The clerks of the judicial courts, when they render to the treasurers of their respective counties, their account of fees which have accrued to them, as provided in the sixth section of chapter, one hundred, may severally retain one thousand dollars, if so much shall have accrued to them, during the year preceding, and in the same proportion for any time less than one year; and in addition, one half of all the fees of office to them respectively CHAP. 150. accrued, over that sum or proportional part thereof, as their salaries. senators and senate and clerk representatives. SECT. 4. Each member of the council, senate, and house of Compensation representatives, shall be allowed and paid for his services, two dol- of counselors, lars for every day he shall have attended, and two dollars for every representatives, ten miles' travel from his place of abode, at each session. The secretary of the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, of the house of in addition to their pay as members, shall each be entitled to two dollars for every day's attendance. To the secretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of representatives, there shall be allowed and paid three dollars, each; and to their respective assistants, two dollars each, for every day, they may be employed as such. Pay rolls shall be made up in conformity to these provisions, and paid out of the treasury of the state. SECT. 5. Whenever the register of probate shall be unable from sickness, or shall, from any other cause, neglect to do the duties of his office, the judge of probate for the same county shall certify, to the county treasurer, the fact of such inability or neglect, and the time of its commencement and termination; and what person has performed the duties of register in the mean time. SECT. 6. The county treasurer shall not pay to the said register any portion of the salary, that may accrue from the time when it thus appears he ceased to perform his duties, but the same shall be paid to the person certified, as aforesaid, to have performed said duties, until the register shall resume the same, or a new register shall be appointed. 1823, 216. 1824, 273, § 1. Inability or neglect of the register of probate, to be certified by the judge, to the county treasurer. 1830, 483, § 1. Register pro tem. to receive a proportional part of the sal 1830, 483. vide books for SECT. 7. Each county shall provide all books necessary for County to prokeeping the records in the registry of probate and all necessary records and printed blanks; but all other stationery, and all the incidental blanks. Regisexpenses of the office shall be considered, as provided by the salary stationery and of the register. ter to furnish incidentals. 1826, 343, § 4. CHAPTER 151. OF THE REGULATION OF FEES AND OF COSTS IN CERTAIN CASES. SECT. 12. Fees of witnesses. 14. Costs taxable, for the state,, in 15. Of probate fees. 16. Expenses of partition, or assign- &c. to pay. CHAP. 151. SECT. 19. Fees for solemnization of mar-SECT. 24. On appeals to higher courts; or The fees, chargeable by public officers, for the services hereinafter mentioned, and the costs, taxable in civil suits and criminal prosecutions, shall be as provided in this chapter. FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. SECTION 1. For every blank writ of attachment and summons thereon, or original summons, ten cents. For every subpoena, for one or more witnesses, ten cents. For the entry of an action or filing a complaint in civil causes, including filing of papers, swearing of witnesses, examining, allowing and taxing the bill of costs, and entering up judgment, and recording the same, thirty cents. For the trial of an issue, eighty cents. For a copy of a record or other paper, at the rate of twelve cents, a page. For a writ of execution, fifteen cents. For a recognizance to prosecute an appeal, including principal and surety, twenty cents. For taking a deposition, affidavit, or disclosure of a trustee, in any cause not pending before himself, twenty cents; for writing the same with the caption, and for the notifications to the parties and witnesses, at the rate of twelve cents, a page: the justice, who shall take such affidavit, deposition or disclosure, shall certify the fees of himself, of the witnesses or party disclosing, and of the officer serving the notifications. For taking a deposition in perpetual memory of the thing, the same fees to each justice, as in taking other depositions. Administering an oath in all cases, except on a trial or examination before himself, and to qualify town or parish officers, and a certificate thereof, twenty cents, whether administered to one or more persons, at the same time. Taking the acknowledgment of a deed, with one or more seals, provided it be done at one and the same time, and certifying the same, seventeen cents. Granting a warrant of appraisement in any case, and swearing appraisers, thirty two cents. For receiving a complaint, and issuing a warrant in criminal cases, fifty cents.. For entering a complaint in a criminal prosecution, swearing wit |