FEES OF JURORS.

SEC. 11. The fees of jurors shall be as follows:

Every juror shall receive in the circuit or criminal court, to be paid out of the United States treasury, two dollars per day.

Every grand juror shall receive for his services as such, to be paid out of the United States treasury, two dollars for each day's attendance.

Every juror for attending a trial before a justice of the peace shall receive fifty cents for each day of his attendance, to be paid in the first instance by the party directing the venire, and to be taxed with the costs of the action.

Every juror sworn upon a coroner's inquest shall receive two dollars per day for his attendance.

Every juror sworn before the marshal or other officer, in pursuance of law, shall receive two dollars per day for his attendance, to be taxed with the costs of the action or proceeding.

Talesmen shall receive the same amount per day as jurors, to be paid in like manner.

FEES OF WITNESSES.

SEC. 12. The fees of witnesses shall be as follows:

For each day's attendance in the circuit, criminal, or orphans' court, one dollar and fifty cents for each witness.

For each day's attendance before a justice of the peace, thirty-five cents for each witness.

For each day's attendance before arbitrators, referees, marshal, coroner, or other officer, one dollar for each witness.

Witnesses residing outside the District of Columbia shall be allowed five cents per mile for travelling from their place of residence to this District, and five cents per mile for returning.

Witnesses shall claim their fees on the day of trial, before any justice of the peace.

FEES OF NOTARIES.

SEC. 13. The fees of notaries public shall be as follows:

For each certificate and seal, fifty cents.

Taking depositions or other writing, for each one hundred words,

ten cents.

Administering an oath, five cents.

Taking acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, with certificate thereof, twenty-five cents.

Every protest of a bill of exchange or promissory note, and recording the same, one dollar.

Each notice of protest, twenty cents.

FEES OF COMMISSIONERS.

SEC. 14. Any commissioner authorized to take depositions and acknowledgment of deeds, shall be entitled to receive the same fees as are allowed to justices of the peace for the same services.

FEES OF COUNTY SURVEYOR.

SEC. 15. The fees of the county surveyor shall be as follows:
For surveying, per day, five dollars.

Calculating the quantity of less than six courses or lines, seventyfive cents.

Every course or line more than six, four cents.

Making a plat of six courses or less, seventy-five cents.

Every course more than six, four cents.

Recording a plat and certificate, if not more than six courses, seventy-five cents.

Every course above six, four cents.

Copy of a plat and certificate, where there are not more than six courses, seventy-five cents.

Every course above six, four cents.

Every search where no copy is required, twenty-five cents.

SEC. 16. The criers of the circuit and criminal courts of this District shall be appointed by said courts respectively, and shall receive three dollars for each day they shall attend their respective courts in session, to be paid out of the treasury of the United States.

SEC. 17. Bailiffs, appointed for the purpose of keeping order in court, attending juries, or executing any order of the court, during its session, shall each receive two dollars per day, to be paid out of the treasury of the United States. Bailiffs shall be appointed by the courts respectively, not exceeding, however, three for the circuit and criminal courts each, and one for the district and orphans' courts each.

SEC. 18. In all copies, transcripts, or records, authorized by law, or required by any person, the fees to which any officer shall be entitled therefor shall be ascertained by accounting four figures therein used to express numbers, sums, or dates, as one word.

SEC. 19. Every officer whose fees are herein ascertained, shall pub

lish and set up in his office a fair table of his fees according to this chapter, within one month after the passage thereof, in some conspicuous place, for the inspection of all persons who have business in his office. If any such officer shall neglect or refuse so to do, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars.

SEC. 20. The fees allowed by this chapter shall be payable at the time the service is rendered; and any officer, where it is not otherwise expressly provided by law, may refuse to perform any service in any action or proceeding in which there are any fees due to him (criminal proceedings excepted) from the person applying, unless such fees are paid, or secured to be paid.

SEC. 21. When by law any publication is authorized or required to be made by any officer, the costs of such publication shall be first tendered by the party, if demanded, before the officer shall be compelled to make publication.

SEC. 22. If any clerk, register of wills, marshal, justice of the peace, or constable, shall not have received the fees which may be due him for services rendered in any action or proceeding, he may have execution therefor, in his own name, against the party from whom they are due, to be issued from the court or by the justice before whom the action or proceeding is or was pending. The words "person" and "party," in this section and the two preceding sections, shall not be construed to include the United States.

SEC. 23. Every officer, upon receiving any fees for any official duty or service, shall, if required by the person paying the same, make out in writing and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, and shall receipt the same; and if he refuse or neglect to do so, he shall be liable to the party paying the same for three times the amount so paid.

SEC. 24. The compensation in this chapter directed to be paid out of the United States treasury, shall be paid to the parties respectively by the marshal, and allowed in his accounts.

CHAPTER 10.

OF THAT PART OF WASHINGTON COUNTY WHICH LIES OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF WASHINGTON CITY AND GEORGETOWN.

TITLE V.

63. Collector shall enter tax sales in a book. 64. Collector shall give to purchaser a certificate.

65. An owner of an undivided part may redeem.

66. If property be not redeemed, the collector to make a deed.

67. The collector not to make a deed, if he finds out the sale to invalid.

Duties of collector on the conveyance
or redemption of real estate.

75. What shall be the fees of collector.

76.

77.

Regulations respecting the returns of
collectors.

78.

79. The collector may call in assistance when resisted.

80. The collector to return surplus to owner. 81. The collector may complete his collections, notwithstanding the expiration of his term.

SECTION

82. If collector die, the levy court appoint a suitable person to complete his collections.

COUNTY TREASURER.

84. County treasurer to take an oath and give bond.

85} Duties of the treasurer.

83. No goods shall be distrained for taxes which are exempt by law from execution.

97. Treasurer's books and office subject to inspection.

99. Levy court may license keepers of billiard tables.

100.

68. Sale not to be invalid if not assessed to rightful owner. 69. The collector may adjourn sale from day 101. Levy court may license auctioneers. to day. 102. Levy court may license shows, &c.

Levy court my license keepers of ball alleys.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

88. Treasurer shall make an annual settlement with levy court, and shall deliver public money, &c., to his successor.

LICENSES.

70.

71.

103. School districts to be laid off.

72.

104. School commissioner to be appointed for

73. Tax to constitute a lien.

each district.

74. Expenses shall be considered as legal 105. The school commissioners to be a cor

charges.

89. No tavern to be kept without a license.
90. When such license shall not be granted.
91. What shall be paid for such license.
92. A bond shall be required.

93. Proceedings when the bond is broken. 94. Penalty upon tavern keepers for permitting or doing certain things.

95. License to be granted only to the master of the house.

96. Penalty for keeping a tavern, or selling intoxicating liquors, without license. 97. When licenses to expire.

98. Levy court may license hawkers and pedlars.

poration.

106. Powers of the board of school commissioners.

107. School commissioners to deliver their records to their successors.

108. School commissioners to take an oath. 109. School commissioners may be removed for neglect of duty, &c.

110.

Levy court may lay and collect a special school tax.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

111. Levy court shall provide records for the
orphans' court.

112. Levy court may punish contempts.
113. This chapter not to relate to Washing-
ton City or Georgetown.

114. Levy court may fix election districts,

and appoint judges.