Fees of Officers of State Courts. ing a jury, 25 cents; for administering an oath or affirmation (except to jurors) in court, 4 cents; for taking and entering verdict, 6 cents; for entering up every judgment, or a copy thereof, 16 cents; for engrossing special verdict, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for entering a discontinuance, 10 cents; for attending on striking special jury, and delivering copies, 50 cents; for entering satisfaction on record, 10 cents; for drawing process when required, for every sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for entering issue joined, 15 cents; for drawing cost bill, 35 cents; for copy of a rule of reference, 25 cents; for commission to take depositions with the seal of court, 50 cents; for each and every continuance, 10 cents; for a venire facias, 25 cents; for making a complete record in every cause, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for copy of record and proceedings when required, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for certificate, with the seal annexed, 50 cents; for every copy of every paper or record, not herein otherwise provided for, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for every writ of error, supersedeas, certiorari, or habeas corpus, 25 cents; for taking bond on issuing writ of error, supersedeas, certiorari. or habeas corpus, 37 cents; for filing the record upon an appeal, writ of error, supersedeas, certiorari, or habeas corpus, 12 cents; for every order to a witness for attendance, to be charged to the party against whom such order goes, 6 cents; for subpoena in chancery, 20 cents; for filing each bill, answer, replication, or other pleadings in chancery, 10 cents; for an order to advertise, 25 cents; for entering every decree at large, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for entering security for costs, 6 cents; for a search or examination of the records, if a copy is not required, 12 cents, (suitors and officers of the court excepted.) Clerk's Fees in the Supreme Court, in criminal cases. For entering defendant's appearance, 8 cents; for discharging on bail, 10 cents; for drawing process, 25 cents; for entering plea, 6 cents; for drawing a subpoena and seal, 25 cents; for administering an oath or affirmation (excepting to jurors) in court, 4 cents: for making up the record, for every sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for entering judgment, 12 cents; for taking cog nizance, and entering the same, 25 cents; for copies of indictments or pleadings, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for copy of the traverse, 10 cents; for entering every order or special rule of court, 10 cents; for copy of the same, when required, 8 cents; for entering a nolle prosequi or cessat processus, 6 cents; for a search or examination of the records, and reading the same, if a copy is not required, 124 cents. Clerk's Fees in the Court of Common Pleas.For filing ticket, and issuing capias, attachment, replevin, execution, certiorari, supersedeas, or summons, under the seal of the court, and entering the same, 25 cents; for drawing writs, scire facias, with the seal of the court annexed, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for entering the appearance of either party, by attorney or personal, to be charged but once, 8 cents; for enter ing the sheriff's return, 6 cents; for docketing every cause, to be charged but once, 6 cents; for filing declaration, demurrer, pleadings, depositions, or other necessary documents, each, 4 cents; for receiving the panel, and swearing the jury, 12 cents; for swearing each witness, 4 cents; for every order to a witness for attendance, to be charged to the party against whom such order goes, 6 cents; for swearing a constable, 4 cents; for taking and recording a verdict, 10 cents; for entering judgment, 10 cents; for entering a discontinuance, 10 cents; for entering every special rule, 6 cents; for a commission to take depositions, under the seal of the court, 50 cents; for every writ of subpoena for one or more witnesses, 12 cents; for taking bail, 12 cents; for issuing bail piece, when required, 40 cents; for recording the proceedings and judgment in each action, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for copy of record or pleading on file, when required, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for entering confession of judgment, 10 cents; for entering confession of lease, entry, and ouster in ejectment, 10 cents; for copy of a rule of reference, with the seal of the court annexed, 25 cents; for entering satisfaction of a judgment on record, 12 cents; for the writ of venire, to be taxed on each issue tried, 12 cents; for entering a continuance, 10 cents; for a venire facias for a special jury, 25 cents; for attending the striking a special jury, and furnishing the panel thereof to each party, 50 cents; for reading and entering allowance of habeas corpus, writ of error, or certiorari, and the return, 15 cents; for making out a copy of a record, with the seal of the court and certificate annexed, upon appeal, writ of error, habeas corpus, or certiorari, and transmitting the same, for each sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; for each certificate to which the county seal is required, and not herein provided for, 50 cents; for the probate of any will or testament, and certificate thereof, 33 cents; for recording a will, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for administering an oath to executor or administrator, and taking bond, 40 cents; for entering the order or orders for appraising the estate, 12 cents; for copy thereof, 12 cents; for letters of administration and copy, $1; for recording inventory, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for a copy of a will or inventory, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for filing appeal from justice of the peace, and docketing the same, 8 cents; for entering security for costs, 64 cents; for a search or examination of the records, and reading the same, if a copy is not required, 12 cents; for a search or examination of the estray book, and reading the same, if a copy is not required, 64 cents; for entering appeal, and taking bond to prosecute it, 33 cents; for subpoena in chancery, 20 cents; for filing each bill, answer, replication, or other pleading, in chancery, 8 cents; for an order to advertise, 25 cents; for entering every decree at large, for every twenty words, 2 cents; for drawing cost bill, 35 cents; for entering allowance of writ of error, habeas corpus, or certiorari, 15 cents; and the clerks of the respective courts shall be allowed by the commissioners of their proper Fees of Officers of State Courts. county, annually, a reasonable compensation for money expended in purchasing blank books, which sum shall be paid out of the county treasury. Clerk's Fees in the Court of Common Pleas in Criminal Cases. For issuing a capias or other process upon indictment, under the county seal, 25 cents; writ of subpoena for one or more witnesses, 20 cents; a venire for traverse jury, to be allowed in each trial, 25 cents; entering defendant's appearance or plea, 6 cents; receiving the panel and swearing the jury, 12 cents; swearing each witness, 5 cents; swearing a constable, 4 cents; receiving and entering verdict, 12 cents; entering judgment, 16 cents; making up the record, for every sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; copies of a record or original paper on file, when required, per sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; drawing up a recognisance in form, when required, 25 cents; drawing cost bill, 35 cents: Provided, That the clerks of the courts of common pleas, in the several counties, for their fees in all prosecutions, where the State of Ohio fail, or where the criminal shall prove insolvent, or unable to pay, shall respectively receive, annually, a sum not exceeding $50, nor less than $20; and for opening, adjudging, and certifying the returns of members of the General Assembly, and county officers, they shall respectively receive, annually, a sum not exceeding $6, nor less than $2, to be paid out of the county treasury, upon the orders of the commissioners. Recorder's Fees.-For recording a mortgage, deed of conveyance, letter of attorney, or any other instrument of writing, for every sheet of one hundred words, 12 cents; all copies of records, for every sheet of one hundred words, 10 cents; every search, 12 cents. Coroner's Fees.-For the view of a dead body, $3; drawing all necessary writings, and making return, for every hundred words, 10 cents; for travelling, each mile, to the place of view, 5 cents; for issuing a venire for a jury, 25 cents; to each juror, upon inquisition of a dead body, 50 cents. The coroner's, constable's, and juror's fees, to be paid out of the county treasury. All services rendered, under the authority of the court, the same fees as are allowed the sheriff for the same services. Fees of Justices of the Peace, in Civil Cases.For a summons or capias, 12 cents; every subpœna for one person, 10 cents; each person, in addition, 4 cents; entering judgment on trial, 25 cents; when confessed, 12 cents; granting and issuing execution, 25 cents; a certified copy of proceedings, on an appeal or certiorari, 30 cents; every continuance or adjournment, at the request of the party, 10 cents; granting and entering rule of reference, 10 cents; copy thereof, 10 cents; taking recognisance of bail, 25 cents; issuing bail piece, 12 cents; swearing witnesses, each, 4 cents; issuing writs of attachments, 25 cents each; scire facias, 20 cents; advertising bans of matrimony, 50 cents; marrying, and making return thereof, $1 50 cents; the proof or acknowledgment of a deed or other instrument of writing, with a certificate thereon, 25 cents; taking depositions, 10 cents for every hundred words; for granting certificate, 10 cents; for entering discontinuance or satisfaction, 10 cents. Fees of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Cases.-For a warrant in criminal cases, 25 cents; taking an examination in writing, 10 cents for every hundred words; swearing each person, 4 cents; taking recognisance, 25 cents; a commit. ment to jail, 25 cents; a search warrant, 25 cents. Constables' Fees in Civil Cases.-For serving summons or other writ not herein provided for, on each person therein named, 10 cents; for travelling, in going to serve the aforesaid process, per mile, 5 cents; and when two or more persons are named in such process, mileage to be allowed only to the most remote place of service. For copy of a summons left at the place of abode, 12 cents; for serving execution on body or goods, 20 cents, and mileage as above; for commitment to prison, 25 cents, and mileage as above; for summoning a jury upon a dead body, 75 cents; on all sums made on execution, 4 per cent.; for attending upon a jury, on each trial, 25 cents. Constables' Fees in Criminal Cases.-For serving a warrant on each person named therein, and return, 25 cents, and mileage as in civil cases; for serving a subpoena on each person named therein, 10 cents, and mileage as above; for commitment of each person, 25 cents; for mileage from the place of examination to prison, each mile, 5 cents; for every day's attendance on the grand jury, 75 cents, to be paid out of the county treasury. Jurors' Fees. For each juror upon each cause he may be empannelled to try, 40 cents, to be advanced by the person in whose favor the verdict shall be given, and taxed in the bill of costs. Grand Jurors' Fees.-For each day's attendance, 75 cents, which shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the commissioners. Witnesses' Fees.-For going to, attending at, and returning from court, under a subpoena, per day, 50 cents. Fees under the law against Forcible Entry and Detainer.-There shall be allowed to the several persons performing services under said act, except for services herein before provided for, the same fees as are allowed and taxed in the court of common pleas, for performing similar services. Fees allowed for services actually rendered under the act for the Partition of Real Estate.To each commissioner, for each day he shall be actually employed in the partition of any real estate, and in going to, and returning therefrom, $1 50; to the surveyor, for each day he shall be employed in making a survey under the said act, $2; to each chain-carrier and axe-man, for each day employed in making such survey, 75 cents. Fees to the Officers of the Court.-The same fees as are allowed for the same or similar services in other cases of a like nature. In the Supreme Court.-Attorneys and counsellors at law shall be entitled to receive of the party against whom judgment is entered, for a docket fee, after trial, $8; for a docket fee, if cause is settled before trial, $5. Fees of Officers of State Courts. In the Court of Common Pleas.-For a docket fee, after trial, $6; for a docket fee, if cause is settled before trial, $3. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That in all cases in law where an officer, in the due execution of his office, shall be required to write or set up an advertisement for the sale of lands, such officer shall be allowed for every such advertisement, 25 cents; and if such advertisement is required to be published in a newspaper, the officer proving such publication shall be refunded the money he may pay therefor, to be taxed in the bill of costs. SEC. 3. Be it further enated, That all and every of the respective officers, whose fees are herein ascertained, limited, and appointed, shall, and they are hereby required to make fair tables of their fees, respectively, according to this act, and to publish and set up the same in their respective offices, within three months after the taking effect of this act, in some conspicuous part, for the inspection of all persons who have business in the said offices, on pain of forfeiting, for each day the same shall be missing through the said officer's neglect, the sum of $5, which penalty may be recovered in any court of record by action of debt, one-half to the informer, and the other half to the use of the county where the offence shall have been committed. If any officer whatsoever shall ask, take, or demand greater fees than are hereinbefore expressed and limited, for any service to be done by him in his office, or if any officer shall charge or demand, and take any of the fees herein ascertained, when the business for which such fees are charged shall not have been actually done and performed, such officer, for every such offence, shall, on conviction thereof before any court of record for the proper county, forfeit and pay to the party injured, any sum not exceeding fifty dollars. It shall and may be lawful for any person to refuse payment of fees to any officer, who shall not make out a bill of particulars signed by him, if required, and also a receipt or discharge signed by him, for the fees paid. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled "An act to regulate county levies," as authorizes the county commissioners, at their annual meeting, to allow compensation to the justices of the peace, clerks of the courts of general quarter sessions of the peace, sheriff, and constables, for services by them, or either of them, performed, for and on behalf of their several counties, respectively; also, the law, entitled "A law ascertaining and regulating the fees of the several officers and persons therein named," adopted and published at Cincinnati, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; also, the law in addition to the same, published at Cincinnati, the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and also, the act entitled "An act regulating the fees of constables in the several counties within this Territory," passed at Cincinnati, the nineteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninetynine; and also, the act, entitled "An act regulating the fees of civil officers, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and two; and, also, the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act allowing compensation to the associate judges, and for other purposes," passed the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four, be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be considered to extend to, or affect the fees for services performed prior to the taking effect of this act. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of June next. SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, I do certify, that the foregoing bill is a correct copy of the original roll in my office. ber, 1806. Given under my hand, this 6th day of NovemWILLIAM CREIGHTON, JR. PUBLIC ACTS OF PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 1, 1806. An Act to suspend the operation of an act, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise," and to remit the penalties incurred under the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the operation of the act, passed on the eighteenth day of April last, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise," be, and the same hereby is, suspended until the first day of July next. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all penalties, fines, and forfeitures, which may have been incurred by virtue of the provisions of the aforesaid act, be, and the same hereby are, respectively, remitted, on payment, by the parties, by whom such penalty, fine, or forfeiture, may have been incurred, of all costs which have accrued, or may accrue before notice of this act shall have been received by the attorneys of the several districts of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized further to suspend the operation of the aforesaid act, if, in his judgment, the public interest should require it: Provided, That such suspension shall not extend beyond the second Monday in December next. NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. Approved, December 19, 1806. TH. JEFFERSON. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. Be it enacted, &c.. That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated; that is to say: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, two hundred and ninety-six thousand and forty-eight dollars. For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and eight dollars and sixtyseven cents. For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents. For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For military stores for the same, five hundred and sixty dollars. For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For quartermasters' and barrackmasters' stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorers' and carpenters' bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, sixty thousand dollars. For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 7, 1807. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expense of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven: For the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated; that is to say: For the pay of the army of the United States, For provisions, one hundred and twenty thou-three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and sand eight hundred and fifty dollars and three cents. For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, five thousand dollars. 9th CoN. 2d SESS.-40 fifty-two dollars. For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars. For the subsistence of the army and corps of |