NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 903

HOUSE BILL 1007

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE FEES TO BE RECEIVED BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN COLUMBUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. In all civil cases there shall be paid as an assessed cost to the justices of the peace, at the time of the institution of the action the sum of four dollars ($4.00); which shall include any and all of the following:

Issuing summons, subpoenas, granting continuances, order of removal, trial, whether by jury or justice of the peace, entering judgment, transcript of judgment.

For issuing claim and delivery or warrant of attachment in ejectment proceedings, the sum of one dollar ($1.00) additional.

The above fees to be paid to justices of the peace at the time of the institution of the action.

For making return on appeal the sum of one dollar ($1.00).

Sec. 2. The following which constitutes the fees in the matters indicated:

Performing marriage ceremony in office ...................................................    $4.00

Acknowledgment or proof of the same .......................................................        .25

Hearing petitions for widow's years' allowance ..........................................      2.50

Issuing notices to commissioners, alloting the same,

and making returns ....................................................................................      2.00

Taking depositions, for each copy sheet for 100 words ............................        .50

Garnisheeing for taxes...................................................................................        .50

Filing and docketing laborer's lien ...............................................................      1.00

Sec. 3.

For issuing criminal warrants and affidavit included ..................................      1.50

For summoning each witness ........................................................................        .25

For judgment final .........................................................................................      1.50

For issuing capias each defendant ................................................................      1.00

For taking bond ..............................................................................................        .50

For docketing judgment ................................................................................        .50

Sec. 4. This Act shall apply to Columbus County only.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1961.