Sec. 747. In any suit or proceeding where a fee or compenSuits for fees sation is involved, it shall be allowed to either party to pray for to be tried by a trial by jury, whether the fee or compensation be claimed from an insolvent estate or a succession, whether by way of opposition or otherwise.

jury.

C. P. 494. Act 1855, p. 162.

Sec. 748. The sheriffs throughout the State shall, whenever they return a paper or process into court, indorse thereon the

on process re

specified items of fees claimed by them that may have accrued Sheriff's fees on the process or paper; and in default thereof, or if such fees to be indorsed are overcharged, the same shall be forfeited, and the sheriff for- turned into ever barred from collecting the item of fees so omitted or overcharged.

D. Sec. 3557. Act 1870, No. 101, § 4.

court.

ing office, to

Sec. 749. Whenever a sheriff or clerk shall retire from office, he shall cause to be filed with the proceeding in which he may sheriff and be entitled to costs, within twenty days, specific bills of his fees; clerk, on leavand in default thereof, or if any item shall be overcharged, the file bills for same shall be forfeited, and such sheriff or clerk forever barred from collecting the same.

D. Sec. 481, 3558. Act 1870, No. 101, § 5.

fees due them.

Sec. 750. The costs of the clerk, sheriff, witness' fees, costs what shall be of taking depositions and copies of acts used on the trial, and deemed taxed all other costs allowed by the court, shall be taxed as costs.

D. Sec. 3559. Act 1870, No. 101, § 6.

costs.

Sec. 751. The clerks of the district courts shall indorse upon, Clerks to inor annex to all writs of fieri facias issued by them, specific bills dorse costs on of the taxed costs.

fieri facias.

Sec. 752. No person shall be bound to pay any costs or fees until the officer claiming the same shall deliver to the person Fee bill to be against whom the fees may be charged, an explicit fee bill, delivered." signed with the officer's name in full, officially, and on payment the officer shall be bound to give a receipt on said fee bill, if so

required.

Act 1870, No. 101, § 9.

demanded

Sec. 753. Every six months after a suit shall have been instituted in any of the courts of this State, the clerks thereof shall have the right to demand from the plaintiff the amount of his Costs may be costs, including the sheriff's costs, and on neglect of the plain- every six tiff to pay such bill detailed by separate items and sworn to by the clerk, and approved by the judge, execution shall issue against the plaintiff, as in cases of fieri facias upon judgments after ten days' notification by the sheriff.

months.

execu

Whenever the plaintiff does not reside in the parish in which the suit is instituted, the clerk and sheriff shall have the same when remedy against the surety for costs, and such surety shall not be tion may issue entitled to the benefit of discussion.

D. Sec. 8783. Act 1870, No. 101, § 7.

Sec. 754. The sheriff of the parish of Orleans is empowered

for costs.

Orleans may

to require security for his fees, which shall be demandable from Sheriff in New the plaintiff sixty days after the commencement of each suit, demand his on his detailed certificate, approved by the judge or clerk of the costs in sixty court in which the costs originated.

days.

Sec. 755. The clerk shall have the right to require security Clerks may reto cover all costs to be taxed.

Act 1870, No. 101, § 8.

quire security.

Clerks of su

Sec. 756. The clerks of the supreme court shall be entitled preme court, to demand and receive the following fees, and no more:

their fees.

Provided.

Fees in criminal cases.

For every certificate of admission of any attorney or counselor at law, ten dollars.

For filing and registering record from inferior court, two dollars.

For entering cause on docket, one dollar.

For recording motion in court, one dollar.

For entering appearance of parties, one dollar.

For copying all instruments of writing, each hundred words, twenty cents.

For issuing citation, with seal and certificate, one dollar. For issuing writ of certiorari, with seal, one dollar and fifty cents.

For issuing writ of prohibition and seal, one dollar and fifty

cents.

For issuing writ of mandamus and seal, one dollar and fifty

cents.

For issuing writ of distringas and seal, one dollar and fifty

cents.

For issuing writ of subpena duces tecum and seal, one dollar and fifty cents.

For issuing notice of judgment and seal, fifty cents.

For every continuance, twenty cents.

For issuing attachment to bring persons into court, eighty

cents.

For entering final judgment, one dollar and fifty cents.
For entering every interlocutory judgment, fifty cents.
For each order of court entered on the minutes, not other-
wise provided for, thirty cents.

For copy of same, with seal and certificate, fifty cents.

For filing and registering returns on all writs, twenty cents. For affixing certificate and seal of court to all records or documents other than those specified, sixty cents.

For taking and filing bond, in all cases required by law, one dollar.

For recording the judgment of the court, for each hundred words, twenty cents.

For setting cause, and calling the same for trial, twenty cents. For every other service rendered by the clerks, a reasonable compensation shall be made by the party and determined by the court, according to the nature and equity of the case, having regard to the fees herein allowed; Provided, the fees in no case shall exceed fifteen dollars, unless by the express sanction of the

court.

And in criminal cases, the following fees and no more:

For entering cause and filing record, one dollar.

For entering appearance, one dollar.

For recording motions in court, one dollar.

For copy of judgment to be recorded in lower court, fifteen

cents for every one hundred words; Provided, that the costs of Provided. the clerk of the supreme court shall, in no criminal case, exceed the sum of ten dollars.

Fees of clerks

Sec. 757. The clerks of the several district courts throughout this State shall be entitled to demand and receive the following of district fees of office:

For indorsing, registering and filing petition, ten cents.
For indorsing, registering and filing answers, ten cents.

For copying all instruments of writing, not otherwise provided for, each one hundred words, ten cents.

For issuing citation, with seal and certificate, fifty cents.
For copy of citation, with seal and certificate, forty cents.
For issuing attachment and seal, seventy-five cents.
For copy of attachment and seal, forty cents.
For issuing fieri facias, with seal, one dollar.

For issuing order of seizure, with seal, one dollar.

For issuing order of sequestration, with seal, one dollar.
For issuing writ of certiorari, with seal, seventy-five cents.
For issuing injunction, with seal, seventy-five cents.

For issuing writs of habeas corpus, with seal, and the proceedings thereon, no charge shall be made by the clerk or sheriff, except in civil cases.

For issuing writ of mandamus, with seal, seventy-five cents.
For issuing writ of distringas, with seal, seventy-five cents.
For issuing subpena duces tecum, with seal, seventy-five cents.
For issuing subpenas for witnesses, with seal, fifteen cents.
For copy of subpena, with seal and certificate, fifteen cents.
For issuing each writ of possession, with seal, fifty cents.
For each order of partition, with seal, fifty cents.

For issuing notice of judgment, with seal, twenty-five cents.
For every continuance, ten cents.

For issuing citation of appeal, with seal and certificate, fifty

cents.

For copy of citation, with seal and certificate, forty cents. For issuing attachment to bring person into court, with seal, forty cents.

For issuing venire facias in each case in which a jury may be prayed for in the district court, to be charged but once, and that upon filing the petition, thirty-five cents.

For swearing jury, twenty-five cents.

For swearing each witness, five cents.

For entering final judgment, and no matter how many parties, to be charged but once in each case, seventy-five cents.

For every interlocutory judgment, no matter how many parties, thirty cents.

For each order of court entered on the minutes of the court, not otherwise provided for, fifteen cents.

For copies of the same, with seal and certificate, twenty-five

cents.

For filing and registering returns on all writs, ten cents.

courts.

Fees allowed to clerks of courts

throughout the State.

For setting cause for trial and calling the same, ten cents. For affixing certificate and seal of court to all other records or documents other than those herein specified, thirty cents. For notice of creditors of insolvents to attend meetings, each ten cents.

For taking and filing bonds, in all cases when required by law, fifty cents.

For recording and registering deeds of conveyance for property sold and transferred by sheriff, for each hundred words,

ten cents.

For entering satisfaction of judgment, seventy-five cents.

For issuing commissions to take testimony of witnesses or answers to interrogatories, with seal, one dollar.

For recording the petition, answer and judgment, in each case, ten cents for every one hundred words.

For every confession of judgment when no papers are issued by the clerk, for all his services in such cases, seventy-five cents, and no more shall be allowed. However, in all cases he shall be allowed ten cents per hundred words, for recording the petition and other papers.

For making out the papers in each confirmation or appointment of a tutor, curator, administrator, testamentary executor, one dollar and fifty cents.

For copy of the same, with certificate and seal, fifty cents.
For each writ or decree ordering or assessing estimate, fifty

cents.

For affixing seals on any act when required by law, twentyfive cents.

For probate of a will, including the proces verbal, fifty cents.
For recording all acts, for each one hundred words, ten cents.
For examining and swearing each witness, twenty cents.
For every order, twenty-five cents.

For each audience, including family meetings, one dollar.
For appointment of appraisers, seventy-five cents.

For taking bond, in all cases, one dollar.

For copy of all acts, for each one hundred words, ten cents.

Act 1870, No. 101, § 1.

Sec. 758. The several clerks of the district courts throughout the State shall be entitled to demand and receive for all services on the application of any foreigner to become a citizen, including copy, certificate and seal, one dollar.

For all services in administering oath of allegiance, recording evidence of residence, etc., of any foreigner becoming naturalized, including copy, certificate and seal, one dollar and fifty

cents.

For issuing marriage license, two dollars.

For taking down testimony on the trial of any suit, ten cents for every one hundred words.

For every order entered on the minutes discontinuing or dismissing any suit, ten cents.