Chapter 325. to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto

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Chap. 325: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. Chapter 325 45 Stat. 410 1928-04-06 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 325.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

April 6, 1928.[[H. R. 9020](/us/bill/70/hr/9020).][[Public, No. 243](/us/pl/70/243).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia Code Amendments.Supreme Court. That the Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, constituting the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, be, and the same are hereby, amended as follows:

Strike out section 1110 and insert in lieu thereof: " “Sec. 1110. Clerk’s fees.— Clerk’s fees.Vol. 31, p. 1363, amended. For filing the following named cases and for all services to be performed therein, except as otherwise provided herein, the clerk shall charge and collect the following fees: Court cases.“Actions at law, $10; suits in equity, $10; lunacy cases, $10; deportation cases, $10; requisition cases, $10; habeas corpus cases, $10; plea of title cases, $10; District court cases, $15; condemnation cases, $15; libel cases, $15; feeble-minded cases, $7.50; adoption cases, $5; change of name cases, $5; intervening petitions in any case, $5; cases substituting trustees, $4; docketing judgments of the municipal court, $2.50; and limited partnership cases, $3.

Appeals to Court of Appeals.“Upon the perfecting of any appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia there shall be charged and collected by the clerk from the party or parties prosecuting such appeal an additional fee in said suit or proceeding of $5. 411 Additional trials, etc.“For each additional trial or final hearing, upon a reversal by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, or following a disagreement by a jury or the granting of a new trial or rehearing by the court, there shall be charged and collected by the clerk from the party or parties securing such reversal, new trial, or rehearing Provisos.Criminal cases. the further sum of $5: *Provided*, *however*, That the clerk shall not be required to account for any such fee not collected by him in Collections by order of court. criminal cases: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall prohibit the court from directing by rule or standing order the collection, at the time the services are rendered, of the fees herein enumerated from either party, but all such fees shall be taxed as costs in the respective cases.

Attachment writs, etc.“In any case where attachments, executions, scire facias proceedings, or rules are issued the following fees shall be charged and collected by the clerk in addition to the fees hereinbefore provided: For each writ of attachment, $1, and each copy, $1; for each writ of execution, $1.50; for each writ of scire facias, $1, and each copy, $1; for each rule, 50 cents, and each copy certified, 50 cents; for each writ of ne exeat, $1; for each bench warrant, $1; for each warrant of arrest, $1.

Miscellaneous services.“That in addition to the fees for services rendered in cases hereinbefore enumerated the clerk shall charge and collect, for miscellaneous services performed by him and his assistants, except when on behalf of the United States, the following fees: “For issuing any writ or subpoena for a witness not in a case instituted or pending in the court from which it is issued, 50 cents for each writ and copy or subpoena and copy.“For filing and indexing any paper not in a case or proceeding, 25 cents.

“For administering an oath or affirmation, not in a case or proceeding pending in the court where the oath is administered, 50 cents.“For an acknowledgment, certificate, affidavit, or countersignature, with seal, 50 cents. “For taking and certifying depositions to file, 20 cents for each folio of one hundred words, and if taken stenographically, 15 cents per folio additional for the stenographer. “For copy of any record, entry, or other paper and the comparison thereof, 15 cents for each folio of one hundred words.

“For searching the records of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instruments, or marriage records, 50 cents for each year covered by the search and for certifying the result, 50 cents. “For receiving, keeping, and disbursing money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, including cash bail or bond or securities authorized by law or order of court to be deposited in lieu of other security, 1 per centum of the amount so received, kept, and disbursed, or of the face value of such bonds or securities.

“For making and comparing a transcript of record on appeal, 15 cents for each folio of one hundred words. “For comparing any transcript, copy of record, or other paper not made by the clerk with the original thereof, 5 cents for each folio of one hundred words.“For administering oath of admission of attorneys to practice, $2 each; for certificate of admission to be furnished upon request, $2 additional. “For each marriage license, $2. “For each certified copy of marriage license and return, $1.

“For each certified copy of application for marriage license, $1. “For registering clergymen’s authorizations to perform marriages and issuing certificate, $1. 412 “For each certificate of official character, including the seal, 50 cents. “For filing and recording each notice of mechanic’s lien, $1. “For entering release of mechanic’s lien, 50 cents for each order of lienor; 75 cents for each undertaking of lienee. “For recording physicians’, optometrists’, and midwives’ licenses, 50 cents each.

“For the clerk’s attendance on the court while actually in session; $5 per day; and for all services rendered to the United States in cases in which the United States is a party of record, $5.” " Effective April 1, 1928.This Act shall take effect on the 1st day of April, 1928, and shall apply to cases or proceedings filed subsequent thereto. Approved, April 6, 1928.

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