Clerks of Courts of First Instance.
Section 788
SEC. 788. Clerks of Courts of First Instance. — For filing all complaints, answers, motions, amendments and pleadings, for making all entries upon proper dockets, for entering all appearances, for entering all judgments, orders, and decrees, for issuing all processes, preliminary and final, approving all bonds to be by him approved, filing same, for administering all oaths or affirmations, certifying the same, taxing costs, making necessary entries on indexes, and for all other services performed by him, his deputies, or assistants, in any one action, eight dollars. For all clerical services in the allowance of wills, granting letters of administration, appointment of guardians, trustees, settlement of the accounts of executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, and recording final and interlocutory orders, judgments, and decrees therein, filing all inventories and appraisements, and for all other work as clerk pertaining to any one estate, twelve dollars; but when any record of a final decree or judgment of the court in a special proceeding, including an allowance of an account, or of an inventory of property, contains more than three hundred and fifty words, for each one hundred words in addition to three hundred and fifty words in such record, five cents. For all services as referee or as commissioner to take testimony under appointment by the court, such sum as the judge shall allow, but the allowance shall be proportionate to the other fees in this section provided. For certifying the official act of a justice of the peace or other certificate, with seal, twenty-five cents. For filing and recording all papers relating to an adoption, in each case of adoption, three dollars. For certified copies of any paper, record, decree, judgment, or entry of which any person is entitled to demand and receive a copy, for each one hundred words, five cents. For all copies of record, or bills of exception, or testimony, or of other documents for transmission to the Supreme Court, five cents for each one hundred words. For a commission on all money coming into his hands by law or order of court and caring for the same, one-half of one per cent on all sums not exceeding one thousand dollars, and one-quarter of one per cent upon all sums in excess of one thousand dollars, but not in excess of ten thousand dollars, and one-eight of one per cent on all sums in excess of ten thousand dollars. For any other services as clerk, not provided for in this section, if such there be, such sum as the judges of the Supreme Court shall fix by general rules.