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CHAPTER 113 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3923 OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES INCREASING THE FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That section three thousand nine hundred and twenty-three be and the same is hereby amended by strikfihg out the first fifteen lines thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Justices of the peace. That justices of the peace shall receive the following fees, and none other: For attachment with one defendant, thirty-five cents, and if more than one defendant, fifteen cents for each additional defendant; transcript of judgment, fifteen cents; summons, thirty cents; if more than one defendant in the same case, for each additional defendant, fifteen cents; subpena for each witness, fifteen cents; trial when issues are joined, one dollar; and if no issues are joined, then a fee of fifty cents for trial and judgment; taking an affidavit, bond, or undertaking, or for an order of publication, or an order to seize property, thirty-five cents; for jury trial and entering verdict, one dollar; execution, thirty-five cents; renewal of execution, fifteen cents; return to an appeal, forty cents; order of arrest in civil actions, thirty cents; warrant of arrest in criminal and bastardy eases, including affidavit or complaint, seventy-five cents; warrant of commitment, fifty cents; taking depositions on order of commission, per one hundred words, fifteen cents; garnishment for taxes and making necessary return and certificate of same, thirtyfive cents.