cents; for issuing execution, seventy-five cents; for taking acknowledgments of deeds or other instruments, including certificates, for the first name, seventy-five cents, for each subsequent name, twenty-five cents; for issuing supersedeas to an execution, seventy-five cents; for making up and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, one dollar and fifty cents; for issuing search warrant, seventy-five cents; for celebrating marriage and returning certificate to recorder, five dollars; for issuing writ of restitution, seventy-five cents; for all services and proceedings in a criminal action, the same fees as are allowed in civil cases, but in no case shall there be a charge against the county exceeding in any one case the sum of five dollars; for taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, to be collected from defendant, seventyfive cents; for entering any cause without process, one dollar; for entering judgment by confession as in district court, three dollars; for each motion, exception, rule, order, default, dismissal, discontinuance, or nonsuit, and for filing each paper required to be filed, fifteen cents.

The above section does not apply to Ormsby, Humboldt, Elko, nor Eureka Counties, see Stats. 1885, 129; 1887, 76.

2016. Interpreters and translators.

SEC. 14. Interpreters and translators shall receive such fees as the court by whom they are employed shall certify to be just.

Cited, Phillips v. Eureka Co., 19 Nev. 353 (11 P. 32).

2017. Surveyors.

SEC. 15. County surveyors shall be entitled to demand and receive the following fees: For each mile actually run with a compass and chain, five dollars; for each mile actually run with a compass alone, two dollars; for each lot laid out platted in a town or city or townsite, two dollars; for each copy of a plat or townsite, one dollar; for recording a survey, per folio, thirty cents; for calculating the quantity of each division made in a tract of land (town lots excepted), and for erecting a monument at the corner of any survey, when required, two dollars; for traveling to the place of survey, for each mile, in going only, seventy-five cents, the distance to be computed from where his office is kept to the place of survey; and if such surveyors shall be required and duly notified, verbally or otherwise, to make other surveys while in the field, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the place last surveyed by him; but if the distance shall be greater than the place last surveyed where his services are required, he shall only be entitled to mileage from the county-seat of the county where he lives, and in no case shall constructive mileage be allowed; for ascertaining the location of every town lot in an old survey and measuring and marking the same, three dollars.

Where it is necessary to have a survey of the premises where the crime was committed, in order to properly present the case to the jury, the county commissioners are author

2018. Notaries.

ized to allow a reasonable compensation for such survey. Washoe Co. v. Humboldt Co., 14 Nev. 123.

SEC. 16. The fees of notaries public [in counties polling over 800 votes] shall be as follows: For drawing and copying every protest for nonpayment of a promissory note, or for the nonpayment or nonacceptance of a bill of exchange, draft or check, two dollars; for drawing and serving every notice of nonpayment of a promissory note, the nonpayment or nonacceptance of a bill of exchange, order, draft or check, one dollar; for drawing an affidavit, deposition or other paper, for which provision is not herein made, for each folio, twenty cents; for taking an acknowledgment, or proof of deed, or other instrument, to include the seal and writing of the certificate, for the first signature, one dollar, and for each additional signature, fifty cents; for adminis

tering an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents; for every certificate, to include writing the same and the seal, fifty cents. As amended, Stats. 1889, 40.

2019. No other fees to be charged.

SEC. 17. No other fees shall be charged than those specially set forth herein, nor shall fees be charged for any other services than those mentioned in this act.

2020. Officers to keep books.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of each and every one of the officers hereinbefore mentioned to keep severally a book, to be called the fee book, in their respective offices, in which they shall enter all the fees charged by them, and said book shall be open to the inspection of any one desiring to inspect the same, in which shall be stated the fees charged for in detail with the title of the matter, proceeding or action on which they are charged.

Cited, Phillips v. Eureka Co., 19 Nev. 352 (11 P. 32); Grimes v. N. T. G. & T. Co., 29 Nev. 59.

2021. Monthly statement.

SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the county clerks, county recorders, county surveyors, sheriffs, public administrators, justices of the peace, and constables on the first Monday in July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and every three months thereafter, to make out and file with the county commissioners of their several counties a full and correct statement, under oath, of all fees, percentage or compensation, of whatever nature or kind, received in their said several official capacities during the preceding three months, in which statement they shall set forth the cause in which and the services for which such compensations were received; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to require personal attendance in filing such statements; and such statements may be transmitted by mail, express or otherwise directed to the clerk of said board of county commissioners.

2022. Duty of district judge.

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the district judge to give this act specially in charge to the grand jury.

2023. Violation a misdemeanor.

SEC. 21. Any officer who shall violate any of the provisions of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth sections of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

Cited, Phillips v. Eureka Co., 19 Nev. 352 (11 P. 32).

2024. Taking unlawful fees-Punishment.

SEC. 22. If any officer shall take more or greater fees than are herein allowed, he shall be liable to indictment, and, on conviction, shall be removed from office, and fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

2025. To post table of fees.

SEC. 23. Every officer whose fees are ascertained and fixed by this act shall publish and set up in his office fair tables of his fees, according to this act, within one month from its passage, in some conspicuous place for the inspection of all persons who have business in his office, upon pain of forfeiting for each day of his omission so to do a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which may be recovered by any person by action before any justice of the peace of the same county, with costs.

2026. Cost of publication.

SEC. 24. When by law any publication is required to be made by an officer of any suit, process, notice, order or other paper, the cost of such publication shall, if demanded, be tendered by the party to whom such order, process, notice or other papers was granted before such officer shall be compelled to make publication thereof.

2027. Fees in advance.

SEC. 25. All fees prescribed in this act shall be payable in advance, if demanded; and if any officer shall not have received any or all of his fees, which may be due him for services rendered by him in any suit or proceedings, he may have execution therefor in his own name against the party or parties from whom they are due, to be issued from the court where the action is pending, upon the order of the judge or court upon affidavit filed. 2028. Commissioners of deeds.

SEC. 26. Commissioners of deeds appointed by the governors of any of the states of the United States of America, or of any of the territories thereof, to reside in the State of Nevada, may receive for services rendered in this state the compensation hereinafter expressed, and none other, that is to say: For drawing an affidavit, deposition or other paper, for each folio, thirty cents; for administering an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents; for putting his seal to such instruments, fifty cents; for taking acknowledgment, or proof of deed or other instrument, to include the seal and the writing of the certificate, for the first signature, one dollar, and for each additional signature, fifty cents.

2029. Misconduct.

SEC. 27. Each commissioner of deeds residing in this state, shall be subject to all the pains and penalties for official delinquency or extortions, as is provided in this act for official misconduct.

2030. District court fees.

SEC. 28. At the time of the commencement of every civil action or other proceeding in the several district courts of this state, the plaintiff shall pay the clerk of the court in which said action shall be commenced the sum of three dollars, in gold or silver coin, except as herein otherwise provided. At the commencement of any proceeding in any district court for the purpose of procuring an appointment of administration upon the estate of any deceased person, the party instituting such proceedings shall pay the clerk of said. court the sum of one dollar and fifty cents in gold or silver coin.

Provisions of this and the four succeeding sections is in compliance with the provisions of Const., sec. 331, ante.

The fact that the docket fee was paid by the clerk instead of the plaintiff cannot be taken advantage of by defendant. Rose v. Richmond M. Co., 17 Nev. 25.

2031. Appeal, justice's court.

SEC. 29. Whenever any appeal shall be taken in a civil action or proceeding from the judgment or decision of the court of a justice of the peace, or other tribunal inferior to the district court, the party appealing shall, before the return to said appeal shall be allowed to be filed in the appellate court, pay to the clerk of such appellate court the sum of one dollar, in gold or silver coin; which said several fees above provided for shall be known as "court fees," and no such action shall be deemed commenced, proceedings instituted, or appeal perfected until the said fees shall be paid as aforesaid.

2032. Fees on appeal to supreme court.

SEC. 30. Whenever any appeal from the final judgment or any order of a district court shall be taken to the supreme court, the party appealing shall,

at or before the filing of the transcript on such appeal in the supreme court, pay the clerk of the supreme court the sum of five dollars in gold or silver coin as and for a court fee; and the clerk of the supreme court shall not file any such transcript in his office until such fee is paid.

2033. Duty of clerks to give receipts and pay over money.

SEC. 31. It shall be the duty of said clerks, on the demand of any party asking it, to give a receipt to the party paying such fee for the same, specifying the title of the cause in which the same shall be paid and the date and amount of such payment; and it shall be the further duty of the several clerks of the district courts of this state, on the first Monday of each and every month, to pay over to the county treasurer of the county all moneys received by them for such court fees, together with a brief note of the cases in which the same were received, which money shall be payable in the district judge. salary fund of the district embraced in the county where the same shall be received.

2034. Clerk of supreme court to pay over money.

SEC. 32. The clerk of the supreme court shall, on the first Monday in each month, pay to the state treasurer all moneys received by him for court fees, rendering to said treasurer a brief note of the cases in which the same were received. The money so received by the treasurer shall be placed in the supreme judges' salary fund, and the same shall be used for no other purpose.

2035. Expenses of jurors.

SEC. 33. In all cases when a jury is kept together by order of the court during a trial, or by failure to agree upon a verdict, after the cause has been submitted to them by the court, the expenses of their board and lodging shall be taxed as other disbursements and expenses in favor of the prevailing party; no verdict shall be entered or judgment rendered thereon until the same is paid or tendered. The clerk shall receive and properly disburse all money paid for the expenses of jurors, as in this section provided to be paid. 2036. Folio, how construed.

SEC. 34. The term folio, when used as a measure for computing fees or compensation, shall be construed to mean one hundred words, counting every figure necessarily used as a word. Any portion of a folio, when in the whole draft or paper there should not be a complete folio, and when there shall be an excess over the last folio exceeding a quarter of a folio, shall be computed as a folio. The filing of a paper shall be construed to include the certificate of the same.

2037. Sheriff, constable, coroner: mileage.

SEC. 35. When any sheriff, constable or coroner serves more than one process in the same cause, not requiring more than one journey from his office, he shall receive mileage only for the most distant service.

2038. No witness fees for attorney.

SEC. 36. No attorney or counselor at law, in any case, shall be allowed any fees for attending as a witness in such case.

2039. No fees for oath of office.

SEC. 37. No fees shall be charged by any officer for administering and certifying the oath of office.

2040. Mileage, where computed from.

SEC. 38. Mileage shall be computed from the court house of the county in all cases where mileage is chargeable by the sheriff, and for other officers

the same shall be for the actual distance traveled, and every fraction of a mile shall be computed as a mile.

2041. When not to charge fees on returns-Penalty.

SEC. 39. No sheriff or other officers shall be allowed to charge or receive any fee or compensation whatever for the return written upon any summons, subpena, writ of attachment, execution, order of sale, or other paper; and any officer violating terms of this section shall be indicted, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than three hundred dollars, and shall upon conviction thereof be removed from office.

2042. Not to apply to legislative officers.

SEC. 40. This act shall not extend to nor affect any law relating to the salaries or compensation of officers of the senate or assembly of the State of Nevada, nor to the salary of any state or county officer, or deputy thereof. 2043. Application of act.

SEC. 41. The provisions of section 8 and section 9 of this act shall not apply to or affect any county in this state wherein the total vote at the last election did not exceed four hundred and fifty, and the provisions of this act shall not apply to or affect the fees of the officers of any county in this state wherein the total vote of the last election did not exceed eight hundred, and the same shall apply to all future elections, and it is hereby provided that in such counties "An act to regulate fees and compensation for official and other services in the State of Nevada," approved March 9, 1865 [see sec. 1994, et seq.], and the act amendatory thereto, shall remain in full force and effect. As amended, Stats. 1893, 103.

2044. Repeal.

SEC. 42. This act repeals all other acts and parts of acts now in force, relating to fees of officers, which fees are collectible by said officers from the persons for whom said services are rendered..

Special fee acts for Ormsby County, Stats. 1887, 126; 1897, 19.

An Act relating to the certification of public records or documents and the fees chargeable therefor.

Approved March 8, 1909, 78

2045. Fees for prepared copies.

SECTION 1. Whenever any person shall present to the custodian or other person authorized to make and certify copies of any public record or document in any and all counties of the state not divided in the year 1909 a printed or typewritten copy of any such record or document, or any part thereof, it shall be the duty of such custodian or person to forthwith compare such copy with the original thereof and make the same a true and correct copy thereof and officially certify the same as such and the fees and compensation legally chargeable or receivable therefor shall be only one-third of what said fees or compensation would have been if said custodian or person had made and certified said copy.

An Act fixing and regulating the fees to be charged by county recorders and district mining recorders for recording certificates of labor on mining claims.

Approved March 18, 1911, 100

2046. Recording fees fixed.

SECTION 1. From and after the passage and approval of this act the county recorders and district mining recorders of this state shall charge the