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Table of fees to be exposed in some conspicuous parts of the offices of clerks of the peace and courts of quarter sessions.
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155. [1]
Every clerk of the peace shall and he is hereby required to cause to be constantly exposed, as well in his office as also in some particular place accessible to the public in every court of general or quarter sessions within his county, a fair and legible table, painted or printed in letters and figures not less than one half inch in length, of the fees payable upon all proceedings upon all civil bills, and likewise the penalty to which any person may become liable for receiving any greater fee than is set forth in the said schedule (D.) to this Act annexed for any of the services therein specified; and on proof made on summary application to the coure of any neglect or omission of such exposure, the clerk of the peace so neglecting shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds, to be paid to the treasurer of the county within which such penalty shall be incurred, and accounted for and applied by such treasurer to the aid of the expenditure of such county; and it shall be lawful for the grand jury of every county, and they are hereby required, at any assizes to be held in and for such county, to present the reasonable and actual expence of preparing and exposing such tables to be raised by presentment upon such county, and to be paid to such clerk of the peace.
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