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Fees specified in sched. (D.) to be deemed the lawful fees.
Penalty for taking larger fees.
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152. [1]
In all actions and proceedings by civil bill the fees specified in the schedule (D.) to this Act annexed shall be established and be deemed and taken as the lawful fees and emoluments for the discharge of the several duties therein specified by the respective officers therein mentioned, and no other fees or payments shall be recoverable for the discharge of such duties; and every clerk of the peace, or his deputy, attorney, sheriff, bailiff, or process officer, who shall receive any greater fee, gratuity, or emolument, or other consideration, for any of the services specified in the said schedule, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds sterling for every such offence, to be recovered by civil bill by any person who may sue for the same.
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