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Nor does it conflict with art. 4, secs. 20 and 21 (sees. 278, 279, ante).

This act operates alike on all persons similiarly situated and is not in violation of the

2006. Clerk of the supreme court.

14th amendment to the federal constitution (ante, 185). Russell v. Esmeralda Co., 32 Nev. 304 (107 P. 890-892).

SEC. 2. The fees of the clerk of the supreme court shall be as follows: For entering any motion, rule, or order, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for filing each transcript of a record from an inferior court, three dollars; for entering judgment, for the first folio, one dollar and fifty cents, for each subsequent folio, seventy-five cents; for each certificate given at request and under seal, one dollar and fifty cents; for copy of recorded opinion of court, or other papers, for each folio, twenty cents; for entering each cause on calendar and making copy for the bar, seventy-five cents; for every remittitur or mandate, for each folio, twenty cents; for searching records or files in his office, seventy-five cents for each term's proceedings, but no charge shall be made to suitors or their attorneys; for filing each paper, thirty cents; for certificate of admission as attorney or counselor, and sealing the same, ten dollars; for administering each oath or affirmation, thirty cents; for taking and writing any acknowledgment, seventy-five cents (including seal) for the first signature, and twenty-five cents for each additional signature; for recording opinions of the court, twenty cents per folio; for issuing any process of court, including seal, one dollar and fifty cents; for each certificate of declaration to become a citizen of the United States, and for making a record thereof, two dollars and fifty cents; for each certificate of citizenship, taking proofs in regard thereto and making record thereof, five dollars.

Additional fees for admission of attorney, see secs. 503 and 3953.

2007. County clerks.

SEC. 3. The county clerks of the several counties in this state [polling more than 800 votes] shall be entitled to fees as follows: For entering each suit on the clerk's register of actions, and making the necessary entry therein during trial, seventy-five cents; for filing each paper, fifteen cents; for issuing summons, seventy-five cents; for entering every appearance, fifty cents; for entering return of every writ or process, fifty cents; for issuing subpena, for first witness, fifty cents, and for each additional witness, ten cents; for entering each cause on the calendar and making a copy thereof, for each term of the district court, seventy-five cents; for entering every motion, exception, rule, order, or default, thirty cents; for entering every discontinuance, dismissal or nonsuit, thirty cents; for calling and swearing every jury, fifty cents; for administering every oath or affirmation, fifteen cents; for receiving and entering each verdict of a jury, fifty cents; for entering every final judgment, for the first folio, seventy-five cents, and for each subsequent folio, twenty cents; for filing judgment roll, thirty cents; for docketing judgment, against each judgment debtor, thirty cents; for issuing execution, seventy-five cents; for entering satisfaction of judgment, for each debtor, thirty cents; for entering every notice of appeal, thirty cents; for copying any proceeding, record or paper, for each folio, twenty cents; for receiving and entering every remittitur from the supreme court, and accompanying papers, thirty cents; for every certificate, fifty cents; for issuing every commission to take testimony, seventyfive cents; for issuing every process under seal, other than subpenas, seventy-five cents; for every certificate under seal, fifty cents; for issuing letters testamentary, seventy-five cents; for writing and posting notices when required, for each copy, thirty cents; for recording all instruments, for each folio, twenty cents; for searching the file of each year in his office

(but not to charge suitors or attorneys), thirty cents; for taking each bond and justification thereof required by law, fifty cents; for taking justification to bond, for each name, thirty cents; for taking acknowledgments of . deeds or other instruments, including certificate and seal, for the first name, seventy-five cents, and for each subsequent name, twenty-five cents; for issuing every decree or order of sale of mortgaged property, or writ of injunction, for the first folio, seventy-five cents, and for each subsequent folio, twenty cents; for entering each suit in the plaintiff's and defendant's index, twenty-five cents; for making out naturalization papers, including all necessary oaths, affirmations and certificates, for the first papers, two dollars and fifty cents; for making out naturalization papers, including all necessary oaths, affirmations and certificates, for the final papers, five dollars; for each day's attendance on the board of county commissioners, four dollars; provided, the sum shall in no case exceed one hundred dollars per annum in the aggregate.

This section does not apply to Eureka County, see Stats. 1891, 38.

State v. Rover, 13 Nev. 17; Washoe Co. v. Humboldt Co., 14 Nev. 123.

See sec. 749, prohibiting fees in certain cases; sec. 1223, providing fee for clerk in corporate elections.

Allowed to retain fees for services in relation to location of public lands, sec. 1614.

2008. Recorders.

SEC. 4. The following fees to the several county recorders [in counties polling over 800 votes] are hereby established: For receiving, filing, and entering documents required to be recorded, fifteen cents; for filing and entering any paper not to be recorded, thirty cents; for making all necessary indexes to each paper filed or recorded, for each name to be indexed, thirty cents; for recording any instrument, paper, or document, for each folio, twenty cents; for every certificate under seal, seventy-five cents; for every entry of discharge or assignment of mortgage on the margin of the records, twenty-five cents; for abstract of title, for each document embraced thereby, seventy-five cents; for searching records and files, for each document necessarily examined, twenty-five cents; for recording any survey or map other than town plat, for each corner, thirty cents; for recording town plat, for each lot or separate subdivision exhibited thereby, twenty cents; for each folio of lettering or figuring thereon, or in the certificate and description of the same, fifty cents; for recording certificates of marriage, death, divorce, or birth, fifty cents; for copying of any document or record in his office, for each folio, twenty cents; for taking acknowledgment, including certificate and seal, for the first signature, seventy-five cents; for each additional signature, twenty-five cents; for recording or copying any paper in a foreign language, double the fees as when in English; no map or plat shall be recorded exceeding in size two folios of the usual sized records; for preparing the abstract of unsatisfied mortgages, when requested by the board of equalization, for each, twenty-five cents.

Davis v. Thompson, 1 Nev. 17.

For filing annual statements of mining companies, sec. 1331.
Cited, State ex rel. N. T. G. & Co. v. Grimes, 29 Nev. 60.

2009. Sheriff's.

SEC. 5. The fees allowed to sheriffs in the several counties of this state [polling over 800 votes] shall be as follows: For serving a summons and complaint or any other process by which an action or proceeding is commenced, on every defendant, one dollar and fifty cents; for traveling in making such services, per mile, in going only, to be computed in all cases from the court house of the county, forty cents per mile; provided, that if any two or more papers are required to be served in the same suit, at the same time, where parties live in the same direction from the court house,

one mileage only shall be charged; for taking bond or undertaking in any case in which he is authorized to take the same, one dollar; for copying any writ, process, or other paper, when demanded or required by law, for each folio, twenty-five cents; for serving every notice, rule or order, fifty cents; for serving a subpena, for each witness summoned, twenty-five cents; for traveling, per mile, in serving such subpena or venire, in going only, forty cents per mile; but when two or more witnesses or jurors live in the same direction, traveling fees shall be charged only for the most distant; for serving an attachment on property or levying an execution, or executing an order of arrest, or order for delivery of personal property, two dollars, with traveling fees as in cases of summons; for serving an attachment on any ship, boat, or vessel in proceedings to enforce any lien thereon, created by law, four dollars; for making and posting notices, and advertising for sale, on execution or order, any judgment or order of sale, not to include the cost of publication in a newspaper, one dollar and fifty cents; for commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution or process, where lands or personal property have been levied on, advertised and sold, on the first five hundred dollars, three per cent; not exceeding one thousand dollars, but over five hundred, one and one-half per cent; and on all sums over fifteen hundred dollars, three-fourths of one per cent; for commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution without levy, or when the lands or goods levied on shall not be sold, one-half of one per cent. The fees herein allowed for the levy of an execution, for advertising and for making and collecting money on execution, shall be collected from the defendant by virtue of such execution, in the same manner as the same may therein be directed to be made. For drawing and executing every sheriff's deed, to be paid by the grantee, who shall, in addition, pay for the acknowledgment thereof, three dollars; for serving a writ of possession or restitution, putting any person in possession entitled thereto, three dollars; for traveling, in the service of any process not herein before mentioned, for each mile necessarily traveled, in going only, forty cents per mile; for attending, when required, on any court of record, in person or by deputy, for each day, to be paid out of the treasury, four dollars; for bringing up a prisoner, on habeas corpus, to testify or answer to any court, or for examination as to the cause of his arrest or detention, or to give bail, one dollar and fifty cents. He shall also be allowed such further compensation for his trouble and expense in taking possession of property under attachment or execution, or other process, and of preserving the same, as the court from which the writ or order may issue shall certify to be just and reasonable. For holding each inquest or trial of right of property, when required, to include all services except mileage, seven dollars and fifty cents; for attending on the supreme court, either in person or by deputy, to be paid out of the state treasury as other claims, for each [day], six dollars; for every arrest in a criminal proceeding, two dollars; for serving each subpena in criminal cases, forty cents; for executing every sentence of death, fifty dollars; for summoning a grand jury of twenty-four persons, ten dollars; for summoning each trial juror, thirty cents; for service of any process in criminal cases, the same mileage as in civil cases. In serving subpenas or venires in criminal cases he shall receive mileage for the most distant only, when witnesses and jurors live in the same direction. For all services in justices' courts, the same fees as are allowed to constables. As amended, Stats. 1885, 94.

Washoe Co. v. Humboldt Co., 14 Nev. 123; Baker v. McLeod, 14 Nev. 148; Feusier v. Virginia City, 3 Nev. 58; Swift v. Doron, 6 Nev. 125.

2010. Coroners.

SEC. 6. The fees of coroners [in counties polling over 800 votes] shall be as follows: For all services in summoning a jury of inquest, three dollars;

for swearing a jury, fifty cents; for issuing warrant of arrest, seventy-five cents; for issuing subpena to each witness, twenty cents; for each mile necessarily traveled in going to the presence of the dead body, twenty-five cents; for swearing each witness, twenty cents; for taking down testimony, per folio, twenty cents; for each day necessarily employed in holding an inquest, five dollars. All of said fees shall be paid out of said treasury as other demands. For all services rendered by him while acting as sheriff, the same fees as are allowed to sheriffs for similar services.

2011. Constables.

SEC. 7. The following fees shall be allowed to constables [in counties polling over 800 votes]: For serving summons or other process by which suit is commenced, in civil cases, seventy-five cents; for summoning a jury before a justice of the peace, one dollar and fifty cents; for taking bond or undertaking, seventy-five cents; for serving an attachment against the property of a defendant, one dollar and fifty cents; for serving subpenas, for each witness, twenty cents; for summoning and swearing a jury to try the rights of property, and taking the verdict, one dollar and fifty cents; for receiving and taking care of property on attachment, execution or order, his actual necessary expenses, to be allowed by the justice who issued the execution, upon the affidavit of the constable that such charges are correct, and the expense necessarily incurred; for a copy of any writ, process, or other paper when demanded or required by law, per folio, twenty cents; for drawing and executing every constable's deed, to be paid by the grantee, who shall also pay for the acknowledgment thereof, three dollars; for each certificate of sale of real estate, under execution, seventy-five cents; for collecting all sums on execution to be charged against the defendant in execution, one and one-half per cent; for levying an execution or executing an order of arrest in civil cases, or order for the delivery of personal property, with traveling fees, as for summons, one dollar and fifty cents; for making and posting notices, and advertising property for sale on execution, not to include the cost of publication in a newspaper, one dollar and fifty cents; for mileage in serving summons, attachment, execution, order, venire, subpena, or other process in civil cases, for each mile necessarily traveled, in going only, forty cents; provided, that when two or more persons are served in the same suit, mileage shall only be charged for the most distant, if they live in the same direction; for service and travel in criminal cases, the same fees as are allowed sheriffs for similar services.

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

2012. Witnesses.

SEC. 8. Witnesses required to attend in any of the courts of this state [in counties polling over 450 votes] shall be entitled to the following fees: For attending in any civil suit or proceeding before any court of record, referee, commissioner or justice of the peace, two dollars; for traveling to the place of trial, thirty cents per mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled; provided, that no person shall be obliged to testify in a civil action unless his fees and mileage have been tendered him, or he shall not have demanded the same; and, provided further, that no person shall be obliged to testify in a civil action unless his fees have been tendered him if he shall demand the same, for mileage and one day's attendance; for each subsequent day's attendance the witness is entitled to demand, in advance, his fees from the party in whose favor he has been subpenaed, and in case of refusal, is exonerated from further attendance. Witness fees in civil cases shall be taxed as disbursement costs, against the defeated party upon proof, by affidavit, that the disbursements have actually been made. Costs shall not be allowed

for more than two witnesses to the same fact or series of facts, nor shall a party plaintiff or defendant be allowed any fees for attendance as a witness in his own behalf. This provision shall be held to apply to courts of justices of the peace, as well as to all other courts and judicial proceedings. For criminal cases no witnesses fees shall be allowed.

Cited, Phillips v. Eureka Co., 19 Nev. 349 (11 P. 32).

2013. Jurors.

SEC. 9. Each person summoned to attend as a grand or trial juror in counties polling over four hundred and twenty-five votes, unless he be excused by the court at his own request from serving on the day he is summoned to attend, shall receive three dollars per day for each day he may be in attendance and fifteen cents per mile in traveling to and returning from court. In civil cases the per diem of each juror engaged in the trial of the cause, shall be paid each day in advance by the party who shall have demanded the jury, but in case the party paying such fees be the prevailing party, the fees so paid shall be recoverable as costs from the losing pa.ty. If the jury from any cause be discharged in a civil action without finding a verdict and the party who demands the jury shall afterwards obtain judgment, the fees so paid shall be recoverable as costs from the losing party. Jurors in justice courts shall receive but two dollars per day in civil cases; provided, that no fees shall be allowed trial jurors in criminal cases in justice courts. The fees paid to a juror by the parties in a civil case shall be deducted from the amount due him, and the balance only shall become a charge against the county. As amended, Stats. 1885, 25; 1887, 62; 1909, 321.

Trial jurors in the regular panel are entitled to receive from the county mileage and in addition per diem when accepted and sworn in criminal cases. These fees, together

2014. County auditors.

with those received in civil cases, constitute their entire compensation for attendance, travel and services rendered. Phillips v. Eureka Co., 19 Nev. 348-351, 355 (11 P. 32).

SEC. 10. The fees of county auditors [in counties polling over 800 votes] shall be as follows: For filing treasurer's receipts and issuing licenses, to be paid by the party, twenty-five cents; the county auditor shall receive for all services rendered by him in the discharge of the duties imposed on him by law, other than those especially enumerated, for each folio, twenty cents; for filing and indorsing each paper, twenty cents, except the property schedules, for which he shall receive no fees.

[Sec. 11 (judges and clerks of election) superseded, sec. 1802.]

[Sec. 12 (carrying poll-books to clerk's office) superseded, sec. 1802.]

Cited, ex rel. Williams v. Fogus, 19 Nev. 248 (9 P. 123).

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

2015. Justices of the peace.

SEC. 13. Justices of the peace [in counties polling over 800 votes] shall be allowed the following fees for their services: For filing each paper, fifteen cents; for issuing any writ or paper by which suit is commenced, seventyfive cents; for entering cause in docket, thirty cents; for subpena, to each witness, fifteen cents; for administering oath or affirmation, fifteen cents; certifying to the same, fifteen cents; for issuing writ of attachment, or order of arrest, or order for delivering of property, one dollar and fifty cents; for entering any final judgment, per folio, for the first folio, seventy-five cents, for each additional folio, thirty cents; for taking and approving any bond or undertaking required by law to be taken or approved by him, seventy-five cents; for issuing a venire, seventy-five cents; for taking depositions, per folio, twenty cents; for issuing commissions to take testimony, seventy-five cents; for copy of any judgment, order, docket, proceeding, or paper in his office, per folio, twenty cents; for entering satisfaction of judgment, thirty

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