Section 45 – Page Defined
Section 45. A page, when used as the measure of computation, shall mean two hundred and twenty-four words.
Section 46 – List of Fees; Manner of Posting
Section 46. Each of the officers before mentioned shall always keep posted in a conspicuous and convenient place in his office a printed or written list of the fees prescribed in this chapter so far as they relate to him.
Section 46a – Copies of Records Concerning Veterans; Furnishings Without Charge
Section 46A. No fee for a copy of any record relating to the birth, death, marriage, divorce, adoption or change of name of any veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four, or relating to any person a copy of whose like record is necessary to assist in proving a claim […]
Section 47 – Criminal Cases; Return of Expense Under Oath
Section 47. No fees shall be allowed upon the return of an officer upon a precept in a criminal case, in which expenses are charged, unless every item of expense incurred and the name of the person to whom each amount was paid is set forth under oath in the return; and no item of […]
Section 18 – Officers; Duty to Specify Items of Fees
Section 18. An officer receiving fees for any official duty or service, who, upon request of the person paying them, refuses or neglects to make out in writing in his return a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, shall forfeit to such person three times the amount so paid.
Section 19 – Endorsement of Fees; Certificate of Use of Conveyance; Penalty
Section 19. No fees for the service of any process of which the officer is required to make a return shall be allowed, unless itemized and endorsed on the process; and no allowance for the use of a conveyance in the service of a civil process shall be made, unless the officer certifies that it […]
Section 20 – Search for Person Named in Process
Section 20. An officer shall not be allowed any fees for making a diligent search for any person named in a process, except the amount actually expended by him in making such search and stated in his return.
Section 21 – Criminal Cases; Allowance of Expenses
Section 21. In the service of precepts in criminal cases, the officer shall be allowed the actual, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in going or returning with the prisoner, and if he necessarily uses his own conveyance, he shall be allowed therefor twenty cents a mile for the distance traveled with the prisoner, except that […]
Section 22 – Attendance Upon Certain Courts
Section 22. The fee for attending before a district court or trial justice shall be one dollar a day, upon one warrant only, if there are two or more against the same defendant at the same time. If the defendant in a criminal case is brought in by a summons, the fee for attendance shall […]
Section 23 – Examination of Sureties; Approval of Bonds
Section 23. The fees of magistrates for the examination of sureties and approval of bonds or for the taking of recognizances shall be in each case five dollars for the citation, if any, and the first day’s hearing, and two dollars in addition for each adjournment thereof. These fees shall be paid in advance.