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For entering every order of court, twelve cents and one half; if more than one hundred words, then, at the rate of twelve cents and one half per hundred;

For recording or copying any paper, for one hundred words, twelve cents and one half; seal and certificate, thirty-seven cents and one half;

For filing petition or report, and entering the same on record, (if necessary,) fifty cents; if more than one hundred words, at the rate of twelve cents and one half per hundred;

For entering judgment, or rule of court, twenty-five cents; copy of the same, if demanded, for every hundred words twelve cents and one half; seal and certificate, thirty-seven cents and one half;

For entering every motion in court, twelve and one half cents;

For entering appointment of guardian, with certificate and seal of said appointment, one dollar; every additional word included in the same certificate, twelve and one half cents;

For issuing attachment and entering motion therefor, seventy-five cents;

For taking a recognisance, twenty-five cents;

For warrant to marshal to summon jury, under seal, seventy-five cents;

For entering panel of jury, and swearing them, fifty cents;

For taking, filing, and recording, every bond, not above provided for, one dollar;

For passing an account against the estate of a deceased person, twelve and a half cents; to be paid by the applicant, and not to be refunded.

. And be it further enacted, That the respective officers, whose fees are by this act specified, are hereby required to make fair tables of their fees, agreeable to this act, and to set up the same in their respective offices, within six months after the passing of this act, in some conspicuous part of their office, for the inspection of all persons who may have business in said offices; on pain of forfeiting, for each day the same shall be missing through said officer’s neglect, the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered as debts of the same amount are recoverable, one half to the county, and the other half to the informer.

. And be it further enacted, That, if a register of wills, or any person for him, shall take greater fees than herein before expressed, such officer shall forfeit and pay the party injured fifty dollars, to be recovered as debts of the same amount are recoverable. Provided always, That the judges of the orphans’ court may allow to the registers [register] of wills, reasonable fees for any service he may have rendered, not specified in this act.

. And be it further enacted, That the register [registers] of wills of the counties of Washington and Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, shall be allowed by the levy courts of their respective counties, for all record books and dockets necessarily furnished for their respective offices, which allowance shall be levied and collected as other county charges are.

, May 26, 1824.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, empowered to borrow, on or before the first day of April next, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars, at a rate of interest, payable quarter yearly,