NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 606

HOUSE BILL 813

AN ACT TO FIX CERTAIN ITEMS OF OFFICIAL FEES FOR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN GUILFORD COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. In Guilford County justices of the peace shall receive fees for their official acts, with respect to certain items, as set out below:

Summons .......................................................................     $1.00

Judgment, uncontested .................................................       2.50

Judgment, contested .....................................................       2.50

Issuing claim and delivery papers and trial .................       4.00

Each additional defendant .............................................       1.50

Issuing attachment papers and trial, and

     order to seize property .............................................       2.50

Each additional defendant .............................................       1.50

Transcription of judgment ............................................       1.00

Execution of judgment .................................................       2.00

Performing marriage ceremonies in office ................       5.00

Hearing petitions for widow's yearly allowance ........       3.00

Issuing notices to commissioners, allotting the

     same and making returns ..........................................       3.00

Sec. 2. All other official fees of justices of the peace not herein set forth shall remain as already fixed by law, and this Act shall apply only to Guilford County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1965.