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§ 3315. Where the trial, by a jury, of an issue of fact, in either a civ'l or a criminal action or special proceeding, in a court of record, occupies more than thirty days, the court, by an order entered in the minutes, may fix and allow, to each juror, such an extra compensation as it deems reasonable, for his services thereupon; the amount of which compensation, together with the expenses, actually and necessarily incurred, for food for the jurors during the trial, is a county charge.

§ 3316. A trial juror, sworn in a special proceeding, before a judge of a court of record; or upon a writ of inquiry; or upon a trial, before a sheriff, of a claim to personal property, seized by virtue of a warrant of attachment or an execution; is entitled to twenty-five cents, to be paid by the person at whose instance the jury is empanelled.

§ 3317. Except as otherwise specially prescribed by law, the proprietor of a newspaper is entitled, for publishing a summons, notice, order, citation, or other advertisement, required by law to be published, other than the session laws, for each folio, to seventy-five cents for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. The compensation, for publishing the session laws, must be fixed by the board of supervisors, at not more than fifty cents for each folio.

§ 3318. A witness in an action or a special proceeding, attending before a court of record, or a judge thereof, is entitled, except where another fee is specially prescribed by law, to fifty cents for each day's attendance; and, if he resides more than three miles from the place of attendance, to eight cents for each mile, going to the place of attendance.

§ 3319. A witness, attending before a commissioner or an officer, authorized to take his deposition to be used without the State, in a case other than one specified in section 3327 of this act, is entitled to two dollars for each day's actual attendance, and to eight cents for each mile, going to the place of attendance.

§ 3320. A receiver, except as otherwise specially prescribed by statue, is entitled, in addition to his lawful expenses, to such a commission, not exceeding five per centum upon the sums received and disbursed by him, as the court by which, or the judge by whom he is appointed, allows.

§ 3321. A county treasurer, or, in the city and county of New York, the chamberlain, is entitled, for the services specified in this section, to the following fees:

For receiving money paid into court, one half of one per centum, upon the sum so received.

For paying out the same, one half of one per centum, upon the sum so paid out.

For investing money, pursuant to the direction of a court, one half of one per centum upon the sum invested, not exceeding two hundred dollars, and one quarter of one per centum upon the excess, over two hundred dollars.

For receiving the interest upon an investment, aud paying the same to the person entitled thereto, one half of one per centum upon the interest so received and paid.

§ 3322. A justice of the peace is entitled, for the services specified in this section, to the following fees:

1. In an action brought before a justice of the peace.

For a summons, twenty-five cents.

For an order of arrest twenty-five cents.

For a warrant of attachment, twenty-five cents.

For a requisition in an action for a chattel, twenty-five cents.

For a subpoena, including all the names inserted therein, twenty-five

cents.

For the acknowledgment of a power of attorney, twenty-five cents.
For taking an affidavit, or administering an oath, ten cents.

For drawing an affidavit, application, or notice, required by statute, five cents for each folio.

For drawing a bond or an undertaking, twenty-five cents.

For hearing an application for a commission to examine one or more wit nesses, fifty cents.

For an order for such a commission, and attending, settling, and certifying interrogatories, fifty cents.

For hearing an application to discharge a defendant from arrest, or to vacate or modify a warrant of attachment, or increase the plaintiff's security thereupon, fifty cents.

For an adjournment, except where it is made by the justice upon his own motion, twenty-five cents.

For a venire, twenty-five cents.

For empanelling and swearing a jury, twenty-five cents.

For hearing the plaintiff's evidence, where the defendant does not appear, twenty-five cents.

For the trial of a demurrer, twenty-five cents.

For the trial of an issue of fact, where the defendant appears, seventyfive cents.

For receiving and entering the verdict of a jury, twenty-five cents.

For entering judgment, twenty-five cents.

For filing each paper required by statute to be filed, five cents.

For a transcript of a judgment, twenty-five cents.

For a copy of any paper for which a fee is not expressly prescribed by law, six cents for each folio.

For an execution, or the renewal of an execution, twenty-five cents.
For making a return upon an appeal from a judgment, two dollars.

For an order, directing an action or a special proceeding to be continued before another justice, twenty-five cents.

For services when associated with another justice, in any case where a fee therefor is not expressly prescribed by law, for each day actually spent two dollars.

2. In a special proceeding, or an action not brought before a justice of the peace.

For a warrant, in a case where a fee therefor is not expressly prescribed by law, twenty-five cents.

For a warrant for the apprehension of a person charged with being the father of a bastard, fifty cents; for indorsing a warrant, issued from another county, twenty-five cents.

For services when associated with another justice, in any case where a fee therefor is not expressly prescribed by law, for each day actually spent, two dollars.

For a precept or other mandate, whereby a special proceeding is commenced, in a case where a fee therefor is not specially prescribed by law, twenty-five cents.

For a view of real property, in a case where it is required by law, fifty

cents.

For a warrant of attachment to arrest a delinquent juror or witness, twenty-five cents.

For drawing, signing, and depositing with the clerk, a minute or record

of conviction of such a juror or witness, or of any person for contempt, in any case where a fee therefor is not specially prescribed by law, fifty cents. For an execution upon such a conviction before him, twenty-five cents. For drawing, copying, and certifying a bond, an undertaking, a recogniz ance, or other written security, and filing the same with the county clerk, or other officer with whom it must be filed, twenty-five cents.

For a warrant of commitment for any cause, twenty-five cents.

For a subpoena, including all the names inserted therein, twenty five

cents.

For a precept to notify a jury, fifty cents.

For empanelling and swearing a jury, twenty-five cents; except in proceedings to alter or lay out a highway, in which case he is entitled to two dollars.

For hearing the matter, concerning which a jury is called, fifty cents. For receiving and entering the verdict of the jury, and the order, if any, thereupon, twenty-five cents.

For any service for which a fee is not expressly allowed by this subdivision, and for which, if rendered in an action before a justice, a fee is allowed by the first subdivision of this section, the fee allowed in such an action for the same service.

For taking the deposition of a witness, upon an order made, or commis. sion issued, by a court of record of the State, or a court in another state or a territory, or a foreign country, ten cents for each folio.

For making the necessary return and certificate thereto, fifty cents.
For taking an affidavit or administering an oath, ten cents.

§ 3323. A constable is entitled, for the services specified in this section, to the following fees:

1. In an action brought before a justice of the peace, or in a justices' court of a city.

For serving a summons, twenty five cents.

For serving a summons and executing an order of arrest, one dollar. For serving a summons and levying a warrant of attachment, one dollar, For serving a summons and affidavit, and executing a requisition, in an action for a chattel, one dollar.

For serving an order, directing the action to be continued before a justice, other than the one before whom it is pending, and for attending before the latter, fifty cents, and fifty cents in addition if he so attends with a person in his custody.

For collecting money by virtue of an execution, for every dollar collected, to the amount of fifty dollars, five cents; for every dollar collected over fifty dollars, two and one-half cents. Where a judgment or an execution is settled after a levy, the constable is entitled to poundage upon the sum at which the settlement is made, not exceeding the value of the property levied upon.

For each mile necessarily travelled, going and returning, to serve a summons or to serve or execute any other mandate, except a venire, the distance to be computed from the place of abode of the person served, or the place where it is served, to the place where it is returnable, ten cents; but where two or more mandates in one action are served or executed upon one journey, or where a mandate is served upon of executed against two or more persons in one action, he is entitled, in al, to only ten cents for each mile necessarily travelled.

For notifying the plaintiff of the execution of an order of arrest, twenty five cents; and for going to the plaintiff's residence, or, if he is fund

elsewhere, to the place where he is found, to serve such a notice, for each mile travelled, going and returning, ten cents.

For subpoenaing each witness, not exceeding four, twenty-five cents.
For notifying the jurors to attend a trial, seventy-five cents.

For taking charge of a jury during their deliberations, fifty cents.

Where witnesses, not exceeding four, are subpoenaed by any person *other than a constable, the fee therefor is ten cents each.

2. In a special proceeding.

For notifying jurors to attend to assess damages, in proceedings relating to highways, two dollars.

For notifying jurors to attend in any other case, unless a fee therefor is 'specially prescribed by law, for each person notified, ten cents; and for Seach mile actually and necessarily travelled, going from and returning to his place of residence, ten cents.

For serving a precept or other mandate, by which the special proceeding is commenced, twenty five cents.

For serving a warrant, in any case where a fee therefor is not specially prescribed by law, fifty cents.

For serving an order, directing the special proceeding to be continued before a justice other than the one before whom it is pending, and for attending before the latter, fifty cents, and fifty cents in addition if he so attends with a person in his custody.

For arresting and committing any person, pursuant to process, one dollar.

For subpoenaing each witness, not exceeding four, twenty-five cents.

For each mile necessarily travelled, going and returning, to serve or exe cute a mandate, the distance to be computed from the place where it is served or executed, to the place where it is returnable, unless a different rate of travel fees upon the service or execution thereof is specially prescribed by statute, ten cents. Where two or more mandates are served or executed in one special proceeding, the limitation upon the amount of travel · fecs specified in the last preceding subdivision applies.

§ 3324. A constable who charges any travelling fees, must show, by affidavit, that the travel was necessary to perform the service with respect to which it is charged; that no more miles are charged for, than were actually and in good faith travelled for that purpose; that he had at the time no other official or private business upon the route so travelled; and that the travelling fees are charged upon one mandate only, which must be attached to or described in the affidavit. The justice taxing the fees must be satisfied that the miles charged for were actually and necessarily travelled, as stated in the affidavit.

§ 3325. A party recovering costs in an action before a justice of the peace, in whose behalf a commission has been issued, and who introduces in evidence a deposition taken thereunder, is entitled to recover his actual disbursements thereupon, not exceeding the following sums: commissioner's fees for taking and returning testimony, one dollar; each subpoena issued, or oath administered, by the commissioner, six cents; expense of serving each subpoena, twenty five cents; each witness's fees for each day's attendance before the commissioner, twenty-five cents; postage for sending and returning the commission and papers annexed thereto, one dollar.

§3326. Except as otherwise specially prescribed by law, a person, noti fied to attend as a juror, is entitled to twenty-five cents, for attending and serving, upon the trial of an action or the hearing of a special proceeding,

before a justice of the peace; and to ten cents for attending to serve, where he is not sworn.

§ 3327. A witness is entitled to twenty-five cents, for each day's actual attendance, before a justice of the peace, in an action or a special proceeding, or before a commissioner appointed by a justice of the peace, or before a justice of the peace taking a deposition to be used in a court, not of record, of another state, or a territory of the United States.

3328. A justice of the peace, or a constable, juror, or witness, before a justice of the peace, is not obliged to render any service specified in this title, without the previous payment or tender of his fee therefor.

$3329. In an action before a justice of the peace, if any services are rendered for a party, and he neglects to pay the fees allowed therefor by law, the other party may pay those fees, and the amount thereof must be taxed as part of his costs, if he recovers costs.

§ 3330. The allowance of a fee, by this title, does not apply to a case, where special provision is otherwise made by statute for compensation for a particular service.

3331. Where an officer has, when his title takes effect, commenced the performance of a service, for which a fee is allowed by the statutes heretofore in force, he is entitled to the fee so allowed, for the completion of that service, and he is not entitled to the fee for the same, or a corresponding service, allowed by this title.

3332. Except as otherwise expressly prescribed therein, this title does not apply to a service rendered in a criminal action or special proceeding, in a court, or before an officer.

CHAPTER XXII.

DEFINITIONS AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING
CONSTRUCTION, EFFECT, AND APPLICATION
THIS ACT.

THE
OF

TITLE I. GENERAL DEFINITIONS, AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
TITLE II.-PROVISIONS REGULATING THE EFFECT AND APPLICATION or

THIS ACT.

TITLE I.

General definitions, and rules of construction.

3333. Definition of "action."
3334. Id.; special proceeding."
3335. Division of actions into civil and
criminal.

3336. Definition of "criminal action."
8337. Id.; "civil action."

3338. Parties to a civil action.

3339. Only one form of civil action.

§3340. Rule of construction as to pub

lication, etc., in certain cases.

3341. Id.; as to certain special pro-
visions relating to New York
city.

3342. Id.; as to county court.
3343. Miscellaneous general definitions
and rules of construction.

§ 3333. The word "action", as used in the New Revision of the Stat utes, when applied to judicial proceedings, signifies an ordinary prosecution, in a court of justice, by a party against another party, for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence.

§3334. Every other prosecution by a party, for either of the purpose specified in the last section, is a special proceeding,

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