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Sheriffs shall be allowed the following fees for their services: for serving every citation or summons for each default, one dollar. For every writ of capias or attachment for each defendant, one dollar. For taking and returning every bond required by law, fifty cents. For levying every execution, one dollar. For making, executing and delivering every sheriff's deed, to be paid for by the purchaser, two dollars. For every return of non est inventus on summons or citation, fifty cents. For a return of nulla bona or execution, fifty cents. For executing a special summons for a jury, one dollar. For summoning a jury in any other case, fifty cents. For summoning each witness, fifty cents. For serving every order or rule of court, fifty cents. For attending each court per day, one dollar and fifty cents. For calling each action, party or jury, twelve and one-quarter cents. For calling each witness, five cents. For serving and returning each writ of capias in a criminal case, for each defendant, one dollar. For serving a writ of attachment, for each person in a criminal 1, one dollar. For serving each writ of execution in a criminal case, one dollar. For every return of non est inventus or nulla bona on an execution in a criminal case, fifty cents. For summoning a grand jury, five dollars. For committing any person to jail in any case, one dollar. For furnishing prisoner with board for each day, twenty-five cents. For executing every death warrant, fifteen dollars. For commission for receiving and paying moneys on execution, where land or goods have been levied on, advertised and sold, three and one-half percent on the first two hundred dollars, and two percent on all sums above that amount; and one-half of such commission when the money has been paid without a levy, or where the land or goods levied on have not been sold.
The party at whose application any writ, execution, subpoena or other process is issued from the superior court, shall cause the same to be returned without fee, unless the court shall for special reasons order the personal attendance of the sheriff; in which case he shall be allowed for each mile going and returning from the courthouse in the county in which he resides, to the place of the sitting of the superior court, five cents per mile.
Every court shall allow the sheriff and other officers reasonable compensation for conducting prisoners from one county to another, or for keeping the same in custody before they are committed to jail; which costs shall be taxed as other costs in criminal proceedings.
Witnesses shall be allowed fees for services in all cases as follows: for attending any court, referee, clerk or commission within the county where the witness resides, for each day, fifty cents. For attendance as aforesaid out of the county for each day, one dollar. For each mile of travel in going to, and returning from the place of trial, five cents.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties NM TERR LAWS KEARNY CODE FEES § 6 - last updated May 06, 2021 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nm/territorial-laws-and-treaties/nm-terr-laws-kearny-code-fees-sect-6/
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