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FEES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS. 



1. Frolhonotaries, clerks of courts of quarter sessions and orphans' 

 courts, registers of wills and recorders of deeds, to pay into State 

 Treasury, after deducting clerk Lire and oflice expenses, fifty per 

 centum on any excess of fees over and above .^2,000 received by them 

 annually. If one person holds one or more of said oflices, the fees 

 received from the several offices held to be aggregated, and fifty per 

 cent, of the excess over and above >^-,00(), and necessary clerk hire 

 and office expenses, to ascertain and report to the Auditor General 

 all excess of fees received, as aforesaid. Act April 2, 1868, section 8, 

 (P. L., page 11); act May 6, 1874, sectioa 1, (P. L., page 12-5); act March 

 10, 1810, (P. L., 1809-10, page 79), as to counties not covered by 

 acts of April 2, 1868, and May 6, 1874, as aforesaid. This latter act 

 provides for return to State Treasury of fifty per cent, of all fees 

 received annually in excess of $1,500.* 



2. Attorney General to pay into State Treasury all commissions 



received by him in excess of $7,000 per annum. 

 Act April 7, 1870, section 3, (P. L., page 58). 



3. For fees and licenses to be collected and paid into State Treas- 

 ury by the Insurance Commissioner, see act April 4, 1873, sections 

 6 and 7, (P. L., page 25); act May 1, 1876, sections 38 and 45, (P. L., 

 pages 64, 65). 



4. For fees to be collected and paid into State Treasury by the 

 Secretary of the Commonw^ealth, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Audi- 

 tor General and State Treasurer, see act April 27, 1871, (P. L., page 

 242); April 15, 1873, (P. L., page 75); April 1, 1837, (P. L., 1836-37, 

 page 132), and April 22, 1846, (P. L., page 486). 



5. Health officer, Philadelphia, to collect and pay into State Treas- 

 ury for certificates of health issued by him to steam vessels arriving 

 from foreign ports, |10; to sailing vessels, |5, and to coasting vessels 



arriving from ports south of Saint Mary river, $2,50. 

 Act June 5, 1893, section 6, (P. L., page 298). 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



1. The Commonwealth receives some revenue annually from es- 

 tates of persons who die intestate, and without known heirs or 

 kindred. In all such cases, said estates escheat to the Common- 

 wealth. 



For law regulating escheats, see act May 2, 1889, (P. L., page 66). 



*In Allegheny county, under act of April 6, 1871, (P. L., page 416), and in 

 Philadelphia county, under act of March 31, 1876, (P. L., page 13), the fees 

 received by county officers belong to the county. Commonwealth vs. William 

 B. Mann, et al., 168 P. S. R., page 290; Commonwealth vs. Allegheny county, 

 168 P. S. R., page 303. 



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