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swearing each witness, five cents ; certifying each witness, three cents, 

 and entering attendance of each witness, three cents ; for swearing jury, 

 fifteen cents, taking affidavits, fifteen cents ; for filing each paper_origi- 

 nally filed in probate court, and including transcript, three cents ;~for 

 issuing transcript of proceedings in probate court, six cents per hundred 

 words, including certificate and seal ; for certifying fees to auditor, three 

 cents for each person named, including jurors ; and for all items not 

 herein specified, the same fees as are allowed by law for like services 

 :in other cases. 



The sheriff, for serving and returning each summons, when only one, 

 defendant is named therein, thirty-five cents, and for each additional 

 name twenty cents ; for copy of summons, duly certified, forty-five cents ; 

 for serving and returning subpoena, fifteen cents for each petsono^mecl 

 therein; for serving and returning venire for jury, traveling 'fees In- 

 cluded, to be paid by the county, four dollars, and for calling ,a<?h ^al*es-. t 

 man to fill the panel fifteen cents ; for each day's attendanc6"witfi the? jftf.v,' 

 on the line of the ditch, three dollars, and for all other services required 

 to be rendered by him the same fees as are allowed by law for like services 

 in other cases. 



The jurors shall each receive, for each day's attendance, one dollar 

 and fifty cents, and ten cents per mile from his place of residence to the 

 'County seat. 



The person appointed by the commissioners to examine and report as 

 to the cleaning out of a ditch shall receive two dollars per day for each 

 day actually employed therein, and in the examination of work performed. 



Witnesses, duly subpoenaed and in attendance, either before the 

 commissioners, the auditor, or the probate court and jury, for each day's 

 attendance, seventy-five cents, each, and five cents per mile from place of 

 residence to county seat. 



The surveyor or engineer, four dollars per day for the time actually 

 employed on the work designated for him to do. 



Each chairman, axman, and rodman, one dollar and twenty-five cents 

 per day for the time actually employed. 



All other hands necessary to the prompt execution of the work of 

 locating the improvement, one dollar and twenty-five cents per day each. 



For printing, fifty cents per square for actual printed matter, for the 

 first insertion, and twenty-five cents per square for each insertion there- 

 after, nonpareil estimate. 



SEC. 4507. [How the same to be paid.] All fees under this 

 this chapter shall be paid out of the county treasury as soon as the bill of 

 items thereof is examined and allowed by the commissioners, and the 

 auditor shall issue orders therefor on such allowance ; and for all amounts 

 so paid, except to the commissioners, auditor, and probate judge, the 

 commissioners shall order the general county fund to be re-imbursed for 

 the money raised for the respective improvements. 



SEC. 4508. [County ditch improvement fund created.] There 

 shall be and is hereby constituted a county general ditch improvement 

 fund, to consist of taxes collected on county and township levies, and all 

 balances remaining unexpended of special ditch improvement funds, aris- 

 ing from excess of assessments made on ditch improvements after the 

 expenses thereof have been fully paid. 



SEC. 4509. [Penalties for obstructing ditches; duty of county 

 commissioners.] Whoever obstructs any ditch, or refuses or neglects 



