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| The Mayor, shall be allowed a salary per annum | $500,00 |
| The Vice mayor, or president pro tem, presiding in the absence of the Mayor, per day | 3,00 |
| The alderman and councillor’s, each for every day’s attendance, | 2,00 |
| The recorder, as secretary of the council, per annum, | 100,00 |
| For copies or exemplification of records or ordinances, for every seventy-two words, | 12 1-2 |
| For recording each marriage. | 50 |
| Affixing corporation seal, and certificate therewith, | 50 |
| Sec. 2. The chief justice shall be allowed, per day, | 3,00 |
| The associate justice’s shall each be allowed, per day, | 2,50 |
| For each warrant, summons, subpoena, and other process not herein specified, and sealing the same, | 50 |
| Filing papers on appeals from the Mayor or alderman’s court, taking appeal bond and issuing , | 50 |
| Docketing each suit, | 12 1-2 |
| Entering each order or rule of court for continuance, default, discontinuence, retraxit, &c. | 25 |
| For each dedimas or commission to take depositions, | 50 |
| Calling and swearing each jury, | 12 1-2 |
| Administering each oath, | 6 1-4 |
| Swearing person to affidavit | 12 1-2 |
| For each to summon jury | 25 |
| Receiving and entering verdict of jury | 12 1-2 |
| Entering each decree or final judgment | 25 |
| Issuing writ of , , or | 50 |
| Entering on record | 25 |
| Issuing | 25 |
| Entering marshall’s return of the same | 12 1-2 |
| For each certificate and seal, other than the process of court | 25 |
| Taking bond in cases of appeal to the circuit court | 50 |
| For each license under seal granted by ordinance | 50 |
| For each certificate of magistracy under seal | 25 |
| Sec. 3. For taking each complaint in writing under oath | 25 |
| For each warrant, summons, or subpoena | 25 |
| For each venire or jury warrant | 25 |
| Swearing jury in each case | 25 |
| Entering verdict of jury | 12 1-2 |
| Administering each oath | 6 1-4 |
| Issuing dedimus to take depositions | 25 |
| Taking each deposition when required for each 100 words | 12 1-2 |
| Entering security on docket | 25 |
| to be served on security | 25 |
| Notification to each referee | 25 |
| Entering award of refere[e]s | 25 |
| Each order or judgment and entering the same | 25 |
| Docketing each suit | 12 1-2 |
| For each precept on | 50 |
| Issuing process of and taking bond and security | 75 |
| On trial, per day | 2,00 |
| Entering appeal to the Municipal or circuit court | 25 |
| For each transcript of judgment and proceedings | 25 |
| For each execution, or | 25 |
| Taking the acknowledgment of a deed or other indenture | 25 |
| For each marriage ceremony perform ed | 1,00 |
| For certificate of the same | 25 |
| For each continuance of a case | 12 1-2 |
| Sec. 4. For serving a warrant or summons on each person named therein | 25 |
| Serving each subpoena | 12 1-2 |
| Serving and returning each execution | 50 |
| Serving and returning jury warrant in each case | 50 |
| Serving each mittimus | 25 |
| Eeach day’s attendance on the city council or municipal court when required | 2,00 |
| Each day’s attendance on the Mayor’s or alderman’s court when required | 1,00 |
| Advertising property for sale | 25 |
| Commission on all sales not exceeding ten dollars, ten per centum; and on all sales exceedin[g] that sum, six per centum. | |
| Mileage when serving a warrant, sum mons, or subpeona, from the justice’s or clerk’s office to the residence of the defendant, juror, or witness, per mile | 5 |
| Mileage when serving a mittimus, from the office of the justice’s or clerk to the jail, per mile | 6 7-4 |
| For guarding jail, or other similar services, for every twenty-four hours | 1,00 |
| Sec. 5. To each juror sworn in a case before the Mayor or alderman | 25 |
| To each juror sworn in a case before the municipal court | 25 |
| To each juror atttending a coroner’s inquest | 25 |
| Sec. 6 Each witness attending the Mayor’s alderman or municipal court, or at tending for the purpose of having his deposition taken, in each case. | 50 |
| Sec. 7. To each arbitrator for every day he shall be necessarily employed in performing the duties of his appointment, where the award is to be made the judgment of the municipal court | 1,50 |
| To each arbitrator or referee, for each day he shall be necessarily employed in making up his award in cases before the Mayor or alderman | 1,00 |
| Sec. 8. For holding an inquest over a dead body when required by law, | 5,00 |
| For summoning a jury | 75 |
| For burial expences, &c. | 10,00 |
| Sec. 9. For recording all deeds, mortgages and other instruments of writing, for every 100 words | 75 |
| For copies of the same, when requested, for every 100 words | 12 1-2 |
| For every search of record | 12 1-2 |
| Official certificate under seal | 37 1-2 |
| Sec. 10. For Noting a bond, promissory note, or bill of exchange for protest | 25 |
| For protesting and recording the same | 50 |
| For noting without protest | 25 |
| For notice to endorsers &c. each | 25 |
| For affixing the seal notarial | 25 |
| For each certificate | 25 |
| For taking acknowledgment of deed or other indenture | 25 |
| Sec. 11. The assessors and collector’s shall be allowed for ever day they are necessarily employed in the business of their appointment | 2,00 |
| Sec. 12. The city watch shall be allowed for services in guarding the for every day | 1,50 |
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TEXT: An editorial in the next issue of the Wasp corrected this amount to “25.” (“Errata,” Wasp, 1 Feb. 1843, [2].)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
TEXT: An editorial in the next issue of the Wasp corrected this amount to “15.” (“Errata,” Wasp, 1 Feb. 1843, [2].)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
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