Pennsylvania Act 1951-493 — FIXING CORONER'S FEES

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FIXING CORONER'S FEES
              Act of Jan. 7, (1952) 1951, P.L. 1844, No. 493          Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Fixing the fees and mileage of the coroner in counties of the
        fourth and fifth classes. (Title amended July 10, 1957,
        P.L.670, No.354)

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The fees to be received by the coroner of each
     county of the fourth and fifth classes shall be as follows: For
     viewing a dead body, fifteen dollars; summoning and qualifying
     inquest, drawing and returning inquisition, eight dollars;
     summoning and qualifying each witness, two dollars fifty cents;
     to be paid out of the goods, chattels, lands or tenements of the
     slayer (in cases of murder or manslaughter), if any he hath, if
     otherwise, by the county, with mileage at the rate of ten cents
     for each mile circular traveled from the court house to the
     place of viewing the body; executing any process or writs of any
     kind, the same fees as are allowed to the sheriff and the same
     mileage.
        (1 amended Sept. 8, 1959, P.L.822, No.316)
        Section 2.  Section XIX of the act, approved the twenty-
     eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred fourteen
     (Pamphlet Laws 352), entitled "An act establishing a fee bill,"
     as amended by the act, approved the seventh day of April, one
     thousand nine hundred twenty-seven (Pamphlet Laws 168), is
     hereby repealed as to counties of the fourth class.