25-7-17 - Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 25-7-17. Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals.
 

The clerk of the circuit court of any county in Mississippi in which is located a municipality with a population of seventy-five hundred or more, according to the last federal census, may be allowed an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars for any one year to be paid out of the municipal treasury of said municipality on the filing of an itemized account of fees in each special case appealed from any city, where said case is disposed of by nolle prosequi, passed to files, or verdict of not guilty. Said fee bills shall be approved by the city attorney for payment and shall be presented to the municipal council or board of aldermen of said municipality for allowance, in the discretion of said council or board. This section shall not apply to counties wherein is located a municipality of less than ten thousand and more than seventy-five hundred population, in which said county there has been created and maintained a county court under chapter 9, title 9, of the Mississippi Code of 1972. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 3935; Laws,  1940, ch. 274; Laws, 1942, ch. 228.