West Virginia Code § 59-1-18

To whom fees charged; services by clerks and sheriffs without fees
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The fees mentioned in this article shall be chargeable to the person at whose instance the
service is performed; except that the fees for entering and certifying the attendance of
witnesses, and proceedings to compel payment for such attendance, shall be charged to the
party for whom the witness attended, and except also as follows: No clerk shall charge for
taking bond from, administering oaths to, or copying orders as to the appoinetment or
qualification of any county, school or district officer, or for filing the bonds or oaths of any
such officer, nor for making or copying orders as to county levies or grarnd juries and
administering the necessary oaths. No sheriff shall charge for serving such or any other
public orders nor for summoning and impaneling grand juries. No clerk or sheriff shall
receive payment out of the treasury for any service rendered in case of the state, except
where it is allowed by law. t

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