§ 9. How clerks and register of wills to complete unfinished business and fees therefor

   Each clerk and register of wills on coming into office shall complete all the unfinished business which shall be in his office unfinished by his predecessor within the six months given in § 8, and such clerk or register shall be allowed the usual fees for so doing, the same to be paid by said predecessor; and the last official bond of said predecessor shall be responsible for the same in cases where said predecessor has received the fees therefor; and in cases where the fees have not been received by his said predecessor, such clerk or register completing said business shall be entitled to said fees therefor and shall collect the same from the parties owing the same in the like manner that he collects other fees for similar services.

HISTORY: An. Code, 1951, § 9; 1914, § 9; 1912, § 9; 1904, § 9; 1888, § 9; 1844, ch. 311, § 2; 1878, ch. 229.