Means v. Frame

This writ of error is brought to reverse a judgment for forty five dollars, on a motion against the plaintiff in error, for charging and receiving, as a justice of the peace, fifty cents each, for official copies of three several records, for the copying of which the fee of one and a half cents for each twenty words, allowed by the act of 1819, (1 Stat. Law, 694,) was less than fifty cents for each copy.

The said act of 1819 denounces a penalty of fifteen dollars, for charging or receiving a larger fee than that which it prescribes.

And two questions are presented for consideration: first—is…