Section 1. The fees of the recorder of deeds in counties of the sixth, seventh, and eighth class shall be as follows:
For recording and exemplifying deeds, mortgages and other writings, for every five words, one cent. The minimum rate for recording same shall be two dollars and fifty cents.
For indexing deeds, mortgages and other writings with more than four names, fifteen cents extra for each additional name.
For abstracting first description or parcel of land, twenty cents, for each additional description or parcel, fifteen cents extra.
For entering satisfactions, assignments, partial payments, releases, extensions, and postponements on margin of mortgage record, fifty cents.
For taking acknowledgments, fifty cents for first name, and twenty-five cents for each additional name.
For certifying monthly report of mortgages, assignments, and satisfaction of record to county commissioners, as required by the act, approved the seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred thirteen (Pamphlet Laws 507), entitled "An act to provide revenue for State and county purposes, and, in cities coextensive with counties, for city and county purposes; imposing taxes upon certain classes of personal property; providing for the assessment and collection of the same; providing for the duties and compensation of prothonotaries and recorders in connection therewith; and modifying existing legislation which provided for raising revenue for State purposes," two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50), to be paid by the county.
The fee for services, not herein specifically provided for, shall be the same as for similar services.
(1 amended May 20, 1949, P.L.1590, No.479)