Section 12-2-159
Library tax.
For the maintenance of the supreme court library there shall be taxed in each civil case decided by the Supreme Court or the courts of appeals on appeal the sum of $5.00, which must be taxed and collected as other costs in the case and, when collected, must be paid by the clerk to the marshal and librarian, by whom it must be disbursed on the order of the justices.
(Code 1886, §694; Code 1896, §3854; Code 1907, §5980; Code 1923, §10316; Code 1940, T. 13, §82.)