Any court or officer whose duty it is to pass upon the account of any person or corporation required by law to give a bond may, whenever such person or corporation has given any such surety company as surety upon such bond, allow in the settlement of such account a reasonable sum for the expense of procuring such surety.

History: En. Sec. 23, Ch. 139, L. 1909; re-en. Sec. 6228, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6228, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 40-1724.