under oath and under the penalty of perjury and that a false statement may be prosecuted as such. The application shall state whether or not the indigent has been released on bond. In addition, if the indigent has been released on bond, the application shall include a written statement from the applicant that the applicant has contacted three named attorneys, licensed to practice law in this state, and the applicant has been unable to obtain legal counsel. A nonrefundable application fee of Forty Dollars ($40.00) shall be paid to the court clerk at the time the application is submitted, and no application shall be accepted without payment of the fee;

law, the sheriff shall receive and may tax as official costs the mileage fee as established by section 1 of the act of July 20, 1979 (P.L. 156, No. 51), entitled “An act establishing a uniform mileage fee for all officials, officers and employees of the Commonwealth, its political subdivisions, intermediate units, and authorities,”1 for each mile necessary to be traveled by the sheriff, deputies or employees. The mileage fee shall be received on each separate writ, rule, order, decree, process or notice served or service performed. The sheriff shall not receive more than one mileage where the plaintiff and the defendant and two or more contemporaneous writs are the same, or when two or more persons or prisoners are being conducted at one time to or from a place of detention or correction. The sheriff shall receive the mileage fee for transporting the prisoners and the deputies guarding them, and meals and lodging during the journey and the return of the deputies.