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THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 80. 1853. 163 warrant shall be necessary to remove a prisoner from one district to , R°m°"”·i°i another; a copy of which may be delivered to the sheriff or jailor from Pm5mm' whose custody the prisoner may be taken, and another copy thereof to the sheritfpr jailor to whose custody he may be committed, and the original writ, with the marshal’s return thereon, shall be returned to the clerk of the district to which he may be removed. Whenever a prisoner Copy of writ, is committed to a sheriff or jailor by virtue of a writ, warrant, or mitti· G"' ff, °t,'f°"' mus, a copy thereof shall be delivered to the sheriff orjailor as his 0 8 authority to hold the prisoner, and the original writ, warrant, or mittimus, shall be returned to the proper court or officer with the officer’s return thereon. Clerks Fees. For issuing and entering every process, commission, Clerks fees. summons, capias, execution, warrant, attachment, or other writ, except a cézfging P"°‘ writ of vemre, summons, or subpcena for a witness, one dollar. ` For Hling and entering every declaration, plea, or other paper, ten Fiiinz P¤P°¤- cents. For administering every oath or aiiirmation to a witness, or other Oaths. person, except a juror, ten cents. For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or Entering or recognizance, drawing any bond, or making any record, certificate, return, d8';, &°·· *****3, or report, for each folio fifteen cents; and for a copy of any such entry QE, ci2,€,,§°r S or record, or of any paper on file, not exceeding one folio, ten cents; and for each additional folio, ten cents. For making dockets and indexes, and for all other services on the _ Other services trial or argument of a cause, where issue is joined and testimony given, “‘ °”°’· including venire and taxing costs, three dollars. For making dockets and indexes, and for all other services in a cause where issue is joined and no testimony given, including taxing costs, two dollars. For making dockets and indexes, and for taxing costs and other services, in a cause which is dismissed, discontinued, or a judgment or decree is made or rendered therein without issue, one dollar. In equity and admiralty causes only, the process, pleadings, and decree, What shan be and such orders and memorandums as may be necessary to show the {;°‘f:§dm‘j‘;i$§; jurisdiction of the court and regularity of the proceedings, shall be entered ty cam, upon the final record; and, in case of an appeal, copies of the proofs, and Copies on apof such entries and papers on file as may be necessary on hearing of the Pmappeal, may be certihed up to the appellate court. For afiixing a seal of the court to any instrument when required, Other servicestwenty cents. For issuing a writ of subpoena, twenty-tive cents. For every search for any particular mortgage, judgment, or other lien, fifteen cents. For travelling from the office of the clerk, where he is required by law to reside, to the place of holding any court required to be held by law, five cents per mile for going and five for returning, and five dollars per day for his attendance on any such court or courts while actually in session. For searching the records of the court for judgments, decrees, and other instruments constituting a general lien upon real estate, and certify- ing the result of such search, nfteen cents for each person against whom such search is required to be made. For receiving, keeping, and paying out money, in pursuance of the requirements of any statute or order of court, one per cent. on the amount so received, kept, and paid. In cases removed by writ of error or appeal, the clerk’s fees for making dockets and taxing costs, shall be but one dollar, and the clerks of the district and circuit courts respectively, ex officio, shall be, and hereby are, authorized and empowered to administer oaths, take acknowledgments, take and certify atiidavits and depositions in the same manner. as commissioners, and shall be entitled to the same fees and compensation therefor.