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THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 80. 1853. 167 a district court, or clerk of a circuit court, or marshal, or deputy marshal, N° ““°"’¤“°° for attendance upon the district or circuit courts during their sittings, ggzgmgdgm shall be so construed as to authorize any such payment to any one of days. those officers for attendance upon either of those courts while sitting for the transaction of business under the bankrupt law merely, or for any portion of the time for which either of the said courts may be held open or m session by the authority conferred in that law; and no such charge in an account of any such officer shall be certified as payable, or shall be allowed and paid out of the money hereinbefore appropriated for defray- ing the expenses of the courts of the United States. And no per diem or other allowance shall be made to any such officer for attendance at rule days of the circuit or district courts; and when the circuit and district courts sit at the same time, no greater per diem or other allowance shall be made to any such officer than for an attendance on one court. The two last provisos of paragraph one hundred and sixty-seven of P¢¤*¤f¤¤¤¤f the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation act, approved May the eighteenth, $35 $g,°§£gd_ one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, which require clerks to certify ° accounts, and confine the marshals, clerks, and district attorneys of the northern and southern districts of New York to the fees allowed by the State law to clerks, attorneys, counsellors, and sheriifs, for similar services in the State courts, are hereby repealed. Oommissionerf Fees. For administering an oath, ten cents; taking Commissionan acknowledgment, twenty-five cents. °*'“' f°°“· For hearing and deciding on criminal charges, five dollars per day for the time necessarily employed. For attending to a reference in a litigated matter in a civil cause at law, in equity, or in admiralty, in pursuance of an order of court, three dollars per day. For taking and certifying depositions to file, twenty cents for each folio of one hundred words, and ten cents per folio for each copy of the same furnished to a party on request. For issuing any warrant, or writ, or any other service, the same compensation as is allowed to clerks for like services. For issuing any warrant under the tenth article of the treaty of the ninth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, between the United States and the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, against any person charged with any of the crimes or offences set forth in said article, two dollars; and the same sum for any warrant issued under the provisions of the convention for the surrender of criminals, between the _United States and the King of the French, concluded at Washington on the ninth of November, eighteen hundred and forty-three; and for hearing and deciding upon the case of any person charged with any offence or crime, and arrested under the provisions of said treaty, or convention, five dollars per day for the time necessarily employed. lWlnesses’ Fees. For each day’s attendance in court, or before any Witnesses' fees. officer pursuant to law, one dollar and fifty cents, and five cents per mile for travelling from his place of residence to said place of trial or hearing, and five cents per mile for returning. When a witness is subpoenaed in more than one cause between the same parties in different suits at the same court, but one travel fee and one per diem compensation shall be allowed for attendance, to be taxed in the first case disposed of, and “ per diem " only in the other causes, to be taxed from that time in each case, in the order in which they may be disposed oil When a witness is detained in prison for want of security for his appearance, he shall be entitled to a compensation of one dollar per day over and above his subsistence. _ When a clerk or other officer of the United States shall be sent away Fees cfnluriod from his place of business as a witness for the Government, either with °m°°"‘ or without papers or books, his salary shall continue; his necessary ex·