196 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 163. 1864. 1853, eh. 80. approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and Efty-three, entitled, V°r X- P- 161- “An Aet to regulate the fees and costs to be allowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States, and _ _ for other purposes: “Provided, That the clerk of said supreme court shall dgjkmt *° WY °f not be allowed by the Secretary of the Interior to retain of the fees and ' emolnmeuts of his said office, for his own personal compensation, over and above his necessary office expenses, the necessary clerk—hire included, to be audited and allowed by the accounting officers of the treasury, subject to an appeal to the Secretary of the Interior, more than the sum of four thousand dollars per annum; and in making out his semi-annual returns, R¢*¤1‘¤¤ of required by the third section of said act, said clerk shall embrace his fees °l°rk' and emoluments of every name and character for any service required of him by law. Maximum Sec. 2. And be it further emwte¢L That no marshal nor district
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,,,,,,,;,,_L_ duties of his office, now or hereafter required of him by law, or in any casein which the United States will be bound by the judgment which may be rendered in the same, be allowed to retain out of the fees, charges, and emoluments therefor, whether prescribed by statute or allowed by a court or any judge thereof, a greater maximuni compensation than that lixed by the act aforesaid; but all such fees and emoluments, of every name and character, shall be included in the semi-annual returns required of marshals and attorneys by the third section of the act P'°Vi¤°· aforesaid: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to 1863, ch. 76, §§ the provisions of sections eleven and twelve of the “Act to prevent and 1h,g{*·xu 741 punish frauds upon the revenue, approved March third, eighteen hundred `p`and sixty-three." Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That, at the commencement of lflaintiff to de- every suit in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the plaintif gg£f°°$ WM shall deposit at least eight dollars with the clerk, to be appropriated ` towards the costs of the suit; and if the plaintiff recover against the defendant a judgment with costs, and said costs do not amount to eight dollars, the overplus shall be paid back to the plaintiff by the clerk: Pro- Poor persons vided, That suits may be prosecuted in said court by poor persons without gw! rpt m¤k° making the deposit herein prescribed, upon the order of the court, or of mm ‘ one of the justices thereof Fees or clerk Sec. 4. And be it jitrtlner enacted, That the following fees, and no ““d ”’“‘”‘h‘*l· other, shall be allowed to the clerk of said court, and the marshal of said district, for the services following : — In United For all services rendered by said clerk to the United States, in cases $****5 °”°°· in which the said United States is a party of record, five dollars. Mmiage li-_ For each marriage license issued by him, one dollar. $3;** ”“ °°m6' For each certificate of oihoial character, including the seal, fifty cents. wm-ams, For service of any warrant, attachment, summons, capias, or other write &¢=· writ, (except execution, venire, or a summons or subpoena for a witness,) Certain exist one dollar for each person on whom such service may be made. ing laws not aff Sec. 5. And be at further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so fected hereby. construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of an act, entitled 1864, ch. 85. "An act concerning the disposition of convicts in the courts of the United A""’¤ P' 74* States for subsisting persons condned in jails, charged with violating the laws of the United States, and for diminishing the expenses in relation theret0," approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or of 1*222 °l’·f·;· "A¤ act to authorize the appointment of a warden of the jail in the ’p'District of Columbia," approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four ; but the duties of said warden, and of the marshal of the United States for said District, in regard to the said jail and the prisoners committed thereto or connned therein, shall remain the same as if this act had not been passed. Approved, June 27, 1864.
