Case ID: us-ct-cl_52/html/0515-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice White", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAM P. CROSS v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.; 242 U. S. R., 4.]
    No opinion was delivered by the court below, but judgment was rendered for the defendants. On appeal the judgment was affirmed and the Supreme Court decided:
    Under the naturalization act of June 29, 1906, 34 Stat., 596, fees may not rightfully be charged against the United States by a clerk of a Federal court for making triplicate copies of declarations of intention, or for attaching the seal of the court thereto, pursuant to the direction of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
    The naturalization act, by the affirmative provisions of sections 12 and 13, defining duties and fees, and by the express prohibition against additional charges contained in section 12, precludes any right of the clerk which might otherwise exist under Revised Statutes, section 828, to charge fees against the United States for the services here in question.
   Mr. Chief Justice White

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court November 13, 1916.