Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-05


be less than five hundred dollars per annum the diff
ference asceralned and allowed by the proper
counting ohcer Of the Treasury shall be paid to him
thererom and marshal shall be allowed by the said
secretary TO retain Of the fees and emoluments of his
ONCE Tor his compensation over and above
proper allowance to his deputies which shall in no case
three ourths of the fees and emouments received
as payable for the services rendered by the deputy
whon .he allowance ismade and may be reduced below
rate by the said Secretary of the Interior whenever
the return shall show that Of allowance to be unrea
sonabe and over and above the office expenses
OF the sald marshals the necessary clerk hire included
also 10 be audited and allowed by the proper accounting
ofhcers OF the Treasury exceeding six thousand
dollars per year. at and after that for such time
he shall hold the office and every such officer SHALL with
each such return made by him. pay into the Treasury of
the United Stan deposite to the credit of the Trea
surer thereof he may be directed by the Secretary
the INTERIOR any surplus of the fees and emoumens Of
MS ONCE which MS halfyeary return made afore
SAID shall show exist and above the compensation
and allowances enbefore authorized be retained and
paid by him. AID in every where the return of any
such officer shall show that surplus may exist the said
Secretary of the Interior shall such returns be
carefully examined and the accounts of disbursements
to be regularly aueA$ tie proper officers Of
partment and account to be opened with sucn omSet
allowances for nersona compensation for each calendar
year shall be made from the fees and OF that
year, and not otherwise: lind ovided lher, Ihat no.
thing any existing law Of Congress authorizing the pay
men of per diem compensation to district attorney,
clerk of district court clerk of circuit court or
marshal or deputy marshal for attendance upon the dis
rict circuit courts during their sttngs shall be SO
construed authorize any such payment to any one
of those officers for attendance either OF those courts
while sitting for the transaction of business under the
bankrupt law merely for any portion Of the time for
which either of the said courts may be held open or IN
session by the authority conferred in that law and no
such charge in account of any officer shall be certified
as payable or shall be allowed and paid out Of the money
herenbeore appropriated for defrayng the expenses OF
the courts of the United States and per diem other
allowance shall be made to such officer for attendance
rule days of the circuit district courts and when
the circuit and district courts sit at the time no
greater per diem other allowance shall be made to any
such officer than for attendance on one court
The two last provsos of paragraph one hundred and
sxyseven of the civil and diplomatic appropriation act
approved May the eighteenth, thousand eight hum
dred and fortytwo which require clerks TO certify ac-
counts and conne the marshals clerks and district at
torneys the northern and southern districts of New York
the fees allowed by the State law to clerks attorneys
counselors and shers for similar services in the State
courts, hereby repealed.
COMMISSIONERS FEES
For administering OATH ten cents taking an aeknoW
ledgment, twenty five cents.
For hearing and deciding criminal charges, five dol
lars per day for the time necessarily employed
For attending TO reference in itigated matter IN
civil 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 hundred words and ten cents
per folio for each copy Of the same furnished to party
on request
For issuing any writ any other service,
the compensation 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
charged with of the crimes osences set
forth in said artisle dollars and the 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 orythree
and for hearing and deciding upon the of any person
charged with any offence crime and arrested under the
provisions Of said treaty convention five dollars
for the time necessarily employed
WITNESSES FEES
For each days attendance in court before any officer
pursuant to law dollar and fifty cents and FIVE cents
per mile for travelling from his place of residence to said
place of trial hearing and FIVE cents per mile for
turning When witnesss supenaed in more than one
cause between the parties in different suits at the
same court but travel fee and per diem compen
satiou 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 in the
der in which they may be disposed of.
When witness is detained in prison for want Of Sc
curty for his appearance he shall be entitled to COM
pensation Of dollar per day and above his sub
sistence.
when clerk or other officer of the United States shall
be sent away from his place Of business witness for
the Government either with or without papers or books
his salary shall continue his necessary expenses stated
in items and 10, in going returning, and attend
ance on the court shall be audited and psid but no
mileage nor other compensation shall IN any case be al
lowed.
There shall be paid to such or other person
has been or shall be the United States from any for
epn port station sea- ocean by any United States min
iser charge dafares consul commander, captain to
give testimony in any criminal which has been
NAV be depending any court Of the United States such
compensation as the court which had shall have cogni
zance Of the crime shall adudge TO be right and proper
exceed dollar for each day the said seaman Or
person been shall be necessarily the voyage and
arriving nj the place Of examination trial exclusive Of
sustenance transportation the court to take iato con-
sideration in fixing said compensation the condition Of
said seaman witness whether his voyage has been bro
ken up injury by his being sent to the United States
not.
If said seaman or person has been or shall be trans
ported in an armed vessel Of the United States charge
for susenance transportation shall be made if in any
other vessel the court may adjudge what compensation
shall be paid the captain Of said vessel aud the
shall be paid accordingly Prorided That in shall
transportation and subsistence be allowed
ccedng fifty cents per diem.
JURORS FEES.
For actual attendance at any courts two doh
lars per day during such attendance.
For travelling from their residence to said court or
courts five cents per mile for going and the same for
returning
PRINTERS FEES.
For publishing any statute notice or order required
by law the lawful order of any court department, bu
other person. in any newspaper forty cents per
folio for the first insertion and twenty per folio for
each subsequent insertion That the compensation herein
provided shall include the furnishing lawful evidence,
under OATH of publication to be made and furnished by
the printer or publisher making such publication.
The term folio in this act shall hundred words
counting each figure as word When there are over
fy and under hundred words they shall be counted
as folio, but not when there are less except when