Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-11
BY AUTHORITY.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed during the Second Session Of the Thirty
second Congress.
IPuBLrc Aor-No. 25.l

clerks, marshals, and attorneys circuit dis.
BE by the Senate and House of Representa-
Ives Of the United States OF in Congress assent
law to attorneys, solicitors and rrocUrs the United
the district and circuit courts, marshaa witnesses .
commissioners and PRIMERS in the several States
and aowed act not be to
hlG solicitors and proctors FROM cha gu to
ment such reasonable ton for their services
with general usage their respective States or may
agreed upon between the parties.
Fees Of attorneys, Solicitors and P.'Octors.
In trial before jury in civil and criminal causes.
ity, docket fee of twenty doars Provided, That in
5eilan shall recover less than i,y dollars, the docket
fee Of his proctor shall be but ten dollars
In cases at law, where judge cnt is rendered without
jury ten dollars, and five dollars where cause is dsc0
rscirc acias on rccognzanccs
For each deposition taken and admitted as evidence il
the cause, two dollars and tifty cents.
compensation OF five dollars shall be allowed for Tic
circuit court by writ OF error or appeal.
For examination by district attorney, before judge
commissioner OF charged with crime
five dollars per day the time necessarily employed
United States the business the United states
when the shall be held at the place OF his abode, five
of the term when the said shall he held elsewhere
For travelling from the place of his abode TO tho place of
holding couIt OF the United States in his district, and
TO the place of any examination before judge commits
cents per mile for going anu ten cents for returning
When an indictment for crime shall be tried before
lees allowed by this act the district attorney may be al
lowed counsel fec in proportion to the importance and
In every where district attorney has, during the
ss tust Where w the lave awe
allows no taxable attorneys lees and for which he has re-
ceived no compensation except his per diem and nual
salary he shall be paid orhs services according 10 the
For the services Of counsel rendered at the request of
the head of department, such sum be stipulated
Whenever there shallbc several charges against
presons for the same act or transaction
transactions together,
for two acts transactions oil tn: csss
of crimes or oGenscs which may be properly joined,
instead OF having several indictments the whole may be
or more indictments shall be found in such cases. the
court may oiGer them consolidated.
Whenever two or more things belonging to the sam,
violation the revenue laws, the whole shall ncu.
dcd i'll suit and if not included and separate
Whenever Two or niOrc indic suits proceed.
nss shall be prosecuted which should be joined,
the district attorney prosecuting them shall DC paid but
bill OF costs Tor all OF themi and il attorney, rLc
tor, Their person admitted 10 manage conduct
any court the United States, or the Territories
thereof, shall appear 10 have multiplied the proceedings
reasonably and veXuously, such person may required
by order OF the court to atsy excess OF costs 50 in
creased
Whenever two or more charges shall be made.
or two or more indictments shall be found against per
only writ shall be necessary arrest
and commit him Tor trial. aud shall be sufficient
to only III very general terms Only one
writ shall be necessary remove a prisoner
livcred shcrr or jaiior from whose custody tho
prisoner may be t'ken and another copy thereof 10
sheriff ailOr 10 whose custody lie may be committed,
and the original writ, with the Tarshas thereon.
shall be returned To the clerk ui the district TO which
may be removed. Whenever prisoner is committed 10
sheriff jNiIOr by virtue OF wit. warrant, nltii
mus. copy thereof delivered to the sheriff or
jaor his authority 10 hold the prisoner and OrIgi
nal WRIT warrant, mttimus, Shall be returned
proper court officer with officers the con
Clerks Fees.
Forissuns and entering every process commission.
summons, CapiaS, execution warrant attachc n 9th
cIwrit, except writ of venc, summons, subrGut
For filing aud entering every declaration plea other
paper, ten cents.
For administering every oath or affirmation TO wit
ness, other person, except Juror cents.
ment, decree rccognzance draw ing any bond OF ma
king record certificate, return, report each
cord any rapc file, exceeding one folio, ten
cents and for each additional 'Oio, zen
For making dockets and indexes, and all
vices the trial gumen OF cause, Is
costs, three dollars.
For making dockets and indexes, all other ser
vices III where issue is joined and testimony
gtven including taxing costs, two dollars.
FOR making dockets and indexes, aud for taxing
tinucd, judgment decree is
in without issue, dollar.
ings, and Decree and such orders and mcmoraI
and regularity the proceedings shall he entered upon
the final records and IN case OF an appeal copies OF the
proofs, ard OF such entries and papers, the file may
be ccessay on hearing of the appeal may be certified
TO the APPELLATE court.
required twenty cents For issuing writ of sUbpGna.
mortgage judgment or other hen een nU % For sv
cling from the office Ofthe clerk where lie is required BY
by law, We cents per mile for going and five
tor returning, and five dollars day for his attendance
such court oricourts while actually in session.
For ching the records OF the Judgements
decrees and other instruments constituting general lieu
o real estate and certifying the result OF such search,
fifteen cents for each person against whom such search
required to be made.
For receiving Keeping ana paying out money, in pursu
ancc OF the requirements of any statute or order OF cou
one er cent on the amount so received kept and paid
by writ or appeal, the clerks
lees for making dockets and taxing COSTS shall be.bu
respectively, eXoco, shall be, and hereby are, author.
lied and empowered 10 administer oaths, lake
the 5anncr commissioners, and shall be entitled
to the same fees and compensation therefor.
Marshals' Fees.
For service OF any warrant attachment, summons ca
pias, or other writ, Except execution veHirc,
subpoena for n witncss) dollars each pc
petition setting forth the oath, court may
allow such fair compensation for The keeping personal
property attached and held on inesne process, SHALL
For serving writ of subpoena Il witness, fifty cents,
and no further COMPENSATION sha! be allowed for
For travel in going only TO any process warrant,
attachment, or other writ, including writs of Subpoena
civil and criminal cases SIX cents per mile. to he
the writ OF process is rcturncd and il more than per-
son is served Herewith the travel shall be computed from
remote, adding thereto the extra which shall be
necessary TO it others: Provided, That when
t or parties TO be served the persons
or part OF the same persons or might be served
same ne the marshal shall be entitled 10 compensation
for travel only two OF such writs; unnc-
cessaTy expense it shall be the duty hc insert
the names OF as many witnesses i'll cause such sub
pGna, convenience in serving the will permit
And in all WHARF mileage is allowed the marshal
by this act, it shall he at his option the same
or his actual traH cling expenses TO he proved his
to the satisfaction of the court.
For each bail bond, fifty cents.
For summoning appraisers, each fifty cents
For every commitment discharge prisoner fifty
cents. N'
FOrcve proclamation in admiralty, thirty cents
For sales of vessels other property under process in
admiralty under the order of court OF dmiralty and
for receiving and paying the money, any sum under
five hundred dollars, two and halr per centum; for
any larger sum- one and one quarter per cenm upon the
- $50
For serving attachment iii libel in admiral
ty, two dollars; and the necessary expenses of Keeping
boats vessels, or other property attached beled in
admit atty exceeding two dollars fifty cents per
day; and in the debt claim shall be settled by tho
parties without sale of the property ts marshal Shall
be entitled to commission of per cent. OF the first