The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-03-30

marshals, the necessary clerk hire in
cluded, also to be audited and allowed
by the proper accounting officers of the
treasury. sum exceeding six thousand
dollars per year, or at and after that rate
for such time as he shall hold the Office
and every such officer shall, with
each such return made by him, pay into
the treasury Of the United States, or de.
posit to the credit of the Treasurer
thereof, as he may be directed by the
Secretary of the Interior. and surplus
of the fees and emoluments OF his Office.
which his halfyearly return so made as
aforesaid shall show to exist over aud a
boye the compensation and allowances
hereinbefore Authorized to be retained
and raid by him. and in every case
here the return Of any such officer shall
show that a surplus may exist, the said
Secretary Of the Interior shall cause
such returns to be carefully examined,
and the accounts of disbursements
to be regularly audited by the pro
per officer Of his department, and
an account to be opened with such officer
in proper books to be provided for that
purpose and the alloTances for personal
compensation for each calendar year shall
be made from the fees aud cmoluments
of that year, and not otherwise Aud
provided, further, That nothing in any
existing law Of Congress authorizing the
payment of per diem compensation to
district attorney, clerk Of a district
court, or clerk of circuit court, or f15r-
shall or deputy marshal. for attendance
upon the district or circuit courts during
their sittings, shall be SO construed as to.
authorize any such payment to any of
those officers for attendance upon either
Of those courts while sitting for the
transaction Of business under the bank
rupt law merely. or 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 an account of any
officer shall be certified as payable, or
shall be allowed and paid out Of the
money hereinbefore appropriated for de-
fraying the expenses Of the courts of the
United States Aud 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 proyisos of
paragraph one hundred and sixty seven
of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropria-
ton act, approved May the eighteenth,
one thousand eight hundred and forty
two, which require clerks to certify ac-
counts, and confne 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 sher-
ifs, for similar services in the State
courts. are hereby repealed.
COMMISSIONERS FEES.
For administering an oath ten cents,
taking an acknowledgement, twenty-five
cents.
For hearing and deciding on criminal
charges, five dollars per day for the
time necessarily employed.
For attending to a reference in liti-
gated matter in a civil cause at law, in
equity, o 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 compenso-
ton as is allowed to clerks for like SER
vices,
For issuing any warran. rnaer 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 of
fences set forth in said article, two dol
lars and the same sum for any warrant
issued under the provisions of the con-
vcntion for the surrender of criminals,
between the United United States and
the King of the French, concluded at
Washington on the ninth Of Noeember
eighteen hundred and forty-threc; and
for hearing and deciding upon the case
of any person charged with any offence
or crime, and arrested under the provi-
sions of said treaty, OF convention, five
dollars per day for the time necessarily
employed.
WITNE SSES' FEES
For each days attendance in court, or
before any officer pursuant to law, one
dollar and fifty cents, and five cents per
mile for travelling from his place of res.
idoncc to said place of trial or hearing,
and FIVE cents per mile for returning
When a witness is subponaed in moro
than one cause between the same parties
in different suits at the same court, but
one travel fee and one per diem compen-
sation shall be allowed for attendaues,
to be taxed in the first case disposed of,
and "per diem" only in other causes, 10
be taxed from that tire IN each srss, ni
the order in which they may be disposed
of.
When a witness is detained in prison
for want of fsecurity for his appearance he,
shall be entitled 10 a compensation Of
one dollar per day over aud above hi5
subs stence,
When clerk or other officer Of the
United States shall be sent away from
his place of business as witness for tbs
Government, either with or without pa.
pers or books. his salary shall continue
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