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

the court to take into consideration, i
fixing SAID compensation the condition o
said seaman or witness whether hi
voyage has been broken up to his injur
by his being sent to tho United States, @
not
Ii said seaman or person has been o
shall be transported in an armed vesse
of the United States, no charge for sus
tenance or transportation shall be mad,
it in any other vessel, the court may ad
judge what compensation shall be pal,
TO the captain of said vessel, and tn,
same shall be paid accordingly; Provi
ded That in no case shall transportation
aud subsistence be allowed at a rate ex
cocding fifty cents per diem
JURORS FEES.
For actual attendance at any court o.
courts. two dollars per day during sucl
attendance.
For travelling from their residence tt
SAID court or courts, five cents per milt
for going, and the same for returning
PRINTERS FEES.
For publishing any statute, notice, oil
order required by law, or the lawful or
der of any court, department bureau, OF
other person, in any newspaper, forty
cents per folio fot the first insertion, and
twenty cents per folio for each subsc
qucnt insertion. That the compensation
herein provided shall include the furnish
ing lawful evidence, under oath, of pub
LEGATION, TO be made and furnished by the
printer or publisher making such publ
cation.
The term folio in this act, shall mean
ono hundred words, counting each figure
as a word. When there are over Fifty
and under one hundred words, they shall
be counted as one folio but not when
there are less, except when the whole
statute, notice, or order contains less
than fifty words.
The bill of fees of clerk, marshal. and
attorneys. and the amount paid printe
and witnesses, and lawful fees for cxem-
Publications. and copies of papers ncccssa.
riiy obtained for uso on trial in cases
where by law costs are recoverable in ia
vor Of the prevailing party, shall be tax
cd by judge or clerk of the court, and
be included in and form portion of a
Judgment or decree against the losing
party Such taxed bills shall be fled
with the papers in the case.
In cases where the United States are
parties, the marshal shall, on the order
OF the court, to be entered in its minutes.
pay to the jurors and witnesses all such
fees as they may appear by such order
to be entitled to. which sums shall be al
lowed him at the treasury in his &C
counts.
The fees Of the marshals, clerks. COM
missoncrs, and district attorneys. in ca
scs where the United States are liable
to pay the same, shall be paid on set
thing their accounts at tho treasury, such
accounts to be made out and verified BY
the party under oath, and forwarded to
the hrst auditor of the Treasury.
In prize cases, whore there is con.
demnation and sale, the costs, so far as
they are payable and can be paid out of
the proceeds of sale, shall be paid on the
order Of the court upon the filing of the
taxed bills making them n portion of
the record in the case.
No district attorney, marshal or clerk,
or their deputies, shall receive any other
or greater compensation for any services
rendered by him than is provided in this
act and all acts and parts of acts, allow.
ing to either of them any other or great.
or fees than is herein provided, are here.
by repealed, and to receive any other or
greater compensation is hereby declared
to be misdcmeanor. And if any off.
Ger hcrelnbcfore mentioned, or his depu.
ty, shall, by reason or color of his Office.
wilfully and corruptly demand and re-
ceivc any other or greater fees than those
allowed in this act, he shall, on convic.
ton thereof in any court of the United
States, forfeit and pay fine not exceed.
ing five hundred dollars, and be impris.
oned not exceeding six months, at the
discretion of the court before whom the
conviction shall be had.
But this shall not be construed to pro.
hibii the payment of any salary author,
lied by statute Provided, That in the
State Of California and the Territory
OF Oregon officers, jurors, and witnesses
shall be allowed, for the term Of two
years, double the fees and compensation
allowed BY this act, with fifty per cent.
added thereto, for two wears thereafter.
I hat before any bill of costs shall
be taxed by auy judge or other officer,
or allowed by any officer of the treasury.
in favor of clerks, marshals, commission
ers, or district attorneys, the party claim
ing such bill shall prove by his own oath.
or some other person having a knowl.
edge Of the facts to be attached to such
bill and filed Herewith, that the ser.
vices charged therein have been actually
and necessarily performed, as therein
stated.
That witnesses who are required to at
tend any term Of the court on the part
of the United States shall be subpenaed
to attend to testify generally on their
behalf, and net to depart the court with.
out leave of the court or district attor-
ney, under which it shall be their duty
to appear before the grand jury or petit
jury, or both, as they shall be required
by the court or district attorney. Nc
writ shall be necessary to bring into
court any prisoner or person in custody
or for remanding him from the court in
to custody; but the same shall be done
on the order Of the court OF district at
torney, for which no fec shall be charg
cd BY the clerk or marshal
See. a. And be it further enacted
That if any person shall falsely take al