The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-02

necessary clerk hire included. also to be audite.
and allowed by the proper accounting officers Q
me treasury, sum exceeding three thousand ,iv
| hundred dollars per year for any such distric
/ CLERK, or circuit clerk, or at and afte
that rate for such time as he shall hold the office
Presided, That when the compensation of any
clerk shalt De less than five hundred dollars pei
| annum, the difference. ascertained and allowed by
the proper accounting officer of the treasury sha +
be paid to him therefrom; and no marshal shall be
allowed by the said Secretary to retain of the fees
| and emouments of his Office, for his own persona
compensation, over and above a proper allowance
| to his deputies, which shall in no case exceed
three-fQurths Of the fees and emoluments received
as payable for the services rendered by the deputy
1 to whom the allowance lie made, and may be re-
duced below that rate by the said Secretary of tbs
Interior whenever the return shall show that rate
ofallowance to be unreasonable, and and above
the necessary office expenses Of the said marshals
the necessary clerk hire included, aso 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
ouch officer shall, with each such return made
| BY him, pay into the treasury of the Unitei
States, or deposit to the credit of the Trea.
surer thereof, as he may be directed by the
Secretary of the Interior, any surplus of the
fees and emoluments OF his Office, which his half
| yearly return SO made aforesaid shall show to
exist over and above the compensation and allow
ances hereinbefore authorized to be retained and
paid by him. And in every case where the return
b
exist the said Secretary of the Interior shall cause
such returns to be carefully examined, and the ac-
counts of disbursements to be regularly audited by
the proper officers OF his department, and an ac-
count to be opened with such officer in proper
books to be provided for that purpose, and the al
| lowances for personal compensation for each cal
endar year shall be made from the fees and emol-
| uments OF that year, and not otherwise: And pro
Uaded, further, That nothing in any existing law
of Congress authorizing the payment OF a per
diem compensation to district attorney, clerk of
district court, clerk of circuit court, or mar
shall or deputy marshal, for attendance upon the
district circuit courts during their sittin gs shall
be SO construed as to authorize any such payment
| to any one of those officers for attendance upon
either Of those courts while sitting for the transac
ton of business under the bankrupt 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 cefti-
fled as payable, shall be allowed and paid out of
the money hereinbefore appropriated for defray-
ing the expenses of the courts Of the United States
And no per diem other allowance shall be made
to any such officer for attendance at rule days of
| the circuit or district courts; and when the cir
cult and district courts sit at the same time,
greater per diem 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 Ap.
preparation act, approved May the eighteenth
one thousand eight hundred and forty two, which
require clerks to certify accounts. 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, attor
neys, eounselors and sherfs, for similar services
in the State courts, are hereby repealed.
Commissioners Fees.
For administering an oath, ten cents ia king
an acknowledgement, twenty five cents.
For hearing and deciding criminal charges,
| five dollars per day for the time necessarily en-
ployed.
For attending to reference in litigated mat.
ter in civil! cause at law, in equity, or in admi
rally, in pursuance OF order of court, three
dollars per day.
For taking and certifying dispositions to fIe
twenty cents for each folio of one hundred words,
and ten cents per folio for each copy of the same
furnished to party on request.
For issuing any warrant, or writ, or any other
service, the same compensation as ia allowed to
clerks for like services.
For issuing any warrant under the tenth article
of the treaty of the ninth of August, eighteen hun
dred and forty-two, between the United States
and the Quaen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, against any person charged
with any of the crimes offences set forth in said
article, two dolars and the same sum for any
warrant issued under the provisions of the conven
ton for the surrender of criminals, between the
United States and the King of the French, con-
cuded at Washington on the ninth OF November,
eighteen hundred ind forty-three; and for hearing
and deciding upon the case of any person charged
with any offence or crime, and arrested under the
lars per day for the time necessarily employed.
Witnesses Fees.
For each days attendance in court, or before
any officer pursuant to law one dollar and fifty
cents, and five cents per nile for travelling from
his place of residence to SAID place of trial hear
ing, and five cents per mile for returning. When
a witness is subpGnaed in more than cause
between the same parties in different suits at the
same court, but one travel fee and one per diem
compensation shall be allowed for attendance, to
be taxed in the fret disposed of, and sper
diem'' only in the other causes, to be taxed from
that time in each case, in the order in which they
may be disposed Of .s
When awitness is detained in prison for want of
security for his appearance he shall be entitled to
compensation Of one dollar per day over and
above his subsistence.
When clerk or other officer of the United
States sha be sent away from his place of business
as witness for the Government, either with
without papers or books his salary shall continue;
his necessary expenses, stated in items and sworn
to, in going, returning, and attendance on the
court, shall be audited and paid, but no mileage
nor other compensation shall in any case be al
lowed.
There shall be paid to such seaman or other per-
has been shall be sent to the United States
from any foreign port, station, sea, or ocean, by
any United States Minister, Charge dAHalres,
Consul, Commander, or Captain, to give testimony
in any criminal case which has been or may be
depending in any court of the United States, such
compensation as the court which had or shall nave
and proper. not to exceed one dollar Tor eacn DAY
the said seaman person has been or shall DC ne
cessarily on the voyage, and arriving at the place
of examination or trial. exclusive OF sustenance
and the court to take into consioe
ration, in fixing said compensation the conoiuon
of said seaman or witness; whether MS voyage mas
been broken up to bis injury by his being sent to
the United States, or not
IF said seaman or person has been or shall be |
ira nsported in armed vessel OF the United |
States no charge for sustenance or transportation
shall be made; if in any other vessel, the court |
NAV adiudge what compensation shall be paid to |
the captain of eaid vessel, and the same shall be |
paid accordingly Provided, That in no case shall |
transportation and subsistence be allowed at rate |
exceeding fifty cents per diem.
Jurors Fees.
For actual attendance at any court or courts, |
two dollars 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 re-
uujred by law, or the lawful order of any court,
department, bureau, or other person, IN any news
paper forty cents per folio for the hrst
md twenty cents per folio for each subsequent IN
sertion. That the compensation herein provided
shall include th. furnishing lawful evidence, nn.
der oath, of publication, to be made and furnished
by the printer or publisher making such publica-