Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1864-11-12
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the First Session of the Thirty
eight Congress.
[PuBLIc-No. 1881


mcnts of the marshal, attorney, and
clerk of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and for other pur-
poses.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That the
fees of the clerk of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, except so far as
hereinafter specifically provided, and Of
the United States attorney and the mar
shal of said District, except so far as here
matter provided, shall be the same as the
fees respectively allowed to clerks of the
district and circuit courts, attorneys, soli-
citors, and proctors; and marshals, by the
act approved February twSnty-six, eigh-
teen hundred and lifty-three, entitled Gan
act to regulate the fees and costs to be al
lowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of
the circuit and district courts of the Uni
ted States, and for other purposes Proyi-
dcd, That the clerk of said supreme court
shall not be allowed by the Secretary Of
the Interior to retain Of the fees and emO-
luments Of his said office, for his own per-
sona compensation, over and above his
necessary office expenses, the necessary
e,grs hire included, to be audited and ul-
.0u#ol by he accounting officers Of the
/ IroasurF. subject to an appeal to the Sec
lr.ury y. ilc Interior, more than the sum
Of four thousand dollars per aunum; and
in making out his semi-annual returns,
required by the third section of said act,
said clerk shall embrace his fees and en- /.
ouments Of every name and character, for
any service required of him by law.
Sec, ?. And be it further enacted, That
no marshal nor district attorney of the
United States shall, by reason Of the dis
charge Of the duties of his Office, now or
hereafter required of him by law, or in
amy clse in which the United States will
be bound by the judgment which may be
rendered in the same, be allowed torctain
out of the fees, charges, and cmoluments
therefor whether prescribed by statute ol
allowed by II court or any judge thereof a
greater maximum compensation than that
fixed by the act aforesaid; but all such
fees and cmoIumcnt', Of cycry name and
character, shall be included in the semi,
annual returns required of marshals and
attorneys by the third section of the nc
atorosaid Provided, That nothing in thil
act contained shall apply to the provisions
OF sections eleven and twelve of the act Il
prevent and punish frauds upon tho Tcyen
ne, approved March third, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-thrce.
Sec ). And be 1t further enacted, That
ut the commencement OF every suit in thu
supreme court of the District of Columbia
the plaintiff shall doposltat least eight dol
lars with the CLERK, to be appropriated to
wards the costs oi the suit ana II th'
plaintiff recover against the defendant
Judgment with costs, and saldcostS do no
amount to eight dollars, the oyerpIus shal
be paid back to the plaintiff by the clerk
Provided, That suits may be prosecuted Il
said court by poor persons without max
ing the deposit herein prescribed, upon tn
order Of the court, or OF one OF the justice
thereof.
See, 4. And be it further enacted, Tho
the following fees, and no other, shall b
D allowed to the clerk OF said court, and tn
, marshal Of said District, for the service
following.
: For all services rendered by said clcr
e to the United States, in cases in which tn
said United States is a party of rccorC
five dollars.
For each marriage license issued by hin
one dollar.
3, For each certificate of official characte
j, including the seal, fifty cents.
For service OF any warrant, attachmen
summons, Capias, or other writ, (excpl