, 1867-05-31


guilty Of a misdemeanor, and, upon coavietie,
thereof In any court Of the United States. sbaI
De punished BY imprisonment with or withou
hard labor, for a term not exceeding three years
PENALTIES AGAINST oFFIcERs.
Sec. As. And Be Il further enacted, That 4
any Judge, register, clerk, marshal, messenger
assignee, or any other of the several courts o.
bankruptcy shall, for anything done or pre.
tended to be done under this act, or under colo,
OF doing anything Hereunder, willfully demand
or take, OF appoint or allow any person what,
ever to take for him or on his account, or 70,
OF on account OF any other person, or in trust
lor MIN or Tor any other person, any fee, emol>
ument, gratuity, sum of money, or anything OF
value whatever, other than is allowed by hi,
act, or which shall be allowed under the au.
| thorlty thereof, such person, when convicted
thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less
than three hundred dollars, and not exceeding
hve hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not ex.
ceeding three years.
Sec. 46. And be further enacted, That if any
person shall forge the signature of a Judge.
register, or other officer of the court. or shall
Jorge or counterfeit the seal Of the courts, or
knowingly concur in using any such forged or
counterfeit signature or seal for the purpose of
authentcatng any proceeding or document,
or shall tender in evidence any such proceeds
Ing or document with a false or couuterfrit
Signature of any such judge, register, or other
othcer or false or counterfeit seal Of the court.
subscribed or attached thereto, knowing such
signature or seal TO be false or counterfeit. apy
such person shall be guilty offelony, and upon
coVicton thereof, shall be liable to fine of not
less than five hundred dollars, and not more
than five thousand dollars, and to be imprisoned
not exceeding hve years, at the discretion of the
court.
FEES AND COSTS.
Sec. Al. AHd be IL further enacted, That in
each case there shall be allowed and paid, in
addition to the fees of the clerk of the court, as
now established by law, or as may be estab.
lished by general order, under the provisions of
this act, for fees in bankruptcy, the following
fees, which shall be applied to the payment for
the services of the registers: -
For issuing every warrant, two dollars.
For each day in which a meeting is held,
THEE dollars.
For each order for dividend, three dollars.
For every order substituting an arrangement
by trust deed for bankruptcy, two dollars.
For every bond with sureties, two dollars
For every application for any meeting in any
matter under this act, one dollar.
For every days service while actually EN-,
ployed under special order of the court, a sum
not exceeding FIVE dollars, to be allowed by the
court t...H
For taking depositiOns, the fees now allowed
by law.
For every discharge when there is no opposis
tiOn, two dollars
such fees shall have priority of payment
over all other claims out of the estate, and be-
fore warrant issues, the petitioner shall de-
poslt with the senior register of the court, or
with the clerk, to be delivered to the register,
fifty dollars as security for the payment there
fhar
payment of the fees, the person upon whose Pc
'iton the warrant is issued shall pay the same,
and the court may issue an execution against
him to compel payment to the register.
Before any dividend is ordered the assignee
shall pay out of the estate to the messenger the
following fees, and no more:
First. For service of warrant, two dollars
Second. For all necessary travel, at the rate
of five cents mile, each way
Third. For each written note to creditor
named in the schedule, ten cents.
Fourth. For custody of property, publica-
uon OF notices, aud other services, his actual
and necessary expenses upon returning the same
IN specific items, and making oath that they
have been actually incurred and paid by him,
and are just and reasonable, the same to be
taxed or adjusted by the court aud the oath Of
the messenger shall not be conclusive as to the
necessity of said expenses.
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such further allowance may be made as the
conrt, in its discretion, may determine.
The enumeration of the foregoing fees shall
not prevent the judges who shall frame general
rules and orders in accordance with the provi>
sions of section ten, from prescribing a tariff of
fees for all other services of the officers of courts
of bankruptcy, or from reducing the fees pre-
scribed in this section in classes of cases to be
named in their rules and orders.
OF MEANING OF TERMS AND OF COMPUTATION OF
TINE.
Sec. 4s. And be ii further enacted, That the
word "assignee" and the word "creditor" shall
include the plural also and the word ''messen-
ger" shall include his assistant or assistants,
except in the provisions for the fees of that Off
Ger. The word 'marshal" shall include the
marshars deputies; the word "person' shall al
so include "corporaton;" and the word aoath"
shallinelude "affirmation" Aud in all cases in
which any particular number of days is pre-
scribed by this act, or shall be mentioned in
any rule or order Of court general order which
shall at any time be made undea this act for |
doing of any act, or for any other purpose the
same shall be rsckoned, in the absence of any
expression to the contrary, exclusive of the first
and inclusive of the last day unless the last day
shall fall on a Sunday, Christmas day, or on !
any day appointed by the President of the United
States a day of public fast thanksgiving, or
on the Fourth OF July, in which case the time /
shall be feckoned exclusive of that day also
Sec. 40, Andbe it further enacted, That all the |
jurisdiction, power aud authority conferred up
on and vested in the Distr let Court of the United
States by this act in cases in bankruptcy are
hereby conferred upou and vested in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, and 10 and |
upon the supreme courts of the several Terrific
ries or the Unten States, when the bankrupt |
resides in the said District of Columbia or in
either of the said Territories. And in those ju-
dicia districts which are not within any organ.
lied circuit of the United States the power and
Jurisdiction ofa circuit court in bankruptcy may
be exercised by the district judge.
Sec. So And be Il further enacted, That this
this act shall commence and take effect as to the
appointment of the officers created hereby, and
the promugation of rules and general orders,
from and after the date of its approval PrOvi-
ded, That no petition or other proceeding under
this act shall be filed, received, or commenced
before the first day of June, ammo DOmipi eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-seven.
Approved, March q 1867.
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