The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-05
No. 1913.

dered to be sold, and at a rate of conversation
not to exceed in any case one and one fourth per
centum upon the gross amount of the sales; and
such sales SHALL be advertised in the fullest and
of the Secretary of the Navy; and any fraud, col.
lusion, or combination, or any act or fraudulent
device or contrivance in the sale and disposition
OF any prize property, by which the captors or
the Government are or may be defrauded, shall
be, and is hereby, declared to be felony: and
any public officer or agent, or any other person
engaged therein, upon conviction thereof by or
before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall
be liable to fine not exceeding twenty thousand
dollars. and to imprisonment not exceeding ten
years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec. f. And be it further enacted, That the third
section of the act of twenty fifth March, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, entitled can act to IA
cilitate evidence and proceedings in and adjudi.
cations upon captured property of prize, !" be- and
the same is hereby amended, SO that the compen::
saton of counsel to the captors to be adjusted and
determined by the court, and paid and allowed as
costs, shall be confined to compensation for such
services as may be rendered necessary by reason
of the captOrs having interests conflicting with
those of the United States and proper in the opin.
ion Of the court to be represented by separate
sounsel from those the United
the act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and
sxty-two, entitled can act for the better govern.
ment of the navy of the United States, f a. au-
thorizes the Secretary Of the Navy to employ an
compensation, is hereby repealed
Sec 8. And be 1t further enacted, That the com.
missioners inprize shall not exceed two In any dis
trict of the courts of the United States to be ap
pointed by the district court Of each district one
ofwhom shall be retired naval officer, to be ap-
pointed by the court and approved by the Secre.
tary of the Navy; and the annual salaries In each
district of both commissioners shall not exceed
six thousand dollars and all counsel fees in prize
cases in the supreme court of the United States,
which have been or may be incurred or author
lied by any department of the Government, shall
be audited and allowed by the Attorney General
and solicitor of the treasury, and shall be charge
upon and paid out of the fund appropriated for
detraying the expenses of suits in which the Uni
ted States are parties or interested.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That when
the court shall allow witnesses fees to any wit
ness in prize cause, and the court has no money
paid by the marshal as in the case of witnesses in
causes in which the United States is party, and
shall be repaid from any money deposited to the
order of the court in said cause.
Sec. z And be it further enacted, That appeals
from the district courts of the United States in
prize causes shall be directly to the supreme court
and shall be made within thirty days of the rem
dering of the decree appealed from, unless the
court shall previously have extended the time for
cause shown in the particular case; and the su-
preme court shall always be open for the entry Of
such appeals. Such appeals may be claimed
whenever the amount in controversy exceeds two
thousand dollars, and in other cases on the certif
icate Of the district judge that the adjudication
involves question of difficulty and general i'm
portance.
Sec z. And be it further enacted, That all pro-
visions of law which are inconsistent with those
of this act shall be, and are hereby, repealed.
Approved, March g. 1868.