New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-16


vice by the clerk Of said police court. The
witnesses shall receive the same fees as are
allowed for similar service and attendance
in the criminal court, and be paid by the
local jurisdiction in which the Ofense shall
be committed. ss 20 srss % ~ - ~
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That in
all appeals from said police court, the party
applying for appeal shall enter into recog-
nizance. with sufficient surety to be APP
the criminal court then in session, or at the
next term thereof, if said criminal court be
not in session session, there to prosecute
said appeal and to abide by the Judgment OF
said criminal court; said recognizance
so approved and the information
or complaint shall be Immediately
transmitted to the clerk of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia. Upon such re-
cognizance being given, all further proceed
ings i'm said notice court shall be stayd, and
the ind oment in said criminal court shall be
final in the case.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the bailiffs of said court may act as deputies
for the marshal of said District Of Columbia
for the service of process issued by said
court. -.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
said police court shall be provided WITH a
suitable place for the holding of its sessions
at the expense of the District of Columbia,
to be apportioned as provided for in section
fourteen of this act. Said court shall have
power to do all acts which may be necessary
to the exercise Of its jurisdiction hereby con-
ferred.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted, That
upon the failure of any party appealing
from the Judgment of said police court
to the criminal court, to enter into re-
cognizance, as provided for in section
eight. he shall be committed to Jail to await
his trial upon his appeal, and said trial shall
be had in said criminal court as though said
recOenizance had been entered into. In
every case of appeal the court below shall
send I'D the information or complaint MED
in the cause, and copy of the record OF all
proceedings duly certified IN the criminal
cOnrt
said police court shall have power to take
the acknowledgment OF deeds ana 10 az
minister Oaths and afiirmations to public
officers. .Ea
SEC. Is. And be it further enacted, That
said police court shall have power to make
such rules and regulations as may be
inc business therein. Contempts may be
punished by fine and Imprisonment, or by
either; but the fine shall in no case exceed
twenty dollars, nor the Imprisonment be Tor
a LONGER ClOlc I0Au 1OIty HUNS.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted, That
the salaries of said judge and clerk Of the
said police court, the compensation OF SAID
deputy clerk and bailiffs, and the fees of the
marshal of said district, shall be paid quar-
terly by the proper authorities of the cities
of Washington and Georgetown and the
levy court of the county OF Wash.
ington eighty per centum Thereon
to be paid by the city OF
Washington twelve per ses est the
acentum BY the levy court aforesaid.
SEC. Is. And be it further enacted, That
all fines, penalties, costs, and forfeitures I'M
posed or taxed by said police court, shall be
collected by the marshal aforesaid, or BY
the chief of the Metropolitan police, as the
case may be, on process ordered by said po-
lice court, and by him paid over to the proper
authorities of said cities and levy court,
in the same proportion rs aforesaid. But the
fines, penalties, costs, and fOrfeitures, arts
ing from the violation Of the ordinances OF
said cities and the acts OF the levy court,
shall be paid to the proper authorities OF
said Jurisdictions, respectively, wherein the
violation was committed.
Sec. l6 And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the attorneys of said
cities and of said levy court or their assis.
tants, to attend to the prosecution in said
police court of all offenses arising from yio-
1atiOns of any of the ordinances OF said cities,
or of the acts of said levy court respectively;
and for their services they shall be paid by
their respective authorities; and it'shall be
the duty of said cities and of said levy court
to levy and collect yearly such taxes as may
be necessary to defiay the expenses incurred
under this act.
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted. That
it shall be the duty of the United States at
tOrney for the District Of Columbia, IN per-
son or by one or more of his assistants or
police court of such offenses as have
heretofore been 'cognizable, in said
criminal court. for which service. he
shall be paid the same fees as
are now allowed for such service In said
criminal court, under the first section of the
act of Congress approved February twenty
six, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Here
after it shall not be lawful for the Attorney
General of the United States to allow any
for the said District of Columbia for any
permanent assistant or deputy; nor shall
said attorney of the United States for said
District be allowed any sum by the Secre-
tary of the Interior or Attorney General for
his Office expenses, clerk hire, fuel, station
cry, or other incidental expenses; but said
attorney for said District shall hereafter pay
to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in
all four thousand dollars per annum, also
his clerk hire not exceeding twelve hundred
dollars per apnum, office rent, fuel, station
cry, printing and other incidental expenses
out of the fees of his Office, taxed and
allowed under the provisions of said first
section of said act of February twenty-six,
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, which
said fees shall he paid to him quarterly at
the Treasury of the United States, on the
first days Of January, April, July, and Dc
tober in each year, upon return in writing
made to the Secretary Of the Treasury in
such form as he shall prescribe, embracing
all the fees and emoluments of his Office
under the oath of said attorney for said Dis
trict and the certificate of a judge OF or
Justice of the court wherein the services
may have been rendered, that the SER
vices for which said fees are charged have
been performed and so much Of the third
section Of said act approved February
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty
three, as relates to the compensation of the
United States district attorneys, and the
allowance Of their Office expenses, clerk hire
Or other incidental expenses, shall not here
after apply to said attorney for said District
of Columbia: Provided, That the cOmpensa-
ton of said district attorney shall not exceed
six thousand dollars per ann,lm.
SEC. lS. And be it further enacted, That
the SAID attorney OF the United states Tor
the District of Columbia, and every assistant
or deputy by him duly. appointed, shall be,
and is hereby, authorized and empowered
to administer Oaths or affirmations
to witnesses in criminal cases,
and in all cases where a justice
o. the peace is authorized to do
so and if any person to whom such oath or
affirmation may be administered as afore-
said shall wilfully and falsely swear or affirm
touching any or thing material to
the point in question whereto he
or she shall be examined, he or
she shall be deemed guilty of perjury,