Fees of the clerks.And for engrossing the same, if on parchment, including the parchment, twenty cents;
And if on paper, for each sheet of ninety words, ten cents;
Swearing each witness in court, ten cents;
For every entry or writing not mentioned or described, such allowance shall be taxed, as for similar services, herein mentioned.
All money deposited in court, one and a quarter per cent.
Of the Marshals.Sec. 3. Fees of the marshal in the district court, in admiralty and maritime causes.
For summoning every witness or appraiser, fifteen cents;
Making each proclamation, fifteen cents;
Serving every capias, attachment or summons, one dollar and fifty cents;
Travelling each mile, going only, either to serve process, or subpœna witnesses, ten cents;
Custody fees of a vessel, for each day, one dollar and fifty cents;
Sales, for any sum under five hundred dollars, two and an half per cent.; and for any larger sum, one and a quarter per cent. upon the excess.
Allowance to attendants on supreme, circuit or district courts how to be ascertained.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be allowed and taxed in the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, in favour of the parties obtaining judgments therein, such compensation for their travel and attendance, and for attornies and counsellors’ fees, except in the district courts in cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, as are allowed in the supreme or superior courts of the respective states.
Limitation of this act.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the term of one year, and from thence until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
Approved, March 1, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.March 2, 1793
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXI.—An Act making an appropriation to defray the expense of a treaty with the Indians northwest of the Ohio.
Appropriation to defray expense of treaty with certain Indians.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, arising from the surplus of former appropriations unexpended, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated to defraying the expense of negotiating and treating with the hostile Indian tribes northwest of the river Ohio.
Allowance to the commissioners, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the commissioners, who may be appointed for managing such negotiations and treaties, shall be entitled to an allowance, exclusive of his necessary expenses, of eight dollars per day, during his actual service, to be paid out of the monies so appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.March 2, 1793
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXII.—An Act in addition to the Act, entitled “An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States.”
