States, to each district attorney for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Sec. 5. Compensation to the attorney of the Virginia district in criminal cases.And be it further enacted, That for all services in criminal cases performed by the attorney for the district of Virginia, and for which no fees are allowed by law for similar services in the courts of that state, he shall be allowed such sum or sums as the court in which the same is rendered, shall consider a reasonable compensation therefor.
Sec. 6. Compensation to jurors and witnesses.And be it further enacted, That the compensation to jurors and witnesses, in the courts of the United States, shall be as follows, to wit: to each grand and other juror, for each day he shall attend in court, one dollar and twenty-five cents; and for travelling, at the rate of five cents per mile, from their respective places of abode, to the place where the court is holden, and the like allowance for returning; to the witnesses summoned in any court of the United States, the same allowance as is above provided for jurors.
Sec. 7. Criers and persons to attend the courts.And be it further enacted, That the respective courts of the United States shall appoint criers for their courts, to be allowed the sum of two dollars per day; and that the marshals be, and they are hereby authorized to appoint such a number of persons, not exceeding three, as the judges of their respective courts shall determine, to attend upon the grand and other jurors, and for other necessary purposes, who shall be allowed for their services, the sum of two dollars per day, to be paid by, and included in the accounts of the marshal, out of any money of the United States in his hands.
Sec. 8. Informers to be alone liable for the fees to the clerks, &c.And be it further enacted, That if any informer on a penal statute, and to whom the penalty, or any part thereof, if recovered, is directed to accrue, shall discontinue his suit or prosecution, or shall be nonsuited in the same, or if, upon trial, judgment shall be rendered in favour of the defendant, unless such informer be an officer of the United States, he shall be alone liable to the clerks, marshals, and attornies for the fees of such prosecution; Exception.but if such informer be an officer whose duty it is to commence such prosecution, and the court shall certify there was reasonable ground for the same, then the United States shall be responsible for such fees.
Sec. 9. Parts of former acts repealed.
1792, ch. 36.And be it further enacted, That the third section of an act, passed on the eighth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, intituled “An act for regulating process in the courts of the United States, and for providing compensations for the officers of said courts, and for jurors and witnesses,” and the second section of an act passed on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, intituled 1796, ch. 48.“An act making an appropriation to satisfy certain demands attending the late insurrection, and to increase the compensations to jurors and witnesses in the courts of the United States,” be, and they are hereby repealed.
Approved, February 28, 1799.
Statute Ⅲ.
Chap. ⅩⅩ.—An Act to amend the act intituled “An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.”
Part of the former act repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, intituled “An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States,” as requires that the lists to be delivered in pursuance of the ninth section thereof, shall specify, in respect to dwelling-houses, “the number and dimensions of their windows,” shall be, and hereby is repealed.
