United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 127
Chap. CXXVII.—An Act allowing fees to the district attorney of Missouri.
A fee of six dollars to be allowed to the attorney for the district of Missouri.
Proviso.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to the attorney of the United States, for the district of Missouri, a fee of six dollars in each case now pending, or hereafter to be by him prosecuted on behalf of the United States, to be paid by the unsuccessful party, in addition to the salary and compensation allowed by law: Provided, That the fees herein provided for shall not be taxed on any suit now commenced, or to be commenced, or any petition filed, or to be filed, in relation to the confirmation of land claims, in Missouri, under the provisions of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
250 dollars to be allowed and paid him, from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as a compensation to the said district attorney, in all cases in which he has already prosecuted suits, for the United States, to judgment, he shall receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid to him by the proper officer of the Treasury Department.
Approved, May 20, 1826.