TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1842.
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(southern district,) Florida, (Appalachicola district,) Wisconsin , andIowa, each two hundred dollars, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
No. 166. For compensation of marshal for the district of NorthCarolina , four hundred dollars.
No. 167. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, anddistrict courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia ;also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines,penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred andforty-two and preceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expensesof suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutionsfor offences committed against the United States , and for the safe-keep-ing of prisoners, including expenses under the bankrupt law, and alsoincluding thirty thousand dollars arrearages for last year, three hundredand seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, however, That every dis-trict attorney, clerk of a district court, clerk of a circuit court, andmarshal of the United States , shall, until otherwise directed by law,upon the first days of January and July in each year, commencing withthe first day of July next, or within thirty days from and after the daysspecified, make to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as heshall prescribe, a return, in writing, embracing all the fees and emolu-ments of their respective offices, of every name and character, distin-guishing the fees and emoluments received or payable under the bank-rupt act, from those received or payable for any other service; and inthe case of a marshal, further distinguishing the fees and emolumentsreceived or payable for services by himself personally rendered, fromthose received or payable for services rendered by a deputy; and alsodistinguishing the fees and emoluments so received or payable for ser-vices rendered by each deputy, by name, and the proportion of suchfees and emoluments which, by the terms of his service, each deputy isto receive ; and also, embracing all the necessary office expenses of suchofficer, together with the vouchers for the payment of the same, for thehalf year ending on the said first day of January or July, as the casemay be; which return shall be, in all cases, verified by the oath of theofficer making the same. And no district attorney shall be allowed bythe said Secretary of the Treasury, to retain of the fees and emolumentsof his said office, for his own personal compensation, over and above hisnecessary office expenses, the necessary clerk hire included, to be au-dited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, asum exceeding six thousand dollars per year, and at and after that rate,for such time as he shall hold the office; and no clerk of a districtcourt, or clerk of a circuit court, shall be allowed by the said Secretary,to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, or, in case bothof the said clerkships shall be held by the same person, of the saidoffices, for his own personal compensation, over and above the necessaryexpenses of his office, and necessary clerk hire included, also to be au-dited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, asum exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars per year, for anysuch district clerk, or a sum exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars peryear for any such circuit clerk, or at and after that rate, for such timeas he shall hold the office; and no marshal shall be allowed by the saidSecretary, to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, forhis own personal compensation, over and above a proper allowance tohis deputies, which shall in no case exceed three-fourths of the fees andemoluments received as payable for the services rendered by the deputyto whom the allowance is made, and may be reduced below that rate bythe said Secretary of the Treasury, whenever the return shall show thatrate of allow ance to be unreasonable, and over and above the necessaryoffice expenses of the said marshal, the necessary clerk hire included,also to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the
Proviso: dis-trict attorneys,&c. to makesemi-annual re-turns of fees.
Amount of feeswhich they areallowed to re-tain.