districts courts; and when the circuit and district courts sit at the same time, no greater per diem or other allowance shall be made to any such officer than for an attendance on one court.

The two last provisoes of paragraph one hundred and sixty-seven of the civil and diplomatic appropriation act, approved May the eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, which require clerks to certify accounts, and confine the marshals, clerks, and district attorneys of the northern and southern districts of New York to the fees allowed by the State law to clerks, attorneys, counsellors, and sheriffs, for similar services in the State courts, are hereby repealed. The Secretary of the Interior shall be, and hereby is, invested with the power to fix and limit the amount to be allowed to any marshal, clerk of a circuit or district court, or district attorney, for assistants, deputies, clerk-hire, office-rent, stationery, or other like expenses, and every such expenditure incurred without his sanction may be disallowed by the accounting officer. No deputy or assistant of a district attorney shall be allowed more than $2,500 per annum, and no clerk to an attorney more than $800 per annum. No deputy or assistant clerk to the clerk of a circuit or district court shall be allowed more than $1,500 per annum. No deputy to a marshal shall be allowed more than $2,000 per annum, and no clerk to a marshal more than $1,500 per annum.

vices.

Commissioners' fees.

For each case of examination of a person or persons charged with violating the laws of the United States, ten dollars in full of all serA copy of the complaint shall be duly returned to the court, and the accounts of the commissioners shall be approved by the judge of the district or circuit court to justify their allowance at the treasury. When State judges or magistrates act as United States commissioners, or examining magistrates in cases of offences against United States laws, they shall be entitled to the same fees and subject to the same rules as United States commissioners.

For attending to a reference in a litigated matter in a civil cause at law, in equity, or in admiralty, in pursuance of an order of court, three dollars per day.

For taking and certifying depositions to file, twenty cents for each folio of one hundred words, and ten cents per folio for each copy of the same furnished to a party on request. This shall not be construed to authorize any charge for draught, minutes, or report of testimony taken in cases of criminal complaint, or for copy of the complaint.

No clerk of a circuit or district court of the United States shall be allowed to hold the office of a United States commissioner.

For issuing a warrant of arrest, one dollar in cases where the party is not arrested.

For issuing any warrant under the tenth article of the treaty of the ninth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, between the United States and the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, against any person charged with any of the crimes or offences set forth in said article, two dollars; and the same sum for any war

rant issued under the provisions of the convention for the surrender of criminals, between the United States and the King of the French, concluded at Washington on the ninth of November, eighteen hundred and forty-three; and for hearing and deciding upon the case of any person charged with any offence or crime, and arrested under the provisions of said treaty or convention, five dollars per day for the time necessarily employed.

Witnesses' fees.

For each day's attendance in, court, or before any officer pursuant to law, one dollar and fifty cents, and five cents per mile for travelling from his place of residence to said place of trial or hearing, and five cents per mile for returning. When a witness is subpoenaed in more than one cause between the same parties in different suits at the same court, but one travel fee and one per diem compensation shall be allowed for attendance, to be taxed in the first case disposed of, and "per diem" only in the other causes, to be taxed from that time in each case, in the order in which they may be disposed of.

When a witness is detained in prison for want of security for his appearance, he shall be entitled to a compensation of one dollar per day over and above his subsistence.

When a clerk or other officer of the United States shall be sent away from his place of business as a witness for the government, either with or without papers or books, his salary shall continue; his necessary expenses, stated in items and sworn to, in going, returning, and attendance on the court, shall be audited and paid, but no mileage nor other compensation shall in any case be allowed.

There shall be paid to such seaman or other person as has been or shall be sent to the United States from any foreign port, station, sea, or ocean, by any United States minister, chargé d'affaires, consul, commander, or captain, to give testimony in any criminal case which has been or may be depending in any court of the United States, such compensation as the court, which had or shall have cognizance of the crime, shall adjudge to be right and proper, not to exceed one dollar for each day the said seaman or person has been or shall be necessarily on the voyage, and arriving at the place of examination or trial, exclusive of sustenance and transportation; the court to take into consideration, in fixing said compensation, the condition of said seaman or witness-whether his voyage has been broken up to his injury by his being sent to the United States or not.

If said seaman or person has been or shall be transported in an armed vessel of the United States, no charge for sustenance or transportation shall be made; if in any other vessel, the court may adjudge what compensation shall be paid to the captain of said vessel, and the same shall be paid accordingly: Provided, That in no case shall transportation and subsistence be allowed at a rate exceeding fifty cents per diem.

Jurors' fees.

For actual attendance at any court or courts, or upon an inquisition called by a marshal, two dollars per day during such attendance.

For travelling from their residence to said court or courts, five cents per mile for going, and the same for returning.

In cases where the United States are parties, the marshal shall, on the order of the court, to be entered in its minutes, pay to the jurors and witnesses summoned in behalf of the United States, all such fees as they may appear by such order to be entitled to, which sums shall be allowed him at the treasury in his accounts.

The term "folio" in this act shall mean one hundred words, counting each figure as a word. When there are over fifty and under one hundred words, they shall be counted as one folio; but not when there are less, except when the whole statute, notice, or order contains less than fifty words.

The bill of fees of clerks, marshals, and attorneys, and the amount paid printers and witnesses, and lawful fees for exemplifications, and copies of papers necessarily obtained for use on trial in cases where, by law, costs are recoverable in favor of the prevailing party, shall be taxed by a judge or clerk of the court, and be included in and form a portion of a judgment or decree against the losing party. Such taxed bills shall be filed with the papers in the cause.

The fees of the marshals, clerks, commissioners, and district attorneys, in cases where the United States are liable to pay the same, shall be paid on settling their respective accounts at the treasury-such accounts to be made out and verified by the party under oath, and forwarded to the First Auditor of the Treasury; and it shall be the duty of a marshal to forward his account for the expenses of a term of court within one month after its expiration.

In prize cases, where there is a condemnation and sale, the costs, so far as they are payable and can be paid out of the proceeds of sale, shall be paid on the order of the court, upon the filing of the taxed bills, making them a portion of the record in the case.

No district attorney, marshal, or clerk, or their deputies, shall receive any other or greater compensation for any services rendered by him, whether enumerated in this act or not, than is provided in this act; and all acts, and parts of acts, allowing to either of them any other or greater fees than is herein provided, are hereby repealed, and to receive any other or greater compensation is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. And if any officer herein before mentioned, or his deputy, shall, by reason or color of his office, wilfully and corruptly demand and receive any other or greater fees than those allowed in this act, he shall, on conviction thereof in any court of the United States, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not excee ling six months, at the discretion of the court before whom the conviction shall be had. But this shall be construed to prohibit the payment of any salary authorized by statute. The marshal of the district of South Carolina shall hereafter be entitled to receive a salary of two hundred dollars per annum; and the provisions

of the third section of this act shall be, and hereby are, extended so as to include the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In the State of California, and Territories of Washington and Oregon, officers, jurors, and witnesses shall be allowed, for the term of two years, fifty per cent. additional to the fees and compensation allowed by this act.

The compensation or fees of the marshals, district attorneys, and clerks, and the other expenses of courts in the Territories, whilst engaged in the trial of causes, or other business arising under the local laws of the Territory, shall in no case be chargeable to the United States.

That before any bill of costs shall be taxed by any judge or other officer, or allowed by any officer of the treasury, in favor of clerks, marshals, commissioners, or district attorneys, the party claiming such bill shall prove by his own oath, or some other person having a knowledge of the facts, to be attached to such bill and filed therewith, that the services charged therein have been actually and necessarily performed as therein stated.

That witnesses who are required to attend any term of the court on the part of the United States shall be subpoenaed to attend to testify generally on their behalf, and not to depart the court without leave of the court or district attorney, under which it shall be their duty to appear before the grand jury or petit jury, or both, as they shall be required by the court or district attorney. No writ shall be necessary to bring into court any prisoner or person in custody, or for remanding him from the court into custody; but the same shall be done on the order of the court or district attorney, for which no fee shall be charged by the clerk or marshal.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall falsely take an oath or affirmation in relation to any matter authorized by this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall suffer the pains and penalties in that case provided.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An act to regulate the fees, costs," &c., and all laws and regulations heretofore made, which are incompatible with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed and abrogated: Provided, nevertheless, That this act shall not be construed to repeal or modify any clause or provision of an act approved the eighteenth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to amend and supplementary to the act entitled An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters,' approved February twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three."

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the act approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to provide for extending the laws and judicial system of the United States to the State of California," be so amended as to confer on the district court of the State of California jurisdiction in all criminal cases as fully and completely as is conferred by law upon the district or circuit court of the State of New York.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE, November 30, 1854. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1854, and for the third quarter of the current calendar year.

From the 30th September, 1853, to the 30th September, 1854, 9,384,464 acres were surveyed, chiefly in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Florida, and 8,190,017 acres were brought into market. This is exclusive of the surveys in California, Oregon, and Washington, amounting to 1,686,471 acres, which have not yet been proclaimed for sale, for the reason that those in California could not be disposed of till the private claims and pre-emptions in that State had been adjusted; and no provision was made by law for the ordinary sale of lands in Oregon and Washington till the last session of Congress. As soon as it can be done with a due regard to outstanding claims, these lands will be brought into market in the same manner as those east of the Rocky mountains.

During the fiscal year ending the 30th June last there were

For the quarter ending September 30, 1854, there were

This shows an increase in sales for the last fiscal year over the preceding of 5,952,239.86 acres; and although the aggregate disposed of was less than that of the preceding year by over 2,000,000 acres, the difference was caused by the fact that the most of the grants for bounty land, swamp, railroad, &c., had previously been disposed of.

The sales for the third quarter of the current calendar year are more than twice as heavy as those for the corresponding quarter of