Chapter 52. making appropriations for certain judicial expenses for the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 52.— An Act making appropriations for certain judicial expenses for the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.June 30, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Judicial expenses. That for the purpose of providing for certain judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the following sums are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For payment of district attorneys and their assistants, three hundredDistrict attorneys.Clerks.Commissioners. thousand dollars; For fees of clerks, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For fees of United States commissioners, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; For fees of jurors, four hundred thousand dollars;Jurors.Witnesses.Prisoners. For fees of witnesses, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For support of United States prisoners, one hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars;
For rent of United States courtrooms, sixty-seven thousand dollars;Rent.Bailiffs and miscellaneous. For expenses of bailiffs, criers, stationery, fuel, lights, furniture, watchmen and janitors, cleaners and sweepers, extra meals for impaneled jurors, transportation of prisoners, moving of records, salaried officers of the government summoned as witnesses, travel in collecting evidence in United States cases, for holding seizures, for fees of justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, for stenographers, for postmortem examinations, for expenses of judges holding extra terms of court outside their districts, of interpreters, fees to township officers in summoning jurors, extra pay to experts as witnesses, for storage for surveys required as evidence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenditures, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; making in all, the sum of two million and ninety thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the per diem pay of each juror, grand or petit,*Per diem to jurors.* in any court of the United States, shall be two dollars; and that the last clause of section eight hundred of the Revised Statutes of the United States,R. S. 800,R. S. 801,R. S. 820,R. S. 821,*Repealed.* which refers to the State of Pennsylvania, and sections eight hundred and one, eight hundred and twenty, and eight hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, are hereby repealed; and that all such jurors, grand and petit, including those summoned during the session of the court, shall be publicly drawn from a box containing,*Drawing of jurors.*R.
S. 800. at the time of each drawing, the names of not less than three hundred persons, possessing the qualifications prescribed in section eight hundred of the Revised Statutes, which names shall have been placed therein by the clerk of such court and a commissioner, to be appointed by the judge thereof, which commissioner shall be a citizen of good standing, residing in the district in which such court is held, and a well-known member of the principal political party in the district in which the court is held opposing that to which the clerk may belong, the clerk and said commissioner each to place one name in said box alternately, without reference to party affiliations, until the whole number required shall be placed therein.
But nothing herein contained shall be construed to pre- 44 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, Sess. I. CH. 52, 53, 54, 55. 1879. vent any judge from ordering the names of jurors to be drawn from the boxes used by the State authorities in selecting jurors in the highest courts of the State; and no person shall serve as a petit juror more than one term in any one year, and all juries to serve in courts after the *Proviso.*passage of this act shall be drawn in conformity herewith: *Provided, *That no citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Sec. 3. Report of expenditures. That the Attorney-General shall include in his annual report a statement of all payments or expenditures during any fiscal year out of any appropriation fund subject to requisitions by him. Approved, June 30, 1879.