Chapter 263. To amend the Act creating the circuit court of appeals in regard to fees and costs, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 263.— An Act To amend the Act creating the circuit court of appeals in regard to fees and costs, and for other purposes. February 19, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Circuit courts of appeals.Costs and fees to be established by each court.Vol. 26. p. 827.That the second section of an Act to establish circuit courts of appeals, passed March third, eighteen hundred and ninety one, be amended so that the clause therein which now reads, “The costs and fees in the Supreme Court now provided for by law shall be costs and fees in the circuit courts of appeals,” shall read, “The costs and fees in each circuit court of appeals shall be fixed and established by said court in a table of fees, to be adopted within *Proviso*.Not to exceed Supreme Court charges.three months after the passage of this Act: *Provided*, That the costs and fees so fixed by any court of appeals shall not, with respect to any item, exceed the costs and fees now charged in the Supreme Court.
” Revision by Supreme Court.Each circuit court of appeals shall, within three months after the fixing and establishing of costs and fees as aforesaid, transmit said table to the Chief Justice of the United States, and within one year thereof the Supreme Court of the United States shall revise said table, making the same, so far as may seem just and reasonable, uniform throughout the United States. The table of fees, when so revised, shall thereupon be in force for each circuit.
Approved, February 19, 1897.