Chapter LXXIX. to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks and attorneys in the cases therein mentioned
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Chap. LXXIX.— An Act to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks and attorneys in the cases therein mentioned. April 18, 1814. [Repealed.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That from and after the firstAct of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.Act of March 8, 1824, ch. 26.Certain marshals, attorneys and clerks no longer to have a daily allowance for attending courts. day of June next, there shall not be allowed or paid to either the Marshal or Attorney of the Districts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, the southern district of New York, or Pennsylvania, nor to the Clerk of the District and Circuit Court of the United States, in either of said districts, any daily compensation for attending on the said courts, and that the Clerks of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States shall be entitled to one half of one per centum and no more on money deposited in court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, April 18, 1814.