Chapter 435. To amend section one, chapter two hundred and nine, of the United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, entitled “An Act providing when plaintiff may sue as a poor person and when counsel shall be assigned by the court,” and to provide for the prosecution of writs of error and appeals in fo
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CHAP. 435.— An Act To amend section one, chapter two hundred and nine, of the United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, entitled “An Act providing when plaintiff may sue as a poor person and when counsel shall be assigned by the court,” and to provide for the prosecution of writs of error and appeals in forma pauperis, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910.[[S. 5836](/us/bill/61/s/5836).][[Public, No. 317](/us/pl/61/317).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts.
Vol. 27, p. 252, amended. That section one of an Act entitled “An Act providing when plaintiff may sue as a poor person and when counsel shall be assigned by the court,” approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " Entering or defending suits without paying costs. “That any citizen of the United States entitled to commence or defend any suit or action, civil or criminal, in any court of the United States, may, upon the order of the court, commence and prosecute or Writs of error and appeals, included. defend to conclusion any suit or action, or a writ of error, or an appeal to the circuit court of appeals, or to the Supreme Court in such suit or action, including all appellate proceedings, unless the trial court shall certify in writing that in the opinion of the court such appeal or writ of error is not taken in good faith, without being required to prepay fees or costs or for the printing of the record in the appellate court or give security therefor, before or after bringing Affidavit of poverty, etc. suit or action, or upon suing out a writ of error or appealing, upon filing in said court a statement under oath in writing that because of his poverty he is unable to pay the costs of said suit or action or of such writ of error or appeal, or to give security for the same, and that he believes that he is entitled to the redress he seeks by such suit or action or writ of error or appeal, and setting forth briefly the nature of his alleged cause of action, or appeal.
” " Approved, June 25, 1910.