Chapter 47.
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CHAP. 47.— AN ACT To diminish the expense of proceedings on appeal and writ of error or of certiorari February 13, 1911.[[S. 6386](/us/bill/36/s/6386).][[Public, No. 351](/us/bill/36/pl/351).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts.That in any cause or proceeding wherein the final judgment or decree is sought to be reviewed on appeal to, or by writ of error from, a United States circuit court of appealsAppeal, etc., to circuit courts of appeals.the appellant or plaintiff in error shall cause to be printed Printed transcript of record to be tiled.under such rules as the lower court shall prescribe, and shall file in the office of the clerk of such circuit court of appeals at least twenty+days before the case is called for argument therein, at least twenty-five printed transcripts of the record of the lower court, and of such part or abstract of the proofs as the rules of such circuit court of appeals may require, and in such form as the Supreme Court of the United States shall by rule prescribe, one of which printed transcripts shall be certified under the hand of the clerk of the lower court and under the seal thereof, and shall furnish three copies of such printed transcript to the adverse party at least twenty days before such argument: *Provided,* *Proviso.*That either the court below or the circuit court of appeals may order any original documentOriginal documents.or other evidence to be sent up in addition to the printed copies of the record or in lieu of printed copies of a part thereof; and no written or typewritten transcript of the record shall be required.No written transcript required.
Sec.2.That in any cause or proceeding wherein the final judgment Appeals, etc., to Supreme Court.or decree is sought to be reviewed on appeal to or by writ of error or of certiorari from the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the record has been printed and used upon the hearing in the courtUse of printed record in court below as part of transcript. 902below and which substantially conforms to the printed record in said Supreme Court, if there have been at the time of filing the record in the court below twenty-five copies of said printed record, in addition to those provided in the preceding section, lodged with the clerk of the court below, one copy thereof shall be used by the clerk of the court below in the preparation and as a part of the transcript of the record of the court below; and no fee shall be allowed the clerk of the court below in the preparation of the transcript for such part thereof as is Use of uncertified copies of record.included in said printed record so lodged with him.
And the clerk of the court below in transmitting the transcript of record to the Supreme Court of the United States for review shall at the same time transmit the remaining uncertified copies of the printed record so lodged with him, which shall be used in the preparation and as a part of the printed record in the Supreme Court of the United States, and the clerk’s feeClerk’s fee. for preparing the record for the printer, indexing the same, supervising the printing and binding and distributing the copies shall be at such rate per folio thereof, exclusive of the printed record so furnished by the clerk of the court below, as the Supreme Court of the United States may from time to time by rule prescribe; and no written or typewritten transcript of so much of the record as shall have been printed as herein provided shall be required.No written transcript of printed record required.
Approved, February 13, 1911.