Chapter CXXVII. allowing fees to the district attorney of Missouri
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Chap. CXXVII.— An Act allowing fees to the district attorney of Missouri. May 20, 1826. *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * A fee of six dollars to be allowed the attorney for the district of Missouri. That there be allowed to the attorney of the United States, for the district of Missouri, a fee of six dollars in each case now pending, or hereafter to be by him prosecuted on behalf of the United States, to be paid by the unsuccessful party, in addition to the salary and compensation allowed by law: *Provided,*Proviso.
That the fees herein provided for shall not be taxed on any suit now commenced, or to be commenced, or any petition filed, or to be filed, inAct of May 26, 1824, ch. 173. relation to the confirmation of land claims, in Missouri, under the provisions of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That, as a compensation to the said250 dollars to be allowed and paid him, from the treasury. district attorney, in all cases in which he has already prosecuted suits, for the United States, to judgment, he shall receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid to him by the proper officer of the Treasury Department.
Approved, May 20, 1826.