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 156 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 133. 1870. ¤i*i¤¤» &°· *°_¤*·· attorneys of said cities and of said levy court or their assistants, to attend , tions of any of the ordinances of said cities, ot· of the acts of said levy their my court respectively; and for their services they shall bepaid by their tttmrcr, and respective authorities; and it shall be the duty of said cities and of said h°" P'°'**l°d· levy court to levy and collect yearly such taxes as may be necessary to defray the expenses incurred under this act. United Sfms Sec. 17. And he it fm-ther enacted, That it shall be the duty of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, in person or by cnc zo certain prose- or more of his assistants or deputies, to attend to the prosecution in said °“*l°“Si police court of such offences as have lteretofbre been cognizable in said his pay there- criminal court, for which service he shall be paid the same fees as are  ch S0 s 1 now allowed for such service in said criminal court, under the first section volt x_`,,_{m_' of the act of Congress approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred {lotto bg 31- and fifty-three. 1~Iereafter it shall not be lawful for the Attorney-Genl°W°d PW for eral of the United States to allow any compensation to the United States E$;,m:Q’:g{c:°,;_ attorney for the said District: of Columbia for any permanent assistant or ponies, clerk deputy; nor shall said attorney of the United States for said District be “'°·&"·? allowed any sum by the Secretary of the Interior or Attorney-General for his office expenses, clerk hire, fuel, stationery, or other incidental _t0§Lny depu- expenses; but said attorney for said District shall hereafter pay to his QQ 8;; °l°'k deputies or assistants not exceeding in all four thousand dollars per annum, 'also his clerk hire not exceeding twelve hundred dollars per annum, office rent, fuel, stationery, printing and other incidental expenses out of the fees of his office, taxed und allowed under the provisions of said first Fees to he paid section of said act of February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fifty- 33;:`:·°I;z;£:_d¤¤ three, which said fees shall be paid to him quarterly at the Treasury of ` the United States, on the first days of January, April, July, and October in each year, upon a. return in writing made to the Secretary of the Treasury in such form as he shall prescribe, embracing all the fees and emoluments of his office under the oath of said attorney for said District and the certificate of a. judge of or justice of the court wherein the services may have been rendered, that the services for which said fees are charged have been performed; and so much of the third section of said act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as relates to the compensation of the United States district attorneys, and the allowance of their office expenses, clerk hire, or other incidental expenses, Limitto com- shall not hereafter apply to said attorney For said District of Columbia: P°“““°l°“‘ Provided, That the compensation of said district attorney shall not exceed six thousand dollars per annum. 'Attorney and Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the said attorney of the
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°,,_Ks,&c_ by him duly uppointcd,shall be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to administer oaths or aflirmutions to witnesses in criminal cases, and in all cases where at justice of the peace is authorized to do so; and if any Wilful mise person to whom such oath or ailirtnation may be administered as aforeggsgjglpgzjziy said shall wiltully and falsely swear or aiiirm touching any matter or md how ,,,,,,_ ’ thing maternal to the point in question whereto he or she shall be exished. annned, he or she shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary, for the first offence for a period not less than two [njor more than ten years, and for the second offence for not less than five [n]or James OHM more than fifteen years. pmccyn the D,,,, bec. 19. And be ttfarther enacted, That no justice of the peace in said trict notto take District of Columbia shall hereafter exercise any jurisdiction over crimes L‘;;:‘é;‘;*lQ\“t3:°' and otiences committed in said District, either for examination to commit ptmqct, or hold to bail, or for final judgment; except that any justice of H10 régpsy tym peace may, on complaint under oath or actual view, issue wart‘tmi8 mpcim wm against persons accused of such offences, which shall be returnable to the