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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1301. 1902. 475 said Act, ive thousand dollars. The Commission may a fixed C°m¤‘;‘;“““°“s °* compensation, notto exceed two thousand five hundred dollalifsii nnually, ifgmiudgnhdi. with allowance for subsistence instead of fees, to commissioners, not Cm" · exceeding two in number, whom the Commission under existing law may appoint to take testimony in the island of Cuba. The Commission may, in the place of two clerks now in service, employ an assistant clerk at the rate of two thousand dollars r annum and one clerk at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollhis per annum. J AL_ . Judicial. UNITED STATES COURTS. United Statescourts. EXPENSES or cmu Uxrmn Srarms oomrrs: For defraying the E*P°°°°* expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territoryil of the circuit courts of appeals; of the Court of Private Land (J ims; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namel : For payment of salaries, fees, and ezqzanses of United States mar- etg¤·¤¤¤¤¤¤’ ¤•¤¤i•¤. shals and their de uties, one million two undred thousand dollars, to ` include payment fdr services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with M*¤·¤<=¤¤- existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein _ provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and two, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate ex enses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two or prior years: .£·ovided, That from and  in em after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, all the fees and costs mmm Emil in extradition cases shall be paid out of the appropriations to defray the exgéeénses of the gudiciary, and the Attorney-General shall certify to the cretary of tate the amounts to be paid to the United States on account of said fees and costs in extradition cases by the foreign government requesting the extradition, and the Secretary of State shall cause said amounts to be collected and transmitted to the Attorney- General for deposit in the Treasu of the United States. For salaries of United States rdistrict attorneys and expenses of “}Q;,;’;°g,c¤°wm€F¤’ United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hun- ` dred and thirtv—five thousand dollars. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Colum- mD:;,¤j¤:f¤é¤c¤¤gif¤r bia. twenty-three thousand eight hundred ollars. S ° °°m ° For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, R¤z¤1¤r ¤¤i¤¤¤¤¤. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred thousand dollars. For yment of assistants to the Attorney—General and to United Sp¤<=¤¤¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤¤¤. States dhstrict attorneys employed by the Att0rney—Genera1 to aid in special cases, sixty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: Pzm•ided, fes- That each clerk of the district and circuit courts shall, on the first days Remms; sm. of January and July of each year, or within thirty days thereafter, make to the Attorney—General, in such form as he may prescribe, written returns for the half year ending on said days, respectively, of all fees and emoluments of his office of every name and character, and