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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 248-JUNE 29, 1939 prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts; preparation and transportation of remains of officers and employees who may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties to their former homes in the United States, or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment; including travel expenses of officers and employees of the court and of their dependents, while en route to or from places of temporary refuge in time of war, political disturbance, earthquake, epidemic, or similar emergency; the expense of maintaining in China American convicts and persons declared insane by the court, rent of quarters for prisoners, ice and drinking water for prison purposes, including wages of prison keep- ers, and the expense of keeping, feeding, and transporting prisoners and persons declared insane by the court, $47,600. SALARIES OF JUDGES Salaries of judges: For salaries of fifty-five circuit judges; one hundred and eighty-nine district judges (including two in the Ter- ritory of Hawaii, one in the Territory of Puerto Rico, four in the Territory of Alaska, and one in the Virgin Islands); and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended, and section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1930; in all, $2,950,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. Salaries and expenses, clerks of courts: For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, and expenses of conduct- ing their respective offices, $2,330,000. Fees of commissioners: For fees of the United States commis- sioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (18 U. S . C . 591), $300,000. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For mileage and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (28 U. S . C . 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive as provided by section 846, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C . 577), $3,480,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used to pay any witness more than one attendance fee for any one calendar (day, which fee shall not exceed $1.50. Salaries and expenses of bailiffs, and so forth: For bailiffs, not exceeding three bailiffs in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (28 U. S. C. 9, 557-570, 595, 596), and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $320,000: Provided, That the compensation of jury commissioners for the District of Columbia shall conform to the provisions of title 18, chapter 10, section 341, of the Code of the District of Columbia, but such compensation shall not exceed $250 per annum: Provided further, That, excepting in the case of bailiffs 905 Bringing home re- mains from abroad, etc. Maintenance of pris- oners and insane, Salaries of judges. Retired judges. 28U.S.C. 375. 46 Stat. 737. 19 U. S. C. 1518. Proviso. Availability. Clerks of courts, etc. Commissioners, fees. R. S. §1014. 1S U. S.C. 1591. Jurors and witness- es, fees, mileage, per diehns. It. S 851. 28U.S.(. 604. R.S.§846. 28 U. S.S. 577. Provisos. Authorization by Attorney General. Limitation on at- tendance fee. Bailiffs, etc. Jury expenses. Alaska. 31 Stat. 362. 28U.. C.C. 9, 557- 570, 595, 596. Jury commissioners. Provisos. Compensation, D. C., to conform to D. C. Code. 18 D.C.Code 1341. Per diem restriction.

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