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PUBLIC LAW 87-621-^UG. 31, 1962

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Public Law 87-621 AN ACT To amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to fees of United States marshals, and for other purposes.

August 31, 1962 CH- R. loesi]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1921 of u. s. marshals, title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 62 Stat. 9ss. "§ 1921. United States marshals' fees "Only the following fees of United States marshals shall be collected and taxed as costs, except as otherwise provided: "For serving a writ of possession, partition, execution, attachment in rem, or libel in admiralty, warrant, attachment, summons, capias, or any other writ, order, or process in any case or proceeding, except as otherwise provided, $3; "For serving a subpena or summons for a witness or appraiser, $2; " For forwarding any writ, order, or process to another judicial district for service, in addition to the prescribed fee, $ 1; "For the preparation of any notice of sale, proclamation in admiralty, or other public notice or bill of sale, $3; "For seizing or levying on property (including seizures in admiralty), disposing of the same by sale, setoff, or otherwise and receiving and paying over money, commissions of 3 per centum on the first $1,000 of the amounts collected and II/2 P^r centum on the excess of any sum over $1,000. If not disposed of by marshal's sale, the commission shall be in such amount as may be allowed by the court. I n all cases in which the vessel or other property is sold by a public auctioneer, or by some party other than the marshal or his deputy, the commission hereiij authorized to be paid to the marshal shall be reduced by the amount paid to said auctioneer or other party; "For the keeping of property attached (including boats, vessels, or other property attached or libeled) actual expenses incurred, such as storage, moving, boat hire, or other special transportation, watchmen's or keepers' fees, insurance, and $3 per hour for each deputy marshal required for special services, such as guarding, inventorying, moving, and so forth. The marshals shall collect, in advance, a deposit to cover the initial expenses for such services and periodically thereafter such amounts as may be necessary to pay such expenses until the litigation is concluded; "For copies of writs or other papers furnished at the request of any party, 30 cents per folio of one hundred words or fraction thereof; "For all services in a criminal case except for the summoning of witnesses, a sum to be fixed by the court not exceeding $25 where conviction is for a misdemeanor and not exceeding $100 where conviction is for a felony; "For necessary travel in serving or endeavoring to serve any process, writ, or order, 12 cents per mile, or fraction thereof, to be computed from the place where service is returnable to the place of service or endeavor; or, where two or more services or endeavors, or where an endeavor and a service, are made in behalf of the same party in the same case on the same trip, mileage shall be computed to the place of service or endeavor which is most remote from the place where service is returnable, adding thereto any additional mileage traveled in serving or endeavoring to serve in behalf of that party. When two or more writs of any kind^ required to be served in behalf of the same party, on the same person, in the same case or proceeding, may be served at the same time, mileage on only one such writ shall be collected; 78135 0-63—30

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