48 U.S.C. § 868 — Fees part of United States revenues

submitted 109 years ago by ch. 145 to r/title-48-TERRITORIES-AND-INSULAR-POSSESSIONS · 83 words · no verdicts yet

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This section makes certain fees, fines, costs, and forfeitures collected by the federal district court in Puerto Rico United States revenues. It also reserves $500 each year for the court clerk’s law-library expenses.

Fees, fines, costs, and forfeitures that would be deposited for the United States if collected and paid into a United States district court become United States revenues when collected and paid into the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The clerk keeps $500 per year from those amounts and spends it for law-library purposes under the judge’s direction.

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All fees, fines, costs, and forfeitures as would be deposited to the credit of the United States if collected and paid into a district court of the United States shall become revenues of the United States when collected and paid into the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The sum of $500 a year from such fees, fines, costs, and forfeitures shall be retained by the clerk and expended for law library purposes under the direction of the judge.

Source credit: (Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 45, 39 Stat. 966; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)

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1917Enacted · Act of Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145 · 39 Stat. 966
1932Amended · Act of May 17, 1932, ch. 190 · 47 Stat. 158

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