United States v. McDonald
This text of 26 F. Cas. 1084 (United States v. McDonald) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The marshal is entitled to a fee of ninety pounds of tobacco for impanelling a jury in a criminal prosecution.
moved the court to strike out of the execution, the charge of ninety pounds of tobacco for a fee to the marshal for impanelling a jury; contending that the charge '.vas not [1085]*1085authorized by law. But the court rejected the motion, after considering the act of congress of 27th Feb., 1801, concerning the District of Columbia (1 Stat. 103); and the act of 28th Feb., 1799, providing compensation for the marshals, &c. (1 Stat. 624); and the act of assembly of Maryland, Nov. 1799, c. 25, regulating officer’s fees.
[Reported by Hon. William. Cranch, Chief Judge.]
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