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statute aims tosecure, might be seriously impaired by subjecting the hus-
lband’s curtesyito seizure and sale on execution.
t Upon the whole, I think the law is with the defendant, and accord-
ingly direct a judgment to be entered in her favor.
_,4y _ _ _   Sraoue v. Umrnn Burns., A V
_ (District Oaurt, B. D. Alabapw. February 21, 1888.)
T1L{U'NI'l'ED Burns C0mdISSIONEBB¥·FEES— Com·1.smir— OA·r11—Fn;.mo Cou-
rmainr. ~·¤, ,
. "nder Rev. St. U. `S. §§ 828. Bt'7, 1014, a commissioner of the United States
· circuit court in Alabama s entitled to a fee for administering the oath to every
·~.·   criminal complaint made before him, and for filing the same, but not for
: drawing the complaint. ` A , , , V
8. S.um—Rnnue1ne Tnsrmonr ·ro Wmrrne. I _
The Alabama statute requires a committingmagistrate to reduce to writing
the teetimony-of witnesses examined before im on preliminary examination,
. but the examination is not illegal by his failure so-to do, and the testimony
· may be proved by any witness who heard it. An examination before a United
*‘ ‘ ` States commissioner, soreduced to writing by him, is not a depositiennnder
Rev. St. U. S. § 847, which prescribes a fee for taking and certifying deposi·
V tionsytoiile, and the commissioner is not entitled to a fee for such services.
8. SAME—WABRANTB nm _SUBPO¤NA8+FH.ING Barons. _
V A commissioner isentitled, under Rev. St. U. S; § 847, to a fee for issuing
t · a warrantand subpoena andiiling the same when returned, but not for enter- .
, ing the return. ( . M ;
L Sum—Ban.-Bom>s—-Aoxxiownnneunnr. .
Under Rev. St. U. S. §§’823, 847, a commissioner may charge 15 cents a folio
for drawing -a bail·bon ,but is not entitled to a fee for taking an acknowledg-
ment to the bond, the acknowledgment being unauthorized by statute.
5. S4mn——0a·rus ·ro Wrrmrss FEEEr—CEBTH'ICATES or- Amnnnmcn. .
Rev. St. U. S. §§ 828, 854, authorize a commissioner to charge a fee for ad-
ministering the oath to each witness as to his mileage and attendance, and he
is entitled to 15 cents a folio for every certiiicate given a witness and on which
he is paid. , (
0. Sami:-—Dooxm·r Fans. `
" Rev. St. U. S. §i828, 847, authorizing a commissioner to receive docket fees,
was repealed by t e act of congress of August 4, 1886, (24 U. S. St. at Large, 256.
, 274,) entitled “An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, * *
' and for other purposes," w ere, in a proviso, it s expressly declared that
‘ commissioners sha not be entitled to any docket fees.
7. B.AMB·*TBANSCRIPTS ·ro Cmcorr Cnnnm. ·
Under an order of the circuit court, requiring commi sioners to forward
to the clerk of the United States circuit court a certified copy of the pro-
ceedings in every case on their docket, and to make out and forward to the
· · clerk, at the en of each month, a report in duplicate of all cases instituted
, before him during the month, a commissioner is entitled to 10 cents a folio
for the copy, and 15 cents a folio for the certificate attached, and for one re-
· » portmade in duplicate 15 cents a folio, and 15 cents for ·the certificate attached.
  At Law. Original action for services. »
  The plaintiff, William H. Strong, who is a commissioner of the United
States circuit court, broughtthis suit to recover arbalance claimedto be
due him on an account, for services rendered as such commissioner for
and ron behalf ofthe United States. The original account, as presented
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