Jeffersons Manual With Some General Laws PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...examination, and shall be paid by the party at whose instance such witness was summoned.R. S., sec. 128. Each judge, justice, chancellor, chief executive oificer of a town or city, register in bankruptcy, notary public, and justice of the peace, who shall be necessarily employed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and all sheriffs, constables, or other oflicers who may be employed to serve any subpa-ma or notice herein authorized, shall be entitled to receive from the party at whose instance the service shall have been performed such fees as are allowed for similar services in the State wherein such service may be rendered.--R. S., sec. 129. 3950 22 ' No payment shall be made by the House of Representatives, out of its contingent fund or otherwise, to either party to a contested election case for expenses incurred in prosecuting or defending the same.--R. S., see. 130. That hereafter no contestee or contestant for a seat in the House of Representatives shall be paid exceeding two thousand dollars for expenses in the election contest, and before any sum whatever shall be paid to a contestant or a contestee for expenses of election contest, he shall file with the clerk of the Committee on Elections a full and detailed account of his expenses, accompanied by the vouchers and the receipt for each item, which account and vouchers shall be sworn to by the parties presenting the same, and no charges for witness fees shall be allowed in said account unless made in strict conformity to section one hundred and twenty-eight, Revised Statutes of the United States.--Stat. L., Vol.20, p. 400. All questions relating to the right of a member to his seat have uniformly been held to be questions of privilege, and hence take precedence of...