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[CITE: 10USC7677]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                           CHAPTER 655--PRIZE
 
Sec. 7677. Accounts of clerks of district courts

    (a) The clerk of each district court, for the purpose of the final 
decree in each prize cause, shall keep account of--
        (1) the amount deposited with the Treasurer or public 
    depositary, subject to the order of the court in the cause; and
        (2) the amounts ordered to be paid therefrom as costs and 
    charges.

    (b) The clerk shall draw the orders of the court for the payment of 
costs and allowances and for the disposition of the residue of the prize 
fund in each cause.
    (c) The clerk shall send to the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Secretary of the Navy--
        (1) copies of final decrees in prize causes; and
        (2) a semi-annual statement of the amounts allowed by the court, 
    and ordered to be paid, within the preceding six months to the prize 
    commissioners and special prize commissioners for their services.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 482.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7677..................................  34 U.S.C. 1152.                      R.
S. 4644.
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    34 U.S.C. 1152 and this section reflect modifications of R.S. 4644 
effected by--
    (1) Act of May 28, 1896, ch. 252, Sec. 6, 29 Stat. 179, which 
provided for fixed annual salaries for United States attorneys and 
marshals;
    (2) Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 413, Sec. 13, 30 Stat. 1007, which 
repealed all laws authorizing distribution of prize proceeds to captors;
    (3) Act of February 26, 1919, ch. 49, Sec. 1, 40 Stat. 1182, which 
provided that clerks of United States district courts should receive 
fixed annual salaries; and
    (4) Act of May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 41 Stat. 654, which abolished the 
offices of assistant treasurers and distributed their functions.
