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[CITE: 42USC1991]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1991. Fees; persons appointed to execute process

    Every person appointed to execute process under section 1989 of this 
title shall be entitled to a fee of $5 for each party he may arrest and 
take before any United States magistrate judge, with such other fees as 
may be deemed reasonable by the magistrate judge for any additional 
services necessarily performed by him, such as attending at the 
examination, keeping the prisoner in custody, and providing him with 
food and lodging during his detention, and until the final determination 
of the magistrate judge; such fees to be made up in conformity with the 
fees usually charged by the officers of the courts of justice within the 
proper district or county, as near as may be practicable, and paid out 
of the Treasury of the United States on the certificate of the judge of 
the district within which the arrest is made, and to be recoverable from 
the defendant as part of the judgment in case of conviction.

(R.S. Sec. 1987; Pub. L. 90-578, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 
1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101-650, title III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 
104 Stat. 5117.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1987 derived from acts Apr. 9, 1866, ch. 31, Sec. 7, 14 
Stat. 29; May 31, 1870, ch. 114, Sec. 12, 16 Stat. 143.
    Section was formerly classified to section 53 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States magistrate judge'' and ``magistrate judge'' 
substituted in text for ``magistrate'' wherever appearing pursuant to 
section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of 
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. Previously, ``magistrate'' 
substituted for ``commissioner'' pursuant to Pub. L. 90-578. See chapter 
43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28.
