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[CITE: 48USC868]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 868. Fees part of United States revenues

    All fees, fines, costs, and forfeitures as would be deposited to the 
credit of the United States if collected and paid into a district court 
of the United States shall become revenues of the United States when 
collected and paid into the United States District Court for the 
District of Puerto Rico. The sum of $500 a year from such fees, fines, 
costs, and forfeitures shall be retained by the clerk and expended for 
law library purposes under the direction of the judge.

(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, Sec. 45, 39 Stat. 966; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 
Stat. 158.)

                          Codification

    ``United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico'' 
substituted in text for ``District Court of the United States for Puerto 
Rico'' in view of section 132(a) of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial 
Procedure, which states that ``There shall be in each judicial district 
a district court which shall be a court of record known as the United 
States District Court for the district'' and section 119 of Title 28, 
which states that ``Puerto Rico constitutes one judicial district''.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Mar. 2, 1901, ch. 812, Sec. 2, 31 Stat. 953.

                         Change of Name

    ``Puerto Rico'' substituted in text for ``Porto Rico'' pursuant to 
act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of this title.
