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[CITE: 48USC869]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 869. Fees payable by United States out of revenue of Puerto 
        Rico
        
    Such fees and expenses as are payable by the United States if earned 
or incurred in connection with a district court of the United States 
shall be paid from the revenue of Puerto Rico if earned or incurred in 
connection with the United States District Court for the District of 
Puerto Rico.

(Mar. 2, 1901, ch. 812, Sec. 2, 31 Stat. 953; 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''.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
    As originally enacted, so much of section 2 of act Mar. 2, 1901, as 
is pertinent here, was as follows: ``Such fees and expenses as are 
payable by the United States, if earned or incurred in connection with a 
circuit or district court of the United States, shall be paid from the 
revenues of Porto Rico, if earned or incurred in connection with the 
district court of the United States for Porto Rico.''

                         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.
