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30.

INTEREST.

1. In cases where a writ of error is prosecuted in this court, and the judgment of the inferior court is affirmed, the interest shall be calculated and levied from the date of the judgment below until the same is paid, at the same rate that similar judgments bear interest in the courts of the state where such judgment was rendered.

2. In all cases where a writ of error shall delay the proceedings on the judgment of the inferior court, and shall appear to have been sued out merely for delay, damages at a rate not exceeding ten per cent. in addition to interest shall be awarded upon the amount of the judgment.

3. The same rule shall be applied to decrees for the payment of money in cases in equity, unless otherwise ordered by this court. 4. In cases in admiralty damages and interest may be allowed, if specially directed by the court.

31. COSTS.

1. In all cases where any suit shall be dismissed in this court, except where the dismissal shall be for want of jurisdiction, costs shall be allowed to the defendant in error or appellee, unless otherwise agreed by the parties.

2. In all cases of affirmance of any judgment or decree in this court costs shall be allowed to the defendant in error or appellee, unless otherwise ordered by the court.

3. In cases of reversal of any judgment or decree in this court costs shall be allowed to the plaintiff in error or appellant, unless otherwise ordered by the court. The cost of the transcript of the record from the court below shall be taxable in that court as costs in the case.

4. Neither of the foregoing sections shall apply to cases where the United States are a party; but in such cases no costs shall be allowed in this court for or against the United States.

5. When costs are allowed in this court it shall be the duty of the clerk to insert the amount thereof in the body of the mandate, or other proper process, sent to the court below, and annex to the same the bill of items taxed in detail.

6. In all cases certified to the supreme court or removed thereto by certiorari or otherwise the fees of the clerk of this court shall be paid before a transcript of the record shall be transmitted to the supreme

court.

TABLE OF COSTS.

Ordered, in pursuance of the act of Congress of February 19, 1897 (29 Stat. 536, c. 263), that the following table of fees and costs in the Circuit Courts of Appeals be, and the same is hereby, established, to take effect on the first day of March, A. D. 1898, and no other fees and costs than those therein named shall thereafter be charged:"

See page cxxxix.

32.

[This rule as amended June 22, 1893, appears in 11 C. C. A. Ixxi, 66 Fed. vii. It was further amended October 2, 1894, so as to read as follows:]

MANDATE.

In all cases finally determined in this court, a mandate or other proper process in the nature of a procedendo shall be issued, on the order of this court, to the court below, for the purpose of informing such court of the proceedings in this court, so that further proceedings may be had in such court as to law and justice may appertain.

Such mandate shall not issue until time has elapsed for filing a petition to rehear as defined by rule 29; and no mandate or other process of procedendo shall issue when a petition to rehear is pending, unless specially ordered.

Every mandate shall be accompanied by a copy of the opinion filed in the cause in which it is issued, and the charge for the same shall be taxed in the costs of the case.

33.

[As originally adopted. See page xxxvi.]

34.

[As originally adopted. See page xxxvi.]

35.

[This additional rule was adopted June 22, 1893:]

TESTIMONY IN ADMIRALTY CASES AFTER APPEAL.

In admiralty appeals no testimony shall be taken except under a commission issued from this court to a clerk of a United States court or a United States commissioner, by direction of the court, the circuit justice, or either circuit judge, qualified to sit on appeal in said case, after cause shown to such court, justice, or judge that such evidence is material and necessary, and could not by due diligence have been produced at the original hearing. Such testimony shall be taken only upon interrogatories settled by such court, justice, or judge, upon at least ten days' previous notice to the opposing party or his attorney (accompanied with a copy of the proposed interrogatories), and upon cross interrogatories to be settled at the same time after five days' previous notice of the same, with copy thereof, to be served upon counsel offering testimony.

36.

[This additional rule was promulgated October 2, 1894:]

DISPOSITION OF FEES NOT COSTS IN CASES.

All fees collected by the clerk which are not properly taxable as costs in any case pending in the court and which are not by law required to be deposited by him in the treasury of the United States, after the payment of any deficit arising from the printing of opinions, shall constitute a fund to be expended in the purchase of law books for the library of the court by the clerk, under the direction of the court. And it shall be the duty of the clerk to render to the court for its examination and approval a quarterly account of such fees received and disbursed by him.

37.

[Adopted March 21, 1897.]

APPEAL OR WRIT OF ERROR MAY BE ALLOWED.

1. An appeal or writ of error from a circuit court or a district court to this court in the cases provided for in sections 6 and 7 of the act entitled "An act to establish circuit courts of appeals and to define and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1891, and acts to amend said act approved February 18, 1895, and January 20, 1897, may be allowed in term time or vacation by the circuit justice or by either circuit judge within the circuit or by any district judge within his district and the proper security be taken and the citation be signed by him, and he may also grant a supersedeas and stay of execution or of proceedings, pending such writ of error or appeal.

2. Where such writ of error to this court is allowed in the case of a conviction of an infamous crime or in any other criminal case in which it will lie, the circuit court or district court, or any justice or judge thereof, shall have power, after the citation is served, to admit the accused to bail in such amount as may be fixed.

[Promulgated March 21, 1897.1

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SEVENTH CIRCUIT.

[The rules as originally adopted, where identical with those of the other circuits, will be found at pages XXV-Xxxvi. Only such originally adopted rules as were not identical with those of the other circuits, and amendments, changes, and repeals of the rules as originally adopted, are given under this head, reference being made to others in their proper places.]

1.

[As originally adopted. See page xxv.]

2.

[As originally adopted. See page xxv.]

3.

[This rule as originally adopted read as follows: "Terms. A term of this court shall be held annually at the city of Chicago on the first Monday in October, and continue until the first Monday in October of the succeeding year. Each term shall be adjourned to such times and places as the court may from time to time designate. The first regular term shall commence on the first Monday in October, 1891." It was amended, so as to read as follows:]

TERMS.

A term of this court shall be held annually at the city of Chicago on the first Tuesday in October, and continue until the first Tuesday in October of the succeeding year. Every term shall be adjourned to such times and places as the court may from time to time designate. Unless otherwise specially ordered, the court will hold at Chicago three sessions for the hearing of causes during each term, beginning on the first Tuesdays in October, January and May, respectively.

4.

QUORUM.

1. If, at any term or session, a quorum does not attend on any day appointed for holding it, any judge who does attend may adjourn the court from time to time, or, in the absence of any judge, the clerk may adjourn the court from day to day. If, during a term or session, after a quorum has assembled, less than that number attend on any day, any judge attending may adjourn the court from day to day until there is a quorum or may adjourn without a day.

2. Any judge attending when less than a quorum is present may make all necessary orders touching any suit, proceeding, or process depending in or returned to the court preparatory to hearing, trial or decision thereof.

5.

CLERK

1. The clerk's office shall be kept at Chicago.

2. The clerk shall not practice either as attorney or counselor, in this court or in any other court.

3. He shall, before he enters on the execution of his office, take an oath in the form prescribed by section 794 of the Revised Statutes, and shall give bond in a sum to be fixed and with sureties to be approved by the court, faithfully to discharge the duties of his office and seasonably to record the decrees, judgments and determinations of the court. A copy of such bond shall be entered on the journal of the court, and the bond shall be deposited for safe-keeping as the court shall direct.

4. He shall not permit any original record or paper to be taken from the court room or from the office without an order from the court.

5. All fees collected by the clerk which are not properly taxable as costs in any case and which are not by law required to be by him deposited in the treasury of the United States, shall constitute a fund to be expended by the clerk under the direction of the court in the purchase of law books for the library of the court.

6. The clerk shall keep an accurate and itemized account of all moneys received by him officially, including costs and fees in cases in the court and fees and moneys collected on any account whatever, and shall deposit the same as received daily to his credit as clerk and separately from all individual accounts in a national bank designated by the senior judge; and at the end of each month and whenever required by the court or senior judge shall submit to the senior judge a detailed report showing by items all moneys received and all paid out during the month and the total balances on hand from each and all sources of receipt. Each report shall be accompanied by a statement over the signature of the cashier or other officer of the bank in which the deposit is kept of the amount in the bank to the credit of the clerk at the close of the last day included in the report.

6.

MARSHAL, CRIER, AND OTHER OFFICERS.

1. The crier and bailiffs of the court, before entering upon their duties, shall take an oath in the form prescribed by section 782 of the Revised Statutes.

2. The marshal and crier shall be in attendance during the sessions of the court, with such number of bailiffs and messengers as the court may from time to time order.

7.

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS.

All attorneys and counselors, admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States or in any circuit court of the United States,

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