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pay to the garnishee, in addition to his taxed costs, a reasonable counsel fee; and if such issue be found for the plaintiff, judgment shall be rendered as if possession of the property or credits had been confessed by the garnishee.

Sec. 1096. CLAIMS BY THIRD PERSONS.-Any person may file his petition in the cause, under oath, at any time before the final disposition of the property attached or its proceeds, not being real estate, setting forth a claim thereto or an interest in or lien upon the same; and the court, without other pleadings, shall inquire into the claim, and, if either party request it, impanel a jury for the purpose, who shall be sworn to try the question involved as an issue between the claimant as plaintiff and the parties to the suit as defendants, and the court may make all such orders as may be necessary to protect any rights of the petitioner.

Sec. 1097. JUDGMENT OF CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY.-Where the attachment has been levied upon specific property, on the return by the marshal judgment of condemnation of the same may be entered, and so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the plaintiff's judg ment may be sold under a fieri facias; or, if said property shall have been sold under interlocutory order of the court, the proceeds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to the plaintiff's claim by order of the court.

Sec. 1098. JUDGMENT AGAINST GARNISHEE. -If a garnishee shall have admitted credits in his hands, in answer to interrogatories served upon him, or the same shall have been found upon an issue made as aforesaid, judgment shall be entered against him for the amount of credits admitted or found as aforesaid, not exceeding the amount of the plaintiff's judgment, and costs, and execution shall be had thereon not to exceed the credits in his hands; but if said credits shall not be immediately due and payable, execution shall be stayed until the same shall become due; and if the garnishee shall have failed to answer the interrogatories served on him, or to appear and show cause why a judgment of condemnation should not be entered, such judgment shall be entered against him for the whole amount of the plaintiff's judgment and costs, and execution shall be had thereon.

[Sec. 1099. CONDEMNATION AND SALE OF PATENT RIGHTS.-If the property attached be a patent right, on the marshal's return judgment of condemnation of the said property shall be entered and the marshal shall sell the same under fieri facias at public auction in the same manner as real estate. Any patent right condemned and sold as aforesaid shall be assigned by the marshal to the purchaser in the same manner in which such assignments are made by private persons, and his said assignment may be recorded in the proper book or record of assignment in the Patent Office.]

Sec. 1100. DELIVERY OF POSSESSION OF PROPERTY SOLD.-When real estate is sold by virtue of any execution, and the judgment defendant or any person claiming under him since the rendition of the judgment is in actual possession of the property and refuses to deliver possession thereof to the purchaser upon demand made therefor, it shall be lawful for the court, on the application of the purchaser, to require the person so in possession to show cause why possession should not be delivered according to said demand, and, if no good cause be shown, to issue a writ of habere facias possessionem, requiring the marshal to put the purchaser in possession. If the party in possession shall allege under oath a title derived from the judgment debtor prior to the judgment

or a title superior to that of the defendant, said writ shall not issue, but the purchaser may have his remedy by an action of ejectment or the summary remedy before a justice of the peace as herein provided in subchapter one of chapter one.

Sec. 1101. CHANGE OF MARSHAL.-If the marshal or coroner die, be removed from office, or become otherwise disqualified from executing a writ of execution received by him, the same may be executed and returned by his deputy or successor in office.

Sec. 1102. DEFECTIVE SALE. If upon the sale of property under execution the title of the purchaser is invalid by reason of a defect in the proceedings, the purchaser may be subrogated to the rights of the creditor against the debtor to the extent of the money paid by him and applied to the debtor's benefit, and to that extent shall have a lien on the property sold against all persons except bona fide purchasers without notice; but the creditor shall not be required to refund the purchase money on account of the invalidity of the sale.

Sec. 1103. REMEDY OF MARSHAL. -Where the marshal or any other officer to whom execution has been delivered levies upon and sells in good faith property not subject thereto and applies the proceeds thereof toward the satisfaction of the judgment, and a recovery is had against him for its value, the officer, on payment of said value, may, on motion and due notice thereof to the defendant, have the satisfaction of said judgment vacated, and execution shall issue thereon for his use as if said levy and sale had not been made.

Sec. 1104. DECREE IN EQUITY.-The aforegoing provisions shall be applicable to an unconditional decree in equity for the payment of money. Such decree may be revived by scire facias, and the same writs of execution may be issued thereon within the same time and have the same effect as liens, and shall be executed and returned in the same manner as if issued upon a common-law judgment.

CHAPTER XXVII.

EXEMPTIONS.

Sec. 1105. WHAT PROPERTY OF HOUSEHOLDER EXEMPT.-The following property, being the property of the head of a family or householder residing in the District of Columbia, shall be exempt from distraint, attachment, levy, and sale on execution or decree of any court in the District:

First. All wearing apparel belonging to all persons and to all heads of families being householders.

Second. All beds, bedding, household furniture, stoves, cooking utensils, and so forth, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value. Third. Provisions for three months' support, whether provided or growing.

Fourth. Fuel for three months.

Fifth. Mechanics' tools and implements of the debtor's trade or business amounting to two hundred dollars in value, with two hundred dollars' worth of stock for carrying on the business of the debtor or his family. This exemption shall apply to merchants.

Sixth. The library and implements of a professional man or artist, to the value of three hundred dollars.

Seventh. One horse, mule, or yoke of oxen; one cart, wagon, or dray, and harness for such team.

Eighth. Farming utensils, with food for such team for three months, and, if the debtor be a farmer, any other farming tools of the value of one hundred dollars.

Ninth. All family pictures and all the family library, not exceeding in value four hundred dollars.

Tenth. One cow, one swine, six sheep.

And these exemptions shall be valid when the property is in transitu, the same as if at rest; but no property named and exempted in this section shall be exempted from attachment or execution for any debt due for the wages of servants, common laborers, or clerks, except the wearing apparel, beds and bedding, and household furniture for the debtor and family.

Sec. 1106. MORTGAGE OF EXEMPT PROPERTY.-No deed of trust, assignment for the benefit of creditors, bill of sale, or mortgage upon any exempted articles shall be binding or valid unless signed by the wife of the debtor, if he be married and living with his wife.

Sec. 1107. EARNINGS.-The earnings, not to exceed one hundred dollars each month, of. all actual residents of the District of Columbia who provide for the support of a family in said District, for two months next preceding the issuing of any writ or process from any court or officer of and in said District, against them, shall be exempt from attachment, levy, seizure, or sale upon such process, and the same shall not be seized, levied on, taken, reached, or sold by attachment, execution, or any other process or proceedings of any court, judge, or other officer of and in said District.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

FEES OF OFFICERS AND OTHERS.

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Sec. 1108. NOTHING HEREIN TO PROHIBIT AGREEMENTS CLIENTS. The following, and no other, compensation shall be taxed and allowed to attorneys, solicitors, proctors, district attorney, clerk of the supreme court of the District, marshal, commissioners, witnesses, and jurors, except in cases otherwise provided for by law; but nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit attorneys, solicitors, and proctors from charging or receiving from their clients other than the Government such reasonable compensation for their services, in addition to the taxable costs, as may be in accordance with general usage or may be agreed upon:

Sec. 1109. ATTORNEYS, SOLICITORS, AND PROCTORS. -On a trial before a jury in civil or criminal causes or before referees, or on a final hearing in equity or admiralty, a docket fee of twenty dollars: Provided, That in cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the libelant recovers less than fifty dollars the docket fee of his proctor shall be only ten dollars.

In cases at law where judgment is rendered without a jury, ten dollars.

In cases at law when the cause is discontinued, five dollars.

For scire facias, or other proceedings on recognizances, five dollars. For each deposition taken and admitted in evidence in a cause, two dollars and fifty cents.

For services rendered in a case removed from the supreme court of the District by an appeal to the court of appeals, five dollars.

For examination by the district attorney before a judge or commissioner of persons charged with crime, five dollars a day for the time necessarily employed.

For each day of the district attorney's attendance in court, five dollars.

When an indictment for a crime is tried before a jury and a conviction is had the district attorney may be allowed, in addition to the fees herein provided, a counsel fee in proportion to the importance of the cause, not exceeding thirty dollars.

There shall be paid to the district attorney two per centum on all moneys collected or realized in any suit or proceeding under the revenue law conducted by him to which the United States is a party, in lieu of all costs and fees in such proceeding.

When the district attorney appears by direction of the Secretary or Solicitor of the Treasury on behalf of any officer of the revenue in any suit against such officer for any act done by him, or to recover any money received by him and paid into the Treasury in the course of his official duty, he shall receive such compensation as may be certified to be proper by the court and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

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Sec. 1110. CLERK'S FEES. For issuing and entering every process, commission, summons, capias, execution, warrant, attachment, or other writ, except a writ of venire, or a summons or subpoena for a witness, one dollar.

For issuing a writ of subpoena or summons, twenty-five cents.

For filing and entering every declaration, plea, or other paper, twenty-five cents.

For administering an oath or affirmation, except to a juror, twentyfive cents.

For taking an acknowledgment, fifty cents.

For taking and certifying depositions to file, twenty cents for each folio of one hundred words.

For a copy of such deposition furnished to a party on request, ten cents a folio.

For entering any return, rule, order, continuance, judgment, decree, or recognizance, or drawing any bond, or making any record, certificate, return, or report, for each folio, fifteen cents.

For a copy of any entry or record, or any paper on file, for each folio, ten cents.

For making dockets or indexes, issuing venire, taxing costs, and all other services on the trial or argument of a cause where issue is joined and testimony given, three dollars.

For making dockets or indexes, taxing costs, and all other services in a cause where issue is joined but no testimony is given, two dollars. For making dockets or indexes, taxing costs, and all other services in a cause which is dismissed or discontinued or where judgment or decree is made or rendered without issue, one dollar.

For making dockets and taxing costs in cases removed by appeal, one dollar.

For affixing the seal of the court to any instrument when required, twenty-five cents.

For every search for any particular judgment or lien, fifteen cents. For swearing applicant, recording and making certificate of declaration to become a citizen of the United States, one dollar.

For swearing applicant, recording and making certificate of naturalization, three dollars.

For searching the records of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instruments constituting a general lien on real estate and certifying the result of such search, fifteen cents for each person against whom such search is required to be made.

For receiving, keeping, and paying out money in pursuance of any statute or order of court, one per centum of the amount so received, kept, and paid.

For his attendance on the court while actually in session, five dollars per day.

For all services rendered to the United States in cases in which the United States is a party of record, five dollars.

For each marriage license, one dollar.

For each official certificate of marriage, one dollar.

For each certificate of official character, including the seal, fifty

cents.

For filing and recording notice of mechanic's lien, one dollar.
For entering release of mechanic's lien, fifty cents.

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