Clerk’s fees in United States District Court for the District of Columbia

§ 15–706. Clerk’s fees in United States District Court for the District of Columbia (a) For filing the following-named cases and for all services to be performed therein, except as otherwise provided by law, the clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall charge and collect the following fees: (1) civil actions, $10; (2) lunacy cases, $10; 77 Stat. 533 (3) deportation cases, $10; (4) requisition cases, $10; (5) habeas corpus cases, $10; (6) plea of title cases, $10; (7) District court cases, $15; (8) condemnation cases, $15; (9) libel cases, $15; (10) feeble-minded cases, $7.50; (11) change of name cases, $5; (12) intervening petitions in any case, $5; (13) cases substituting trustees, $4; (14) docketing judgments of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, as provided in section 15–132; and (15) limited partnership cases, $3. (b) Upon the perfecting of an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the clerk shall charge and collect from the party or parties prosecuting the appeal an additional fee of $5 in the action or proceeding. (c) For each additional trial or final hearing, upon a reversal by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, or following a disagreement by a jury or the granting of a new trial or rehearing by the court, the clerk shall charge and collect from the party or parties securing the reversal, new trial, or rehearing, the further sum of $5. (d) In a case where attachments, executions, or rules are issued, the clerk shall charge and collect the following fees in addition to the fees otherwise provided: (1) for each writ of attachment, $1, and each copy, $1; (2) for each writ of execution, $1.50; (3) for each rule 50 cents, and each copy certified, 50 cents; (4) for each writ of ne exeat, $1; (5) for each bench warrant, $1; (6) for each warrant of arrest, $1. (e) In addition to the fees for services rendered in cases herein-before enumerated the clerk shall charge and collect, for miscellaneous services performed by him and his assistants, except when on behalf of the United States, the following fees: (1) for issuing a writ or subpoena for a witness not in a case instituted or pending in the court from which it is issued, 50 cents for each writ and copy or subpoena and copy; (2) for filing and indexing any paper not in a case or proceeding, 25 cents; (3) for administering an oath or affirmation, not in a case or proceeding pending in the court where the oath is administered, 50 cents; (4) for an acknowledgment, certificate, affidavit, or countersignature. with seal, 50 cents; (5) for taking and certifying depositions to file, 20 cents for each folio of one hundred words, and if taken stenographically, 15 cents per folio additional for the stenographer; (6) for copy of a record, entry, or other paper and the comparison thereof, 15 cents for each folio of one hundred words; (7) for searching the records of the court for judgments, decrees, or other instruments, or marriage records, 50 cents for each year covered by the search and for certifying the result, 50 cents; 77 Stat. 534 (8) for making and comparing a transcript of record on appeal, 15 cents for each folio of one hundred words; (9) for comparing a transcript, copy of record, or other paper not made by the clerk with the original thereof, 5 cants for each folio of one hundred words; (10) for administering oath of admission of attorneys to practice, $2 each; for certificate of admission to be furnished upon request, $2 additional; (11) for each marriage license, $2; (12) for each certified copy of marriage license and return, $1; (13) for each certified copy of application for marriage license, $1; (14) for registering clergymen’s authorizations to perform marriages and issuing certificate, $1; (15) for each certificate of official character, including the seal, 50 cents; (16) for filing and recording each notice of mechanic’s lien, $1; (17) for entering release of mechanic’s lien, 50 cents for each order of lienor; 75 cents for each undertaking of lienee; (18) for recording physicians’, optometrists’, and midwives’ licenses, 50 cents each: (19) for the clerks’ attendance on the court while actually in session, $5 per day; (20) for all services rendered to the United States in cases in which the United States is a party of record, $5.