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trary, being of opinion that the contract was merely an executory agreement to purchase, and not a present contract of purchase. If this point was not discussed, we can only say that it was the basic point in the case, and a decision could not have been properly reached by the court without considering it and deciding it. As we entertain no doubt of the correctness of the judgment upon this point, and as all the other grounds of the application for a reargument relate to subsidiary questions not affecting the primary one which lies at the very threshold of the controversy, we do not think a reargument would be profitable, and the application is therefore denied.
SWANCOAT v. REMSEN et aI. (Circuit Court, S. D. New York. 1.
September 24, 1896.)
UNITED STATES MARSHALS-SERVICE OF' COMPLAINT.
A United States marshal is entitled to reasonable compensation for serving a compiaint, and, where It is served together with the summons, a fee of one dollar wlll be allOWed. When two papers in 'a cause are served together on the same party, mileage cannot be doubled by charging separately for each.
S.
SAME-MILEAGE.
This was an action by Richard J. Swancoat against Oharles Remsen and others. The case was heard on objections made by the plaintiff to the marshal's fees. Albert T. Patrick, for plaintiff. John E.' Kennedy, for the marshal. LAOOMBE, Circuit Judge. Objection is made by plaintiff to the marshal's bill for fees for serving summons and complaint. The fees, when collected by the marshal, must be paid over to the clerk of the court. Act May 28, 1896, § 6. They are the compensation paid by the litigant for specific services rendered to him by an official of the United States, and it is needless to say that no provision of state statute as to the amount of fees to be paid for similar services by state officers is material. The section of the United States Revised Statutes (section 914) to which plaintiff refers adopts the practice of the state courts, so far as may be; but it does not adopt the state fee bill, either for costs or for official fees. The charge made in this case is as follows: For serving summons, l'i defendants, at $2.12...····.··········.····· $10 60 .. .. complaint, .. . . . . . . · ·. ·. ·· ·. ·· ·· ·· . · ·· ·· . 10 60 $21 20 ·
The authority for the charge of $2 for the service of the summons is contained in the first paragraph of section 829, Rev. St. U. S. The additional charge of 12 cents is for travel to serve; it being the custom here, for many years, to charge for two miles' travel" on each service, which fee is also provided for by section 829 at 6 cents per mile. Neither of these items is objected to. The summons is the wr-it of subpoma ad r-espondendum by which
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a civil action is begun in this state; and, by the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, a copy of the complaint may be served with the summons, if the plaintiff wishes so to do. In the Revised Statutes of the United States it is provided that: "The following and no other compen.sation shall be taxed and allowed to · · · marshals [section 8231: · · · For service of any warrant, attachment, summons, capias, or other writ, except eXllcution, venire, or a summons or subpcena for a witness, two dollars for each person on whom service Is made." Section 829.
The "complaint" is not within this enumeration, and therefore the section contains no express provision that the marshal shall be allowed two dollars for serving it On the other hand, no provision of the federal statutes is referred to, nor has any been found by the court, which either expressly or impliedly requires the marshal to serve a complaint without compensation for such service. Under these circumstances, the officer performing such service is entitled to ask and receive a reasonable compensation therefor. 6 Op. Attys. Gen. 59; The Alice Tainter, 14 Blatchf. 227, Fed. Cas. No. 196; Crock. Sher. § 1144, and cases there cited. If the complaint were separately served, the charge of two dollars would certainly seem reasonable, since the character and extent of the service rendered is closely parallel to the cases specifically enumerated in section 829. In view of the fact, however, that both papers are served at the same time, requiring but a single expedition to find the defendant, some abatement from that charge should be made. It would be unreasonable in such cases to ask more than one dol· lar for serving the complaint, and, of course, since there is but a single expedition when the papers are served together, mileage should not be doubled by charging separately for each.
UNITED STATES v. CHUNG SHEE. (CirCUit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. No. 291. October 12. 1896.)
1.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION-COLLECTOR'S DECISION-HABEAS CORPUS DECISION.
In habeas corpus proceedings to release a Chinese person admission to the United States by a collector, the court merely to the question of the jurisdiction of the collector to sion complained of, but may re-examine all the facts and which came before the collector.
who Is denied Is not limited make the decicircumstances
2. SAME-RES JUDICATA.
A judgment of a federal court discharging on habeas corpus a Chinese Immigrant detained on board a vessel pursuant to a collector's decision, and permitting her to land, is conclusive of the right of entry, and that right cannot be re-examined by any subsequent proceedings for deportation. 71 Fed. 277, affirmed.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. This was an appeal by Chung Shee, a Chinese woman, from an or· der of deportation made by a United States commissioner. The district court reversed the order of the commissioner, and discharged