Volume 68 · 253
Public Law 83–400
To amend section 1923 (a) of title 28, United States Code, relating to docket fees.
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1923 (a) of title 28, United States Code, relating to docket fees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first item
Docket fees.
listed in section 1923 (a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“$20 on trial or final hearing (including a default judgment whether entered by the court or by the clerk) in civil, criminal, or admiralty cases, except that in cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the libellant recovers less than $50 the proctor’s docket fee shall be $10;”.
Approved June 18, 1954.