Public Law 85–299

That section 1871 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

Ҥ 1871. Fees

“Grand and petit jurors in district courts or before United States

Jurors’ fees, expanses, and costs.

commissioners shall receive the following fees, except as otherwise expressly provided by law:

“For actual attendance at the place of trial or hearing and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and from such place at the beginning and end of such service or at any time during the same, $7 per day, except that any juror required to attend more than thirty days in hearing one case may be paid in the discretion and upon the certification of the trial judge a per diem fee not exceeding $10 for each day in excess of thirty days he is required to hear such case.

“For the distance necessarily traveled to and from a juror’s residence by the shortest practicable route in going to and returning from the place of service at the beginning and at the end of the term of service and for all additional necessary daily transportation expense, 10 cents per mile except that if daily travel appears impracticable, subsistence of $7 per day shall be allowed. Whenever in any case the jury is ordered to be kept together and not to separate, the cost of subsistence during such period shall be paid by the United States marshal upon the order of the court in lieu of the foregoing subsistence allowance.

“Jury fees and travel and subsistence allowances provided by this section shall be paid by the United States marshal on the certificate of the clerk of the court, and in the case of jury fees in excess of $7 per diem, when allowed as hereinabove provided, on the certificate of the trial judge.”

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