Volume 84
Public Law 91–545
To amend title 28 of the United States Code, section 753, to authorize payment by the United States of fees charged by court reporters for furnishing certain transcripts in proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act.
Approved December 11, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 28 of the United States Code, section 753, to authorize payment by the United States of fees charged by court reporters for furnishing certain transcripts in proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (f) of section 753 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by striking all of the third sentence of that paragraph and substituting therefor the following: “Fees for transcripts furnished in criminal proceedings to persons proceeding under the Criminal Justice Act (18
Ante, p. 916.
U.S.C. 3006A), or in habeas corpus proceedings to persons allowed to sue, defend, or appeal in forma pauperis, shall be paid by the United States out of moneys appropriated for those purposes.”
Approved December 11, 1970.