The object of the limitation is this: Weare advised by the Attorney.General that a controversy has arisen between the Department of Justice and certain clerks in several of the circuit and district courts of the United States with regard to certain fees which those clerks refuse to recognize as any part of the official fees of their offices. I will instance cases of habeas corpus. arising perhaps more frequently in California than in any other portion of the country. Fees are charged there and elsewhere in cases of naturalization and in habeas corpus cases. which. as I am informed. go exclusively into the pockets of the clerks. It is believed by the Department of Justice that those are official fees. and the AttorneyGeneral desires authority for the Department to refuse to approve bills in favor of such clerks until those fees. which he regards as official fees. shall be reported and accounted lbr.
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