1. Under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1877, 19 Stat.
344, the cost of printing all records in this Court, after Oct. 1
in that year, which is paid by the government, must be taxed
against the losing party.
2. The appellee, the successful party in this Court, caused the
printing of the record after said last-mentioned date, to be done
at his own expense but at a cost no greater than if the work had
been done at the government printing office.
Held that
such cost be taxed against the appellant.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The first appropriation by Congress to pay the expense of
printing the records of this Court was made June 27, 1834. 4 Stat.
695. Since that time until the present term, the printing has been
done by the government without charge to litigants. In the
appropriation act of the last Congress, however, passed March 3,
1877, it was provided as follows:
"And there shall be taxed against the losing party in each and
every cause pending in the Supreme Court of the United States or in
the Court of Claims of the United States the cost of printing the
record in such case, which shall be collected, except when the
judgment is against the United States, by the clerks of said courts
respectively, and paid into the Treasury of the United States, but
this shall only apply to records printed after the 1st of October
next."
19 Stat. 344.
This provision is still in force, so that now the cost of
printing all records in this Court paid by the government must, by
law, be taxed to the losing party.
The appellee caused the record in this case to be printed after
Oct. 1 at his own expense, as the congressional appropriation was
exhausted before it became necessary to do the work. The cost was
no greater than it would have been at the government printing
office. Under these circumstances, as
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the decree below has been affirmed, we think the motion should
be granted, and therefore order that the amount paid by the
appellee for printing the record in this case be taxed against the
appellant.
Motion granted.