FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SnSs. II. Ch. 854. 1901. 1367 For issuing any warrant under the rovision of the convention for the surrender of criminals between tl}i)e United States and the King of the French, concluded at Washington November ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, two dollars. V For hearing- and deciding upon the case of any person charged with any crime or offense and arrested under the provisions of said treaty op of (paid convention, five dollars a day for the time necessarily em- P 0Y€ - . . Such commissioners shall keep a compifete record of all proceedings before them in criminal cases in awell bound book, which record book shall be delivered to and be preserved by the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia on the death, resignation, removal, ‘ or expiration of the term of the commissioner, for which record the commissioner shall receive no compensation. Sec. 1114. WITNESS nnns.——For each day’s attendance in court or Wimess feesbefore any officer pursuant to law, one dollar and twenty-five cents; and when a witness is subpoenaed in more than one cause between the same partiesat the same term only one er diem compensation shall be allowed for attendance; and for traveling, at the rate of five cents per mile, coming and returning to and from the witness’s place of abode, when summoned from without the District to testify in the courts of the District. No officer of the United States courts shall be entitled to witness 9,§;‘{;g gg§°€“ ¤°° fees for attending before a court or commissioner where he is officiating.` Sec. 1115. J URoR’s nnns.—For actual attendance at court, two dol- J“’°"“""S- lars a day during such attendance. CHAPTER 'I`wnN·rY-NINE. FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. F¤>¤d¤»¤F¤*¤¤¤<= ¤f- Sec. 1116. ESTATES CREATED nr rARoL.—Every estate in lands, gggafes mated by tenements, or hereditaments for a greater term than one year attempted P ° to be created by parol, or otherwise than by deed as provided in subchapter one of chapter sixteen, shall be an estate by sufferance. Sec. 1117. ALCTIONS TO CHARGE nxnorrrons, AND so noR*rH.——No Acrigns tg charge action shall be brought whereby to chargie any executor or administra- execu m' ° °' tor upon any special promise to answer amages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any slpecial promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of anot er person, or to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage, or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement u on w ich such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note tihereof, shall be in writing, which need not state the consideration, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized. I Sec. 1118. DECLARATIONS on ·r1zuszr.—All declarations or creations ofT¤¤·**¤· d¤<=1¤¤¤¤¤¤ of trust or confidence of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall ` be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none eifect. _ All grants and assignments of any trust or confidence shall likewise ;§,§§;‘f,*}_““d ““ig”‘ be in writing, signed by the party granting or assigning the same or by such last will or devise, or else shall likewise be utterly void and ` of none effect; VVhere any conveyance shall be made of any lands or tenements by -bYi¤1PH¤¤¤¤¤· emwhich a trust or confidence shall or may arise or result by the impli-
