United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 75
Chap. LXXV.—An Act to allow compensation to such witnesses, on the part of the United States, as may be imprisoned, to compel their attendance in court on account of their inability to give security in a recognizance.
The marshals to allow compensation to persons imprisoned on account of inability to give security, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the marshals for the several districts and territories of the United States be authorized to pay such persons as may have been, or shall hereafter be, imprisoned on account of inability to give security in a recognizance for their attendance as witnesses on behalf of the United States, the same sum, for each day’s imprisonment, as is provided by law for witnesses actually attending court under process:Proviso. Provided, The said allowance be first fixed and certified by the proper judge, as in case of jurors.
Approved, May 20, 1826.