The F. Merwin

CHOATE, District Judge.

In this case, in which the claimants have obtained a decree dismissing the libel with costs, the libellant has appealed from the clerk’s taxation. The clerk allowed twenty-five cents each for filing and entering “claim,” “answer,” “appearance” and “consent” The fee bill (Rev. St. § 828) allows for “filing and entering every paper,” ten cents. Libellant insists that ten cents only should be allowed for these items, and in this I think he is correct. The additional charge of fifteen cents appears to have been made under that clause of the fee bill which allows the clerk…