Wallace v. United States

This claim is prosecuted to recover compensation for certain services rendered as commissioner of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama from January 16, 1882, to November 22,1883.

The fees sued for were allowed by the circuit court for said district, but disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.

On the 4th of October, 1881, the circuit court of the United States for said district, at the request of the Department of Justice, made an order, and had it entered of record, requiring each commissioner to keep a docket in which shall be…