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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§8877 Accounts of clerks of district courts

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 883— - PRIZE › § 8877

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each district court clerk must keep records for every final prize case. The records must show money deposited with the Treasurer or other public depositary under the court's order and amounts the court orders paid as costs. The clerk must make the court’s payment and distribution orders, send copies of final prize decrees to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Navy, and send a semi‑annual statement to prize commissioners and special prize commissioners listing amounts allowed and ordered paid in the preceding six months.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8877

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The clerk of each district court, for the purpose of the final decree in each prize cause, shall keep account of—
(1)the amount deposited with the Treasurer or public depositary, subject to the order of the court in the cause; and
(2)the amounts ordered to be paid therefrom as costs and charges.
(b)The clerk shall draw the orders of the court for the payment of costs and allowances and for the disposition of the residue of the prize fund in each cause.
(c)The clerk shall send to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Navy—
(1)copies of final decrees in prize causes; and
(2)a semi-annual statement of the amounts allowed by the court, and ordered to be paid, within the preceding six months to the prize commissioners and special prize commissioners for their services.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 767734 U.S.C. 1152.R.S. 4644. 34 U.S.C. 1152 and this section reflect modifications of R.S. 4644 effected by— (1) Act of
May 28, 1896, ch. 252, § 6, 29 Stat. 179, which provided for fixed annual salaries for United States attorneys and marshals; (2) Act of
March 3, 1899, ch. 413, § 13, 30 Stat. 1007, which repealed all laws authorizing distribution of prize proceeds to captors; (3) Act of
February 26, 1919, ch. 49, § 1, 40 Stat. 1182, which provided that clerks of United States district courts should receive fixed annual salaries; and (4) Act of
May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 41 Stat. 654, which abolished the offices of assistant treasurers and distributed their functions.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7677 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8877

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73