Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8877 Accounts of Clerks of District Courts
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 883 — PRIZE › § 8877
Summary
Clerks of district courts must keep records for each final prize case showing money deposited with the Treasurer or a public depositary and sums the court orders paid for costs. They must prepare the court’s payment and leftover‑fund orders, and send copies of final decrees and, every six months, a statement to the Secretaries of the Treasury and the Navy showing amounts the court allowed and ordered paid to prize commissioners and special prize commissioners.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8877
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(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March 3, 1899, ch. 413, § 13, 30 Stat. 1007, which repealed all laws authorizing distribution of prize proceeds to captors; (3) Act of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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8877
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102