---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8874"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8874"
heading: "Payment of witness fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8874"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 883 — Prize"
---

# §8874. Payment of witness fees


If the court allows fees to any witness in a prize cause, or fees for taking evidence out of the district in which the court sits, and there is no money subject to its order in the cause, the marshal shall [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) the fees. He shall be repaid from any money deposited to the order of the court in the cause. Any amount not so repaid to the marshal shall be allowed him as witness fees paid by him in cases in which the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) is a party.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 481, § 7674; renumbered § 8874, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7674 | 34 U.S.C. 1157. | R.S. 4651. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7674 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment 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.