
    JOHN H. WALLACE v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (20 C. Cls. R., 273; 116 U. S. R., 398.)
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    A circuit court, at the request of the Attorney-General, orders each commissioner to keep a prescribed docket of criminal proceedings. The court allows a docket fee of $3 in each case where issue was joined and testimony taken, and $1'in cases where the defendant was discharged.
    The court below decides—
    (1.) An order of a circuit court requiring each commissioner to keep a prescribed docket in criminal proceedings before him is a legal requirement entitling the commissioner to compensation.
    (2.) A commissioner legally bound to keep a docket of cases coming before him is entitled, under the Revised Statutes, section 847, to the fees prescribed for clerks by section 828.
    (3.) When a statute (Rev. Stat., § 828) allows a commissioner the compensation allowed to clerks for “ Wee service,” it means similar, not identical service.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Matthews

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, January 18, 1886.  