Henry Billings Brown

“ The duties of the marshal are those of supervision, of hiring guards, feeding and clothing prisoners, and supplying the prison with fuel, lights, and furniture, and paying for the same, and it is impossible to make a distinction between these classes of services. Payment is a necessary incident to hiring and purchasing, and one is as much a service under the regulations for the government of the penitentiary as the other. ”

“ United States Supreme Court
150 U.S. 54
United States v. Baird
Plaintiff having withdrawn the claim for mileage in executing warrants of commitment in consequence of the ruling of this court in U.S. v. Tanner, 147 U.S. 661, 13 Sup. Ct. ”