Morrison Waite,
Railroad Company v. Collector…
“ In the appropriation act of the last Congress, however, passed March 3, 1877, it was provided as follows:--'And there shall be taxed against the losing party in each and every cause pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, or in the Court of Claims of the United States, the cost of printing the record in such case, which shall be collected, except when the judgment is against the United States, by the clerks of said courts respectively, and paid into the treasury of the United States ”
