obstruct, hinder, or prevent such claimant, his
agent or attorney, or any person or persons lawfully
assisting him, her, or them, from arresting such
a fugitive from service or labor, either with
or without process as aforesaid; or shall rescue,
or attempt to rescue such fugitive from service or
labor, from the custody of such claimant, his
or her agent or attorney or other person or persons
lawfully assisting as aforesaid, when so arrested,
pursuant to the authority herein given and declared:
or shall aid, abet, or assist such person, so
owing service or labor as aforesaid, directly
or indirectly, to escape from such claimant, his
agent or attorney, or other person or persons, legally
authorized as aforesaid; or shall harbor or conceal
such fugitive, so as to prevent the discovery
and arrest of such person, after notice or knowledge
of the fact that such person was a fugitive from
service or labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of
said offences, be subject to a fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding
six months, by indictment and conviction before
the district court of the United States for the district
in which such offence may have been committed, or before
the proper court of criminal jurisdiction, if
committed within any one of the organized territories
of the United States; and shall moreover forfeit
and pay, by way of civil damages to the party injured
by such illegal conduct, the sum of one thousand dollars
for each fugitive so lost as aforesaid, to be
recovered by action of debt in any of the district
or territorial courts aforesaid, within whose
jurisdiction the said offence may have been committed.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the marshals, their deputies, and the clerks of the said district and territorial courts, shall be paid for their services the like fees as may be allowed to them for similar services in other cases; and where such services rendered exclusively in the arrest, custody, and delivery of the fugitive to the claimant, his or her agent or attorney, or where such supposed fugitive may be discharged out of custody for the want of sufficient proof as aforesaid, then such fees are to be paid in the whole by such claimant, his agent or attorney; and in all cases where the proceedings are before a commissioner, he shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars in full for his services in each case, upon delivery of the said certificate to the claimant, his or her agent or attorney; or a fee of five dollars in cases where the proof shall not, in the opinion of such commissioner, warrant such certificate and delivery, inclusive of all services incident to such arrest and examination, to be paid in either case, by the claimant, his or her agent or attorney. The person or persons authorized to execute the process to be issued by such commissioners for the arrest and detention of fugitives from service or labor as aforesaid, shall also be entitled to a fee of five dollars