IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                         FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT



                              No. 96-40767
                          Conference Calendar



PHELBERT DE LOS SIMS,

                                           Plaintiff-Appellant,


versus

WAYNE SCOTT ET AL.
                                           Defendants-Appellees.


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           Appeal from the United States District Court
                for the Southern District of Texas
                       USDC No. C-96-CV-304
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                           April 16, 1997
Before REAVLEY, DAVIS, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

     The motion of Phelbert De Los Sims, Texas prisoner #709776,

for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) on appeal is

GRANTED.   Pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), we

assess no initial partial filing fee against Sims.       However, Sims

henceforth shall make monthly payments of twenty percent of the

preceding month’s income credited to his account.        See 28 U.S.C.

§ 1915(b).     The agency having custody of Sims is directed to


     *
        Pursuant to Local Rule 47.5, the court has determined
that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent
except under the limited circumstances set forth in Local Rule
47.5.4.
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forward payments from his prisoner account to the clerk of the



district court each time the amount in his account exceeds $10

until the appellate filing fee of $105 is paid.   

contentions that prison officials were

deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, we have

reviewed Sims’s brief and the record and we find that the

district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Sims’s

complaint as frivolous.   See Estelle v. Gamble, 

, 106

(1976); Banuelos v. McFarland, 

, 234 (5th Cir. 1995).

Sims’ appeal is without arguable basis and thus frivolous.     See

Howard v. King, 

, 219-20 (5th Cir. 1983).   Because

the appeal is frivolous, it is DISMISSED.   See 5th Cir. R. 42.2.

Sims’s motion for appointment of counsel on appeal is DENIED.

See Ulmer v. Chancellor, 

, 212 (5th Cir. 1982).

     His “Motion for Subponia [sic] Duces Tecum

Psychiatric/Psychological Evaluation From Appellants Medical

Record dated 6-8-95,” construed as motion to supplement the

record on appeal, is DENIED.   His “Motion for Duces Tecum,

Subpoenia [sic]” is also DENIED.