Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the execution of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe.

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1918, cited above.

TITLE XII C-THE JUDICIAL CODE

CHAPTER ONE-DISTRICT COURTS-
ORGANIZATION

§ 968h. (Act Feb. 26, 1917, c. 120.) Additional district judge for western district of Texas.

The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an additional judge of the district court of the United States for the Western District of Texas, who shall possess the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same compensation and allowance as the present judge of said district, and whose official place of residence shall be maintained at El Paso until otherwise provided by law.

This section was an act entitled "An act to provide for an additional judge in the State of Texas," cited above.

CHAPTER TWO-DISTRICT COURTS

JURISDICTION

§ 991. (Jud. Code, § 24, as amended, Act Dec. 21, 1911, c. 5 and Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 97, § 1.) Original jurisdiction.

(3) Of admiralty causes, seizures, and prizes.

Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State; of all seizures on land or waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; of all prizes brought into the United States; and of all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize.

This paragraph was amended by Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 97, § 1, cited above, by inserting, after the words "where the common law is competent to give it," the words "and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State."

§ 991a. (Act Feb. 22, 1917, c. 113.) Original jurisdiction; bills of interpleader filed by insurance companies, etc.; process; hearing; orders and decrees; district in which bills shall be filed. The district courts of the United States shall have original cognizance to entertain suits in equity begun by bills of interpleader where the same are filed by any insurance company or fraternal beneficiary society, duly verified, and where it is made to appear by such bill that one or more persons, being bona fide claimants against such company or society, reside within the jurisdiction of said court; that such company or society has made or issued some policy of insurance or certificate of membership providing for the payment of a sum of money of at least $500 as insurance or benefits to a beneficiary or beneficiaries or to the heirs, next of kin, or legal representative of the person insured or member; that two or more adverse claimants, citizens of different States, are claiming or may

claim to be entitled to such insurance or benefits and that such company or society deposits the amount of such insurance or benefits with the clerk of said court and abide the judgment of said court. In all such cases the court shall have the power to issue its process for said claimants, returnable at such time as the said court or a judge thereof shall determine, which shall be addressed to and served by the United States marshals for the respective districts wherein said claimants reside or may be found; to hear said bill of interpleader and decide thereon according to the practice in equity; to discharge said complainant from further liability upon the payment of said insurance or benefit as directed by the court, less complainant's actual court costs; and shall have the power to make such orders and decrees as may be suitable and proper and to issue the necessary writs usual and customary in such cases for the purpose of carrying out such orders and decrees: Provided, That in all cases where a beneficiary or beneficiaries are named in the policy of insurance or certificate of membership or where the same has been assigned and written notice thereof shall have been given to the insurance company or fraternal benefit society, the bill of interpleader shall be filed in the district where the beneficiary or beneficiaries may reside.

This section was an act entitled "An act authorizing insurance companies and fraternal beneficiary societies to file bills of interpleader," cited above.

CHAPTER FIVE-DISTRICT COURTS-DISTRICTS, AND PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR STATES

§ 1088. (Jud. Code, § 101, as amended, Act Feb. 20, 1917, c. 102.) Oklahoma.

The State of Oklahoma is divided into two judicial districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Oklahoma. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in the counties of Adair, Atoka, Bryant, Craig, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Coal, Carter, Delaware, Garvin, Grady, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Jefferson, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, McClain, Mayes, Muskogee, McIntosh, McCurtain, Murray, Marshall, Nowata, Ottawa, Okmulgee, Okfuskee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Pontotoc, Rogers, Stephens, Sequoyah, Seminole, Tulsa, Washington, and Wagoner. Terms of the district court for the eastern district shall be held at Muskogee on the first Monday in January; at Vinita, on the first Monday in March; at Tulsa, on the first Monday in April; at South McAlester, on the first Monday in June; at Ardmore, on the first Monday in October; and at Chickasha, on the first Monday in November in each year. The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in the counties of Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cimarron, Cleveland, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Jackson, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Lincoln, Logan, Major, Noble, Oklahoma, Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, Roger Mills, Texas, Tillman, Washita, Woods, and Woodward. Terms of the district court for the western district shall be held at Guthrie on the first Monday in January; at Oklahoma. City, on the first Monday in March; at Enid, on the first Monday in June; at Lawton, on the first Monday in September; and at Woodward, on the first Monday in November: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Wood

ward are furnished free of expense to the United States. The clerk of the district court for the eastern district shall keep his office at Muskogee and the clerk for the western district at Guthrie, and shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Oklahoma City.

This section was amended by Act Feb. 20, 1917, c. 102, cited above, by correcting the spelling of Bryant, Okfuskee, and Major counties.

§ 1095a. (Act Feb. 26, 1917, c. 122, § 1.) Texas; additional division in northern district.

The counties of Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Foard, Montague, King, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young shall constitute a division of the northern judicial district of Texas.

This section and the section next following were an act entitled "An act to create a new division of the northern judicial district of Texas, and to provide for terms of court at Wichita Falls, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes," cited above.

§ 1095b. (Act Feb. 26, 1917, c. 122, § 2.) Texas; additional terms of court for northern district; office of clerk.

Terms of the district court of the United States for the said northern district of Texas shall be held twice each year at the city of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, on the fourth Monday in March and the third Monday in November. The clerk of the court for the northern district of Texas shall maintain an office in charge. of himself or a deputy at Wichita Falls, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court: Provided, That suitable accommodations for holding court at Wichita Falls shall be provided by the county or municipal authorities without expense to the United States.

See note to § 1095a, ante.

CHAPTER TEN-THE SUPREME COURT

§ 1228a. (Act Sept. 6, 1916, c. 448, § 6.) Time for application for writ of error, appeal, or certiorari.

This section, which provides that "no writ of error, appeal, or writ of certiorari intended to bring up any cause for review by the Supreme Court shall be allowed or entertained unless duly applied for within three months after entry of the judgment or decree complained of," may be regarded as having superseded the provisions of U. S. Comp. St. 1916, §§ 1648, 1649 (Act March 3, 1891, c. 517, § 6, and R. S. 1008), as to the time for taking appeals or writs of error to the Supreme Court, from and after thirty days after its approval, except that the right of review under existing laws in respect of judgments and decrees entered before this section took effect was to remain unaffected for the period of six months thereafter, but such right was to cease thereafter (see § 7 of said Act Sept. 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 728).

CHAPTER ELEVEN-PROVISIONS COMMON TO MORE THAN ONE COURT

§ 1233. (Jud. Code, § 256, as amended, Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 97, § 2.) Cases in which jurisdiction of United States courts shall be exclusive of State courts.

Third. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.

This paragraph was amended by Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 97, § 2, cited above, by inserting therein the words "and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State."

CHAPTER TWELVE-JURIES

§ 1253. (Jud. Code, § 276, as amended, Act Feb. 3, 1917, c. 27.) Jurors, how drawn.

All such jurors, grand and petit, including those summoned during the session of the court, shall be publicly drawn from a box containing, at the time of each drawing, the names of not less than three hundred persons, possessing the qualifications prescribed in the section last preceding, which names shall have been placed therein by the clerk of such court, or a duly qualified deputy clerk, and a commissioner, to be appointed by the judge thereof, or by the judge senior in commission in districts having more than one judge, which commissioner shall be a citizen of good standing, residing in the district in which such court is held, and a well-known member of the principal political party in the district in which the court is held opposing that to which the clerk, or a duly qualified deputy clerk then acting, may belong, the clerk, or a duly qualified deputy clerk, and said commissioner each to place one name in said box alternately, without reference to party affiliations until the whole number required shall be placed therein.

This section was amended by Act Feb. 3, 1917, c. 27, cited above, by inserting therein the provisions relating to a duly qualified deputy clerk.

TITLE XIII-THE JUDICIARY

CHAPTER SIXTEEN-FEES AND COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS

RETURNS OF FEES, EMOLUMENTS, AND EXPENSES, AND COMPENSATION AND ACCOUNTS OF OFFICERS

§ 1404a. (Act June 12, 1917, c. 27, § 1.) Maximum compensation retained by clerks; marshals and clerks to charge only single fees against United States and private litigants. That for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter, the maximum personal compensation of clerks of United States district courts shall in no case exceed $3,500 per annum, and that single fees only shall be charged by United States marshals and clerks of United States district courts against the United States and against private litigants in every judicial district.

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1918, cited above.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND MARSHALS

§ 1448. (Act June 12, 1917, c. 27, § 1.) Limitation of payments by district attorney for District of Columbia to deputies, etc., and for expenses, out of fees.

The United States district attorney for the District of Columbia shall hereafter pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in all $15,000 per annum; also his clerical and messenger hire not exceeding $10,000; office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses not exceeding $2,500, out of the fees of his office: Provided, That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed.

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1918, cited above.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-PROCEDURE

JUDGMENTS, COSTS, EXECUTIONS, AND MONEYS PAID INTO COURT

§ 1630a. (Act June 12, 1917, c. 27, § 1.) Suits by seamen without prepayment of or bond for costs.

Courts of the United States shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety.

This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1918, cited above.

PROCEDURE ON ERROR AND APPEAL

§ 1648. (Act March 3, 1891, c. 517, § 6.) Appeals and writs of error from circuit courts of appeals to Supreme Court; time for taking.

As to time for allowing or entertaining writs of error, appeals, or writs of certiorari to bring up causes for review by the Supreme Court, see ante, § 1228a.

§ 1649. (R. S. § 1008.) Writs of error and appeals to Supreme Court, time for taking.

See note under § 1648, ante.

TITLE XIV-THE ARMY

CHAPTER ONE-ORGANIZATION

§ 1717bb. (Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 105, § 3.) Generals and lieutenant generals; number; pay and allowances.

Section eight of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be held and construed to authorize the President, in accordance with the provisions of said Act and for the period of the existing emergency only, to appoint as generals the Chief of Staff and the commander of the United States forces in France; and as lieutenant general each commander of an army or army corps organized as authorized by existing law: Provided, That the pay of the grades of general and lieutenant general shall be $10,000 and $9,000 a year, respectively, with allowances appropriate to said grades as determined by the Secretary of War.

This section and the section next following were part of section three of Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 105, cited above, which was an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,' approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes." Act May 18, 1917, c. 15, § 8, referred to in this section, relates to the temporary appointment of general officers, etc., and is set forth post, § 2044h.

§ 1717c. (Act Oct. 6, 1917, c. 105, § 3.) Rank, pay and allowances of chiefs of staff corps, departments or bureaus.

Hereafter, the chief of any existing staff corps, department, or bureau, except as is otherwise provided for the Chief of Staff, shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of major general.

See note to § 1717bb, ante.