(8) Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law regulating commerce, except those suits and proceedings exclusive jurisdiction of which has been conferred upon the Commerce Court.

(9) Of all suits and proceedings for the enforcement of penalties and forfeitures incurred under any law of the United States.

(10) Of all suits by the assignee of any debenture for drawbacks of duties, issued under any law for the collection of duties, against the person to whom such debenture was originally granted, or against any indorser thereof, to recover the amount of such debenture.

(11) Of all suits brought by any person to recover damages for any injury to his person or property on account of any act done by him, under any law of the United States, for the protection or collection of any of the revenues thereof, or to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States.

(12) Of all suits authorized by law to be brought by any person for the recovery of damages on account of any injury to his person or property, or of the deprivation of any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, by any act done in furtherance of any conspiracy mentioned in section nineteen hundred and eighty, Revised Statutes.

(13) Of all suits authorized by laws to be brought against any person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs mentioned in section nineteen hundred and eighty, Revised Statutes, are about to be done, and, having power to prevent or aid in preventing the same, neglects or refuses so to do, to recover damages for any such wrongful act.

(14) Of all suits at law or in equity authorized by law to be brought by any person to redress the deprivation, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State, of any right, privilege, or immunity, secured by the Constitution of the United States, or of any right secured by any law of the United States providing for equal rights of citizens of the United States, or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.

(15) Of all suits to recover possession of any office, except that of elector of President or Vice President, Representative in or Delegate to Congress, or member of a State legislature, authorized by law to be brought, wherein it appears that the sole question touching the title to such office arises out of the denial of the right to vote to any citizen offering to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude: Provided, That such jurisdiction shall extend only so far as to determine the rights of the parties to such office by reason of the denial of the right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and secured by any law, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in all the States.

(16) Of all cases commenced by the United States, or by direction of any officer thereof, against any national banking association, and cases for winding up the affairs of any such bank; and of all suits brought by any banking association established in the district for which the court is held, under the provisions of title "National Banks," Revised Statutes, to enjoin the Comptroller of the Currency, or any receiver acting under his direction, as provided by said title. And all national banking associations established under the laws of the United States shall, for the purposes of all other actions by or against them, real, personal, or mixed, and all suits in equity, be deemed citizens of the States in which they are respectively located.

(17) Of all suits brought by an alien for a tort only, in violation of the laws of nations or of a treaty of the United States.

(18) Of all suits against consuls and vice consuls.

(19) Of all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.

(20) Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect to which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States, either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable, and of all set-offs, counterclaims, claims for damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, or other demands whatsoever on the part of the Government of the United States against any claimant against the Government in said court: Provided, however, That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as giving to either the district court or the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear and determine claims growing out of the late Civil War, and commonly known as "war claims," or to hear and determine other claims which had been rejected or reported on adversely prior to the third day of March, 1887, by any court, department, or commission authorized to hear and determine the same, or to hear and determine claims for pensions; or as giving to the district courts jurisdiction of cases brought to recover fees, salary, or compensation for official services of officers of the United States or brought for such purpose by persons claiming as such officers or as assignees or legal representatives thereof; but no suit pending on the 27th day of June, 1898, shall abate or be affected by this provision: And provided further, That no suit against the Government of the United States shall be allowed under this paragraph unless the same shall have been brought within six years after the right accrued for which the claim is made: Provided, That the claims of married women, first accrued during marriage, of persons under the age of twenty-one years, first accrued during minority, and of idiots, lunatics, insane persons, and persons beyond the seas at the time the claim accrued, entitled to the claim, shall not be barred if the suit be brought within three years after the disability has ceased; but no other disability than those enumerated shall prevent any claim from being barred, nor shall any of the said disabilities operate cumulatively. All suits brought and tried under the provisions of this paragraph shall be tried by the court without a jury. Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of any suit or proceeding, commenced after the passage of the Revenue Act of 1921, for the recovery of any internal-revenue tax alleged to have been erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, or of any penalty claimed to have been collected without authority or any sum alleged to have been excessive or in any manner wrongfully collected, under the internal-revenue laws, even if the claim exceeds $10,000, if the collector of internal-revenue by whom such tax, penalty, or sum was collected is dead at the time such suit or proceeding is commenced.

(21) Of proceedings in equity, by writ of injunction, to restrain violations of the provisions of laws of the United States to prevent the unlawful inclosure of public lands; and it shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction if service of original process be had in any civil proceeding on any agent or employee having charge or control of the inclosure.

(22) Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law regulating the immigration of aliens, or under the contract labor laws.

(23) Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law to protect trade and commerce against restraints and monopolies.

(24) Of all actions, suits, or proceedings involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty. And the judgment or decree of any such court in favor of any claimant to an allotment of land shall have the same effect, when properly certified to the Secretary of the Interior, as if such allotment had been allowed and approved by him; but this provision shall not apply to any lands now or heretofore held by either of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Osage Nation of Indians, nor to any of the lands within the Quapaw Indian Agency: Provided, That the right of appeal shall be allowed to either party as in other cases.

(25) Of suits in equity brought by any tenant in common or joint tenant for the partition of lands in cases where the United States is one of such tenants in common or joint tenants, such suits to be brought in the district in which such land is situate. (R. S. §§ 563, 629; J. C. § 24; Acts March 3, 1875, c. 137, § 1, 18 Stat. 470; Feb. 25, 1885, c. 149, § 2, 23 Stat. 321; March 3, 1887, c. 359, §§ 1, 2, 24 Stat. 505; March 3, 1887, c. 373, § 1, 24 Stat. 552; Aug. 13, 1888, c. 866, § 1, 25 Stat. 433; May 17, 1898, c. 339, § 1. 30 Stat. 416; June 27, 1898, c. 503, § 1, 30 Stat. 494; July 1, 1898, c. 541, §§ 2, 23, 30 Stat. 545, 552; July 1, 1898, c. 546, § 3, 30 Stat. 649; Feb. 26, 1900, c. 25, 31 Stat. 33; March 3, 1911, c. 231, § 24, 36 Stat. 1091-94; Dec. 21, 1911, c. 5, 37 Stat.; Oct. 6, 1917, c. 97, § 1, 40 Stat. 395; Nov. 23, 1921, c. 136, § 1310, 42 Stat.)

CHAPTER 3.

DISTRICT COURTS-REMOVAL OF CAUSES.

§ 791a. Process after removal.-Hereafter, in all cases removed from any State court to any United States court for trial in which any one or more of the defendants has not been served with process or in which the same has not been perfected prior to such removal, or in which the process served upon the defendant or defendants, or any of them, proves to be defective, such process may be completed by the United States court through its officers, or new process as to defendants upon whom process has not been completed may be issued out of such United States court, or service may be perfected in such court in the same manner as in cases which are originally filed in such United States court: Provided, Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive any defendant upon whom process is so served after removal, of his right to move to remand the cause to the State court, the same as if process had been served upon him prior to such removal. (Act April 16, 1920, c. 146.)

CHAPTER 4.

DISTRICT COURTS-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

§ 830a. Action for wrongful death. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories or dependencies of the United States, the personal representative of the decedent may maintain a suit for damages in the district courts of the United States, in admiralty, for the exclusive benefit of the decedent's wife, husband, parent, child, or dependent relative against the vessel, person, or corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued.

The recovery in such suit shall be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary loss sustained by the persons for whose benefit the suit is brought and shall be apportioned among them by the court in proportion to the loss they may severally have suffered by reason of the death of the person by whose representative the suit is brought.

Such suit shall be begun within two years from the date of such wrongful act, neglect, or default, unless during that period there has not been reasonable opportunity for securing jurisdiction of the vessel, person, or corporation sought to be charged; but after the expiration of such period of two years the right of action hereby given shall not be deemed to have lapsed until ninety days after a reasonable opportunity to secure jurisdic-. tion has offered.

Whenever a right of action is granted by the law of any foreign State on account of death by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring upon the high seas, such right may be maintained in an appropriate action in admiralty in the courts of the United States without abatement in respect to the amount for which recovery is authorized, any statute of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding.

If a person die as the result of such wrongful act, neglect, or default as is mentioned in section 1 during the pendency in a court of admiralty of the United States of a suit to recover damages for personal injuries in respect of such act, neglect, or default, the personal representative of the decedent may be substituted as a party and the suit may proceed as a suit under this Act for the recovery of the compensation provided in section 2

In suits under this Act the fact that the decedent has been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar recovery, but the court shall take into consideration the degree of negligence attributable to the decedent and reduce the recovery accordingly.

The provisions of any State statute giving or regulating rights of action or remedies for death shall not be affected by this Act. Nor shall this Act apply to the Great Lakes or to any waters within the territorial limits of any State, or to any navigable waters in the Panama Canal Zone.

This Act shall not affect any pending suit, action, or proceeding. (Act March 30, 1920, c. 111, §§ 1-8.)

Note.- 1, 2, are now § 830a.

§ 837. Connecticut.-The State of Connecticut shall constitute one judicial district, to be known as the District of Connecticut. Terms of the district court shall be held at New Haven on the fourth Tuesdays in February and September, at Hartford on the fourth Tuesday in May and the first Tuesday in December, and at Norwalk on the fourth Tuesday in April: Provided, however, That suitable rooms and accommodations shall be furnished for the holdings of said court and for the use of the officers of said court at Norwalk free of expense to the Government of the United States. (R. S. § 531; J. C. § 74; Acts March 3, 1911, c. 231, § 74, 36 Stat. 1108; Feb. 27, 1921, c. 74, 41 Stat. 1146.)

CHAPTER 5.

DISTRICT COURTS-DISTRICTS; PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR STATES.

§ 846. Kentucky.

Note-Act Jan. 29, 1920, c. 57, provides that "regular terms of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Kentucky shall be held at the following times and places, namely:

At Jackson: Beginning on the first Monday in March and the third Monday in September in each year.

At Frankfort: Beginning on the second Monday in March and fourth Monday in September in each year.

At Covington: Beginning on the first Monday in April and the third Monday in October in each year.

At Richmond: Beginning on the fourth Monday in April and the second Monday in November in each year.

At London: Beginning on the second Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November in each year.

At Catlettsburg: Beginning on the fourth Monday in May and the second Monday in December in each year.

At Lexington: Beginning on the second Monday in January and the second Monday in June in each year: Provided, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Lexington shall be furnished without expense to the United States.

And at such other times and places as may hereafter be provided by law.

The clerk of the court for the eastern district of Kentucky shall maintain an office in charge of himself, a deputy, or a clerical assistant, at cach of the places of holding court within said district."

§ 860. New Mexico. The State, when admitted as aforesaid, shall constitute one judicial district, and the district court of said district shall be held at the capital of said State, and the said district shall, for judicial purposes, be attached to the eighth judicial circuit. There shall be appointed for said district one district judge, one United States attorney, and one United States marshal. The judge of said district shall receive a yearly salary the same as other similar judges of the United States, payable as provided for by law, and shall reside in the district to which he is appointed. There shall be appointed a clerk of said court, who shall keep his office at the capital of said State. The regular terms of said court shall be held on the first Monday in March and the first Monday in September of each year. The district court for said district and the judges thereof shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction and perform the same duties required to be' performed by the other district courts and judges of the United States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. The marshal, district attorney, and the clerks of the district court of said district, and all other officers and persons performing duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties lawfully possessed and required to be performed by similar officers in other districts of the United States, and shall, for the services they may perform, receive the fees and compensation now allowed by law to officers performing similar services for the United States in the Territory of New Mexico. (Acts June 20, 1910, c. 310, § 13, 36 Stat. 505; March 4, 1921, c. 149, 41 Stat. 1361.)

§ 861. New York.-The State of New York is divided into four judicial districts, to be known as the northern, eastern, southern, and western districts of New York. The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July, 1910, in the counties of Albany, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Clinton, Cortland, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren, and Washington, with the waters thereof. Terms of the district court for said district shall be held at Albany on the second Tuesday in February; at Utica on the first Tuesday in December; at Binghamton on the second Tuesday in June; at Auburn on the first Tuesday in October; at Syracuse on the first Tuesday in April; and, in the discretion of the judge of the court, one term annually at such time and place within the counties of Rensselaer, Saratoga, Onondaga, Saint Lawrence, Clinton, Jefferson, Oswega, and Franklin, as he may from time to time appoint. Such appointment shall be made by notice of at least twenty days published in a newspaper published at the place where said court is to be held. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, 1910, in the counties of Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, with the waters thereof. Terms of the district court for said district shall be held at Brooklyn on the first Wednesday in every month. The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July, 1910, in the counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, New York, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester, with the waters thereof. Terms of the district court for said district shall be held at New York City on the first Tuesday in each month. The district courts of the southern and eastern districts shall have concurrent jurisdiction over the waters within the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Nassau, Richmond, and Suffolk, and over all seizures made and all matters done in such waters; all processes or orders issued within either of said courts or by any judge thereof shall run and be executed in any part of said waters. The western district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July, 1910, in the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genessee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates, with the