Enlarged Homestead.
(Public, No. 214. S. 5167.)

An act to provide for

1910.)

an enlarged homestead.

(Approved June 17,

(Provides for enlarged homestead of 320 acres in State of Idaho under certain circumstances.)

Reorganization of Light-House Service, and Establishment of Bureau of Light Houses.

(Public, No. 217. H. R. 24877.)

An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and to provide for a Bureau of Light Houses in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and for other purposes. (Approved June 17, 1910.)

(Provides for rearrangement of coasts and rivers into nineteen lighthouse districts, for an inspector for each district.)

Creation of the Commerce Court.

(Public, No. 218, H. R. 17536.)

An act to create a commerce court, and to amend the act entitled "An act to regulate commerce,' approved February 4, 1887, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes. (Approved June 18, 1910.)

(Provides for a court of five judges to be assigned from the circuit court, after the first five have been appointed as new circuit judges. Court to have jurisdiction of cases arising out of action of Interstate Commerce Commission, or under the act to regulate commerce or its amendments, etc.)

Admission of New Mexico and Arizona.

(Public, No. 219. H. R. 18166.)

An act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. (Approved June 20, 1910.)

Postal Savings Banks.

(Public, No. 268, S. 5876.)

An act to establish postal savings depositories for deptsiting savings at interest with the security of the Government for repayment thereof, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

Publicity of Campaign Contributions.

(Public, No. 274. H. R. 2250.)

An act providing for publicity of contributions made for the purpose of influencing elections at which Representatives in Congress are elected. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

River and Harbor Improvement Act.

(Public, No. 264. H. R. 20686.)

An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

National Conservation Act.

(Public, No. 303. H. R. 24070.)

An act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases.

Preserves the reservoir sites and water powers on government land, and navigable streams. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

Bonds for Completing National Irrigation Projects.

(Public, No. 289. H. R. 18398.)

An act to authorize advances to the reclamation fund, and for the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes.

Authorizes issue of twenty million in bonds to be used by the President in completing irrigation projects now under way. Approved June 25,

1910.)

Act Authorizing Expenditure of $28,000,000 for Public Buildings, to be Hereafter Appropriated for.

(Public, No. 265. H. R. 26987.)

An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

Mann Act, Suppressing White Slave Traffic.

(Public, No. 277. H. R. 12315.)

An act to further regulate interstate and foreign commerce by prohibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls, and for other purposes. (Approved June 25, 1910.)

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of the United States of America in Congres court of the United States is hereby crea known as the Commerce Court and shall h now possessed by circuit courts of the Un judges thereof over all cases of the followi

First. All cases for the enforcement, oth judication and collection of a forfeiture or fliction of criminal punishment, of any orde Commerce Commission other than for the 1

Second. Cases brought to enjoin, set asi pend in whole or in part any order of th merce Commission.

Third. Such cases as by section three o "An Act to further regulate commerce wit and among the States," approved February teen hundred and three, are authorized to a circuit court of the United States.

Fourth. All such mandamus proceedings a visions of section twenty or section twentyentitled "An Act to regulate commerce,' ap fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as thorized to be maintained in a circuit cour States.

Nothing contained in this act shall be cons ing the jurisdiction now possessed by the c the United States or the judges thereof, that ferred to and vested in the commerce court.

The jurisdiction of the commerce court ov foregoing classes shall be exclusive; but this affect the jurisdiction now possessed by any trict court of the United States over cases or a kind not within the above-enumerated classes The commerce court shall be a court of red have a seal of such form and style as the c scribe. The said court shall be composed of be from time to time designated and assign the Chief Justice of the United States, from a cuit judges of the United States, for the peri except that in the first instance the court shall of the five additional circuit judges to be hereinafter provided, who shall be designated dent to serve for one, two, three, four, and spectively, in order that the period of designati the said judges shall expire in each year th case of the death, resignation, or termination o of any judge so designated, the Chief Justice sh a circuit judge to fill the vacancy so caused a during the unexpired period for which the origi tion was made. After the year nineteen hundre teen no circuits judge shall be redesignated to commerce court until the expiration of at least on the expiration of the period of his last previous The judge first designated for the five-year peri the presiding judge of said court, and thereafter senior in designation shall be the presiding judge

commerce court shall, on account of the regular sessions of
the court being held in the city of Washington, receive in
addition to his salary as circuit judge an expense al-
lowance at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars
per annum.

The President shall, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, appoint five additional circuit judges no two
of whom shall be from the same judicial circuit, who shall
hold office during good behavior and who shall be from time
to time designated and assigned by the Chief Justice of the
United States for service in the circuit court of any district,
or the circuit court of appeals for any circuit, or in the com-
merce court.

The associate judges shall have precedence and shall succeed to the place and powers of the presiding judge whenever he may be absent or incapable of acting in the order of the date of their designations. Four of said judges shall constitute a quorum, and at least a majority of the court shall concur in all decisions.

The court shall also have a clerk and a marshal, with the same duties and powers, so far as they may be appropriate and are not altered by rule of the court, as are now possessed by the clerk and marshal, respectively, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The offices of the clerk and marshal of the court shall be in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia. The judges of the court shall appoint the clerk and marshal, and may also appoint, if they find it necessary, a deputy clerk and deputy marshal; and such clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, and deputy marshal shall hold office during the pleasure of the court. The salary of the clerk shall be four thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the marshal three thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the deputy clerk two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the salary of the deputy marshal two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The said clerk and marshal may, with the approval of the court, employ all requisitêre şistance. The costs and fees in said court shall be

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o organization of the court; but such costs and fees shai in no case exceed those charged in the Supreme Court of the United States, and shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States.

The commerce court shall be always open for the transaction of business. Its regular sessions shall be held in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia; but the powers of the court or of any judge thereof, or of the clerk, marshal, deputy clerk or deputy marshal may be exercised anywhere in the United States; and for expedition of the work of the court and the avoidance of undue expense or inconvenience to suitors the court shall hold sessions in different parts of the United States as may be found desirable. The actual and necessary expenses of the judges, clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, and deputy marshal of the court incurred for travel and attendance elsewhere than in the city of Washington shall be paid upon the written and itemized certificate of such judge, clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, or deputy marshal by the marshal of the court, and shall be allowed to him in the statement of his accounts with the United States.

The United States marshals of the several districts outside of the city of Washington in which the commerce court may hold its sessions shall provide, under the direction and with the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States, such rooms in the public buildings of the United States as may be necessary for the court's use; but in case proper rooms can not be provided in such public buildings, said marshals, with the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States, may then lease from time to time other necessary rooms for the court.

If, at any time, the business of the commerce court does not require the services of all the judges, the Chief Justice of

the United States may, by writing, signed by him and filed in the Department of Justice, terminate the assignment of any of the judges or temporarily assign him for service in any circuit court or circuit court of appeals. In case of illness or other disability of any judge assigned to the commerce court the Chief Justice of the United States may assign any other circuit judge of the United States to act in his place, and may terminate such assignment when the exigence therefor shall cease; and any circuit judge so assigned to act in place of such judge shall, during his assignment, exercise all the powers and perform all the functions of such judge.

In all cases within its jurisdiction the commerce court, and each of the judges assigned thereto, shall, respectively, have and may exercise any and all of the powers of a circuit court of the United States and of the judges of said court, respectively, so far as the same may be appropriate to the effective exercise of the jurisdiction hereby conferred. The commerce court may issue all writs and process appropriate to the full exercise of its jurisdiction and powers and may prescribe the form thereof. It may also, from time to time, establish such rules and regulations concerning pleading, practice, or procedure in cases or matters within its jurisdiction as to the court shall seem wise and proper. Its orders, writs, and process may run, be served, and be returnable anywhere in the United States; and the mashal and deputy marshal of said court and also the United States marshals and deputy marshals in the several districts of the United States shall have like powers and be under like duties to act for and in behalf of said court as pertain to United States marshals and deputy marshals generally when acting under like conditions concerning suits or matters in the circuits of the United States.

The jurisdiction of the commerce court shall be invoked by filing in the office of the clerk of the court a written petition setting forth briefly and succinctly the facts constituting the petitioner's cause of action, and specifying the relief sough A copy of such petition shall be forth with served by th arshal or a deputy marshal of the commerce court ing or by e proper United States marshal or deputy marshal upon every defendant therein named, and when the United States is a party defendant, the service shall be made by filing a copy of said petition in the office of the Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission and in the Department of Justice. Within thirty days after the petition is served, unless that time is extended by order of the court or a judge thereof, an answer to the petition shall be filed in the clerk's office, and a copy thereof mailed to the petitioner's attorney, which answer shall briefly and categorically respond to the allegations of the petition. No replication need be filed to the answer, and objections to the sufficiency of the petition or answer as not setting forth a cause of action or defense must be taken at the final hearing or by motion to dismiss the petition based on said grounds, which motion may be made at any time before answer is filed. In case no answer shall be filed as provided herein the petitioner may apply to the court on notice for such relief as may be proper upon the facts alleged in the petition. The court may, by rule, prescribe the method of taking evidence in cases pending in said court; and may prescribe that the evidence be taken before a single judge of the court, with power to rule upon the admission of evidence. Except as may be otherwise provided in this act, or by rule of the court, the practice and procedure in the commerce court shall conform as nearly as may be to that in like cases in a circuit court of the United States.

The commerce court shall be opened for the transaction of business at a date to be fixed by order of the said court, which shall be not later than thirty days after the judges thereof shall have been designated.

SEC. 2. That a final judgment or decree of the commerce court may be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United

States if appeal to the Supreme Court be taken by an aggrieved party within sixty days after the entry of said final judgment or decree. Such appeal may be taken in like manner as appeals from a circuit court of the United States to the Supreme Court, and the commerce court may direct the original record to be transmitted on appeal instead of a transcript thereof. The Supreme Court may affirm, reverse, or modify the final judgment or decree of the commerce court as the case may require.

Appeal to the Supreme Court, however, shall in no case supersede or stay the judgment or decree of the commerce court appealed. from, unless the Supreme Court or a justice thereof shall so direct, and appellant shall give bond in such form and of such amount as the Supreme Court, or the justice of that court allowing the stay, may require.

An appeal may also be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States from an interlocutory order or decree of the commerce court granting or continuing an injunction restraining the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, provided such appeal be taken within thirty days from the entry of such order or decree.

Appeals to the Supreme Court under this section shall have priority in hearing and determination over all other causes except criminal causes in that court.

SEC. 3. That suits to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be brought in the commerce court against the United States.. The pendency of such suit shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission; but the commerce court, in its discretion, may restrain or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the commissioner's order pending the final hearing and determination of the suit. No order or injunction so restraining, or suspending an order of the Interstate Commerce Commision shall be made by the commerce court otherwise than upon notice and after hearing, except that in cases wher; irreparable damage would otherwise ensue to the petitio er, said court, or a judge thereof may, on hearing after not .ess than three days' notice to the Interstate Commerce Comission and the Attorney-General, allow a temporary stay o. suspension in whole or in part of the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission for not more than sixty days from the date of the order of such court or judge, pending application to the court for its order or injunction, in which case the said order shall contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the judge making the order and identified by reference thereto, that such irreparable damage would result to the petitioner and specifying the nature of the damage. The court may, at the time of hearing such application, upon a like finding, continue the temporary stay or suspension in whole or in part until its decision upon the application.

SEC. 4. That all cases and proceedings in the commerce court which but for this act would be brought by or against the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be brought by or against the United States, and the United States may intervene in any case or proceeding in the commerce court whenever, though it has not been made a party, public interests are involved.

SEC. 5. That the Attorney-General shall have charge and control of the interests of the Government in all cases and proceedings in the commerce court, and in the Supreme Court of the United States upon appeal from the commerce court; and if in his opinion the public interest requires it, he may retain and employ in the name of the United States, within the appropriations from time to time made by the Congress for such purposes, such special attorneys and counselors at law as he may think necessary to assist in the discharge of any of the duties incumbent upon him and his subordinate attorneys; and the Attorney-General shall stipulate with such special attorneys and counsel the amount.