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to give it; of all seizures on land or waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; of all prizes brought into the United States; and all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize.

See R. S. § 563, cl. 8; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 220.

Fourth.

Of all suits arising under any law relating

to the slave trade.

See R. S. § 629, cl. 7; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 248.

Fifth. Of all cases arising under any law providing for internal revenue, or from revenue from imports or tonnage, except those cases arising under any law providing revenue from imports, jurisdiction of which has been conferred upon the court of customs appeals.

See R. S. § 563, cl. 5; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 220; also R. S. § 629, cl. 4; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 246.

Sixth. Of all cases arising under the postal laws.

See R. S. § 563, cl. 7; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 220; also R. S. § 629, cl. 4; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 246.

Seventh. Of all suits at law or in equity arising under the patent, the copyright, and the trade-mark laws. See R. S. § 629, cl. 9; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 248.

Eighth. 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.

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

See R. S. § 563, cl. 3; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 219.

Tenth. Of all suits by the assignee of any debenture for drawback of duties, issued under any law for the collection of duties, against the person to whom such deben

ture was originally granted, or against any indorser thereof, to recover the amount of such debenture.

R. S. § 563, cl. 10; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 434.

Eleventh. 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.

R. S. § 563, cl. 10; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 234.

Twelfth. 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 1980, Revised Statutes.

R. S. § 629, cl. 17; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 250. See, also, R. S. § 1980; 1 Fed. St. Ann. 796.

Thirteenth. Of all suits authorized by law to be brought against any person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs mentioned in section 1980, 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. R. S. § 629, cl. 18; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 250.

Fourteenth. 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.

See R. S. § 629, cl. 16; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 249.

Fifteenth. 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.

R. S. § 629, cl. 13; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 249.

Sixteenth. 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.

See R. S. § 629, cls. 10 and 11; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 248; also 25 Stat. L. 436; 5 Fed. St. Ann. 193.

Seventeenth. Of all suits brought by any alien for a tort only, in violation of the laws of nations or of a treaty of the United States.

R. S. § 563, cl. 16; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 235.

Eighteenth. Of all suits against consuls and vice consuls.

See R. S. § 563, cl. 17; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 235.

Nineteenth. Of all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.

See R. S. § 563, cl. 18; 4 Fed. St. Ann. 236.

Twentieth. 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 courts 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, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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 twenty-seventh day of June, eighteen hun

dred and ninety-eight, 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.

See Act of March 3, 1887, § 2, c. 359, 24 Stat. L. 505; 2 Fed. St. Ann. 82.

Twenty-first. 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.

Twenty-second. Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law regulating the immigration of aliens, or under the contract labor laws.

Twenty-third. Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law to protect trade and commerce against restraints and monopolies.

Twenty-fourth. Of all actions, suits, or proceedings involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of

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