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at West Point, and the heads of such other executive offices as may be provided by law, of equal grade with any of said offices, each one copy; to the Law Library of the Supreme Court, twenty-five copies; to the Law Library of the Department of the Interior, two copies; to the Law Library of the Department of Justice, two copies; to the secretary of the Senate for the use of the committees of the Senate, twenty-five copies; to the clerk of the House of Representatives for the use of the committees of the House, thirty copies; to the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, as custodian of the public property used by the court, for the use of the justices thereof in the conference room, robing room, and court room, three copies; to the secretary of War for the use of the proper courts and officers of the Philippine Islands and for the headquarters of military departments in the United States, twelve copies; and to each of the places where district courts of the United States are now holden, including Hawaii, and Porto Rico, one copy. He shall also distribute one complete set of said reports, and one set of the digests thereof, to such executive officers as are entitled to receive said reports under this section and have not already received them, to each United States judge and to each United States district attorney who has not received a set, to each of the places where district courts are now held to which said reports have not been distributed, and to each of the places at which a district court may hereafter be held, the edition of said reports and digests to be selected by the judge or officer receiving them. No distribution of reports and digests under this section shall be made to any place where the court is held in a building not owned by the United States, unless there be at such place a United States officer to whose responsible custody they can be committed. The clerks of said courts (except the supreme court) shall in all cases keep said reports and digest for the use of the courts and of the officers thereof. Such reports and digest shall remain

the property of the United States, and shall be preserved by the officers above named and by them turned over to their successors in office.

See R. S. § 683, 6 Fed. St. Ann. 768; Act of Feb. 12, 1889, c. 135, §§ 1, 2,25 Stat. L. 661, 6 Fed. St. Ann. 769; Act of July 1, 1902, c. 1355, 32 Stat. L. 630, 6 Fed. St. Ann. 770.

§ 228. The publishers of the decisions of the supreme court shall deliver to the attorney general, in addition to the three hundred copies delivered by the reporter, such number of copies of each report heretofore published, as the attorney general may require, for which he shall pay not more than two dollars per volume, and such number of copies of each report hereafter published as he may require, for which he shall pay not more than one dollar and seventy-five cents per volume. The attorney general shall include in his annual estimates submitted to Congress, an estimate for the current volumes of such reports, and also for the additional sets of reports and digests required for distribution under the section last preceding.

§ 229. The attorney general is authorized to procure complete sets of the Federal Reporter or, in his discretion, other publication containing the decisions of the circuit courts of appeals, circuit courts, and district courts, and digests thereof, and also future volumes of the same as issued, and distribute a copy of each such report and digest to each place where a circuit court of appeals, or a district court, is now or may hereafter regularly be held, and to the Supreme Court of the United States, the court of claims, the court of customs appeals, the commerce court, the court of appeals and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the attorney general, the solicitor general, the solicitor of the Treasury, the assistant attorney general for the Department of the Interior, the commissioner of Patents, and the Interstate Commerce Commission; and to

the secretary of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, and to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of the House of Representatives, not more than three sets each. Whenever any such court room, office, or officer shall have a partial or complete set of any such reports, or digests, already purchased or owned by the United States, the attorney general shall distribute to such court room, office or officer, only sufficient volumes to make a complete set thereof. No distribution of reports or digests under this section shall be made to any place where the court is held in a building not owned by the United States, unless there be at such place a United States officer to whose responsible custody they can be committed. The clerks of the courts (except the supreme court) to which the reports and digests are distributed under this section, shall keep such reports and digests for the use of the courts and the officers thereof. All reports and digests distributed under the provisions of this section shall be and remain the property of the United States and, before distribution, shall be plainly marked on their covers with the words "The Property of the United States," and shall be transmitted by the officers receiving them to their successors in office. Not to exceed two dollars per volume shall be paid for the back and current volumes of the Federal Reporter or other publication purchased under the provisions of this section, and not to exceed five dollars per volume for the digest, the said money to be disbursed under the direction of the attorney general; and the attorney general shall include in his annual estimates submitted to Congress, an estimate for the back and current volumes of such reports and digests, the distribution of which is provided for in this section.

§ 230. The supreme court shall hold at the seat of gov ernment, one term annually, commencing on the first

Monday in October, and such adjourned or special terms as it may find necessary for the dispatch of business.

See R. S. § 684, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 692, as amended by Act of Sept. 6, 1916, substituting the first for the second Monday.

§ 231. If, at any session of the supreme court, a quorum does not attend on the day appointed for holding it, the justices who do attend may adjourn the court from day to day for twenty days until after said appointed time, unless there be sooner a quorum. If a quorum does not attend within said twenty days, the business of the court shall be continued over till the next appointed session; and if, during a term, after a quorum has assembled, less than that number attend on any day, the justices attending may adjourn the court from day to day until there is a quorum, or may adjourn without day.

R. S. § 685, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 693.

§ 232. The justices attending at any term, when less than a quorum is present, may, within the twenty days mentioned in the preceding section, make all necessary orders touching any suit, proceeding, or process, depending in or returned to the court, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision thereof.

R. S. § 686, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 693.

§ 233. The supreme court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens, or between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter cases it shall have original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction. And it shall have exclusively all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors or other public ministers, or their domestics or domestic servants, as a court of law can have consistently with the law of nations; and original, but not exclusive, jurisdiction, of all suits brought by ambassadors, or other public ministers, or in which a consul or vice consul is a party. R. S. § 687, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 436.

§ 234. The supreme court shall have power to issue writs of prohibition to the district courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; and writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed under the authority of the United States, or to persons holding office under the authority of the United States, where a state, or an ambassador, or other public minister, or a consul, or vice consul is a party.

R. S. § 688, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 439.

§ 235. The trial of issues of fact in the supreme court, in all actions at law against citizens of the United States, shall be by jury.

R. S. § 689, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 443.

§ 236. The supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction in the cases hereinafter specially provided for. R. S. § 690, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 443.

By Act of Sept. 6, 1916, c. 448, § 6, no review by the Supreme Court is allowed unless applied for within three months after entry of the judgment or decree complained of, 39 Stat. L.

§ 237. A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a state in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any state, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity; or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the Constitution, or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or immunity especially set up or claimed, by either party, under such Constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority, may be reëxamined and reversed or affirmed in the

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