Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States

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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, 1891 - Justice, Administration of

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Page xix - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant...
Page 253 - No person who holds an office, the salary or annual compensation attached to which amounts to the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, shall receive compensation for discharging the duties of any other office, unless expressly authorized by law.
Page 251 - An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the government of the United States.
Page 251 - SEC. 2. That the District Courts of the United States shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Claims as to all matters named in the preceding section where the amount of the claim does not exceed one thousand dollars, and the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have such concurrent jurisdiction in all cases where the amount of such claim exceeds one thousand dollars and does not exceed ten thousand dollars. All causes brought and tried under the provisions of this act shall be...
Page vi - The bailiffs and messengers of said court shall be allowed the same compensation for their respective services as are allowed for similar services in the existing circuit courts...
Page 253 - No person who holds an office the salary or annual compensation attached to which amounts to the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars shall be appointed to or hold any other office to which compensation is attached unless specially heretofore or hereafter specially authorized thereto by law...
Page ix - These papers are docketed under six headings as follows: 1. Suits on transcripts of accounts of defaulting public officers, excepting those of the Post-Office Department, adjusted by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. 2. Post-office suits, embracing those against officers of the Post-Office Department, and cases of fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violation of postal laws. 3. Suits on custom-house bonds. 4. Suits for recovery of fines, penalties, and forfeitures under the customs-revenue...
Page 177 - Post-office suits, embracing those against officers of the Post-Office Department, and cases of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, for violation of the postal laws. 4. Suits for the recovery of fines, penalties, and forfeitures uuder the customs revenue and navigation laws.
Page 206 - ... paid into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia (Act of June 26, 1912, 37 Stat.
Page 254 - States, United States marshal, or United States district attorney, shall reside permanently in the district where his official duties are to be performed, and shall give his personal attention thereto; and in case any such officer shall remove from his district, or shall fail to give personal attention to the duties of his office, except in case of sickness, such office shall be deemed vacant: Provided, That in the southern district of New York said officers may reside within twenty miles of their...

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