THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA
(Chapter 3934, Prescribing the Jurisdiction of the Court.)
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of America in Congress Assembled, That a Court is hereby established, to b the United States Court for China, which shall have exclusive jurisdictic cases and judicial proceedings whereof jurisdiction may now be exercised by States Consuls and Ministers by law and by virtue of treaties between the States and China, except in so far as the said jurisdiction is qualified by sect of this Act. The said Court shall hold sessions at Shanghai, China, and sh hold sessions at the cities of Canton, Tientsin, and Hankow at stated peri dates of such sessions at each city to be announced in such manner as the Cou direct, and a session of the Court shall be held in each of these cities at lea annually. It shall be within the power of the judge, upon due notice to the in litigation, to open and hold Court for the hearing of a special cause at an permitted by the treaties, and where there is a United States Consulate, w his judgment, it shall be required by the convenience of witnesses, or by som interest. The place of sitting of the Court shall be in the United States Co at each of the cities, respectively.
That the seal of the said United States Court for China shall be the a the United States, engraved on a circular piece of steel of the size of a half with these words on the margin, "The Seal of the United States Court for C
The seal of said Court shall be provided at the expense of the United St All writs and processes issuing from the said Court, aud all transcripts, copies, jurats, acknowledgments, and other papers requiring certification c under seal, may be authenticated by said seal, and shall be signed by the said Court. All processes issued from the said Court shall bear test from the
such issue.
Sec. 2.-The Consuls of the United States in the cities of China to whi are respectively accredited shall have the same jurisdiction as they now po civil cases where the sum or value of the property involved in the controver not exceed five hundred dollars United States money, and in criminal cases w punishment for the offence charged can not exceed by law one hundred doll or sixty days' impri-onment, or both, and shall have power to arrest, exami discharge accused persons or commit them to the said Court. From all fina ments of the Consular Court either party shall have the right of appeal to the States Court for China: Provided, Also, That appeal may be taken to the States Court for China from any final judgment of the Consular Courts of the States in Korea so long as the rights of extra-territoriality shall obtain in fa the United States. The said United States Court for China shall have and supervisory control over the discharge by Consuls and Vice-Consuls of th prescribed by the laws of the United States relating to the estates of decei China. Within sixty days after the death in China of any citizen of the States, or any citizen of any territory belonging to the United States, the C Vice-Consul whose duty it becomes to take possession of the effects of such c person under the laws of the United States shall file with the clerk of said ' sworn inventory of such effects, and shall as additional effects come from time into his possession, immediately file a supplemental inventory or invent