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THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA

for said clerk. The judge of the said Court and the district attorney shal sessions of the Court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in ‹ their salaries their necessary expenses during such sessions not to exceed per day for the judge and five dollars per day for the district attorney.

Sec. 7-The tenure of office of the judge of said Court shall be ten ye sooner removed by the President for cause; the tenure of office of the oth of the Court shall be at the pleasure of the President.

Sec. 8. The marshal and the clerk of said Court shall be required bond for the faithful performance of their duties, in sums and with sur fixed and approved by the judge of the Court. They shall each appoint written app.oval of said judge, deputies at Canton and Tientsin, who sha required to furnish bonds for the faithful performance of their duties, wl shall be subject, both as to form and sufficiency of the sureties, to the a the said judge. Such deputies shall receive compensation at the rate of 1 for each day the sessions of the Court are held at their respective cities. of marshal in China now existing in pursuance of section forty-one hu eleven of the Revised Statutes is hereby abolished.

Sec. 9--The tariff of fees of said officers of the Court shall be the si tariff already fixed for the Consular Courts in China, subject to amend: time to time by order of the President, and all fees taxed and received sh into the Treasury of the United States.

Approved, June 30, 1906.

SIXTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. 1909. CHAP.

Extract.

The judicial authority and jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases now and reserved to the Consul-General of the United States at Shanghai, Chi Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act creating States Court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof," shall, s to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, be vested in and exercised 1 Consul-General of the United States to be designated from time to ti Secretary of State, and the Consul-General at Shanghai sball thereafter b of his judicial functions.