When it is held at

place where the court is held. more than one place in any district, and the place of keeping the records is not specially provided by law, they shall be kept at either of the places of holding the court which may be designated by the district judge. (Rev. Stats. sec. 562.)

§ 48.--Indices to records. The clerks of several courts of the United States shall prepare and keep in their respective offices complete and convenient indices and cross-indices of the judgment records of said courts, and such indices and records shall at all times be open to the inspection and examination of the public. (25 U. S. Stats. 357.)

CALIFORNIA.The clerks of the circuit and district courts of the present district of California shall retain the records and files of said courts at the city of San Francisco, and do and perform all the duties appertaining to the said offices, respectively, within said northern district, except as hereafter provided; and all process returnable to or proceedings noticed for any term of the present circuit or district court of California shall be deemed returnable to the next term of said courts, respectively, in the said northern district, as fixed by this act. (24 U. S. Stats. 308.)

TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS, ETC.-That either of the clerks of the circuit and district courts for the said northern district of California is hereby authorized, at the request of the district judge of said southern district, and at the cost of the parties requiring the same, to make transcripts of any of the records, files, or papers of the district and circuit

courts of the United States remaining in the office of the clerks of the present district of California, and of all matters or proceedings which relate to or concern liens upon or titles to real estate situated in said southern district; and such transscripts, when so made by either of said clerks, shall be certified to be true and correct by the clerk making the same, and the same, when so made and certified, and filed in the proper court, shall constitute the record in such court, and shall be evidence in all courts and places equally with said originals. (24 U. S. Stats. 308.)

COLORADO.-The records of the district court in the several divisions of the district of Colorado, as declared by the act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to provide for holding terms of the circuit and district courts in the district of Colorado, shall be kept and retained in the clerk's office of the district court of Colorado; and the district court sitting at the places mentioned in this act respectively shall have jurisdiction of actions, civil and criminal, heretofore brought and now pending at any such place. (21 U. S. Stats. 76.)

INDIANA. Each deputy shall keep in his office full records of all actions and proceedings in the district court held at the same place, and shall have the same power to issue all process from the said court that is or may be given to the clerks of other district courts in like cases. (Sec. 559.) Deputy clerks and marshals at Fort Wayne shall keep in their offices such records as appertain to their offices, and said deputy clerk shall keep in his office full records of all actions, proceedings and

judgments in said courts. (21 J. S. Stats. 511.)

MICHIGAN, AT MARQUETTE. The deputy clerk appointed for the circuit and district court held at Marquette shall keep in his office full records of all actions and proceedings in the said circuit and district courts for the northern division of said district held at that place, and shall have the same power to issue all processes from the said courts and perform any other duty that is or may be given to the clerks of other circuit and district courts in like cases. (20 U. S. Stats. 175.)

AT BAY CITY.-All the records, files and papers relating to proceedings had by or before either of said courts when sitting at Bay City, as aforesaid, shall be kept and retained in the office of the clerk of such court at Detroit, in said district, except when actually in use by or before such court, and except when otherwise ordered by such court or a judge thereof. Each of said courts is authorized and required to make all such rules and regulations relative to the summoning of grand and petit jurors to attend upon the sessions of such courts at Bay City, and relative to matters of practice therein, that may from time to time be deemed necessary. (24 U. S. Stats. 423.)

CHAPTER IV.

DISTRICT COURTS-JURISDICTION.

§ 49.

Jurisdiction.

§ 50. Offenses committed in places ceded to United States.

§ 53.

Injury to persons or property, or deprivation of rights under civil-rights acts.

§ 54. Jurisdiction concurrent with court of claims.

§ 55. Mandamus to compel performance of duty by carrier.

§ 59. Jurisdiction in cases transferred from territorial courts.

§ 60. Commissioners to administer oaths to appraisers.

§ 61. Circuit court powers of certain district courts abolished.

§ 49 (563). courts shall have jurisdiction as follows:

Jurisdiction. - The district

First. Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which is not capital, except in the cases mentioned in section fiftyfour hundred and twelve, title "crimes."

Second. Of all cases arising under any act for the punishment of piracy, when no circuit court is held in the district of such court.

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

Fourth. Of all suits at common law brought by the United States, or by any officer thereof, authorized by law to sue.

Fifth. Of all suits in equity to enforce the lien of the United States upon any real estate for any internal revenue tax, or to subject to the payment of any such tax any real estate owned by the delinquent, or in which he has any right, title or in

terest.

Sixth. Of all suits for the recovery of any forfeiture or damages under section thirty-four hundred and ninety, title, "Debts due by or to the United States"; and such suits may be tried and determined by any district court within whose jurisdictional limits the defendant may be found.

Seventh. Of all causes of actions arising under the postal laws of the United States.

Eighth. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it; and of all seizures on land and on waters not with admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. And such jurisdiction shall be exclusive, except in the particular cases where jurisdiction of such causes and seizures is given to the circuit courts, and shall have original and exclusive cognizance of all prizes brought into the United States, except as provided in paragraph six of section six hundred and twenty-nine.

Ninth. Of all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize, in pursuance of section fifty-three hundred and eight, title, "Insurrection."

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 debenture was originally granted, or