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 I 552 FORTYNINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 372, 373. 1887. proper to facilitate the execution of this act and secure the most speedy and least expensive attainment of the purpose hereof that is practicable. . Laods_not ro- Sec. 4. That if, at the expirations of the time hereinbefore allowed "°*;_§°‘*,:,¤ ° YW for redemption, there shall remain any of said lands unredeemcd it shall t° °°then be the duty of the said Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury to proceed to sell at public auction as soon as may be consistent with the public interests, the lands not redeemed and restored and to release and convey the same to the purchasers in the manner aforesaid. Disposition of Sec. 5. That all money derived from the redemption and sale of the P*°°°°d¤· said school-farm-lands shall be invested in United States bonds, for the use and support of free public schools in the parishes of Saint Luke and Saint Helena, South Carolina under the provisions of section six, act of Vol. 17, p. 600. June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two as amended by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. School-build- Sec. 6. That wherever on said school farm there are buildings which i¤8¤· °*°·» •¤¤¤¤9P¤ have been erected by the State or United States for school purposes, ' land surrounding the same, shall be excepted from redemption or sale under the provisions of this act, and shall forever remain devoted to school purposes. Sm:. 7. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1887. CBAP.3 — ac amend the act of on ss a ue een huudredqgid rtgendytfive, entitled “An ac? toglbierniiddtheéiuiisdidltiblnlblizciibdit courts of the United States and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, and for other purposes and to further regulate the jurisdiction of circuit courts of the UnitedStates, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativesqf the United Removalofcausec States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of an act f¤>¤¤ Sme ¢<>¤¤¤» entitled •*Au act to determine the jurisdiction of circuit courts of the °*‘§;0, ,8 ,,0 United States, and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, ,,m.,¤fiw,’ p' ’ and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and, seventy-tive, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as fol~ ~ lows: “That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original Ci¤=¤i¢ ¤¤¤r¢¤ te oognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits. Pujig of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dis. {H me ,,0,,,,,, in pute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of twos o its of $2,000 thousand dollars, and arising under the constitution or laws of the V¤l¤¤é U _ d United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their 8 :: Cczgxm authority, or in which controversary the United States are plsintiifsl tion, lswatroaues. or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversary between cit- Parties. izeus of different States, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid, or a controversary between citizens of the same State, claiming lands under grants of diiierent States, or a controversary between citizens of a State and foreign states, citizens, or subjects, in which the matter in dispute ex— _ _ ceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid, and B¤•¢¤<=¤¤¤¤- shall have exclusive coguizance of all crimes and oiienses cognizableunder the authority of the United States, except as otherwise provided by law, and concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of the crimes and offenses cognizable by them. But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another in any civil action betbre a circuit ordistrict court; and no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process of proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant; but where the jurisdiction is rounded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of diiierent States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the:
 * ’,;"B8,:°“°"P*‘°" and are now used for such purposes, said buildings, with two acres ot'