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 436 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 866. 1888. interest and costs, the sum or value being made to appear, one or more of the plaintids or defendants, before the trial, may state to the court, an make aiiidavit if the court require it, that he or they claim and shall rely upon a right or title to the land under a grant from a State, and produce the original grant, or an exeinpliiication of it, except where the loss of public records shall put it out of his or their power, and shall move that any one or more of the adverse party inform the court whether he or they claim a right or title to the land under a grant from some other State, the party or parties so re uired shall give such information, or otherwise not be allowed to plead such grant or give it in evidence upon the trial; and if he or they inform that he or they do claim under such grant, any one or more of the party moving for such information may then, on petition and bond, as hereinbefore mentioned in this act, remove the cause for trial to the circuit court of the United States next to be holden in such district; and any one of either party removing the cause shall not be allowed to plead or give evidence of any other title than that by him or them staged as laforesaid as the ground of his or their claim." R¤¤¤Tv¤¤¤>¤¤4¤¤·°<¢ Sec. 2. nat W enever in any cause pending in any court of the Eigddywacwming w United States there shall be a receiver or manager in possession of any property, such receiver or manager shall manage and operate such property according to the requirements of the valid laws of the State in which such property shall be situated, in the same manner that the owner or possessor thereof would be bound to do if in os- ,_{_?•:*¤¤¤¤¤¤° *0***** session thereof. Any receiver or manager who shall willfully violate ' the provisions of this section shall be deemed uilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punishedg by a hue not exceeding three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. _L$¤**·¤ ¤8**¤*°*°°¤**· Sec. 3. That every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carr_ying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of 'ustice. &1:¤;g¤e‘ez;u;>ggt';g Sno,  That all national banking associations established under sui; ci the laws of the United States shall, or the purposes of all actions by or against them, real, personal, or mixed, and all suits in equity, be deemed citizens of the States in which they are res ctively located; and in such cases the circuit and district courts shalll not have jurisdiction other than such as they would have in cases between individual citizens of the same State. N$_¤3:rv¤ym;¤;¤¤ The provisions of this section shall not be held to affect the jm-is. " m°m°diction of the courts of the United States in cases commenced by the United States or by direction of any officer thereof, or cases for winding up the affairs of any such ban . uw} Sec. 5. That nothing in tins act shall be held, deemed, or construed in s,, secs? Mlm. to repeal or affect any ]lII‘lSd1Ct10D or right mentioned either in see- Qg ‘.}1{gl,}’£; {Q; tions six hundred an forty·0ne, or in six hundred and forty-two, or Mg I m 4,,, in six hundred and forty-three. or in seven hundred and twenty-two, vgiZ1sZii'.s:}IsZ or in title twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or mentioned in section eight of the act of Congress of which this act is an amendment. or in the act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-tive, entitled "An act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.” ¤¤¤>¤¤i¤¤¤¤·*¤¤¤· Sec. 6. That the last paragraph of section five of the act of Con- ’°iti.’is,p.4¤~z. gress approved March t ird, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, en- ‘$~’°° °‘“’· titled "An act to determine the jurisdiction of circuit courts of the United States and to regulate the removal of causes from State courts, and for other purposes," and section six hundred and forty of the