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 FlFTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. CHS. 811,812. 1901. 953 any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following persons the following amounts, being the sums, respectively, found by the Court of Claims as the difference between the postage at thirdclass rates, which they were reguired to pay and did pay on newspapers published by them, respective y, during the years eighteen hun red and ninety- ree and eig teen hundred andninety-four, and the postage at second-class rates with which such papers were legally chargeable, as follows: To the Modern Woodmen of America, publisher of the ‘*‘°V°°“· Modern Woodman, of Springfield, Illinois, five thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; to David I. Lillard, publisher of The Anchor and Shield, of Paris, Illinois, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and nine cents; to Frank G. Simmons, publisher of the Nebraska Workman, of Seward, Nebraska, one thousand and ninety dollars and ninety-one cents, all as found and set forth b the Court of Claims in its findings of fact in House Documents Niimbered Five hundred and ninet ,,Two hundred and ninety-four, and Five hundred and ninety-two, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session. Approved, March 2, 1901. CHAP. 812.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act temporarily to provide March 2.1901- revenues and a_civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes/’ approved WW" (April twelfth, nineteen hundred, and to increase the salary of the commissioner of ucation provided for by said Act. t Be it enacted by the Senate and Housipzfft esentatives 0 f the United States of America in Congress assembl, T% the salary of the com- rom mee. _ missioner of education for Porto Rico shall, from and after the first ,,,§§§“;’§,e‘§u§§§,§{* day of April, nineteen hundred and one, be four thousand dollars per annum, and in addition to the duties provided by section thirty-six of the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, the executive council shall, from time to time, determine the salaries of all officials and assistants —emp1oyees unmet appointed by the United States district court, including the clerk and ”°§ff;€, p_ 85_ t e interpreter, which shall be paid out of the revenues of Porto Rico as other salaries and expenses of like character are paid under the prgvisionsrplf said Alct. d. bl h U d nc. 2. at suc fees an expenses as are paya e by the nite Dimici com ex- States, if earned or incurred in connection with a circuit or district fgiiviisnitiiiiiégeiweii court of the Unit€d States, shall be paid from the revenues of Porto °'”· Rico, if earned or incurred in connection with the district court of the United States for Porto Rico. V That all such fees, fines, costs, and -¤1ap0sm¤¤ of sas forfeitures as would be deposited to the credit of the United States, °°m°d‘ ‘ ‘if collected and paid into a circuit or district court of the United States, shall become revenues of Porto Rico, if collected and paid mto the district court of the United States for Porto Rico. The com-  Sims missioners appointed, as provided in Section thirty-four of said Act' ` approved A ril twelfth, nineteen hundred, shall be entitled to the fees provideg for United States commissioners: Provided, That pay- {,“g';"m{·*g;m of Umm ments of fees and expenses, heretofore made in ood faith by the Sgnwsgiwnctmamhul United States district marshal, either from funds advanced to him by ° °W° ' the United States or b Porto Rico, may be allowed by the accounting officers of the United States or the accounting officers of Porto Rico, as the case may be, in the settlement of his accounts. _ _ _ _ Sec. 3. That the jurisdiction of the district court of the United mrL‘§‘g§,‘§,‘§,‘{,°,§,$,{,,§§f‘ States for Porto Rico in civil cases shall, in addition to that conferred by the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, extend to and embrace controversies where the parties, or either of them, are citizens of the United States, or citizens or subjects of a foreign State or States, wherein the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest or costs, the sum or value of one thousand dollars.