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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 646-JUNE 25, 1948 when the impress of the seal is necessary to its authentication. In such case the signature shall be- , Clerk, By , Deputy Clerk." SEc. 16. The opening paragraph of section 1108 of the Act ap- proved March 3, 1901 (chapter 854, 31 Stat. 1363; D. C. Code, 1940 ed., section 11-1501) is amended by striking out the word "commis- sioners" appearing therein and by also striking out the comma imme- diately following such word. SEc. 17. Section 2 of the Act approved February 11, 1903 (chapter 544,32 Stat. 823; 15 U. S. C ., sec. 29,49 U. S . C ., sec. 45), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEc. 2 . In every civil action brought in any district court of the United States under any of said Acts, wherein the United States is complainant, an appeal from the final judgment of the district court will lie only to the Supreme Court." . SEo. 18. The second sentence of the second paragraph of section 6 of the Act approved April 22, 1908 (chapter 149, 35 Stat. 65, 66; 45 U. S . C., section 56), as added by the Act approved April 5, 1910 (chapter 143, section 1,36 Stat. 291), is amended to read as follows: "The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under this Act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States.". SE. 19. The final sentence of section 1 of the Act approved June 19 1912 (chapter 174, 37 Stat. 137; 40 U. S . C., section 324) is amended to read as follows: "Any contractor or subcontractor aggrieved by thf withholding of any penalty as hereinbefore provided shall have the right within six months thereafter to appeal to the head of the department mak- ing the contract on behalf of the United States or the Territory, and in the case of a contract made by the District of Columbia to the Commissioners thereof, who shall have power to review the action imposing the penalty, and in all such appeals from such final order whereby a contractor or subcontractor may be aggrieved by the imposi- tion of the penalty hereinbefore provided, such contractor or subcon- tractor may, within six months after decision by such head of a department or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, file a claim in the Court of Claims." . SEC. 20. Section 41 of the Act approved March 2 1917 (chapter 145, 39 Stat. 965; 48 U. S. C., section 863), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 41 . The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico shall, in addition to its other jurisdiction, have jurisdiction for the naturalization of aliens and Puerto Ricans, and, for this purpose, residence in Puerto Rico shall be counted in the same manner as residence elsewhere in the United States. Said district court shall have jurisdiction of all controversies where all of the parties on either side of the controversy are citizens or subjects of a foreign State or States, or citizens of a State, Territory, or District of the United States not domiciled in Puerto Rico, wherein the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest or cost, the sum or value of $3,000, and of all controversies in which there is a separable controversy involving such jurisdictional amount and in which all of the parties on either side of such separable controversy are citizens or subjects of the char- acter aforesaid. The salaries of the judge and officials of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, together with the court expenses, shall be paid from the United States revenues in the same manner as in other United States district courts. In case of vacancy or of the death, absence, or other legal disability on the part of the judge of the said United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, the President of the United States is authorized to 989 Compensation of court officers, D. C. Appeal from judg- ment of district court. Concurrent juris- diction. Appeal by contrac- tors or subcontractors. U. S. District Court for Puerto Rico.

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