Public Law 74–757

That section 1 of

United States Court for China.

Vol. 34, p. 814.

U. S. C., p. 958.

the Act entitled “An Act creating a United States Court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof”, approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 814; U. S. C., title 22, sec. 191), be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

“That a court is hereby established, to be called the United States

Jurisdiction of, extended to offenses committed on high seas.

Court for China, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases and judicial proceedings whereof jurisdiction may now be exercised by United States consuls and ministers by law and by virtue of treaties between the United States and China except insofar as the said jurisdiction is qualified by section 2 of this Act; and to¹ concurrent jurisdiction of all offenses committed on the high seas in cases in which the person or persons charged with such offenses shall be found in or be brought first into China. The said court shall hold sessions at

Sessions of court.

Shanghai, China, and shall also hold sessions at the cities of Canton, Tientsin, and Hankau at stated periods, the dates of such sessions at each city to be announced in such manner as the court shall direct, and a session of the court shall be held in each of these cities at least once annually. It shall be within the power of the judge, upon due notice to the parties in litigation, to open and hold court for the hearing of a special cause at any place permitted by the treaties, and where there is a United States consulate, when, in his judgment, it shall be required by the convenience of witnesses, or by some public interest. The place of sitting of the court shall be in the United States consulate at each of the cities, respectively.

“That the seal of the said United States Court for China shall

Court seal.

be the arms of the United States, engraved on a circular piece of steel of the size of a half dollar, with these words on the margin, ‘The Seal of the United States Court for China.’

“The seal of said court shall be provided at the expense of the United States.

“All writs and processes issuing from the said court and all transscripts

Use of, in authentications.

¹¹ So in original., records, copies, jurats, acknowledgments, and other papers requiring certification or to be under seal may be authenticated by said seal, and shall be signed by the clerk of said court. All processes issued from the said court shall bear test from the day of such issue.”