74Tx CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHS . 756, 757. JUNE 24, 1936 .
19 09 SEC . 6 . The said Secretary is also authorized to enter into a con- Orl and Unit Waters Users' Association . tract with the Orland Unit Waters Users ' Association, a corporation Modification of co n- organized under the laws of California, modifying said corpora- tract authorized. tion's contract of April 3, 1909, with the United States, if and so far as in the opinion of the said Secretary modification of said con- tract is requisite by reason of the execution of agreements between the United States and the individual stockholders of said corporation as authorized herein . SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Administrative pro- perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as visi ons * may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect . Approved, June 24, 1936 . [CHAPTER 757 .] AN ACT
June 24, 1936 . To extend the jurisdiction of the United States Court for China to offenses [H.R.12257.] committed on the hi gh seas.
[Public, No. 787 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in. Congress assembled, That section 1 of fo Unit a states court the Act entitled "An Act creating a United States Court for China Vol. 34, p. 814. and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof", approved June 30, 1906 v .S.C.,p.958. (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 tended to
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tended to offenses wm - C o u r t - Court for China, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases mitted on high seas. and judicial proceed ings whe reof jur isdictio n may no w be exe rcised by United States consuls and ministers by law and by virtue of tr eaties b etween t he Unite d States and Chi na excep t insofa r as the said jurisdiction is qualified by section 2 of this Act
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curr ent juri sdiction of all offenses committ ed on th e high s eas in cases in which the person or persons charged with such of fenses shall be found in or be brought first into China . The said court shall sessions of court . hold sessions at Shanghai . China, and shall also hold sessions at the cities o f Canton, Tients in, and Hankau a t stated periods, the dates of such sessions at each city to be announced in such man- ner as the court sha ll direct, an d a session of the court sh all 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 con- venience 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 .
Court seal. "That the seal of the said United States Court for China shall 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 Se al of the United States Court for China .' "The seal of said court shall be provided at the expense of the Un ited Sta tes . "All writs and processes issuing from the said court and all trans- Use of, in authentica- scripts 1, records, copies, jurats, acknowledgments, and other papers tions' 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 . " Approved, June 24, 1936 . 1 So in original .
