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of the Act entitled 'An Act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes,'

approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and all other Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,

are hereby repealed,

but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof em braced in this Act shall not affect any act done,

or any right accruing or accrued,

or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil

cause

before the said repeal or modifications;

but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner,

except as otherwise provided in this Act,

as if said repeal or modifications had not been made Any offenses committed, and

all penalties or forfeitures or liabilities incurred prior to the passage of this Act

under any statute embraced in or changed, modified, or repealed by this Act

may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed.

All acts of limitation,

whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings

or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties

or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this Act,

shall not be affected thereby; and

all suits, proceedings, or prosecutions,

whether civil or criminal,

for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the passage of this Act,

may be commenced and prosecuted,

except as otherwise provided in this Act,

within the same time and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed:

And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the provisions of section three thousand and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes

as amended by the Act approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in respect to

the abandonment of merchandise to underwriters or the salvors of property, and the ascertainment of duties thereon.

"SEC. 29. That a United States Court of Customs Appeals is hereby created, and

said court shall consist of a presiding judge and four associate judges

appointed by the President,

by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

each of whom shall receive a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum.

It shall be a court of record,

with jurisdiction as hereinafter established and limited.

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Said court shall prescribe the form and style of its seal and the form of its writs and other process and procedure and exercise such powers conferred by law as may be conformable and necessary to the exercise of its jurisdiction.

It shall have the services of a marshal, with the same duties and powers,

under the regulations of the court,

as are now provided for the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States,

so far as the same may be applicable.

Said services within the District of Columbia shall be performed by a marshal

at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum,

to be appointed by and hold office during the pleasure of said court;

said services outside the District of Columbia to be performed by the United States marshals in and for the districts where sessions of said court may be held, and

to this end said marshals shall be the marshals of said Court of Customs Appeals.

The court shall appoint a clerk,

whose office shall be in the city of Washington, District of Columbia,

and who shall perform and exercise the same duties and powers

in regard to all matters within the jurisdiction of said court

as are now exercised and performed by the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States,

so far as the same may be applicable.

The salary of the clerk shall be four thousand dollars per annum,

which sum shall be in full payment for all service rendered by such clerk, and

all fees of any kind whatever, and all costs shall be by him turned into the United States Treasury.

Said clerk shall not be appointed by the court or any judge thereof

as a commissioner, master, receiver, or referee.

The costs and fees in the said court shall be fixed and established by said court

in a table of fees to be adopted and approved

by the Supreme Court of the United States

within four months after the organization of said court: Provided, That the costs and fees so fixed shall not, with respect to any item, exceed the costs and fees charged in the Supreme Court of the United States; and

the same shall be expended, accounted for, and paid over to the Treasury of the United States.

The court shall have power to establish all rules and regulations for the conduct of the business of the court

and as may be needful for the uniformity of decisions within its jurisdiction as conferred by law.

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The said Court of Customs Appeals shall always be open for the transaction of business,

and sessions thereof may, in the discretion of the court, be held by the said court,

in the several judicial circuits, and

at such places as said court may from time to time designate.

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'The presiding judge of said court shall be so designated

in order of appointment and in the commission issued him by the President, and

the associate judges shall have precedence according to the date of their commissions.

Any three of the members of said court shall constitute a quorum, and

the concurrence of three members of said court shall be necessary to any decision thereof.

"The said court shall organize and open for the transaction of business,

in the city of Washington, District of Columbia,

within ninety days after the judges, or a majority of them, shall have qualified.

"After the organization of said court no appeal shall be taken or allowed from any Board of United States General Appraisers to any other court, and

no appellate jurisdiction shall thereafter be exercised or allowed by any other courts in cases decided by said Board of United States General Appraisers;

but all appeals allowed by law from such Board of General Appraisers shall be subject to review only in the Court of Customs Appeals hereby established, according to the provisions of this Act:

Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be deemed to deprive the Supreme Court of the United States of jurisdiction to hear and determine all customs cases which have heretofore been certified to said court from the United States circuit courts of appeals

on applications for writs of certiorari or otherwise,

nor to review by writ of certiorari any customs case heretofore decided

or now pending and hereafter decided by any circuit court of appeals,

provided application for said writ be made within six months after the passage of this Act:

And provided further, That all customs cases heretofore decided by a circuit or district court of the United States or a court of a Territory of the United States and

which have not been removed from said courts by appeal or writ of error, and

all such cases heretofore submitted for decision in said courts and remaining undecided

may be reviewed on appeal

at the instance of either party

by the United States Court of Customs Appeals,

provided such appeal be taken within one year from the date of the entry of the order, judgment or decree sought to be reviewed.

"The Court of Customs Appeals established by this Act shall exercise exclusive appellate jurisdiction to review by appeal, as provided by this Act,

final decisions by a Board of General Appraisers in all cases

as to the construction of the law and the facts

respecting the classification of merchandise and the rate of duty imposed thereon under such classification, and

the fees and charges connected therewith, and

all appealable questions as to the jurisdiction of said board, and all appealable questions as to the laws and regulations governing the collection of the customs revenues; and

the judgment or decrees of said Court of Customs Appeals shall be final in all such cases.

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'Any judge who, in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, shall attend a session of the Court of Customs Appeals held at any place other than the city of Washington, District of Columbia,

shall be paid,

upon his written and itemized certificate,

by the marshal of the district in which the court shall be beld,

his actual and necessary expenses incurred for travel and attendance, and

the actual and necessary expenses of

one stenographic clerk who may accompany him, and

such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the statement of his accounts with the United States.

"The marshal of said court for the District of Columbia and the marshals of the several districts in which said Court of Customs Appeals may be held

shall, under the direction of the Attorney-General of the United States and with his approval,

provide such rooms in the public buildings of the United States as may be necessary for said court:

Provided, however, That in case proper rooms can not be provided in such buildings,

then the said marshals, with the approval of the AttorneyGeneral of the United States,

may, from time to time, lease such rooms as may be necessary for said court.

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