APPENDIX.

I.

ASSIGNMENTS TO CIRCUITS.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

OCTOBER TERM, 1897.

ORDER.

There having been an Associate Justice of this Court appointed since the commencement of this term, it is ordered that the following allotment be made of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of this Court among the Circuits, agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided, and that such allotment be entered of record, viz. :

For the First Circuit, HORACE GRAY, Associate Justice.
For the Second Circuit, RUFUS W. PECKHAM, Associate Justice.
For the Third Circuit, GEORGE SHIRAS, JR., Associate Justice.
For the Fourth Circuit, MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice.
For the Fifth Circuit, EDWARD D. WHITE, Associate Justice.
For the Sixth Circuit, JOHN M. HARLAN, Associate Justice.
For the Seventh Circuit, HENRY B. BROWN, Associate Justice.
For the Eighth Circuit, DAVID J. BREWER, Associate Justice.
For the Ninth Circuit, JOSEPH MCKENNA, Associate Justice.

February 21, 1898.

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II.

COSTS IN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
OCTOBER TERM, 1897.

ORDER.

Ordered, That the table of fees and costs in the Circuit Courts of Appeals, established in pursuance of the act of Congress of February 19, 1897, by order of January 10, 1898, be, and the same is hereby, amended as to the item for "Preparing the record for the printer, indexing the same, supervising the printing and distributing the copies, for each printed page of the record and index, .15," by substituting twenty-five cents in place of fifteen cents, for each printed page, so that said order as amended shall read as follows:

Ordered, In pursuance of the act of Congress of February 19, 1897, 29 Stat. 536, c. 263, that the following table of fees and costs in the Circuit Courts of Appeals be, and the same is hereby, established, to take effect on the first day of March, A.D. 1898, and no other fees and costs than those therein named shall thereafter be charged:

Entering any rule, or making or copying any record or other paper, for each one hundred words

20

Entering a judgment or decree

100

Every search of the records of the court and certifying the

same

100

.

Affixing a certificate and a seal to any paper

100

Receiving, keeping, and paying money, in pursuance of any statute or order of court, one per cent on the amount so received, kept, and paid.

Preparing the record for the printer, indexing the same, supervising the printing and distributing the copies, for each printed page of the record and index

25

Making a manuscript copy of the record, when required by the rules, for each one hundred words (but nothing in addition for supervising the printing)

20

Issuing a writ of error and accompanying papers, or a mandate or other process

5 00

Filing briefs, for each party appearing

5 00

Copy of an opinion of the court, certified under seal, for each printed page (but not to exceed five dollars in the whole

for any copy)

100

Attorney's docket fee

20 00

February 28, 1898.

INDEX.

ABATEMENT.

A suit to compel the Commissioner of Patents to issue a patent abates by
the death of the Commissioner, and cannot be revived so as to bring
in his successor, although the latter gives his consent. The act of
Maryland of 1785, c. 80, is not applicable to such a case. United
States, ex rel. Bernardin v. Butterworth, 600.

CASES AFFIRMED AND FOLLOWED.

See FINDING OF FACTS;
JURISDICTION, Α, 6;
LIMITATION, STATUTES OF.

CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

1. In December, 1894, when the proceedings took place which are ques-
tioned in this case, there were not two judicial districts in the State
of South Carolina, to the territorial limits of each of which the
jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States was confined.
Barrett v. United States, No. 1, 218.

2. The legislation on this subject from the commencement of the Govern-
ment reviewed.

Ib.

CITIZENSHIP.

See CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 15.

CIVIL WAR, ITS EFFECT UPON CONTRACTS.
See MARRIED WOMAN, 2, 3.

CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.

1. The act of March 3, 1891, c. 540, providing for the payment to the city
of Louisville of the amount found under the act of June 16, 1890, c.
424, was in the nature of a judgment, final in its character, and sub-
ject to no appeal, and the duties of the officers of the Government
thereafter charged with the payment of the moneys appropriated by

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