Sec. 7671. Turkish law ceding right to hold immovables. 7672. Provisions of Title extended to Persia. 7673. Provisions of Title extended to Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, Muscat, and Samoan Islands, and other countries with which treaties may be negotiated. 7674. Judicial duties, when to devolve on Secretary of State. 7675. Provisions of Title extended to other countries. 7676. Definition of words "minister" and "consul." 7677. Exportation of war material. 7678. Punishment for violations. 7679. Cuban independence. (I) Restrictions on treaties. (II) Restrictions debt. on public Sec. UNITED STATES COURT FOR 7687. United States court for China; etc. 7688. Consuls to China to exercise limited jurisdiction; appeals to court from consular courts and from consular courts in Korea; administration of estates of decedents. 7689. Appeals from court to circuit court of appeals for ninth circuit, and to Supreme Court. 7690. Jurisdiction of court and of consular courts. 7691. Procedure of court; how modified. 7692. Officers of court; salaries, etc. 7693. Tenure of office of judge and officers of court. 7694. Bond of marshal and clerk; dep- 7695. Fees of officers of court. AMERICAN NATIONAL RED 7697. American National Red Cross re- 7698. Name of corporation; powers. or 7703. Right to repeal or amend act. 7704. Endowment fund of corporation; investment. 7705. Aid of land and naval forces in time of war. 7706. Transportation and subsistence. § 7610. (R. S. § 4062.) Penalty for violating safe-conduct or assaulting public minister. Every person who violates any safe conduct or passport duly obtained and issued under authority of the United States; or who assaults, strikes, wounds, imprisons, or in any other manner offers violence to the person of a public minister, in violation of the law of nations, shall be imprisoned for not more than three years, and fined, at the discretion of the court. Act April 30, 1790, c. 9, § 28, 1 Stat. 118. § 7611. (R. S. § 4063.) Process against ministers and their domestics void. Whenever any writ or process is sued out or prosecuted by any person in any court of the United States, or of a State, or by any COMP.ST.'13-213 (3393) judge or justice, whereby the person of any public minister of any foreign prince or state, authorized and received as such by the President, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such minister, is arrested or imprisoned, or his goods or chattels are distrained, seized, or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed void. Act April 30, 1790, c. 9, § 25, 1 Stat. 117. The Supreme Court was given exclusive jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors, or other public ministers, or their domestics, such as a court of law can have consistently with the law of nations, and original jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors, etc., by the Judicial Code, § 233, ante, § 1210. § 7612. (R. S. § 4064.) Penalty for suing out or executing such process. Whenever any writ or process is sued out in violation of the preceding section, every person by whom the same is obtained or prosecuted, whether as party or as attorney or solicitor, and every officer concerned in executing it, shall be deemed a violator of the laws of nations and a disturber of the public repose, and shall be imprisoned for not more than three years, and fined at the discretion of the court. Act April 30, 1790, c. 9, § 26, 1 Stat. 118. § 7613. (R. S. § 4065.) When process may be issued against persons in service of ministers. The two preceding sections shall not apply to any case where the person against whom the process is issued is a citizen or inhabitant of the United States, in the service of a public minister, and the process is founded upon a debt contracted before he entered upon such service; nor shall the preceding section apply to any case where the person against whom the process is issued is a domestic servant of a public minister, unless the name of the servant has, before the issuing thereof, been registered in the Department of State, and transmitted by the Secretary of State to the marshal of the District of Columbia, who shall upon receipt thereof post the same in some public place in his office. Act April 30, 1790, c. 9, § 27, 1 Stat. 118. .§ 7614. (R. S. § 4066.) Public access to list of names of ministers' servants. All persons shall have resort to the list of names so posted in the marshal's office, and may take copies without fee. Act April 30, 1790, c. 9, § 27, 1 Stat. 118. § 7615. (R. S. § 4067.) Removal of alien enemies. Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed, as alien ene mies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety. Act July 6, 1798, c. 66, § 1, 1 Stat. 577. § 7616. (R. S. § 4068.) Time for removal. When an alien who becomes liable as an enemy, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section, is not chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public safety, he shall be allowed, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of his goods and effects, and for his departure, the full time which is or shall be stipulated by any treaty then in force between the United States and the hostile nation or government of which he is a native citizen, denizen, or subject; and where no such treaty exists, or is in force, the President may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality. Act July 6, 1798, c. 66, § 1, 1 Stat. 577. Act July 6, 1812, c. 130, 2 Stat. 781. § 7617. (R. S. § 4069.) Jurisdiction of United States courts over alien enemies. After any such proclamation has been made, the several courts of the United States, having criminal jurisdiction, and the several justices and judges of the courts of the United States, are authorized, and it shall be their duty, upon complaint against any alien enemy. resident and at large within such jurisdiction or district, to the danger of the public peace or safety, and contrary to the tenor or intent of such proclamation, or other regulations which the President may have established, to cause such alien to be duly apprehended and conveyed before such court, judge, or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint, and sufficient cause appearing, to order such alien to be removed out of the territory of the United States, or to give sureties for his good behavior, or to be otherwise restrained, conformably to the proclamation or regulations established as aforesaid, and to imprison, or otherwise secure such alien, until the order which may be so made shall be performed. Act July 6, 1798, c. 66, § 2, 1 Stat. 577. § 7618. (R. S. § 4070.) Duties of marshal in removing alien enemies. When an alien enemy is required by the President, or by order of any court, judge, or justice, to depart and to be removed, it shall be the duty of the marshal of the district in which he shall be apprehended to provide therefor, and to execute such order in person, or by his deputy, or other discreet person to be employed by him, by causing a removal of such alien out of the territory of the United States; and for such removal the marshal shall have the warrant of the President, or of the court, judge, or justice ordering the same, as the case may be. Act July 6, 1798, c. 66, § 3, 1 Stat. 578. § 7619. (R. S. § 4071.) Taking testimony to be used in foreign countries. The testimony of any witness residing within the United States, to be used in any suit for the recovery of money or property depending in any court in any foreign country with which the United States are at peace, and in which the government of such foreign country shall be a party or shall have an interest, may be obtained, to be used in such suit. If a commission or letters rogatory to take such testimony, together with specific written interrogatories, accompanying the same, and addressed to such witness, shall have been issued from the court in which such suit is pending, on producing the same before the district judge of any district where the witness resides or shall be found, and on due proof being made to such judge that the testimony of any witness is material to the party desiring the same, such judge shall issue a summons to such witness requiring him to appear before the officer or commissioner named in such commission or letters rogatory, to testify in such suit. And no witness shall be compelled to appear or to testify under this section except for the purpose of answering such interrogatories so issued and accompanying such commission or letters: Provided, That when counsel for all the parties attend the examination, they may consent that questions in addition to those accompanying the commission or letters rogatory may be put to the witness, unless the commission or letters rogatory exclude such additional interrogatories. The summons shall specify the time and place at which the witness is required to attend, which place shall be within one hundred miles of the place where the witness resides or shall be served with such summons. Act March 3, 1863, c. 95, § 1, 12 Stat. 769. Act March 3, 1873, c. 245, § 1, 17 Stat. 581. Provisions relating to letters rogatory from United States courts were made by R. S. § 875, as amended by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, ante, § 1486. § 7620. (R. S. § 4072.) Witness need not criminate himself. No witness shall be required, on such examination or any other under letters rogatory, to make any disclosure or discovery which shall tend to criminate him either under the laws of the State or Territory within which such examination is had, or any other, or any foreign state. Act March 3, 1873, c. 245, § 2, 17 Stat. 581. § 7621. (R. S. § 4073.) Punishment of witness for contempt. If any person shall refuse or neglect to appear at the time and place mentioned in the summons issued, in accordance with section forty hundred and seventy-one, or if upon his appearance he shall refuse to testify, he shall be liable to the same penalties as would be Tit. 47) FOREIGN RELATIONS incurred for a like offense on the trial of a suit in the district court of the United States. Act March 3, 1863, c. 95, § 2, 12 Stat. 769. § 7622. (R. S. § 4074.) Fees and mileage of witnesses. Every witness who shall so appear and testify shall be allowed, and shall receive from the party at whose instance he shall have been summoned, the same fees and mileage as are allowed to witnesses in suits depending in the district courts of the United States. Act March 3, 1863, c. 95, § 3, 12 Stat. 769. The fees of witnesses in the United States courts were prescribed by R. S. §§ 848-851, ante, §§ 1452-1456. § 7623. (R. S. § 4075, as amended, Act June 14, 1902, c. 1088, § 1.) Passports, how granted. The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States; and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify any such passport. Where a legation of the United States is established in any country, no person other than the diplomatic representative of the United States at such place shall be permitted to grant or issue any passport, except in the absence therefrom of such representative. Act May 30, 1866, c. 102, 14 Stat. 54. Act June 14, 1902, c. 1088, § 1, 32 Stat. 386. This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, did not contain the clause "and by such chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of Those words were inserted by amendment by Act the United States." June 14, 1902, c. 1088, § 1, last cited above. The fee for issuing passports was fixed at five dollars by Act June 20, 1874, c. 328, § 1, post, § 7626, and the fees so collected were required to be covered into the Treasury. The fee was reduced to one dollar by Act March 23, 1888, c. 34, post, § 7625. The clerk of the Department of State, assigned to the duty of examining applications for passports, was authorized to receive and attest, without charge, all oaths or affidavits required by law or by the rules of the Department to be made before granting passports, by R. S. § 212, ante, § 309. § 7624. (R. S. § 4076, as amended, Act June 14, 1902, c. 1088, § 2.) Passports, to whom to be issued. No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States. Act May 30, 1866, c. 102, 14 Stat. 54. 32 Stat. 386. Act June 14, 1902, c. 1088, § 2, This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was as follows: "No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than citizens of the United States." It was amended to read as set forth here by Act June 14, 1902, c. 1088, 82, last cited above. 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