Chapter 812. To amend an Act entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, and to increase the salary of the commissioner of education provided for by said Act
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CHAP. 812.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,” approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, and to increase the salary of the commissioner of education provided for by said Act. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the salary of the commissionerPorto Rico.Salary of commissioner of education. of education for Porto Rico shall, from and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, be four thousand dollars per annum, and in addition to the duties provided by section thirty-six of the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, the executive council shall, from time to time, determine the salaries of all officials and assistants,—employees district court.*Ante*, p. 85. appointed by the United States district court, including the clerk and the interpreter, which shall be paid out of the revenues of Porto Rico as other salaries and expenses of like character are paid under the provisions of said Act.
Sec. 2. That such fees and expenses as are payable by the UnitedDistrict court expenses payable from Porto Rican revenues, etc. States, if earned or incurred in connection with a circuit or district court of the United States, shall be paid from the revenues of Porto Rico, if earned or incurred in connection with the district court of the United States for Porto Rico. That all such fees, fines, costs, and—disposition of fees earned. forfeitures as would be deposited to the credit of the United States, if collected and paid into a circuit or district court of the United States, shall become revenues of Porto Rico, if collected and paid into the district court of the United States for Porto Rico.
The commissionersFees United States commissioners. appointed, as provided in section thirty-four of said Act approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, shall be entitled to the fees provided for United States commissioners: *Provided,* That payments*Proviso*.Payments of United States district marshal allowed. of fees and expenses, heretofore made in good faith by the United States district marshal, either from funds advanced to him by the United States or by Porto Rico, may be allowed by the accounting officers of the United States or the accounting officers of Porto Rico, as the ease may be, in the settlement of his accounts.
Sec. 3. That the jurisdiction of the district court of the UnitedJurisdiction of district court extended. States for Porto Rico in civil eases shall, in addition to that conferred by the Act of April twelfth, nineteen hundred, extend to and embrace controversies where the parties, or either of them, are citizens of the United States, or citizens or subjects of a foreign State or States, wherein the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest or costs, the sum or value of one thousand dollars. 954 Sec. 4.
Jurors’ and witnesses’ mileage. That jurors and witnesses in the United States district court of Porto Rico shall be entitled to and receive fifteen cents for each mile necessarily traveled over any stage line or by private conveyance and ten cents for each mile over any railway in going to and returning *Proviso*.No double mileage fees.from said courts: *Provided*, That no constructive or double mileage fees shall be allowed by reason of any person being summoned both as witness and juror, or as witness in two or more eases pending in the same court and triable at the same term thereof.
Approved, March 2, 1901.