Chapter 1337. Amending the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.” June 30, 1902.[[Public, No. 214](/us/pl/5
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CHAP. 1337.— An Act Amending the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.” June 30, 1902.[[Public, No. 214](/us/pl/57/214).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section four of the Act, Spanish Claims Commission. entitled “An Act to carry into effect the stipulations of article seven of the treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded on the 550 Vol. 31, p. 878, amended. tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following provisions:
" Rules of procedure. “Such rules and mode of procedure shall conform, so far as practicable, to the mode of procedure and practice of the circuit courts of Powers of Commission. the United States. The said Commission created by this Act is vested with the same powers now possessed by the circuit and district courts of the United States to compel the attendance and testimony of parties, claimants and witnesses, to preserve order, and to punish for contempt, and to compel the production of any books or papers deemed material to the consideration of any claim or matter pending before said Commission.
Testimony in foreign countries. “That the said Commission is also vested with all the powers now possessed by the circuit and district courts of the United States to take or procure testimony in foreign countries. Such testimony may be taken, pursuant to the provisions of existing laws and the rules and practice of the district and circuit courts of the United States, so far as applicable, before the Commission or any Commissioner or Commissioners appointed under the provisions of this Act.
Duties of marshal, etc., District of Columbia.Execution of writs outside of District of Columbia. “That the marshal of the United States for the District of Columbia, or his deputies, shall serve all processes issued by said Commission, preserve order in the place of sitting, and execute the orders of said Commission; and outside of the District of Columbia the writs of said Commission shall be executed by United States marshals, or their deputies, in their respective districts.
Appointment of officer to serve process, etc. “That said Commission or any Commissioner appointed by it to take testimony in foreign countries is hereby authorized to appoint an officer to serve any subpoena or process issued by said Commission or Commissioner. Witnesses. “When testimony is to be taken before any Commissioner appointed by said Commission within any district or territory, the clerk of any court of the United States for such district or territory shall, on application of either party, or of his agent, issue a subpoena for such witness, commanding him to appear and testify before the Commissioner Refusal to appear, etc. at a time and place stated in the subpoena; and if any witness, after being duly served with such subpoena, refuses or neglects to appear, or after appearing refuses to testify, not being privileged from giving testimony, and such refusal or neglect is proven to the satisfaction of any judge of the court whose clerk issues the subpoena, such judge Punishment. may proceed to enforce obedience to the process, or punish the disobedience, as any court of the United States may proceed in case of disobedience to process of subpoena to testify issued by such court;
Production of documents. and the production before such Commissioner of any paper or writing, written instrument, book, or other document, may also be required in [R. S., sec. 869, p. 165](/us/rs/s869/p165). the manner prescribed in section eight hundred and sixty-nine of Revised Statutes of the United States.” " Approved, June 30, 1902.