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1310 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Crrs. 124, 125. 1921. mmmung wl? ° employees of the Minimum W e Board, the community center iig(i$is¢ii¤i’r¤v¤1¤i¤l§¤il de;i)a.rii7ment, and the playground? department, which shall be paid wholly out of the revenue of the District of Columbia. _ “sTg§,S,f,‘;*,{},d§u§,‘§;£*°Y‘ So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to persons empgoyed under ·trust funds who may be construed to be emiployees of the Government of the United States or of the District o Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds. 5Ig°*g§}jr•* I{,•j,1;1°*,_,fS 'gg Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next ami year. regular session showing for the first fou.r months of the fiscal year the average number ofemployees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per and the average number by grades receiving the same at eac other rate. g;¤1i%<;·m to M Sno: 7. That consideration of an ordinance passed_by the City smapmpom. ’ Council of the city of Chicago on February 4, 1921, giving to the United States the use and maintenance for twenty years from July 1, 1921, of certain premises in the city of Chicago for barge office quarters, upon terms and conditions therein set orth and payment to the United States of the ap raised value of the land to be condemned, such value to be not less than $25.50 per square foot, the citydof Chicago is hereby arguhorized to gcaluirpl for gsréaet purposesiiby con emnation roceedmis interest o e United States in an to lot ten in bloch two in ort Dearborn addition to Chicago, section. ten, township thirty—r1ine north, range fourteen east of the third principal meridian, m the city of Chicago, m the State of Illinois. Approved, March 3, 1921. g1“f°Ilfi§0},.,g€i 125.-An Act To enlarge the jurisdiction of the Municipa1_Cour·t of the

 Drsmct of Columbia, and to regulate appeals from the judgments o said court, and

iurother purposes. _ _ Be it enacted the Senate and House 0 Re esentatives o the §‘,§,,“§'p§{€§lm°¥}°‘°‘ United States ii; yrnerica in Congress asse·n•];`£·d, {hat the Munihipal ¤_§l¤g;=g,¤;{, cgS¤g¤<§; of the_ xstrict of Columbia shall have exclusive jurisdictron ameeamsggro. ’ m the following civil cases in which the claimed value of personal ,,,Y°"35·*’· ·°“‘°“"` propertdy or the debt or damages claimed, exclusive of interest and costs, ces not exceed 5},000, namely, in the classes of cases over which the court had jurisdiction immediately prior to the passa e of this Act, and in actions for the recovery of damages for assauhz, assault and battery, slander, libel, malicious rosecution, and breach §$‘,§’“’§'§,‘,§§;fl‘},‘,,’,§{ of promise to marry. The concurrent jurisiiiction of the Supreme g¤¤d· Court of the District of Columbia in any such case and the right to _ _ _ remove such cases to said Supreme Court by the statutory writ of ,,,f,",;,,"};‘f*°‘°“‘“’°“"" certiorari, are hereby abolished. Said Municipal Court shall also have jurisdiction of civil causes now pending in the Supreme Court which are of the classes and amormts over which the Munici al Court had jurisdiction immediately prior to the passage of this get and also the actronsulpending in the Supreme Court over which the municipal court wo d have jurisdiction if brou t under the provisions of this Act and which may be transferregh to it for trial and dis `tion by order of said Supreme Court. ,,,f{"§‘_;_*’°°""”°"°°' gmc. 2. That hereafter said Municipal Court shall be a court of record, shall have a seal, and shall have the same terms of court as those now obtaining, or as hereafter modified, in the circuit branches _ of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. , "”""""“‘ Sec. 3. That hereafter when the value in. controversy in an aczron H1 Said Mllimcipul Courtfshall exceed $20, ind in AK acrousor erecpveryo possessiono real row eiter art" ,,,$g';""*" °' "‘°‘ may demand a tr1al_by jury. The trial judge honductpsuch jury trial and according to the practice and procedure now obtain-