SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 269. 1909. 839 "Writs of error and appeals from the said district court shall be *’¤>°°d*¤‘¤·¢°¤· 'had and allowed to the circuit court of appeals for the ninth judicial circuit the same manner as writs of error and appeals are allowed from crrcurt courts to circuit courts of appeal as rovided by law, and {appeals and writs of error may be taken to the Supreme Court of the nited States from said district court in cases where appeals and wrrts of error are allowed from the district and circuit courts of the United States to the Supreme Court, and the laws of the United States relating to juries and jlpry trials shall be applicable to said district court. The laws of the United States relating to appeals, writs of error, removal of causes, and other matters and proceedings as between the courts of the United States and the courts of the several States shall govern in such matters and proceed` s as between the courts of the United States and the courts of thi¤nTerr·i- tory of Hawaii. Regular terms of said court shall be held in Honolulu Terms ¤f wm. on the second Monday in April and October, and special terms may be held at such times and places in said district as the said judges may deem expedient. The said district judges shall appoint a clerk (Herkof said court at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum and shall appoint a reporter of said court at a salary of one thousand Mmm'- two hundred dollars per annum: Promkled, That writs of error and g",;';':-,! em to a peals may also be taken- from the supreme court of the Territory S¤r>¤·¤¤¤ 06m " of Hawaii to the Supreme Court of the United States in all cases where the amount involved, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or . value of five thousand dollars." · Sec. 2. That section four of chapter one of title. one of an Act @$5 entitled "An Act making further provision for a civil government for- venaés:. p. w. Alaska, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, nineteen mm ' hundred, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 4. That there is hereby established a district court for the u§,;"{‘f*°*°°“’°°'“”‘ district of Alaska, with the jurisdiction of circuit and district courts of the United States and with general jurisdiction in civil, criminal, _ equity, and admiralty causes; and four district judges shall be i,g{f“"“‘*g°“““*·*'°" appointed for the district, each at an annual salary of seven thousand tgawrv. residence. five hundred dollars, who shall during their terms of office reside in ° ` the divisions of the district to which they may be res ectively assigned b the President. The court shall consist of four divisions, Retgiwinzdivminus which shall also be recording divisions. Division numbered one shall °’°° ' consist of all that part of the district of Alaska lying east of the one Division M1. hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude. Division num- Divi¤i<>¤ No-2- bered two shall consist of all that territory lying west of a line commencing on the Arctic coast at the one hundred and forty-eighth · meridian; thence extending south alon the easterly watershed of the Colville River to a oint on the Rocky Mountain divide between the headwaters of Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Chandlar on the south; thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, the Kotzebue Sound, and Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence along said meridian to the Kuskokwim River; · thence southwesterjy along the center of the chamrel of said Kuskokwim River to ering Sea; the said division to include all the islands lying north of the fifty-ninth arallel of north latitude. _ _ Division numbered three shall consist of all] that territoryllying south D‘““i°“ N°· ?’· 4 and west of the line starting on the coast of the Gulf of aska at the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude; thence northerly along said meridian to a point due east from Mount Krmball; thence west to summit of rlount Kimball; thence southwesterly along the southerly watershed of the headwaters of Tanana River; thence westerly along the divide between the waters of the
