§ 248. Appeals and writs of error from the Supreme Court of the Philippine

Islands.

§ 249. Appeals and writs of error when a Territory becomes a State.

§ 250. Appeals and writs of error from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

§ 251. Certiorari to Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.

§ 252. Appellate jurisdiction under the bankruptcy act.

§ 253. Precedence of writs of error to State courts.

§ 254. Cost of printing records.

§ 255. Women may be admitted to practice.

§ 215. The Supreme Court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom shall constitute a quorum.

R. S. § 673, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 434.

§ 216. The associate justices shall have precedence according to the dates of their commissions, or when the commissions of two or more of them bear the same date, according to their ages.

R. S. § 674, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 434.

§ 217. In case of a vacancy in the office of chief justice, or of his inability to perform the duties and powers of his office, they shall devolve upon the associate justice who is first in precedence, until such disability is removed, or another chief justice is appointed and duly qualified. This provision shall apply to every associate justice who succeeds to the office of chief justice.

R. S. § 675, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 435.

§ 218. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of fifteen thousand dollars a year, and the justices thereof shall receive the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred dollars a year each, to be paid monthly.

See R. S. § 676, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 435.

§ 219. The supreme court shall have power to appoint a clerk and a marshal for said court, and a reporter of its decisions.

R. S. § 677, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 73.

§ 220. The clerk of the supreme court shall, before he S enters upon the execution of his office, give bond, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, to the United States, in the sum of not less than five thousand and not more than twenty thousand dollars, to be determined and regulated by the attorney general, faithfully to discharge the duties of his office, and seasonably to record the decrees, judgments, and determinations of the court. The supreme court may at any time, upon the motion of the attorney general, to be made upon thirty days' notice, require a new bond, or a bond for an increased amount within the limits above prescribed; and the failure of the clerk to execute the same shall vacate his office. All bonds given by the clerk shall, after approval, be recorded in his office, and copies thereof from the records, certified by the clerk under seal of the court, shall be competent evidence in any court. The original bonds shall be filed in the Department of Justice. See Act of Feb. 22, 1875, c. 95, § 3, 18 Stat. L. 333, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 83.

§ 221. One or more deputies of the clerk of the supreme court may be appointed by the court on the application of the clerk, and may be removed at the pleasure of the court. In case of the death of the clerk, his deputy or deputies shall, unless removed, continue in office and perform the duties of the clerk in his name until a clerk is appointed and qualified; and for the defaults or misfeasances in office of any such deputy, whether in the lifetime of the clerk or after his death, the clerk, and his estate, and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable; and his executor or administrator shall have such remedy for any such defaults or misfeasances committed after his

death as the clerk would be entitled to if the same had occurred in his lifetime.

R. S. § 678, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 73.

§ 222. The records and proceedings of the court of appeals, appointed previous to the adoption of the present Constitution, shall be kept in the office of the clerk of the supreme court, who shall give copies thereof to any person requiring and paying for them, in the manner provided by law for giving copies of the records and proceedings of the supreme court; and such copies shall have like faith and credit with all other proceedings of said court.

R. S. § 679, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 435.

§ 223. The supreme court is authorized and empowered to prepare the tables of fees to be charged by the clerk thereof.

See Act of March 3, 1883, c. 143, § 9, 22 Stat. L. 631, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 139,

§ 224. The marshal is entitled to receive a salary at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars a year. He shall attend the court at its sessions; shall serve and execute all process and orders issuing from it, or made by the chief justice or an associate justice in pursuance of law; and shall take charge of all property of the United States used by the court or its members. With the approval of the chief justice he may appoint assistants and messengers to attend the court, with the compensation allowed to officers of the House of Representatives of similar grade.

See R. S. § 680, 4 Fed. St. Ann. 159.

§ 225. The reporter shall cause the decisions of the supreme court to be printed and published within eight months after they are made; and within the same time he shall deliver three hundred copies of the volumes of said reports to the attorney general. The reporter shall, in

any year when he is so directed by the court, cause to be printed and published a second volume of said decisions, of which he shall deliver a like number of copies in like manner and time.

See R. S. § 681, 6 Fed. St. Ann. 767.

§ 226. The reporter shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury an annual salary of four thousand five hundred dollars when his report of said decisions constitutes one volume, and an additional sum of one thousand two hundred dollars when, by direction of the court, he causes to be printed and published in any year a second volume; and said reporter shall be annually entitled to clerk hire in the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars, and to office rent, stationery, and contingent expenses in the sum of six hundred dollars: Provided, That the volumes of the decisions of the court heretofore published shall be furnished by the reporter to the public at a sum not exceeding two dollars per volume, and those hereafter published at a sum not execeding one dollar and seventyfive cents per volume; and the number of volumes now required to be delivered to the attorney general shall be furnished by the reporter without any charge therefor. Said salary and compensation, respectively, shall be paid only when he causes such decisions to be printed, published, and delivered within the time and in the manner prescribed by law, and upon the condition that the volumes of said reports shall be sold by him to the public for a price not exceeding one dollar and seventy-five cents a volume.

See R. S. § 682; Act of Aug. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 1, 22 Stat. L. 254, 6 Fed. St. Ann. 768.

§ 227. The attorney general shall distribute copies of the supreme court reports, as follows: To the President, the justices of the supreme court, the judges of the commerce court, the judges of the court of customs appeals, the judges of the circuit courts of appeals, the judges of

the district courts, the judges of the court of claims, the judges of the court of appeals and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the judges of the several territorial courts, the secretary of State, the secretary of the Treasury, the secretary of War, the secretary of the Navy, the secretary of the Interior, the postmaster general, the attorney general, the secretary of Agriculture, the secretary of Commerce and Labor, the solicitor general, the assistant to the attorney general, each assistant attorney general, each United States district attorney, each assistant secretary of each executive department, the assistant postmasters general, the secretary of the Senate for the use of the Senate, the clerk of the House of Representatives for the use of the House of Representatives, the governors of the territories, the solicitor for the Department of State, the treasurer of the United States, the solicitor of the Treasury, the register of the Treasury, the comptroller of the Treasury, the comptroller of the Currency, the commissioner of Internal Revenue, the director of the Mint, each of the six auditors in the Treasury Department, the judge advocate general, War Department, the paymaster general, War Department, the judge advocate general, Navy Department, the commissioner of Indian affairs, the commissioner of pensions, the commissioner of the General Land Office, the commissioner of Patents, the commissioner of Education, the commissioner of Labor, the commissioner of Navigation, the commissioner of Corporations, the commissioner general of Immigration, the chief of the Bureau of Manufactures, the director of the Geological Survey, the director of the Census, the forester, Department of Agriculture, the purchasing agent, Postoffice Department, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, the attorney for the District of Columbia, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Military Academy Long-21