be construed to deny or defeat any right of civil action accruing to any person, whether by reason of this act or otherwise; and any district attorney who shall willfully fail to institute and prosecute the proceedings herein required, shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action of debt, with full costs, and shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars: And provided further, That a judgment for the penalty in favor of the party aggrieved against any such district attorney, or a judgment upon an indictment against such district attorney, shall be a bar to either prosecution respectively. SEC. 4. Service as jurors.-That no citizen possessing all other qualifications which are or may be prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States, or of any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; and any officer or other person charged with any duty in the selection or summoning of jurors, who shall exclude or fail to summon any citizen for the cause aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than five thousand dollars. SEC. 5. Review by Supreme Court.―That all cases arising under the provisions of this act in the courts of the United States shall be reviewable by the Supreme Court of the United States, without regard to the sum in controversy, under the same provisions and regulations as are now provided by law for the review of other causes in said court. Approved March 1, 1875. 43d C., 1st Sess., pp. 335, 337. INDEX. Section. Page. ABANDONMENT. See RULES IN EQUITY- ABATEMENT. See RULES IN EQUITY- of actions-not by change of terms of district court..... nor by change of terms of circuit court. when non-joinder of parties not matter of... error in ruling on, not reversable on appeal ACCOUNTS. See RULES IN EQUITY- of paymaster, etc, decree on.. reference of, to court of claims, when.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS- who may take, of instruments... ACTIONS- of revenue seizures to be consolidated....... costs in, allowed where several might be joined.. 977 398 ACTS OF CONGRESS- published by Little & Brown, competent evidence...... 908 357 limitation of time of appealing.... writ of prohibition to district court, as courts of, by supreme court..... new evidence in causes of, on appeal. when issues in, tried by a jury (act of Feb. 16, 1875,).. 236 AFFIDAVIT. See RULES IN ADMIRALTY, RULES IN EQUITY- required for an attachment... EQUITY- to process returned in circuit and district courts.... AMOUNT- in dispute necessary to right of appeal (act of Feb. 16, ANSWER. See RULES IN ADMIRALTY, RULES IN EQUITY. APPEAL. See RULES IN ADMIRALTY, RULES IN EQUITY- from circuit court, or district court acting as such.. transcripts, etc., transmitted to supreme court in what cases allowed regardless of amount. what amount necessary to give right of generally. to circuit court in habeas corpus cases.... .699,5 217, 639 to the supreme court from circuit, same cases.. proceedings on, suspends state authority to supreme court, taken within two years. from circuit courts, subject to same rules as writs of error 1012 414 1000 407 none required in appeal by United States, or a depart- when territory becomes a state.. from district court, in transfer from territorial court... from supreme court of District of Columbia.. of non-resident defendant, when court may order......... |