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The bailiffs and messengers of said court shall be allowed the same compensation for their respective services as are allowed for similar services in the existing circuit courts;

and in no case shall said marshals secure other rooms than those regularly occupied by existing circuit courts of appeals, circuit courts, or district courts, or other public officers, except where such can not, by reason of actual occupancy or use, be occupied or used by said Court of Customs Appeals. "If the importer, owner, consignee, or agent of any imported merchandise,

or the collector or Secretary of the Treasury,

shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the Board of General Appraisers

as to the construction of the law and the facts respecting the classification of such merchandise and the rate of duty imposed thereon under such classification,

or with any other appealable decision of said board,

they, or either of them, may,

within sixty days next after the entry of such decree or judgment,

and not afterwards,

apply to the Court of Customs Appeals for

a review of the questions of law and fact involved in such decision:

Provided, That in Alaska and in the insular and other outside possessions of the United States

ninety days shall be allowed for making such application to the Court of Customs Appeals.

Such application shall be made by filing in the office of the clerk of said court

a concise statement of errors of law and fact complained of, and a copy of such statement shall be served on the collector, or on the importer, owner, consignee, or agent, as the case may be.

Thereupon the court shall immediately order the Board of General Appraisers to transmit to said court

the record and evidence taken by them,

together with the certified statement of the facts involved in the case and their decision thereon;

and all the evidence taken by and before said board shall be competent evidence before said Court of Customs Appeals.

The decision of said Court of Customs Appeals shall be final, and such cause shall be remanded to said Board of General Appraisers for further proceedings to be taken in pursuance of such determination.

"Immediately upon the organization of the Court of Customs Appeals

all cases within the jurisdiction of that court

pending and not submitted for decision in any of the United States circuit courts of appeals,

United States circuit, territorial or district courts,

shall, with the record and samples therein,

be certified by said courts to said Court of Customs Appeals for further proceedings in accordance herewith:

Provided, That where orders for the taking of further testimony before a referee have been made in any of such cases, the taking of such testimony shall be completed before such certification.

"That in case of a vacancy

or the temporary inability or disqualification for any reason of one or two judges of said Court of Customs Appeals, the President of the United States may,

upon the request of the presiding judge of said court,

designate any qualified United States circuit or district judge or judges to act in his or their place, and

such United States judge or judges shall be duly qualified to so act.

"Said Court of Customs Appeals shall have power to review any decision or matter within its jurisdiction and

may affirm, modify, or reverse the same and

remand the case with such orders as may seem to it proper in the premises,

which shall be executed accordingly.

"Immediately upon receipt of any record transmitted to said court for determination

the clerk thereof shall place the same upon the calendar for hearing and submission; and

such calendar shall be called and all cases thereupon submitted,

except for good cause shown, at least once every sixty days.

"In addition to the clerk of said court

the court may appoint an assistant clerk at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum,

five stenographic clerks at a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum each, and

one stenographic reporter at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and

a messenger at a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, all payable in equal monthly installments, and

all of whom, including the clerk, shall hold office

during the pleasure of and perform such duties as are assigned them by the court.

Said reporter shall prepare and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury once a week

in time for publication in the Treasury Decisions

copies of all decisions rendered to that date by said court, and prepare and transmit, under the direction of said court, at least once a year,

reports of said decisions rendered to that date,

constituting a volume, which shall be printed by the Treasury Department in such numbers

and distributed or sold in such manner

as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct.

The marshal of said court for the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to purchase,

under the direction of the presiding judge,

such books, periodicals, and stationery as may be necessary for the use of said court, and

such expenditures shall be allowed and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury

upon claim duly made and approved by said presiding judge. "SEC. 30. That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

an Assistant Attorney-General,

who shall exercise the functions of his office under the supervision and control of the Attorney-General of the United States, and

who shall be paid a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum; and there shall also be appointed

by the Attorney-General of the United States

a Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, who shall be paid a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum,

and four attorneys, who shall be paid salaries of five thousand dollars per annum each.

Said attorneys shall act under the immediate direction of said Assistant Attorney-General.

or, in case of his absence or a vacancy in his office,

under the direction of said Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, and said Assistant Attorney-General, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, and attorneys shall have charge of the interests of the Government

in all matters of reappraisement and classification of imported goods and of all litigation incident thereto, and

shall represent the Government in all the courts and

before all tribunals wherein the interests of the Government require such representation.

"But the Attorney-General may,

whenever in his opinion the public interest requires it, employ and retain, in the name of the United States,

such special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases as he may think necessary

to assist said Assistant Attorney-General in the discharge of any of the duties incumbent upon him and his said subordinates, and

shall stipulate with such attorneys and counsel the amount of compensation and

shall have supervision of their conduct and proceedings."

SEC. 29. That on and after the day when this Act shall go into effect

all goods, wares, and merchandise previously imported, for which no entry has been made, and

all goods, wares and merchandise previously entered without payment of duty and

under bond for warehousing, transportation, or any other purpose,

for which no permit of delivery to the importer or his agent has been issued,

shall be subjected to the duties imposed by this Act and to no other duty,

upon the entry or the withdrawal thereof:

Provided, That when duties are based upon the weight of merchandise deposited in any public or private bonded warehouse,

said duties shall be levied and collected upon the weight of such merchandise at the time of its entry.

SEC. 30. That section thirty-three hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 3362. All manufactured tobacco shall be put up and prepared by the manufacturer for sale,

or removal for sale or consumption,

in packages of the following description and in no other

manner:

"All smoking tobacco, snuff, fine-cut chewing tobacco, all cut and granulated tobacco,

all shorts, the refuse of fine-cut chewing, which has passed through a riddle of thirty-six meshes to the square inch, and all refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco, and all other kinds of tobacco not otherwise provided for. in packages containing one-half ounce, three-fourths of an ounce, and

further packages with a difference between each package and the one next smaller of one-fourth of an ounce

up to and including four ounces, and packages of six ounces, seven ounces,

eight ounces, ten ounces, twelve ounces, fourteen ounces, and sixteen ounces:

Provided, That snuff may, at the option of the manufacturer, be put up in bladders and in jars containing not exceeding twenty pounds.

"All cavendish, plug, and twist tobacco,

in wooden packages not exceeding two hundred pounds net weight.

"And every such wooden package shall have printed or marked thereon the manufacturer's name and place of manufacture,

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