12. Of all suits authorized by law to be brought by any person for the recovery of damages on account of any injury to his person or property, or of the deprivation of any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, by any act done in furtherance of any conspiracy mentioned in section nine teen hundred and eighty, Revised Statutes.
13. Of all suits authorized by law to be brought against any person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs mentioned in section nineteen hundred and eighty, Re vised Statutes, are about to be done, and, having power to prevent or aid in preventing the same, neglects or refuses so to do, to re cover damages for any such wrongful act.
14. Of all suits at law or in equity author ized by law to be brought by any person to redress the deprivation, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any state, of any right, privilege, or immunity, secured by the constitution of the United States, or of any right secured by any law of the United States providing for equal rights of citizens of the United States, or' of all persons within the jurisdiction of the UMted States. .
15. Of all suits to recover possession of any office, except that of elector of Presi dent or Vice President, Representative in or Delegate to Congress, or member of a state legislature, authorized by law to be brought, wherein it appears that the sole question touching the title to such office arises out of the denial of the right to vote to any citizen offering to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude: Provided, that such jurisdiction shall extend only so far as to determine the rights of the parties to such office by reason of the denial of the right guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, and secured by any law, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in all the states.
16. Of all cases commenced by the United States, or by direction of any officer thereof, against any national banking association, and cases for winding up the affairs of any such bank ; and of all suits brought by any banking association established in the dis trict for which the court is held, under the provisions of title "National Banks," Revised Statutes, to enjoin the Comptroller of the Currency, or any receiver acting under his direction, as provided by said title. And all
national banking associations established un der the laws of the United States shall, for the purposes of all other actions by or against them, real, personal, or mixed, and all suits in equity, be deemed citizens of the states in which they are respectively located.
17. Of all suits brought by any alien for a tort only, in violation of the laws of nations or of a treaty of the United States.
18. Of all suits against consuls and vice consuls.
19. Of all matters and proceedings in bank ruptcy.
20. Concurrent with the court of claims, of all claims not known as "war claims," or to hear and determine other claims which had been rejected or reported on adversely prior to the 3d day of March, 1887, by any court, department, or commission authorized to hear and determine the same, or to hear and determine claims for pensions ; or as giving to the district courts jurisdiction of cases brought to recover fees, salary, or compensa tion for official services of officers of the United States or brought for such purpose by persons claiming as such officers or as as signees or legal representatives thereof ; but no suit pending on the 27th day June, 1898, shall abate or be affected by this provi sion: And provided further, that no suit against the government of the United States shall be allowed under this paragraph unless the same shall have been brought within six years after the right accrued for which the claim is made: Provided, that the claims of married women, first accrued during mar riage, of persons under the age of 21 years, first accrued during minority, and of idiots, lunatics, insane persons, and persons beyond the seas at the time the claim accrued, en titled to the claim, shall not be barred if the 'suit be brought within three years after the disability has ceased; but no other disability than those enumerated' shall prevent any claim from being barred, nor shall any of the said disabilities operate cumulatively. All suits brought and tried under the pro visions of this paragraph shall be tried by the court without a jury.