21. Of proceedings in equity, by writ of in junction, to restrain violations of the provi sions of laws of the United States to prevent the unlawful inclosure of public lands; and it shall be sufficient to give the court juris diction if service of original process be had in any civil proceeding on any agent or em ployee having charge or control of the in closure.
22. Of all suits and proceedings arising un der any law regulating the immigration of aliens, or under the contract labor laws.
23. Of all suits and proceedings arising under any law to protect trade and commerce against restraints and monopolies.
24. Of all actions, suits, or proceedings in volving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty (amendment, December 21, 1911, added cer tain details).
25. Of suits in equity brought by any ten ant in common or joint tenant for the par tition of lands in cases where the United States is one of such tenants in common or joint tenants, such suits to be brought in the district in which such land is situate.
Secs. 25-27. They also have appellate ju risdiction of the judgments and orders of United States Commissioners in cases aris ing under the Chinese Exclusion Act; in the district of Wyoming of felonies commit ted in the Yellowstone National Park ; and appellate jurisdiction in cases of conviction before the commissioners appointed under the act to protect birds and animals in the park, etc. ; and in South Dakota over cer tain criminal offenses in the Indian reserva tion.
As to the removal of causes from state courts, see that title.
Miscellaneous Proceedings. Sec. 40. The trial of offenses punishable with death shall be had in the county in which the offense was committed where that can be done without inconvenience.
Sec. 41. The trial of offenses committed up on the high seas or elsewhere out of the juris diction of any particular state or district shall be in the district when [where] the of fender is found or into which he is first brought.
Sec. 42. When any offense is begun in one district and completed in another, it shall be deemed to have been committed in either and may be tried in either.
Sec. 45. Proceedings on seizures made on the high seas, for forfeiture under any law of the United States, may be prosecuted in any district into which the property is brought and proceedings instituted.
Sec. 48. In suits brought for the infringe ment of letters patent, the district courts have jurisdiction, in law or in equity, in the district of which the defendant is an inhab itant, or in any district in which the defend ant shall have committed acts of infringe ment and shall have a regular and estab lished place of business. If such suit is brought in a district of which the defendant is not an inhabitant, but in which such. de fendant shall have a regular or established place of business, service of process may be made upon the agent or agents engaged in conducting such business in the district.
Sec. 49. All proceedings by any national bank to enjoin the Comptroller of the Curren cy under the national bank acts must be had in the district where the bank is located.
Sec. 50. When there are several defendants in law or eqUity, and one or more of them are neither inhabitants of nor found within the district in which the suit is brought, and do not voluntarily appear,, the court may proceed to the trial and adjudication of the suit between the parties who are properly before it, but the judgment therein shall not conclude or prejudice other parties not regu larly served with process nor voluntarily ap pearing to answer ; and nonjoinder of par ties who are not inhabitants of nor found within the district shall not be considered matter of abatement or objection to the suit.
Sec. 51. No person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil ac tion, in district court (except as in the five succeeding sections), and no civil suit shall be brought in any district court against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant (except as provided in the six succeeding sections) ; but where the jurisdic tion is founded only on diversity of citizen ship, suits shall be brought only in the dis trict of the residence of either plaintiff or defendant. The excepted instances are : Sec. 52. When a state contains more than one district, suits not of a local nature, against a single defendant, inhabitant of such state, must be brought in the district where he resides; but, if there are two or more defendants residing in different dis tricts of the state, it may be brought in either district.