Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rect to Congress. Its officers are a ChiefJustice and four Judges, whose salaries are ;^4,500 each. SUPREME COURT, D. C—l\\\s> important court is a nec-essary part of the Judiciary of the United States, the District ofColumbia being under a government provided by Congress. Itis composed of a Chief Justice and four associates, the former ata salary of ;^4,500, the latter at ;^4,ooo each. It possesses thesame jurisdiction as a Circuit Court. Any one of its Justicesmay hold a special term, and when doing so his court ranks asa District Court of the United States. It is also a CriminalCourt for the trial of offences in the District. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS—ThQ Attorney-General of theUnited States, appointed by the President, and ranking as aMember of the Cabinet, is, in common speech, the District At-torney for the Supreme Court. He is the prosecuting officer ofthat court. So the District Attorneys, appointed in the sameway as the Attorney-General, but in and for their respective dis- I
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JUDGE JOSEPH STORY IN JUDICIAL ROBE. 265 266 POLITICAL HISTORY OF tricts, are the prosecuting attorneys of the District Courts. Asa general thing there is a District Attorney for each DistrictCourt, though in one or two States which contain two or moreDistricts there is only one District Attorney. He is the attorneyfor the United States, just as the District Attorney in any countyof a State is the attorney for the Commonwealth. His duty isto prosecute in his District all crimes cognizable under the lawsof the United States, and all civil actions in which the govern-ment is concerned. U, S. MARSHALS.—As already indicated these officers areattached to every District Court, and their function is similarto an ordinary County Sheriff They serve the processes of thecourt, and execute its judgments and decrees. They are equallythe officers of the Circuit Courts. yURIES.—The machinery of the Judiciary would be veryimperfect without mention of the two kinds of juries in use.They are requir

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