606 APPENDIX TO GASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 11. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received September 22.) 
MAGNOLIA, September 11, 1890. 
My Lonrp: I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a Bill 
entitled, “A Bill to amend the Act entitled, ‘An Act providing a Civil 
Government for Alaska.’” 
The words in italics constitute the amendment by which jurisdiction 
is proposed to be conferred on the Supreme Court. 
The rest is exactly as the Statute now stands. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
[Inclosure in No. 11.] 
(51st Congress, Ist Session.—H. R. 11979.) 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
SEPTEMBER 8, 1890.—Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
ordered to be printed. 
Mr. THOMPSON introduced the following Bill: 
A Bill to amend the Act entitled, “An Aet providing a Civil Government for Alaska.” 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, that section 7 of the Act approved the 17th May, 1884, 
Chapter 53, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: 
“Sect. 7. That the General Laws of the State of Oregon now in force are hereby 
declared to be the Law in said district so far as the same may be applicable, and not 
in conflict with the provisions of this Act or the Laws of the United States; and the 
sentence of imprisonment in any criminal case shall be carried out by confine- 
15 mentin the gaol or penitentiary hereinafter provided for. But the said District 
Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction inall cases in equity, or those involving 
a question of title to land, or mining rights, or the constitutionality of a Law and in 
all criminal offences which are capital. In all civil cases at common law, any issue 
of fact shall be determined by a jury, at the instance of either party, and an appeal 
shall lie in any case, civil or criminal, for the judgment of said Commissioners to 
the said District Court, where the amount involved in any civil case is 200 dollars or 
more, and in any criminal case where a fine of more than 100 dollars or imprisonment 
is imposed, upon the filing of a sufficient appeal bond by the party appealing, to be 
approved by the Court or Commissioner. Writs of error iu criminal cases shall issue 
to the said District Court from the United States Circuit Court for the District of 
Oregon in the cases provided in Chapter 176 of the Laws of 1879, and the jurisdiction 
thereby conferred upon the Cireuit Courts is hereby given to the Cireuit Court of 
Oregon; and the final Judgments or Decrees of said District Court may be reviewed by 
the said Circuit Court in civil cases in the same manner and with the like effect as final 
Judgments or Decrees of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; and 
the final Judgments or Decrees of said Circnit Court and District Court may be 
reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States as in other cases.” 
No. 12. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received September 29.) 
MAGNOLIA, MASSACHUSETTS, September 19, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 24th July last, I 
have the honour to inclose, in the form of a Memorandum, some obser- 
vations ov Mr, Blaine’s note of the 30th June last. They are suggested 
