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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 526-528-JUNE 20, 1938 District Court for "Third. In the District Court for the District of Alaska, or any Alaska, etc., Virgin Islands; Canal Zone division thereof, and in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, in in designated cases. 7dC. Z .Code, §561- all cases; and in the United States District Court for the District 62. of the Canal Zone in the cases and modes prescribed in sections 61 and 62, title 7, Canal Zone Code (48 Stat. 1122). Supreme Courts of "Fourth. In the Supreme Courts of the Territory of Hawaii and Hawaii and of Puerto Ricoindesignated of Puerto Rico, in all cases, civil or criminal, wherein the Consti- tution or a statute or treaty of the United States or any authority exercised thereunder is involved; in all other civil cases wherein the value in controversy, exclusive of interests and costs, exceeds $5,000, and in all habeas corpus proceedings. Court forChina. "Fifth. In the United States Court for China, in all cases." Approved, June 20, 1938. [CHAPTER 527] AN ACT June 20, 1938 [s. 3754] To amend sections 729 and 743 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia. [Public, No. 677] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the DistrictofColumbia United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 729 31 stat. 306 , 1309. (31 Stat. 1306) and 743 (31 Stat. 1309) of chapter XVIII of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia are amended as follows: Cupite stop"c vi, - That the first sentence of the said section 729 be amended so as to sion into shares; read as follows: "The capital stock of every such company shall be amount. divided into shares of $100 each, or into shares of such less amount as may be provided in the certificate of incorporation or amendment thereof." increase ordecrease That the title of the said section 743 be amended to read as follows: "Increase or Decrease of Capital Stock". That the said section 743 be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: Reduction of cpi- "Any company transacting the business of a trust company hereto- tal; procedure; limita- tion. fore or hereafter organized or operating under the provisions of this subchapter may by the vote of shareholders owning two-thirds of its capital stock reduce its capital to any sum not below the amount trap roafl byComp- required by this subchapter; but no such reduction shall be made until rency. the amount of the proposed reduction has been reported to the Comp- troller of the Currency and such reduction has been approved by said Comptroller of the Currency, and no shareholder shall be entitled to any distribution of cash or other assets by reason of any reduction of the common capital of any such corporation unless such distribution hoAd ovalby stock- shall have been approved by the Comptroller of the Currency and by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the shares of stock outstanding." Approved, June 20, 1938. [CHAPTER 528] June 20,1938 A N ACT [s. 4050] To repeal section 2 of the Act of June 16, 1936, authorizing the appointment of an [Public, No. 678] additional district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Pennsylvania east- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of ern judicial district. additional judge the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the appointment of an addi- for; filling of vacancy. 498tat.g523. ' tional district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania", 28 U.s . C-, upp. approved June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1523), be, and it is hereby, repealed. Approved, June 20, 1938. 780 [52 STAT.