The Portland daily press., 1874-07-30
Geneva Award.
ADOPTION OF RULES OF PROCEDURE.

The Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims met Friday at the Department of State,
and after consideration and adoption OF the
following rules, adjourned TO Thursday the first
of October, when it will proceed to hear cases:
I. The Clerk of the Court is directed to file
of record all claims which may be transmitted
to him. and to enter the same on the docket IN
the order of time in which they may be receiv-
ed. Claims transmitted by mail may be adj
dressed to John Davis, Esq, Clerk OF the
Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims,
Washington, d. c."
IL. All claims must be verified by the affida-
Wit of the claimant and filed in this court with
in six months from the ODD day of July, 1874.
I'LL Every claim should be stated in petit
ton addressed to the court, and signed by the
claimant or his attorney. The petition shall
set forth: first, the title of the case, with the
full Christian names and surnames OF all the
claimants, the places and times of their birth,
and the places of their residence between the
18th day of April, 1861, aud the 9th day of
April 1866, both inclusive. If any of the
claimants be naturalzed aliens, an authenticat-
ed certificate of their naturalization shall be
appended to the petition, and the petitioner
shall also state whether the claimants, or any
of them have been naturaized by any other
country than the United States: and If not SO
naturalized, whether any and what steps have
been taken toward being so naturalized; sec
ond, plain and concise statement OF the facts
and circumstances, giving place and date, free
from argument, aud stating all assignments or
transfers whatever, in whole or in part; third,
the prayer in which the claimant shall state
distinctly the amount for which he asks judg
ment, giving the amount of principal and in
terest separately.
The claimant shall also give the post-office
address of himself and of attorney, and may
append to his petition as exhibits, the instru-
ments or documents to which it refers, but
shall not insert the same in the body of the
petition.
~. 1t shall not be necessary for the q nited
States to deny, specially in writing, the vadi-
ty of any claim; but general denial of every
claim shall be entered of record by the clerk, as
of course, and thereby every material allega-
ton shall be considered as put in issue by the
United States. Objections as to the law on the
case may be raised by the United States at any
stage of the proceedings by sdemurrer stating
the grounds of such objections with reasonable
certainty.
V. Commissioners empowered by the cir
cult or district courts Of the United States to
take testimony may. with the leave of this
court first obtained, take ties timony in the cir
cults or districts for which they are respec-
lively appointed to be used in this court, and
all testimony shall be taken in the manner and
upon the terms and notice prescribed by the
said circuit and district courts respectively but
in no case shall q notice of less than twenty
days be deemed sufficient, unless by special
permission of judge of this circuit.
vi. 1t shall be the duty of the counsel OF
the claimant at least ten days before the day of
hearing to file with the clerks of the court
twenty-five copies of a brief, (printed in octave
form,) of the argument in behalf of the claim.
ant.
VII. Claims supported by printed testimo-
ny shall be at first heard in the order in which
they stand on the Docket unless otherwise
specially ordered by the court; and afterwards
al sha1 ha aar1 in IF
which the claimants may desire to introduce
oral testimony