The National tribune., 1900-06-21

case in which such decision shall have
been rendered, and shall be followed as
precedents' in governing the action of the
Commissioner in similar cases.
Sec 10. That the judgments and de
crees of the Court of Pension Appeals
shall be final in all cases within its juris-
diction. excepting that the said Court
may, at any time, certify to the Supreme
| Court of the United States any questions
or propositions of law affecting any case
or class of cases within its jurisdiction
concerning which it desires the instruc-
tons of that Court for its proper declS-
ion. And thereupon the Supreme Court
may either give its instructions on the
questions and propositions certified to 1t,
which shall be binding upon the Court of
Pension Appeals in such case, or it may
require that the whole record and case
may be sent up to it for consideration,
and thereupon shall decide the whole mat
ter in controversy in the same manner as
if it had been brought there for review
by writ of error or appeal; and excepting
also that in any such case as is herein
before made final in the Court of Pension
Appeals it shall be competent for the Su-
preme Court to require, by certiorari or
otherwise, any such case to be certified
| to the Supreme Court for its review and
determination with the same power and
| authority in the case as If it had been
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| Supreme Court; but no such application
shall be-allowed unless made within three
months after the entry of the order, Judg-
ment or decree in the case sought to be
reviewed; and said cause so carried up
shall have precedence in the Appellate
| Court.
Sec 90 That rooms, furniture, station
| cry, printing and other necessary accom-
modations for the use of the said Court
| and its officers and employees and the
proper transaction of its business shall be
! furnished by the Department of Justice
| on the requisition of the Presiding Judge
! of the said Court; and such sum or sums
| of money to pay the salaries and defray
| all the expenses, including the taking of
| testimony and compensation of auditors
necessarily incurred under the provisions
of this Act are hereby appropriated out
of any money not otherwise appropriated.
| Sec. 81. That the salaries, compensa-
| ton and expenses provided by this Act
shall be payable monthly from the Treas
ury in the manner that Judges and officers
| of the Circuit Courts of Appeals III tie
several circuits are paid.
Sec. %. That the decisions and opinions
of the said Court may he published III the
same manner and payable as the decisions
of the Court of Claims are now published
and paid.
Sec. %. That it shall be the duty of
| the said Court, without delay after its
organization, to prepare a full, annotated
! codifcation of all the pension laws of the
United States, and report the same to Con-
gress through the President; and the said
Court shall, in like manner, report to each
Congress such notifications or amend
ments of the pension laws as their ex-
perience may have shown to be necessary
and proper, together with the reasons and
causes therefor.
Sec a That all laws and parts of
laws inconsistent herewith be and the
same are hereby repealed.