An Act to amend section 4(a) of the act of April 1, 1942, so as to confer jurisdiction on the municipal court for the District of Columbia over certain counterclaims and cross-claims in any action in which such court has initial jurisdiction
PL 87-242 (H.R.3222), enacted 09/14/1961

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Public Law 87-242 
AN A C T 
September ].4, 1961 
To amend section 4(a) of the Act of April 1, 1942, so as to confer jurisdiction 
[H. R. 3222] 
on the municipal court for the District of Columbia over certain counterclaims 
and crossclaims in any action in which such court has initial jurisdiction. 
56 Stat. 1192. 
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of the 
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sentence of section 4(a) of the Act entitled An Act to consolidate Columbia. 
the police court of the District of Columbia and the municipal court 
Jurisdiction. 
of the District of Columbia, to be known as 'the municipal court for 
the District of Columbia', to create 'the municipal court of appeals 
for the District of Columbia', and for other purposes", approved 
April 1, 1942 (D.C. Code, sec. 11-755 (a)), is amended to read as 
follows: "The court and each judge thereof shall have and exercise 
the same powers and jurisdiction as were heretofore had or exercised 
by the police court of the District of Columbia or by the municipal 
court of the District of Columbia or the judges thereof on the effective 
date of this Act and in addition the said court shall have exclusive 
jurisdiction of civil actions in which the claimed value of personal 
property or the debt or damages claimed, exclusive of interest, attor-
neys' fees, protest fees, and costs, does not exceed the sum of $3,000 and, 
in addition, shall also have exclusive jurisdiction of such actions 
against executors, administrators, and other fiduciaries as well as of 
all crossclaims and counterclaims interposed in all actions over which 
it has jurisdiction, regardless of the amount involved: Provided, how-
ever, That the District Court of the United States for the District of 
Columbia shall have jurisdiction of counterclaims and crossclaims 
interposed in actions over which it has jurisdiction." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply only with respect to actions instituted on and after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect thirty days after enactment. 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Applicability. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 87-243 
AN A C T 
September 14, 1961 
To amend title VI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, in order 
[H. R. 6309] 
to increase certain limitations in payments on account of operating-differential 
subsidy under such title. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sen-
tence in the first paragraph of section 603(c) of such Act, as amended 
(46 U.S.C. 1173), is amended to read as follows: "Effective on and 
after July 1, 1962, such payments on account shall in no case exceed 
90 per centum of the amount estimated to have accrued on account 
of such subsidy, except that, with respect to that part of the subsidy 
relating to any particular voyage, an additional 5 per centum may 
be paid to the contractor after such contractor's audit of the voyage 
account for such voyage has been completed and the Secretary of 
Commerce has verified the correctness of the same." 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Merchant Marine 
Act, 1936, amend-
ment. 
S u b s i d y p a y-
ment s. 
49 Stat. 2002; 53 
Stat. 1185.