COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.

According to the act of establishment, approved by Congress, March 3, 1891, this court is to cease and determine on June 30, 1903. The official address of the court is Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it is composed of the following members: Chief Justice, Joseph B. Reed, of Iowa; Associate Justices, Henry, C. Sluss, of Kansas; William W. Murray, of Tennessee; Wilbur F. Stone, of Colorado, and Frank I. Osborne, of North Carolina; United States Attorney, Matthew G. Reynolds, of Missouri.

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.

According to an act passed March 3, 1891, "The Chief Justice and the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court assigned to each circuit, the Circuit Judges within each circuit and the several district judges within each circuit shall be competent to sit as judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals within their respective circuits." The assignment of United States Supreme Court Justices is as follows:

First Circuit, vacant; Second Circuit. Rufus W. Peckham; Third Circuit, George Shiras, Jr.; Fourth Cir cuit, Melville F. Fuller; Fifth Circuit, Edward D. White; Sixth Circuit, John M. Harlan; Seventh Circuit, Henry B. Brown; Eighth Circuit, David J. Brewer; Ninth Circuit, Joseph McKenna.

Mississippi, northern & southern Henry C. Niles.

Missouri, eastern.

do western

Elmer B. Adams.
John F. Philips..
Hiram Knowles.
William H. Munger.
Thomas P. Hawley.
Edgar Aldrich.
Andrew Kirkpatrick.
George W. Ray...
George B. Adams.
Edward B. Thomas.
John R. Hazel.
Thomas R. Purnell.
James Edmund Boyd.
Charles F. Amidon.
Augustus J. Ricks.
Francis J. Wing.
Albert C. Thompson.
Charles B. Bellinger.
John B. McPherson.
Robert W. Archibald.
Joseph Buffington.
Arthur L. Brown.
William H. Brawley.
John E. Carland..
Charles D. Clark.
Eli S. Hammond.
Edward R. Meek..
Waller T. Burns..
David E. Bryant.
Thomas S. Maxey.
John A. Marshall.
Hoyt H. Wheeler.
Edmund Waddill, Jr.
H. Clay McDowell.
Cornelius H. Hanford.
John J. Jackson.
Benj. F. Keller..

William H. Seaman.

southern.

Romanzo Bunn.

John A. Riner...

do Wyoming.

western.

Baltimore.
Boston..

Detroit.

When Appointed.

Address.

Grand Rapids.
Minneapolis..
Kosciusko.
St. Louis.
Kansas City.

25, 1888

February 21, 1890
February 18, 1897
September 9, 1890
February 20, 1891
November 20, 1896
September 12, 190%
December 17, 1901
February 15, 1898

5, 1900

June

Sherman.

Austin...

June

25, 1888

Salt Lake City.

16, 1877

Richmond.

March 22, 1898

The judiciary of the District of Columbia is composed as follows: Court of Appeals: Richard H. Alvey, Chief Justice; Martin F. Morris and Seth Shepard, Associate Justices. Supreme Court: Edward F. Bingham, Chief Justice; Alexander B. Hagner, Harry M. Clabaugh, Job Bernard and Thomas H. Anderson, Associate Justices. One seat on the Supreme Bench is vacant.

The existence of this court is to terminate upon the final determination of certain suits and proceedings, but in no event later than December 31, 1903.-Section 33, Act of July 1, 1902.

Bayard T. Hainer..

UNITED STATES DISTRICT-ATTORNEYS.