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Sec. 77, Any person who shall be injured in his business or
property by any other person or corporation by reason of any
thing forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this Act may sue
therefor in any circuit court of the United States in the district
in which defendant resides or is found, without respect to the
amount in conttoversy, and shall recover threefold the damages
by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable
attorney’s fee.
(28 Statutes at Large, 570: 37 Statutes at Large, 667).

V. USE OF THE PANAMA CANAL,
Act of Aug. 24, 1913 Chap. 390 (Panama Canal Act.)

Sec, 11. No vessel permitted to engage in the coastwise or
foreign trade of the United States shall be permitted to enter
or pass through said canal if such ship is owned, chartered,
operated, or controlled by any person or company which is doing
business in violation of the provisions of the Act of Congress
approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled
„An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies” or the provisions of section seventy-three to
seventy-seven, both inclusive, of an Act approved August twenty
seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled „An Act to
reduce taxation to provide revenue for the Government, and
for other purposes”, or the provisions of any other Act of
Congress amending or supplementing the said Act of July second,
eighteen hundred and ninety, commonly known as the Sherman
Anti-trust Act, and amendments thereto, or said sections of the
Act of August twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
The question of fact may be determined by the judgment of any
court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, in any cause
pending before it to which the owner or operators of such ship
are parties. Suit may be brought by any shipper or by the
Attorney General of the United States. (37 Statutes at Large, 567).