Chapter XX. *amendatory of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for holding the Courts of the United States in Case of the Sickness or other Disability of the Judges of the District Courts’ approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty.*April 2, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat
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Chap. XX.— An Act *amendatory of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for holding the Courts of the United States in Case of the Sickness or other Disability of the Judges of the District Courts’ approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty.*April 2, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the authorityProvision for courts when there is an accumulation of business or other urgency, so as to require judicial assistance. conferred by the act aforesaid, hereby amended, may be exercised by a Circuit Judge or by the Chief Justice of the United States as in the said act directed, whenever, on the certificate of the clerk of the Circuit or District Court, under the seal of the court, it shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of such judge or chief justice, that the public interests, from the accumulation or urgency of judicial business in any district, shall require it to be done; and the District Judge so designated and appointed, shall have and exercise the same powers within such district as if the District Judge resident therein were prevented by sickness or other disability from performing his judicial duties; and it shall be lawful in case of such appointment, for each of the said District Judges separately to hold a District or Circuit Court at the same time in such district, and discharge all the judicial duties of a District Judge therein, but no such District Judge shall hear appeals from the District Court.
Approved, April 2, 1852.