Chapter CLVI. *to provide for the Allotment of the Members of the Supreme Court among the Circuits, and for the Appointment of a Marshal for the Supreme Court.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the chief justice
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CHAP. CLVI.— An Act *to provide for the Allotment of the Members of the Supreme Court among the Circuits, and for the Appointment of a Marshal for the Supreme Court.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the chief justice of theThe chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to be allotted by order of court. United States and the associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be allotted among the circuits now existing by order of the court; and whenever a new allotment shall be required or found expedient by reason of alteration of one or more circuits, or of the new appointment of a chief justice or associate justice, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the court to make the same; and if a new allotment shall become necessary at any other time than during the term, such allotment shall be made by the chief justice, and shall be binding until the next term, and until a newNew allotments. allotment by the court.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the Supreme Court may appointMarshal of the Supreme Court of the United States; his appointment, salary, duties. a marshal for said court, whose compensation shall be three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and said marshal shall take charge of all property of the United States used by said court or its members, and shall serve and execute all process and orders issuing out of said court, or made by the chief justice or an associate justice, in pursuance of law; and shall pay into the treasury of the United States all fees and compensation allowed by law, and render a true account thereof, at the close of each term, to the Secretary of the Interior; and the said marshal,Assistant marshals and messengers. with the approval of the chief justice, may appoint assistants and messengers in place of the crier and messengers now employed, with such compensation as is or may be allowed to officers of the House of Representatives of similar grade; and all acts and parts of acts now in force relating to the marshal of the District of Columbia shall apply to the saidLaws applicable. marshal of the Supreme Court, except so far as in this act otherwise provided.
Approved, March 2, 1867.