Chapter 126.
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CHAP. 126.— An act to confer upon the senior associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in the absence or inability of the chief justice of said court, the powers and duties now conferred upon said chief justice, relative to the extradition of fugitives from justice. Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Powers and duties of chief justice of supreme court of District of Columbia authorized to devolve on senior associate justice, etc.[R.
S. D. C., 843, 99](/us/rsdc/s843/99). That the powers conferred upon and the duties prescribed for the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in relation to fugitives from justice, by section eight hundred and forty-three of an act entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, relative to the District of Columbia, in force on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord eightseen hundred and seventy-three,” approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall, in case of his absence or disability, devolve upon and be discharged by the senior associate justice of said court who may be present in said District and able to act.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 3, 1883.