Chapter 127. To amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States
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CHAP. 127.— An Act To amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States. February 15, 1909.[[S. 4535](/us/bill/70/s/4535).][[Public, No. 227.](/us/pl/70/227)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United*United States courts.Retired judges.R.8.,see. 714, p. 135, amended. *States of America in Congress assembled*, That section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 714. When any judge of any court of the United StatesPay to be that received ten years prior to resignation. appointed to hold his office during good behavior resigns his office, after having held a commission or commissions as judge of any such court or courts at least ten years continuously, and having attained the age of seventy years, he shall, during the residue of his natural life, receive the salary which is payable, at the time of his retirement for the office that he held at a time ten years before his resignation.
” Approved, February 15, 1909.