Chapter 6. To provide for holding the district court of the United States for Porto Rico during the absence from the island of the United States district judge and for the trial of cases in the event of the disqualification of or inability to act by the said judge
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CHAP. 6.— An Act To provide for holding the district court of the United States for Porto Rico during the absence from the island of the United States district judge and for the trial of cases in the event of the disqualification of or inability to act by the said judge.January 7, 1913.[[H. R. 10169](/us/bill/62/hr/10169).][[Public, No. 346](/us/pl/62/346).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Porto Rico.Governor may designate justice of supreme court to act in United States district court.Vol. 81. p. 84.
That whenever the United States district judge of the district of Porto Rico shall be absent from the said district, and that fact shall be made to appear by the certificate in writing of the United States attorney or marshal of that district, filed in the office of the clerk of the United States district court for said district, or when for any reason the said judge shall or may be disqualified or unable to act as such in any cause pending in the district court of the United States for Porto Rico, and that fact shall be made to appear either by proper order entered in the record of said cause by the regular district judge, or by the certificate in writing of the United States attorney or marshal of that district filed in the office of the clerk of the United States district court for said district, the governor of Porto Rico may, by writing filed in the said clerk’s office, designate a justice of the supreme court of As temporary judge in absence, etc., of district judge.Porto Rico either as temporary judge of said district court or as special judge thereof; and the temporary judge so designated as aforesaid shall have and may exercise within said district, during the absence of the regular district judge, all the power of every kind by law vested in said district judge, and after the return of said district judge to said district, shall continue to have and exercise said powers with respect to any cause, the trial of which shall have been commenced before him or which shall have been submitted to him for 649 decision prior to the return of said district judge; and the specialAs special judge in place of district judge. judge so designated as aforesaid shall have and may exercise within said district all the power of every kind by law vested in said district judge with respect to any cause named in the writing by the governor, as aforesaid, designating the said special judge as aforesaid: *Provided*, That no additional compensation shall be paid to either*Proviso*.No additional pay. such temporary district judge or special district judge for services rendered pursuant to such designation.
Approved, January 7, 1913.