Chapter 18. To amend chapter one, section eighteen, of the Judicial Code
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CHAP. 18.— An Act To amend chapter one, section eighteen, of the Judicial Code.October 3, 1913.[[S. 2254](/us/bill/63/s/2254).][[Public, No. 18](/us/pl/63/18).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,That chapter one, section Judicial code.Vol. 36, p. 1089, amended.eighteen, of the Judicial Code be amended by adding thereto the following: "“Whenever it shall be certified by the senior circuit judge of the Service of district Judge of another circuit in the second.second circuit, or, in his absence, by the circuit justice of said circuit, that on account of the accumulation or urgency of business in any district court in said circuit it is impracticable to designate and appoint a sufficient number of district judges of other districts within said circuit to relieve such accumulation or urgency of business, the Chief Justice may, if hi his judgment the public interests so require, designate and appoint the judge of any district court hi another circuit to hold a district court within the said second circuit, and to have and exercise within the district to which he is so assigned the same powers that are vested in the judge thereof: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Consent of judge.such judge so designated and appointed shall have consented, in writing, to such designation and appointment: *And provided further*, Certificate from circuit judge, etc.That the senior circuit judge of the circuit within which such judge so designated and appointed resides shall certify, in writing, that the business of the district of such judge will not suffer thereby.
Such appointment shall be filed in the clerk’s office and entered on the minutes of the said district court, and a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the court, shall be transmitted by the clerk to the judge so designated and appointed. Each of the said district judges may, Powers, etc.in the case of such appointment, hold separately, at the same time, a district court in such district, and discharge all of the judicial duties of the distinct judge therein.”" Approved, October 3, 1913.