Chapter 20. To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 20.— An Act To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. February 16, 1914.[[H. R. 32](/us/bill/63/hr/32).][[Public, No. 56](/us/pl/63/56).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President of theUnited States courts.Pennsylvania eastern district.Additional Judge authorized.Vol. 36, p. 1087, amended. United States shall appoint an additional district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall reside in said district and shall possess the same qualifications and have the same power and jurisdiction and receive the same salary now prescribed by law in respect of the present district judges therein.
Sec. 2. That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of theNo successor to senior Judge to be appointed.*Post*, p. 581. district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, senior in commission, such vacancy shall not be filled, and thereafter there shall be but two district judges in said district. Approved, February 16, 1914.