Chapter 216. To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven
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CHAP. 216.— An Act To amend section one of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven. July 30, 1914.[[S. 485](/us/bill/63/s/485).][[Public, No. 156](/us/pl/63/156).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Judicial Code. Vol. 36, p. 1087, amended.That section one of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
"“Section 1.District courts.Judge for each district.In each of the districts described in chapter five there shall be a court called a district court, for which there shall be appointed Additional for designated States.*Post*, p. 959.one judge, to be called a district judge, except that in the northern district of California, the southern district of California, the 581 northern district of Illinois, the district of Minnesota, the district of Nebraska, the district of New Jersey, the eastern district of New York, the northern and southern districts of Ohio, the district of Oregon, the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania, and the western *Ante*, p. 283. district of Washington, there shall be an additional district judge in each, and in the southern district of New York three additional district judges: *Provided*, That there shall be one judge for the eastern *Provisos*.
Service in two districts.*Post*, p. 961.and western districts of South Carolina, one judge for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee, and one judge for the northern and southern districts of Mississippi: *Provided further*, That the district Alabama.judge for the middle district of Alabama shall continue as heretofore to be a district judge for the northern district thereof. Every district Residence required.judge shall reside in the district or one of the districts for which he is appointed, and for offending against this provision shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor.”" Approved, July 30, 1914.