Chapter 146. To empower the Attorney General of the United States to fix the compensation of clerks of the United States district courts
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CHAP. 146.— An Act To empower the Attorney General of the United States to fix the compensation of clerks of the United States district courts. April 26, 1922.[[H. R. 8342](/us/bill/67/hr/8342).][[Pub. No. 199](/us/pl/67/199).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States courts.Clerks of district courts.Change of compensation based on business transacted, authorized.Vol. 40, p. 1182. That the Attorney General is hereby authorized and empowered to increase or decrease the salary of any clerk of a United States district court within the limits prescribed by the Act approved February 26, 1919, where upon investigation the Attorney General finds that there has been such material increase or decrease in the volume of business transacted in any such district when contrasted with the volume of business upon which the said salaries have been heretofore fixed, as to justify such increase or decrease, but in all cases the said increase or decrease shall be based upon the amount of business transacted by the court and the fees and emoluments collected by the clerks and by them paid into the Treasury of the United States during the four years last preceding the time of such increase or decrease of salary to be made by the Attorney General under the power hereby conferred: *Proviso*.Future changes restricted. *Provided*, That no change in the salary of any clerk having been hereafter fixed under power hereby conferred shall be made until after the lapse of four years from the date of such change.
Approved, April 26, 1922.