Chapter 194. To amend the Code of Law for the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 194.— An Act To amend the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. May 19, 1922.[[S. 3505](/us/bill/67/s/3505).][[Public, No. 220](/us/pl/67/220).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Code of Law for the District of Columbia Code Amendment.Vol. 41, p. 560, amended.Grand Jury.Additional, to be drawn when exigency for, certified to District Supreme Court.District of Columbia be amended by adding a new section to read as follows:
" Sec. 204a. That whenever the United States attorney for the District of Columbia shall certify in writing to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of said District, or, in his absence, to the senior associate justice of said court, that the exigencies of the public service require it, said chief justice or senior associate justice may, in his discretion, order an additional grand jury summoned, which additional grand jury shall be drawn at such time as he may designate in the manner now provided by law for the drawing of grand jurors in the District of Columbia, and unless sooner discharged by order of said chief justice or, in his absence, senior associate justice, said additional grand jury shall serve during and until the end of the term in and for which it shall have been drawn.
" Approved, May 19, 1922.