Chapter 301. To authorize the appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation
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CHAP. 301.— An Act To authorize the appointment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation. February 24, 1925.[[S. 3793](/us/bill/68/s/3793).][[Public, No. 451](/us/pl/68/451).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Court of Claims.Commissioners to be appointed to take evidence and report facts to court. That to afford the Court of Claims needed facilities for the disposition of suits brought therein said court is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint seven competent persons, to be known as commissioners, who shall attend the taking of or take evidence in cases that may be assigned to them severally by the court and make report of the facts in the case965 to the court.
Any commissioner shall proceed under such rules andProcedure. regulations as may be promulgated by the court and such orders as the court may make in the particular case, and may have and perform the general duties that pertain to special masters in suits in equity. He may fix the tunes for hearings, administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive evidence. Parties to the suit may appear before the commissioner in person or by attorney, produce evidence, and examine witnesses.
Subpoenas for witnesses or for the production of testimony before the commissioner may issue out of the court by the clerk thereof and shall be served by a United States marshal in any judicial district to whom they are directed. The rules of the courtFinding and report of facts to be filed with testimony. shall provide for a finding and report of facts by a commissioner, to be filed in court with the testimony upon which the same is based, and for exceptions thereto, in whole or in part, by the parties to the suit, and a hearing thereon within such reasonable time as the court’s rules or order may prescribe.
Nothing in this section shall be soAuthority of court not impaired. construed as to prevent the court from passing upon all questions and findings without regard to whether exceptions were or were not taken at the hearings before the commissioner. Any person appointed as commissioner may be removed at the pleasure of the court. Sec. 2. Each of said commissioners shall devote all of his timeSalaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 1333. to the duties of his office, and receive a salary of $5,000 per annum, payable monthly out of the Treasury.
The commissioners and stenographers authorized by the court shall also receive their necessary traveling expenses and their actual expenses incurred for subsistence while traveling on duty and away from Washington in an amount not to exceed $7 per day in the case of commissioners and $4 per day in the case of stenographers. The expenses of travel and subsistence herein authorized shall be paid upon the order of the court. Sec. 3. This Act and all appointments made thereunder shallTermination in three years. cease and determine three years after the date of its approval by the President.
Approved, February 24, 1925.