Volume 45
Public Law 70–41
To provide for the appointment of an additional justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved December 20, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the appointment of an additional justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an additional justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who shall have the same tenure of office, pay and emoluments, powers, and duties as the present justices of that court. It shall be a duty of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to appoint from time to time, and for such period or periods as he may determine, one of the judges of the said Supreme Court of the District
Assignment of a judge for duty in condemnation of land cases.
of Columbia to hear cases involving the condemnation of land in the District of Columbia, and it shall be the primary duty of such judge so appointed to preside at the hearing of such cases involving the condemnation of land in the District of Columbia, and that only when not engaged in such cases shall he be subject to assignment to
Temporary substitution.
the other business of the court. The Chief Justice may assign for service in condemnation cases any justice of said court in case of disability of the justice so serving or for any other reason.
Approved, December 20, 1928.