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Volume 45

Public Law 70–904

To fix the salaries of certain judges of the Territories and insular possessions of the United States.

Approved May 29, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To fix the salaries of certain judges of the Territories and insular possessions of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the following salaries shall be paid to the several judges hereinafter mentioned, namely:

To the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of

Hawaii Supreme Court.

Hawaii, $10,500 per year, and to each of the associate justices thereof the sum of $10,000 per year.

To the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of

Porto Rico Supreme Court.

Porto Rico, $10,500 per year, and to each of the associate justices thereof the sum of $10,000 per year.

To the judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands of the

Virgin Islands district court.

United States, $7,500 per year.

To the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine

Philippine Islands Supreme Court.

Islands, $10,500 per year, and to each of the associate justices thereof the sum of $10,000 per year.

To the judge of the United States Court of China, $10,000 per

Court for China, judge.

year.

To each of the justices of the Circuit Court for the First Circuit

Hawaii circuit courts.

of the Territory of Hawaii the sum of $7,500 and to each of the justices of the Circuit Courts for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Circuits of the Territory of Hawaii the sum of $7,000.

Sec. 2.

That all of said salaries shall be paid in equal monthly

Monthly payments.

installments.

Sec. 3.

This Act shall take effect on the first day of the first

Effective date.

month next following its approval.

Approved, May 29, 1928.

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