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Volume 49 · 1921

Public Law 74–804

To amend an Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, entitled “An Act to reorganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”

Approved June 25, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend an Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, entitled “An Act to reorganize the courts in 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 court

Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

To be known as “The District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.”

Proviso.

Jurisdiction, etc., unchanged.

established by section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1863 (12 Stat. 762), entitled “An Act to reorganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, shall hereafter be known as the district court of the United States for the District of Columbia: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall affect the jurisdiction or functions of the court.

Approved, June 25, 1936.

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