Volume 49
Public Law 74–75
To amend section 118 of the Judicial Code to provide for the appointment of law clerks to United States District Court judges.
Approved February 17, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 118 of the Judicial Code to provide for the appointment of law clerks to United States District Court judges.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Judicial Code be, and it is hereby, amended by the addition of the following section:
“Sec. 118b.
Each United States District Court judge is hereby authorized to appoint a law clerk when he deems the same to be necessary, and the senior judge of the circuit court of appeals having jurisdiction over the district where the clerk is needed shall certify
Limitation on number.
to the necessity of the appointment, but there shall not be appointed more than thirty-five of such law clerks during the first fiscal year of the enactment of this amendment. Thereafter such number in excess of thirty-five per year shall be limited by the necessity of each
Salary.
case as hereinbefore provided. The salary of such appointed law
Appropriation authorized.
clerk shall be at a rate not in excess of $2,750 per annum; and the appropriation of such amount as is or may be necessary to pay the salaries and travel expenses of such law clerks is hereby authorized.”
Approved, February 17, 1936.