Volume 52 · 752
Public Law 75–465
Defining the compensation of persons holding positions as deputy clerks and commissioners of United States district courts, and for other purposes.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Defining the compensation of persons holding positions as deputy clerks and commissioners of United States district courts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
No clerk or deputy clerk or assistant in the office of the clerk of a United States district court shall receive any compensation or emoluments through any office or position to which he may be appointed by the court, other than that received as such clerk, deputy clerk, or assistant, whether from the United States or from private litigants, and the acceptance of payment for personal services from private litigants shall be
Exception, if appointed commissioners; rate limitation.
deemed a vacation of their appointments, but clerks of United States district courts, their deputies and assistants, who are or may be appointed United States commissioners, may receive compensation for both offices in an aggregate amount not exceeding the rate of $3,000 per annum.
Approved, June 16, 1938.