Public Law 75–53

That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional judge of the District Court of the United

Powers, etc., during absence of senior district Judge,

States for the Northern District of Alabama, who in addition to the powers and authority of a district judge shall also have the powers and authority of senior district judge for said district when the senior judge has been absent from his active duties for three months and thereafter until the senior judge returns and actively resumes the duties of senior judge for said district.

Sec. 2.

That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of the district judge for the northern district of Alabama by the retirement, resignation, or death of the judge senior in commission, such vacancy shall not be filled, and thereafter there shall be but one district judge in said district.