Volume 53
Public Law 76–211
To make effective in the district court for the Territory of Hawaii rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States.
Approved June 19, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To make effective in the district court for the Territory of Hawaii rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That a new section
United States district court for Hawaii.
be inserted in the Act entitled “An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii”, approved April 30, 1900 (31 Stat. 141), as amended, immediately following section 86 thereof, to read as follows:
“86a.
That the rules heretofore or hereafter promulgated and made effective by the Supreme Court of the United States under authority of the Act approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1064; U. S. C., title 28, secs. 723b, 723c), or under authority of any other statute, regulating
Rules of civil procedure, etc., in U. S. district courts made applicable to.
the forms of process, writs, and motions, and the pleadings, practice, and procedure, in action of a civil nature in the district courts of the United States, and regulating appeals therefrom, shall apply to the district court of the United States for Hawaii and to appeals therefrom.”
Approved, June 19, 1939.