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Public Law 83–583
To provide that United States commissioners who are required to devote full time to the duties of the office may be allowed their necessary office expenses.
Approved August 13, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide that United States commissioners who are required to devote full time to the duties of the office may be allowed their necessary office expenses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
the catchline to section 633 of title 28, United States Code, is amended so that such catchline will read as follows:
“§ 633. Fees and expenses”.
That section 633 of title 28. United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (c), reading as follows:
“(c) United States commissioners who are required to devote full
Office expenses.
time to the performance of the duties of the office, as determined by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts under the supervision and direction of the Judicial Conference of the United States and who do not engage in the practice of the law, shall be allowed their actual and necessary office expenses, including the compensation of a necessary clerical assistant. Such office expense shall be determined and paid and such compensation shall be fixed and paid by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts under the provisions of section 604 of this title.”
The analysis of chapter 43 of title 28, United States Code, immediately
preceding section 631 of such title, is amended so that item 633 in such analysis will read as follows:
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall not apply to any United States Commissioner for the District of Columbia, and this Act shall not be deemed to modify, supersede, or
D. C. Code 11–332.
repeal the provisions of section 403 of the District of Columbia Law Enforcement Act of 1953.
Approved August 13, 1954.