SIXTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 231. 1911. 1147 States, from among the circuit judges of the United States, for the pgriod of five years, except that in the first instance the court shall composed of the five additional circuit judges referred to· in the next succeeding section, who shall be designated by the President to ser·ve for one, two, three, four, and five years, respectivel , in order that the period of designation of one of the said judges shall expire in each year thereafter. In case of the death, resignation, or termi- 1""“°¥ “°°“°‘°* nation of assignment of any judge so designated, the Chief Justice shall designate a circuit judge to fill the vacancy so caused and to serve during the unexpired period for which the original designation _ was made. After the year nineteen hundred and fourteen no circuit ,,§‘,§,‘f“°“°“‘“°°‘8'“" judge shall be redesignated to serve in the Commerce Court until the expiration of at least one year after the expiration of the period of his last previous designation. The judge first designated for the five- P‘°““““8 l“d¥°· year period shall be the presiding judge of said court, and thereafter the judge senior in designation shall be the plresiding judge. The P‘°°°d°“°°· associate judges shall have precedence and sha succeed to the place and powers of the presiding judge whenever he may be absent or incapable of acting in the order of the date of their designations. Four of said jud es shall constitute aquorum, and at least a majority Quorum. of the court shag concur in all decisions. Each of the judges during Additional pay. the period of his service in the Commerce Court shall, on account of the regular sessions of the court being held in the city of Washinglton, receive in addition to his salary as circuit judge an expense a owanee at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Sw. 201. The five additional circuit 'udges authorized by the Act mmgxtjyw to create a Commerce Court, and for otiher 1-purposes approved June am, p._s4o. gighfeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, sha ho d omce during good vior, and from time to time shall be designated and assigned by the Chief Justice of the United States for service in the district court of any district, or the circuit court of appeals for any circuit, or in the Commerce Court, and when so designated and assigned for service in a district court or circuit court of appeals shall have the powers and jurisdiction in this Act conferred upon a circuit judge in hrs circuit. Sec. 202. The court shall also have a clerk and a marshal, with the crm me mam. same duties and powers, so far as they may be appropriate and are ""‘°·"·“°‘ not altered by rule of the court, as are now possessed, by the clerk and marshal, res ectively, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The offices of) the clerk and marshal of the court shall be in the city of omm rn warning- Washington, in the District of Columbia. The judges of the court °`"B,,j,);,S;,,_ shall appoint the clerk and marshal, and may a so appoint, if they find it necessary, a deputy clerk and deputy marshal; and such clerk, marshal, deputy clerk, and deputy marshal, shall hold office during the leasure of the court. The salary of the clerk shall be four thou- Salaries. crc. sand) dollars per annum; the salary of the marshal three thousand dollars er annum; the salary of the deputy clerk two thousand Eve hundred) dollars per annum; and the salary of the deputy marshal two thousand five hundred dollars er annum. The said clerk and marshal may, with the a proval of) the court, em loy all requisite assistance. The costs and) fees in said court shall lie established by Costs and fm the court in a table thereof, approved by the Supreme Court of the United States, within four montlis after the organization of the court; but such costs and fees shall in no case exceed those charged in the Supreme Court of the United States, and shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. . Sec. 203. The Commerce Court shall always be open for the trans- Pj}',‘§,§f‘ff§§}Y °*’°“· action of business. Its regular sessions shall be held in the city of mS$§g¤¤¤ i¤ WM- Washington, in the District of Columbia; but the powers of the court g ` or of any judge thereof, or of the clerk, marshal, de uty clerk, or deputy marshal, may be exercised anywhere in the United States; m•°'***'°·
