PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 520-522-DEC. 7,1944 [CHAPTER 520] AN' ACT [58 STAT. December 7, 1944 [H. B. 3608] Relating to certain overtime compensation of civilian employees of the United ([PublicLaw 466] States. Overtime pay of civilian employees of U.S. 56 Stat. 1068 . 5 U.S . C., Supp.II, If 26a note, 29 note. Release of liability for certain overpay- ments. Refunds. December 7, 194 [H. B . 3750O [Public Law 47 U. 8 . courts. Additional circuit judge. 28 U.S. . . 1 note. Pennsylvania east- ern district. December 7, 1944 [H. R. 40661 [Public Law 468] U. S . Courts. 36 Stat. 1088. 28U..C. 9. Criers and bailiffs. Additional bailiffs Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That employees or former employees of the United States who were in the purview of Public Law 821, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved December 22, 1942, which law was in effect from December 1, 1942, to April 30, 1943, and which limited the overtime compensation of any employee to an amount which "will not cause his aggregate com- pensation to exceed a rate of $5,000 per annum", (1) are hereby relieved of liability to repay to the United States any amounts received by them for any pay period which were in excess of the maximum compensation to which they were entitled for such period under the provisions of said Public Law 821 and (2) shall be entitled to refunds of any such amounts that they have repaid to the United States: Provided, That in no case shall there be validated aggregate payment to an employee in excess of five-twelfths of $5,000. Approved December 7, 1944. [CHAPTER 521] AN ACT To provide for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the third cir- cuit, and to permit the filling of the first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional circuit judge for the third circuit. SEo. 2. The proviso contained in section 2 (a) of the Act approved May 24, 1940, entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of addi- tional district and circuit judges" (54 Stat. 219), is amended to read as follows: "Provided,That the first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge in each of said districts, except in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, shall not be filled." Approved December 7, 1944. [CHAPTER 522] AN ACT Further defining the number and duties of criers and bailiffs in United States courts and regulating their compensation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the Judicial Code be amended to read as follows: "SEc. 5 . Each district judge may appoint a crier for the court in which he presides, who shall perform also the duties of bailiff and messenger, and who shall receive a salary of $1,800 per annum and, when necessarily absent from his designated post of duty on the busi- ness of the court, his actual traveling expenses and in lieu of his actual expenses for subsistence a per diem allowance to be prescribed by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts at a rate not to exceed $6. The marshal for each district may appoint such a number of additional bailiffs, not exceeding four, as the district judge may determine, to maintain order in the courtroom, to wait upon the grand and petit juries, and for other necessary purposes, who shall be allowed for their services the sum of $6 per day to be paid only 796
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