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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 501-AUG. 7, 1939 ofvouchers and a c "(5) The examination and audit of vouchers and accounts of the counts. officials and employees covered by this chapter; Providing of court, "(6) The providing of accommodations for the use of the courts etc. accommodationsand the various officials and employees covered by this chapter; and Other matters as "(7) Such other matters as may be assigned to him by the Supreme yeassige Court and the conference of the senior circuit judges. The clerks of the district courts, their deputies and assistants, and all other em- ployees of said courts shall comply with any and all requests made by the Director or one of his assistants for information and statistical data bearing on the state of the dockets of such courts. Estimates of expen- "SEC. 305. The Director under the supervision of the conference ditures, etc., to Bu- reau of the Budget. of senior circuit judges, shall prepare and submit annually to the Bureau of the Budget estimates of the expenditures and appropria- tions necessary for the maintenance and operation of the United States courts and the administrative office of the United States courts, and Inclusion of supple- such supplemental and deficiency estimates as may be required from mental, etc., esti- mates. time to time for the same purposes, in accordance with the provisions Approval before of the Budget and Accounting Act. Such estimates in respect of the presentation of desig- nated estimates. circuit courts of appeals, the district courts of the United States, and the courts hereinafter referred to in the Territories and possessions, and of the administrative office shall be approved by the conference of senior circuit judges before their presentation to the Bureau of the Budget. Such estimates in respect to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the Court of Claims, and the United States Customs Court shall be approved by the judges of such courts, Inclusion'in Budget respectively, before submission to the Bureau of the Budget. All estimates so submitted shall be included in the Budget without revi- sion (but subject to the recommendations of the Bureau of the Budget thereon), in the same manner as is provided for the estimates of the 42 Stat.2. Supreme Court by section 201 of said Act. The Director shall sub- Annual report to mit annually to the conference of senior circuit judges a report of conference of senior circuit Judges. the activities of the administrative office and of the state of business of the courts, together with the statistical data compiled and sub- mitted by him to the senior circuit judges as provided by clause 2 Timeforfling. of section 304, with his recommendations. Such report shall be filed at least two weeks prior to the annual meeting of the conference, and a copy thereof shall also be filed with the Congress and with the Attorney General. Such report shall be a public document. Judicial council, "SEC. 306. To the end that the work of the district courts shall be effectively and expeditiously transacted, it shall be the duty of the senior circuit judge of each circuit to call at such time and place as he shall designate, but at least twice in each year, a council composed of the circuit judges for such circuit, who are hereby designated a council for that purpose, at which council the senior circuit judge shall preside. The senior judge shall submit to the council the quar- terly reports of the Director required to be filed by the provisions of section 304, clause (2), and such action shall be taken thereon by the Duty of district council as may be necessary. It shall be the duty of the district judges Judges. promptly to carry out the directions of the council as to the adminms- Asifgiments out- tration of the business of their respective courts. Nothing contained in this section shall affect the provisions of existing law relating to the assignment of district judges to serve outside of the districts for which they, respectively, were appointed. tAnnual e conerences e SEC. 307. A conference shall be held annually in each judicial cir- judicial circuit. cuit, at such time and place, as shall be designated by the senior circuit judge thereof, which conference shall be composed of circuit and district judges in such circuit who reside within the continental Participation by United States, with participation in such conference on the part of members of the bar under rules to be prescribed by the circuit courts 1224 [53 STAT.

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