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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 207-APR. 1, 1942 The terms of the judges shall be in accordance with the following schedule: The first two appointments shall be for a term of ten years each; the second two appointments shall be for a term of eight years each; and the remaining six appointments shall be for a term of six years each. The judges of the Police and Municipal Courts of the District of Columbia holding office on the effective date of this Act shall, however, serve as judges of The Municipal Court for the Dis- trict of Columbia hereby created until the expiration of their respec- tive commissions and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The court shall adopt and have a seal, and shall be a court of record. SEC. 2. Subsequent appointments and reappointments to this court shall be for a term of ten years each. All judges shall continue in office until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. Each judge shall be subject to removal only in the manner and for the same causes as are now or hereafter provided for the removal of Federal judges. The salary of the chief judge shall be $8,500 per annum and the salary of each associate judge shall be $8,000 per annum. Each judge, when appointed, shall take the oath prescribed for judges of courts of the United States. No person other than a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia and maintaining an actual place of abode therein for at least five years immediately prior to his appointment, or who shall have been a judge of one of the courts of the District of Columbia, shall be appointed a judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia: Provided, how- ever, That not more than two nonresident persons may be appointed and serve as judges of the said Municipal Court at any one time. Further, all appointees shall have been actively engaged in the prac- tice of the law in the District of Columbia for a period of at least five years immediately prior to their appointment. Service during the present emergency in the armed forces of the United States shall be included in the computation of the five-year requirements herein specified. SEC. 3. (a) The chief judge shall, from time to time and for such period or periods as he may determine, designate the judges to preside and attend at the various branches and sessions of the court. He shall have the power to determine the number and fix the time of the various sessions of the court, to arrange the business of the court, and to divide it and assign it among the judges. He shall also be charged with the general administration and superintendence of the business of the court. (b) The chief judge shall give his attention to the discharge of the duties especially pertaining to his office, and to the performance of such additional judicial work as he may be able to perform. (c) It shall be the duty of the chief judge and the associate judges to meet together at least once in each month in each year, at such time as may be designated by the chief judge, for the consideration of such matters pertaining to the administration of justice in said court as may be brought before them. It shall be the duty of each associate judge to attend and serve at any branch or session of the court to which he is assigned. Each associate judge shall submit to the chief judge a monthly report in writing of the duties performed by him, which report shall specify the number of days attendance in court of such judge during said month, and the branch courts upon which he has attended, and the number of hours per day of such attendance, and such other data as may be required by the chief judge, and in such form as the chief judge shall require. 191 Terms of judges. Judges of Police and Municipal Courts. Subsequent ap- pointments and reap- pointments. Salaries. Residence require- ment. Proviso. Nonresident ap- pointees. Law practice. Service in armed forces. Chief judge, powers and duties. Meetings of judges. Duties of associate judges.

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