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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 207-APR. 1, 1942 the District of Columbia by attachment, and any judge thereof shall Disobedience or have the power to punish for disobedience of any order, or contempt contempt. committed in the presence of the Court by a fine not exceeding $50 or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Establishment. SEC. 6. There is hereby established and created an intermediate appellate court for the District of Columbia to be known as "The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia", for the hearing of appeals from judgments and orders of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia as established by this Act, and of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, as hereinafter provided. The court shall adopt and have a seal, and shall be a court of record. Composition. The said court shall consist of three judges appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, two of whom shall constitute a quorum, and one of whom shall be designated by the President as chief judge. Qualifications of ap- No person other than a bona fide resident of the District of pointees. 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 of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Further, all appointees shall have been actively engaged in the practice of the law in the District of Columbia for a period of at leastfive years immediately prior to their appoint- service in armed ment. Service during the present emergency in the armed forces of forces. the United States shall be included in the computation of the five- year requirements herein specified. Terms of judges. The chief judge shall be appointed for a term of ten years and the associate judges shall be appointed initially for terms of eight and six years each. pointments and reap- Subsequent appointments and reappointments to this court shall pointments. 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 Salaries. judges. The salary of the chief judge shall be $9,500 per annum and that of each associate judge shall be $9,000 per annum. Each judge, when appointed, shall take the oath prescribed for judges of Filling temporary courts of the United States. In the event of the absence, disability, vacancies. or disqualification of any judge of The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, or in the event of a vacancy in the office of any such judge, the chief judge of said court may designate and assign any judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia to act temporarily as a judge of said court. Likewise the chief judge, whenever he finds it in the public interest to do so, may designate and assign any judge of said Municipal Court of Appeals to act temporarily as a judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia. In the event of the absence, disability, or disqualifica- tion of the chief judge of said court, his powers shall be exercised by that judge of said court next in seniority according to the date of commission. Clerk of cOurt. The said court shall appoint and remove a clerk who shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties in regard to all matters within the jurisdiction of the court as are exercised and performed by the clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District [56 STAT.

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