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PUBLIC LAW 86-693-AUG. 6, 1968

SEC. 8. The appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act is hereby authorized. Approved August 6, 1958.

49T Appropriation.

Public Law 85-592 AN ACT To designate the darn being constructed in connection with the Eagle Gorge Reservoir project on the Green River, Washington, as the "Howard A. Hanson Dam".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dam to be constructed in connection with the project for the Eagle Gorge Keservoir, on the Green River, Washington, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 180; Public Law 516, Eighty-first Congress) shall be known and designated hereafter as the "Howard A. Hanson Dam". Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other aper of the United States m which such dam is referred to shall be eld to refer to such dam as the "Howard A. Hanson Dam". Approved August 6, 1958.

August 6. 1958 [H.R. 855]

Howard A, Hmn• on Dam, Wash.

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Public Law 85-593 AN ACT

To provide that chief judges of circuit courts and chief judges of district courts having three or more judges shall cease to serve as such upon reaching the age of seventy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 45 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows: " (a) The circuit judge in regular active service who is senior in commission and under seventy years of age shall be the chief judge of the circuit. If all the circuit judges in regular active service are seventy years of age or older the youngest shall act as chief judge until a judge has been appointed and qualified who is under seventy years of age, but a judge may not act as chief judge until he has served as a circuit judge for one year." SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 136 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows: " (a) I n each district having more than one judge the district judge in regular active service who is senior in commission and under seventy years of age shall be the chief judge of the district court. If all the district judges in regular active service are seventy years of age or older the youngest shall act as chief judge until a judge has been appointed and qualified who is under seventy years of age, but a judge may not act as chief judge until he has served as a district judge for one year." SEC. 3. The amendments to sections 45 and 136 of title 28 of the United States Code made by this Act shall take effect at the expiration of one year from the date of enactment of this Act, except that the amendment made by section 136 shall not be effective with respect to any district having two judges in regular active service so long as the district judge holding the position of chief judge of any such district on such date of enactment continues to hold such position. Approved August 6, 1958.

AviKust 6. 1958 [H.R. 985]

Judges. 62 iftat. 871. Circuit judges.

62 Stat. 897. District judges.

Effective date.

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