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 PUBLIC LAW 95-157—NOV. 8, 1977

91 STAT. 1265

Public Law 95-157 95th Congress An Act To create the District Court for the Xorthern Mariana Islands, implementing article IV of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political I'nion with the United States of America. Whereas section -iOl of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Xorthern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, approved by section 1 of the joint resolution of March 24, 1976 (Public Law 94^241; 90 Stat. 263), provides that the United States will establish a District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands: Xow, therefore. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) there is hereby established for and within the Northern Mariana Islands a court of record to be known as the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The Northern Mariana Islands shall constitute a part of the same judicial circuit of the United States as Guam. Terms of court shall be held on Saipan and at such other places and at such times as the court may desi<>:nate by rule or order. (b)(1) The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a jud<>;e for the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands who shall hold office for the term of eight years and until his successor is chosen and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President for cause. The judge shall receive a salary payable by the United States which shall be at the rate prescribed for judges of the United States district courts. (2) The Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States may assign justices of the High Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands or judges of courts of record of the Northern Mariana Islands who are licensed attorneys in good standing or a circuit or district judge of the ninth circuit, including a judge of the District Court of Guam who is appointed by the President, or the Chief Justice of the United States may assign any other United States circuit or district judge with the consent of the judge so assigned and of the chief judge of his circuit to serve temporarily as a judge in the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands whenever such an assignment is necessary for the proper dispatch of the business of the court. Such judges shall have all the powers of a judge of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, including the power to appoint any person to a statutory position, or to designate a depository of funds or a newspaper for publication of legal notices. (3) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice ajul consent of the Senate, a Ignited States attorney and United States marshal for the Northern Mariana Islands to whose offices the provisions of chapters 35 and 37 of title 28, respectively, United States Code, shall apply. (4) If the President appoints a judge for the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands or a United States attorney or a United States marshal for the Northern Mariana Islands who at that time is serving in the same capacity in another district, the appointment shall, without prejudice to a subsequent appointment, be for the unexpired term of such judge or officer.

Nov. 8, 1977 [S. 2149] '

Northern Mariana Islands. District Court, establishment. 48 USC 1694.

District Court Judge, appointment and term. Salary.

Judges, temporary assignment.

United States attorney and marshal. 28 USC 541, 561.

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