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Timestamp: 2013-12-11 10:34:54
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 638', '§ 638', '§ 638', '§ 528', '§ 6', '§ 446']

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28 USC § 638 - Dockets and forms; United States Code; seals
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 528, 528a (June 28, 1906, ch. 3573, 34 Stat. 546; July 10, 1946, ch. 548, 60 Stat. 525).
Words “Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts” were substituted for “Attorney General”, contained in section 528 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., in view of Act Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 501, § 6,53 Stat. 1226, 28 U.S.C., 1940 ed., following § 446, giving the Directors supervision of court administrative matters.
1968—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–578incorporated in provisions designated as subsec. (a) provisions of first par. of former section 639 of this title, substituting “United States magistrates” for prior designation as “United States Commissioners”, specifying that the copy of the United States Code be a current edition, and dispensing with approval by the chief judge of the district court for a copy of such Code.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90–578incorporated in provisions designated as subsec. (b) provisions of the second par. of former section 639 of this title.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 90–578designated existing provisions as subsec. (c), and substituted “United States magistrate” for “United States commissioner”, provision for appointment under this chapter rather than after July 10, 1946, provision that the form of the seal be prescribed by the conference rather than the Director, and “without fee” for “without additional fee”.
“United States magistrate judges” and “United States magistrate judge” substituted for “United States magistrates” and “United States magistrate”, respectively, in subsecs. (a) and (c) pursuant to section 321 ofPub. L. 101–650, set out as a note under section 631 of this title.