An Act to amend title 28, United States Code, with respect to duties of judges of the United States Court of Claims.
PL 84-659 (S.977), enacted 07/09/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 659-JULY 9, 1956 
497 
SEC. 104. No appropriation or fund made available or authority 
granted pursuant to this Act shall be used to initiate or resume any 
project or activity which was not being conducted during the fiscal 
year 1956, except military construction projects otherwise authorized 
by law. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this 
Act shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for any 
project or activity during the period for which funds or authority 
for such project or activity are available under this Act. 
Approved July 3, 1956. 
Public Law 659 
CHAPTER 517 
AN ACT 
To amend title 28, United States Code, witli respect to dtities of judges of the 
United States Court of Claims. 
July 9, 1956 
[S. »77] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserrwled, That (a) subsection 
291 (a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and 
assign temporarily any circuit judge to act as circuit judge in another 
circuit, or any judge of the Court of Claims to serve as a circuit judge 
in any circuit, upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the 
chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit wherein the need arises." 
(b) Section 292 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(e) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and 
assign any judge of the Court of Claims to serve as a judge of any 
district court, when requested so to do, upon presentation of a cer-
tificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit 
wherein the need arises." 
(c) Subsection 294 (b) of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: 
"Any retired judge of the Court of Claims (1) may be designated 
and assigned by the Chief Justice of the United States to perform such 
judicial duties in any circuit as he is willing to undertake, and (2) 
may be called upon by the chief judge of the Court of Claims to 
perform such judicial duties in such court as he is willing to undertake." 
(d) Section 331 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by insert-
ing, immediately after the second paragraph thereof, the following 
new paragraph: 
"The Cliief Justice of the United States shall also summon the chief 
judge of the Court of Claims, or if he is unable to attend, another 
judge of such court, to participate in the conference. 
Any judge 
summoned shall attend, and, unless excused by the Chief Justice, shall 
remain throughout the conference and advise as to the needs of such 
court and as to any matters in respect of which the administration of 
justice in the courts of the United States may be improved." 
(e) The second paragraph of section 605 of title 28, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"Such estimates shall be approved, before presentation to the Bureau 
of the Budget, by the Judicial Conference of the United States, except 
that estimates with respect to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals 
and the Customs Court shall be approved by such courts, respectively." 
Approved July 9, 1956. 
Court of Claims. 
62 Stat. 900. 
62 Stat. 901. 
62 Stat. 901. 
Retired judges. 
62 Stat. 902. 
Judicial Confet» 
enee. 
62 Stat. 915. 
B u d g e t 
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mates, approval. 
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