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vision shall apply to every associate justice who succeeds to the office of chief justice. (Rev. Stats. 675.)

§ 192. Salaries of judges.—The chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States shall receive the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars a year, and the justices thereof shall receive the sum of ten thousand dollars a year each, to be paid monthly. (Rev. Stats. sec. 676.)

§ 193. Clerk, marshal, and reporter. -The Supreme Court shall have power to appoint ■ clerk and a marshal for said court, and a reporter of its decisions. (Rev. Stats. sec. 677)

§ 194. Deputies of the clerk.-One or nore deputies of the clerk of the Supreme Court may be appointed by the court on the application -f the clerk, and may be removed at the pleasure f the court. In case of the death of the clerk, his eputy or deputies shall, unless removed, continue n office and perform the duties of the clerk in his ame, until a clerk is appointed and qualified; and or the defaults or misfeasances in office of any uch deputy, whether in the lifetime of the clerk or fter his death, the clerk, and his estate, and the reties in his official bond shall be liable; and his xecutor or administrator shall have such remedy r any such default or misfeasances committed fter his death as the clerk would be entitled to if he same had occurred in his lifetime. (Rev. Stats. c. 678.)

§ 195. Records of the old court of apeals.--The records and proceedings of the court

of appeals, appointed previous to the adoption of the present Constitution, shall be kept in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court, who shall give copies thereof to any person requiring and paying for them in the manner provided by law for giving copies of the records and proceedings of the Supreme Court; and such copies shall have like faith and credit with all other proceedings of said court. (Rev. Stats. sec. 679.)

§ 196. Marshal of the Supreme Court.— The marshal is entitled to receive a salary at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars a year. He shall attend the court at its sessions; shall serve and execute all process and orders issuing from it, or made by the chief justice or an associate justice in pursuance of law; and shall take charge of all property of the United States used by the court or its members. With the approval of the chief justice, he may appoint assistants and messengers to attend the court, with the compensation allowed to officers of the House of Representatives of similar grade. (Rev. Stats. sec. 680.)

§ 197. Duties of the reporter.—The reporter shall cause the decisions of the Supreme Court made during his office to be printed and published within eight months after they are made; and within the same time shall deliver three hundred copies of the volumes of said reports to the secretary of the interior. And he shall, in any year, when he is so directed by the court, cause to be printed and published a second volume of said decisions, of which he shall deliver, in like manner

nd time, three hundred copies. (Rev. Stats. sec. 581.)

§ 198. Reporter's salary and price of -eports.—The reporter shall be entitled to reeive from the treasury an annual salary of four housand five hundred dollars when his report of aid decisions constitutes one volume, and an aditional sum of twelve hundred dollars when, by irection of the court, he causes to be printed and ublished, in any year, a second volume. Said reorter shall be annually entitled to clerk-hire in he sum of one thousand two hundred dollars, and office rent, stationery, and contingent expenses the sum of six hundred dollars. (22 U. S. tats. 219.) The volumes of said reports shall be rnished by the reporter to the public at a sum ot exceeding two dollars per volume, and the umber of volumes now required to be delivered the secretary of the interior shall be furnished the reporter without any charge therefor. (Act Feb. 12, 1889, ch. 135, sec. 2; 1 Supp. 374.)

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§ 200. Adjournments for want of a quorum.

§ 201. Preparatory orders made by less than a quorum.

§ 199. Terms.-The Supreme Court shall hold at the seat of government one term annually, commencing on the second Monday in October, and such adjourned and special terms as it may find necessary for the dispatch of business; and suits, proceedings, recognizances, and processes pending in or returnable to said court shall be tried, heard, and proceeded with as if the time of holding said sessions had not been hereby altered. (Rev. Stats.

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sec. 684.) § 200. Adjournments for want quorum.—If at any session of the Supreme Court a quorum does not attend on the day appointed for holding it, the justices who do attend may adjourn the court from day to day for twenty days after said appointed time, unless there be sooner quorum. If the quorum does not attend within said twenty days, the business of the court s all be continued over till the next appointed session; and if during a term after a quorum has assembled less than that number attend on any day, the justices attending may adjourn the court from day

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to day until there is a quorum, or may adjourn without day. (Rev. Stats., sec. 685.)

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§ 201. Preparatory orders made by less than a quorum.-The justices attending at any term when less than a quorum is present may, within the twenty days mentioned in the ceding section, make all necessary orders touching any suit, proceeding, or process depending in or returned to the court, preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decision thereof. (Rev. Stats., sec. 686.)

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