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VL. EXPEDITION OF PROCEEDINGS.
Act of February 11, 1903 Chap. 544 as amended by Act of
June 25, 1910, Chap. 428.
See. 1. In any suit in equity pending or hereafter brought
in any circuit court of the United States under the Act entitled
„An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies” approved July second, eighteen hundred and
ninety, „An Act to regulate commerce” approved February fourth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or any other Act having a
like purpose that hereafter may be enacted, wherein the United
States is complainant, the Attorney-General may file with the
clerk of such court a certificate that, in his opinion, the case is
of general public importance, a copy of which shall be immediately
 furnished by such clerk to each of the circuit judges of
the circuit in which the case is pending. Thereupon such case
shall be given precedence over others and in every way expedited,
 and be assigned for hearing at the earliest practicable day,
before not less than three of the circuit judges of said circuit, if
there be three or more: and if there be not more than two
circuit judges, then before them and such district judge as they
may select: or, in case the full court shall not at any time be
made up by reason of the necessary absence or disqualification
of one or more of the said circuit judges, the Justice of the
Supreme Court assigned to that circuit, or the other circuit judge
or judges may designate a district judge or judges within the
circuit who shall be competent to sit in said court at the hearing
of said suit. In the event the judges sitting in such case shall be
equally divided in opinion as to the decision or disposition of
said cause, or in the event that a majority of said judges shall
be unable to agree upon the judgment, order, or decree finally
disposing of said case in said court which should be entered in
said cause, then they shall immediately certify that fact to the
chief Justice of the United States, who shall at once designate
and appoint some circuit judge to sit with said judges and to
assist in dertermining said cause.
Such order of the Chief Justice shall be immediately transmitted
to the clerk of the circuit court in which said cause is pending,
and shall be entered upon the minutes of said court. Thereupon