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[CITE: 28USC504]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART II--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
                    CHAPTER 31--THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
 
Sec. 504. Deputy Attorney General

    The President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, a Deputy Attorney General.

(Added Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 612.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                   Revised Statutes and
      Derivation               U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                       5 U.S.C. 294.              Mar. 3, 1903, ch.
                                                   1006, Sec.  1 (so
                                                   much of 2d par. under
                                                   ``Department of
                                                   Justice'' as provides
                                                   for appointment, pay,
                                                   and duties of an
                                                   assistant to the
                                                   Attorney General), 32
                                                   Stat. 1062.
                       [Uncodified].              1950 Reorg. Plan No.
                                                   2, Sec.  3, eff. May
                                                   24, 1950, 64 Stat.
                                                   1261.
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    The words ``may appoint'' are substituted for ``is authorized to 
appoint''. So much of the Act of Mar. 3, 1903, as relates to pay is 
omitted as superseded by Sec. 303(c) of the Act of Aug. 14, 1964, Pub. 
L. 88-426, 78 Stat. 416, which is codified in section 5314 of title 5, 
United States Code.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 504, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 909; Mar. 
18, 1959, Pub. L. 86-3, Sec. 11(b), 73 Stat. 9, related to tenure and 
oath of office of United States attorneys, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 
89-554, Sec. 8(a), and reenactment in sections 541 and 544 of this title 
by section 4(c) of Pub. L. 89-554.
