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[CITE: 42USC1989]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1989. United States magistrate judges; appointment of 
        persons to execute warrants
        
    The district courts of the United States and the district courts of 
the Territories, from time to time, shall increase the number of United 
States magistrate judges, so as to afford a speedy and convenient means 
for the arrest and examination of persons charged with the crimes 
referred to in section 1987 of this title; and such magistrate judges 
are authorized and required to exercise all the powers and duties 
conferred on them herein with regard to such offenses in like manner as 
they are authorized by law to exercise with regard to other offenses 
against the laws of the United States. Said magistrate judges are 
empowered, within their respective counties, to appoint, in writing, 
under their hands, one or more suitable persons, from time to time, who 
shall execute all such warrants or other process as the magistrate 
judges may issue in the lawful performance of their duties, and the 
persons so appointed shall have authority to summon and call to their 
aid the bystanders or posse comitatus of the proper county, or such 
portion of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the 
militia, as may be necessary to the performance of the duty with which 
they are charged; and such warrants shall run and be executed anywhere 
in the State or Territory within which they are issued.

(R.S. Secs. 1983, 1984; Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, Sec. 291, 36 Stat. 1167; 
Pub. L. 90-578, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; 
Pub. L. 101-650, title III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Secs. 1983 and 1984 derived from acts Apr. 9, 1866, ch. 31, 
Secs. 4, 5, 14 Stat. 28; May 31, 1870, ch. 114, Secs. 9, 10, 16 Stat. 
142.
    Section was formerly classified to section 50 of Title 8, Aliens and 
Nationality.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States magistrate judges'' and ``magistrate judges'' 
substituted in text for ``magistrates'' wherever appearing pursuant to 
section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of 
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. Previously, ``magistrates'' 
substituted for ``commissioners'' pursuant to Pub. L. 90-578. See 
chapter 43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28.
    ``District courts'' substituted for ``circuit courts'' on authority 
of section 291 of act Mar. 3, 1911.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1990, 1991 of this title.
