Abstract
THE UNITED STATES Commissioner system is an integral, but little known part of the federal judicial system. The origin of the system goes back as far as 1793. At that time Congress, acting under its constitutional power to vest the appointment of inferior officers of the courts in the courts themselves, authorized the federal circuit courts to appoint discreet persons learned in the law to take bail in criminal cases, and for the appearance of persons charged with crimes.2 This power was expanded in 1842 to give the commissioners of the circuit courts the powers of the state justices of the peace as to federal offenders.3 In 1896 the circuit court commissioners were abolished and the United States
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