Each circuit court of the United States may appoint, in different parts of the district for which it is held, as many discreet persons as it may deem necessary, who shall be calI-ed “commissioners of the circuit court,” and shall exercise the powers which are or may be conferred upon them. Rev. St. U. S. I 627 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 499).
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
