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An Act enlarging the jurisdiction of judges of the District Court and Judges of the County Court, and prescribing additional duties of such Judges, and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Judges of the District Court and Judges of the County Courts of this State to act as referees, trustees or commissioners when named or appointed so to act, by any of the Judges of the Courts of Bankruptcy of the United States and such District Court Judges and County Court Judges shall assist and co-operate with the Judges of such Courts of Bankruptcy and shall perform all duties that are now, or may hereafter be delegated to them by any Judge of such Courts of Bankruptcy, under the authority of any enactment of the Congress of the United States for the relief of debtors.

§ 2. .] This Act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in full force and effect after its passage and approval.

Approved March ist, 1933.

An Act defining the crime of bank robbery from the inside and prescribing a penalty therefor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislatie Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. Any manager, officer, or director having the control of the assets of any bank or trust company, who shall embezzle, steal or wilfully and knowingly misapply any of the funds of such bank or trust company, or who shall wilfully and knowingly falsify or destroy any books or records which form a material part of the records of such bank or trust company, shall be guilty of bank robbery from the inside, which is hereby declared a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not more than thirty years.

Approved March 4, 1933.