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 UNITED STATES CODE, 1909 483

any person requesting the same a certified copy thereof under the said seal.

Sec. 46. That when an assignment of the copyright in Assignee's a specified book or other work has been recorded the as- name may signee may substitute his name for that of the assignor in ?^ substi- the statutory notice of copyright prescribed by this Act. ^j j^^ notice

Sec. 47. That all records and other things relating to coovrieht copyrights required by law to be preserved shall be kept records and preserved in the copyright office, Library of Congress, District of Columbia, and shall be under the control of the register of copyrights, who shall, under the direction and supervision of the Librarian of Congress, perform all the duties relating to the registration of copyrights.

Sec. 48. That there shall be appointed by the Librarian Register of of Congress a register of copyrights, at a salary of four copyrights thousand dollars per annum, and one assistant register of ^nd assistant copyrights, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an- copyrjelits num, who shall have authority during the absence of the register of copyrights to attach the copyright office seal to all papers issued from the said office and to sign such certi- ficates and other papers as may be necessary. There shall also be appointed by the Librarian such subordinate assist- ants to the register as may from time to time be authorized by law.

Sec. 49. That the register of copyrights shall make Register of daily deposits in some bank in the District of Columbia, copyriglits to designated for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treas- ®^°^' /^ ury as a national depository, of all moneys received to be fees applied as copyright fees, and shall make weekly deposits with the Secretary of the Treasury, in such manner as the latter shall direct, of all copyright fees actually applied under the provisions of this Act, and annual deposits of sums received which it has not been possible to apply as copyright fees or to return to the remitters, and shall also make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury and Shall make to the Librarian of Congress of the applied copyright fees niontlily re- fer each calendar month, together with a statement of all ^ remittances received, trust funds on hand, moneys re- funded, and unapplied balances.