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 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 301, 302. 1925. 965 to the court. Any commissioner shall proceed under such rules and P*°°°d*“°· regulations as may be promulgated by the court and such orders as the court mag make in the particular case, and may have and perform · ` the general uties that pertain to special masters in suits in equity. He may iix the times for hearings, administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive evidence. Parties to the suit may appear before . the commissioner in person or by attorney, produce evidence, and examine witnesses. Subpcenas for witnesses or for the production of testimony before the commissioner may issue out of the court by the clerk thereof and shall be served by a United States marshal in any judicial district to whom they are directed. The rules of the court Fiudinzaudyztof shall provide for a finding and report of facts by a commissioner, to §$,{’,,;° m mh be filed in court with the testimony upon which the same is based, and for exceptions thereto, in whole or in part, by the parties to the suit, and a hearing thereon within such reasonable time as the court’s rules or order may prescribe. Nothing in this section shall be so m·§g*;j§;§{, °‘ °°“" construed as to prevent the court from passing upon all questions and ` findings without regard to whether exceptions were or were not taken at the hearings be ore the commissioner. Any erson appointed as commissioner may be removed at the pleasure of) the court. _ Sec. 2. Each of said commissioners shall devote all of his time §,,“l,§§'°,§_”}‘3‘§,§f°°°S°* to the duties of his office, and receive a salary of $5,000 per annum, ' payable monthly out of the Treasury. The commissioners and stenographers authorized by the court shall also receive their necessary traveling expenses and their actual expenses incurred for Subsistence while travehn on duty and away from Washington in an amount not to exceed 57 per day in the case of commissioners and $4 per day in the case of stenographers. The expenses of travel and subsistence herein authorized shall be paid upon the order of the court. T _ Sec. 3. This Act and all appointments made thereunder shall y,,m°{mi°°°i°"m°h'°° cease and determine three years after the date of its approval by the President. Approved, February 24, 1925. . I · · · Fe I1Q25. CHAP. 302.-An Act To authorize the coinage of silver 50-cent pieces in Gommemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the attle of [P°w°• N°‘m Bennington and the independence of Vermont, in commemoration of the seventy- Gfth anniversary of the admission of California into the Union and in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Fort Vancouver, State of Washington. Be it emzcted b the Semte and House of Representatives of-the _ United States of America in Congress assembled, That in i:`i»i:igew°$iiii.%°li commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the {mfg °f°,g*gf*_g;g,'g{: Battle of Bennington and the independence of Vermont there shall Vt. be coined in the mints of the United States silver 50-cent pieces to the number of forty thousand, such 50—cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which said 50—cent pieces shall be legal _ tender in any payment to the amount of their face value. ,,.0 commemorate Src. 2. That in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary seventy-mm an¤1m· of the admission of the State of Californiaiinto the Union there ‘,§‘§,’g,,,‘}{,j,’{°“’SS‘°“ °' shall be coined at the mints of the United States silver 50-cent pieces to the number of not more than three hundred thousand, such 50·cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint. with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which said 50-cent pieces shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value.