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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 53-55 -MAR. 26, 28, 1938 March 26, 1938 [8. 3554] [Public, No. 451] Alabama Northern Judicial District. Additional judge authorized. Powers, etc., during absence of senior dis- trict judge. Senior judge; vacan- cy occurring not to be filled. [CHAPTER 53] AN ACT Authorizing the appointment of an additional judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional judge of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama who in addition to the powers and authority of a district judge shall also have the powers and authority of senior district judge for said district when the senior judge has been absent from his active duties for three months and thereafter until the senior judge returns and actively resumes the duties of senior judge for said district. SEC. 2. That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of the dis- trict judge for the northern district of Alabama by the retirement, resignation, or death of the judge senior in commission, such vacancy shall not be filled, and thereafter there shall be but one district judge in said district. Approved, March 26, 1938. [CHAPTER 54] March 26,1938 [s. 3655] [Public, No. 452] Agricultural Adjust- ment Act of 1938, amendment. Ante, p. 47. Burley tobacco. Marketing quotas for marketing year be- ginning Oct. 1, 1938. Referendum. AN ACT Amending section 312 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 312 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection: "(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the Secre- tary shall, within fifteen days after the enactment of this subsection (f), proclaim the amount of the total supply of burley tobacco for the marketing year therefor beginning October 1, 1937, and a national marketing quota shall be in effect for burley tobacco marketed during the marketing year for such tobacco beginning October 1, 1938. The Secretary shall also determine and specify in such proclamation the amount of such national marketing quota in terms of the total quantity of such tobacco which may be marketed which will make available during the marketing year beginning October 1, 1938, a supply of such tobacco equal to the reserve supply level. The refer- endum with respect to such quota, pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, shall be held and the results thereof proclaimed within forty- five days after the enactment of this subsection (f)." Approved, March 26, 1938. [CHAPTER 55] March 28,1938 AN AUT [H. R. 8947] Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the [Public, No. 453] fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Treasury and Post Office Departments, appropriations, fiscal year 1939. Title I-Treasury Department Appro- priation Act, 1939. TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, namely: 120 [52 STAT.

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