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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 304, 305-MAY 31, 1938 [CHAPTER 304] AN ACT To authorize the withdrawal and reservation of small tracts of the public domain in Alaska for schools, hospitals, and other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to withdraw and permanently reserve small tracts of not to exceed six hundred and forty acres each of the public domain in Alaska for schools, hospitals, and such other purposes as may be necessary in administering the affairs of the Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts of Alaska: Provided,That such withdrawals shall be subject to any valid existing rights. Approved, May 31, 1938. 593 May 31, 1938 [H. R. 9358] [Public, No. 669] Alaska. Withdrawal oflands for schools, hospitals, etc., authorized. Proviso. Valid existing rights. [CHAPTER 305] JOINT RE.OLUTTTTON . .. ... May 31, 1938 To protect the copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors at the Pacific Mercado [H. J. Res. 447] International Exposition, to be held at Los Angeles, California, in 1940. [Pub. Res., No. 100] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Librarian of Congress and the Commissioner of Patents are hereby authorized and directed to establish branch offices under the direction of the Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents, respec- tively, in suitable quarters on the grounds of the Pacific Mercado International Exposition, to be held at Los Angeles, California, under the direction of the Pacific Exposition Corporation, a Cali- fornia corporation, said quarters to be furnished free of charge by said corporation, said offices to be established at such time as may, upon sixty days' advance notice, in writing, to the Register of Copy- rights and the Commissioner of Patents, respectively, be requested by said Pacific Exposition Corporation, but not earlier than January 1, 1940, and to be maintained until the close to the general public of said exposition; and the proprietor of any foreign copyright, or any certificate of trade-mark registration, or letters patent of invention, design, or utility model issued by any foreign government protecting any trade-mark, apparatus, device, machine, process, method, com- position of matter, design, or manufactured article imported for exhibition and exhibited at said exposition may upon presentation of proof of such proprietorship, satisfactory to the Register of Copy- rights or the Commissioner of Patents, as the case may be, obtain without charge and without prior examination as to novelty, a certificate from such branch office, which shall be prima facie evi- dence in the Federal courts of such proprietorship, the novelty of the subject matter covered by any such certificate to be determined by a Federal court in case an action or suit is brought based thereon; and said branch offices shall keep registers of all such certificates issued by them, which shall be open to public inspection. At the close of said Pacific Mercado International Exposition the register of certificates of the copyright registrations aforesaid shall be deposited in the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress at Washington, District of Columbia, and the register of all other certificates of registration aforesaid shall be deposited in the United States Patent Office at Washington, District of Columbia, and there preserved for future reference. Certified copies of any such certifi- cates shall, upon request, be furnished by the Register of Copyrights or the Commissioner of Patents, as the case may be, either during 36525 °- 38 -38 Pacific Mercado In- ternational Exposi- tion, Los Angeles, Calif. Protection of copy- rights and patents of foreign exhibitors. Branch copyright, etc., offices on grounds. Certificates of pro- prietorship. Registers to be kept. Deposit at close of Exposition. Certified copies of certificates.

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