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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 465, 466-JUNE 16, 1938 [52 STAT. [CHAPTER 465] AN ACT June 16, 1938 AN ACT IH. R. 8565] Defining the compensation of persons holding positions as deputy clerks and [Public, No. 645] commissioners of United States district courts, and for other purposes. United States dis- trict courts. Clerks, deputies, and assistants, ac- ceptance of compen- sation from other sources forbidden. Exception, if ap- pointed commission- ers; rate limitation. June 16, 1938 [H. R. 6243] [Public, No. 646] Oglethorpe Nation- al Trail and Parkway. Preamble. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, No clerk or deputy clerk or assistant in the office of the clerk of a United States district court shall receive any compensation or emoluments through any office or position to which he may be appointed by the court, other than that received as such clerk, deputy clerk, or assistant, whether from the United States or from private litigants, and the acceptance of payment for personal services from private litigants shall be deemed a vacation of their appointments, but clerks of United States district courts, their deputies and assistants, who are or may be appointed United States commissioners, may receive compensation for both offices in an aggregate amount not exceeding the rate of $3,000 per annum. Approved, June 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 466] AN ACT To authorize a survey of the old Indian trail and the highway known as "Ogle- thorpe Trail" with a view of constructing a national roadway on this route to be known as "The Oglethorpe National Trail and Parkway." Whereas the ancient Indian trail, extending from Savannah, the scene of the English colonization of Georgia, northwestwardly along the route of the Savannah River in the direction of the city of Augusta, and thence in a northwesterly direction, furnished a trail along which passed the great Indian migrations and also fur- nished a means of communication between the Indian tribes travel- ing from the Middle West and North to the Southeast; and Whereas General Oglethorpe, in establishing a thoroughfare from Savannah to Augusta (upon returning, in September 1739, from his famous treaty conference with the Creek Nation, which was held at Coweta), followed this ancient Indian trail-this thorough- fare having been used thereafter by the colonists of Georgia in establishing their trading posts and outposts along the banks of the Savannah River into the great heart of the southeastern terri- tory of the United States; and Whereas this thoroughfare from Savannah to Augusta was desig- nated in 1780 as a British military road; and Whereas for nearly three-quarters of a century this thoroughfare was used as a stage road, President George Washington having traveled this road during his southern tour in 1791 in going from Savannah to Augusta; and Whereas many important and historic sites are located on or near this road, including (ascending from Savannah) Old Yamacraw; the Hermitage Plantation; New Yamacraw; the Indian Mound Irene (site of John Wesley's Mission); Mrs. Musgroves Cowpen; Joseph's Town; Mulberry Grove (Nathanael Greene's plantation and site of invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney); the town of Abercorn; Dacre's Tavern; New Ebenezer; Old Ebenezer (site of the Salzburger settlement in 1734); the Palachocolas river crossing; Mount Pleasant (site of the trading post and fort); Hudson's Ferry; Uchee Town; Brier Creek Battlefield (site of important Revolutionary War battle); Burton's Ferry; Telfare's Saw Mill; Telfare's Plantation; Stony Bluff (site of prehistoric Indian stone implement factory); Gorham's Ferry; Shell Bluff 752

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