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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 635 -637-NOV. 9, 13, 1942 Plans, regulations, and rentals. November 9. 1942 [H. R. 7621] [Public Law 770] D. C. Unemploy- ment Compensation Act, amendment. 49 Stat. 948; 55 Stat. 781. D. C. Code, Supp. I, § 46-303 (c). SEC. 2. All the construction and use provided for herein shall be in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and under such regulations and rentals as the said Secretary may make and establish in connection herewith. SEC. 3. No easement granted or enjoyed hereunder shall vest any title or interest in or to the above-mentioned parkway land. SEC. 4. The Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act as at any time. Approved, November 9, 1942. [CHAPTER 636] AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, approved August 28, 1935, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: In section 3 (c), on the second line, between the words "year" and "on", strike,out the figures "1943" and insert in lieu thereof the figures "1944". Approved, November 9, 1942. [CHAPTER 637] November 13, 1042 [H. R. 5468] AN ACT To amend the Organic Act of Alaska. Lr, .. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Legislature of United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of Alaska. the Act entitled "An Act to create a legislative assembly in the Terri- tory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other pur- 48 U S. C.§ 67-72 . poses", approved August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 512), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4 . THE LEGISLATURE.- (a) The legislative power and author- ity of the Territory shall be vested in a legislature, which shall con- Senate. sist of a senate and a house of representatives. The senate shall con- Membehip. sist of sixteen members, four from each of the four judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided by Act of Congress, each of whom shall have at the time of his election the qualifications of an elector in Alaska, and shall have been a resident and an inhabitant in the division from which he is elected for at least two years prior to the Term of office time of his election. The term of office of each member of the senate shall be four years, except that at the general election in Alaska in 1944 one member from each division, other than a member elected to fill the unexpired term of a senator previously elected, shall be elected for a term of two years. House of representa- "(b) The house of representatives shall consist of twenty-four tives. Membership. members elected from the four judicial divisions into which Alaska is now divided by Act of Congress. Each such division shall be entitled in the seventeenth to the twentieth legislatures, inclusive, to the following number of representatives: "First judicial division, eight representatives; "Second judicial division, four representatives; "Third judicial division, seven representatives; and "Fourth judicial division, five representatives. Certification of The United States Director of the Census shall, within one week number of repnta- tives to whIeach after the first meeting of the twentieth legislature and of each fifth division entited. legislature thereafter, certify to such legislature, and to the Secre- 1016 [56 STAT.

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