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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 304, 328 -NOV. 22, 28, 1943 [57 STAT. graph of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act making further provi- sion for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes", approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 322), as amended by the Act approved March 2, 1921 (41 Stat. 1204, U. S. C ., title 48, sec. 102; Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933, sec. 1092), is hereby amended to read as follows: "One general term of court shall be held each year at Juneau, and such additional terms at other places in the first division as the Judi- cial Council for the Ninth Judicial Circuit may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Nome, and such additional terms at other places in the second division as the Judicial Council for the Ninth Judicial Circuit may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Anchorage, and such additional terms at other places in the third division as the Judicial Council for the Ninth Judicial Circuit may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Fairbanks, and such additional terms at other places in the fourth division as the Judicial Council for the Ninth Specialterms. Judicial Circuit may direct. Each of the judges is authorized and directed to hold such special terms of court as may be necessary for the public welfare or for the dispatch of the business of the court at such times and places in their respective divisions as any of them, respectively, may deem expedient, or as the Judicial Council for the expenses. court Ninth Judicial Circuit may direct; and each shall have authority to employ interpreters and to make allowances for the necessary expenses Court stenographers Of his court and to employ an official court stenographer at such compensation as shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative otice of terms Office of the United States Courts. At least thirty days' notice shall be given by the judge, or the clerk, of the time and place of holding the several terms of the court." Approved November 22, 1943. [CHAPTER 328] November 28, 1943 [S. 321] [I'ublic .Law1911 I)Dlrprtml lt of the lnthri.r. I ea.vs, etc.,collection procedure. Regulations. AN ACT To facilitate and simplify collection procedure in the Department of the Interior. Be it enacted by the Senate and Howse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That leases, permits. licenses, contracts, agreements, and other instruments providing for payments to the United States on account of the use of lands or waters under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, or on account of the sale of products of such lands or waters, or on account of other transactions incident to the administration of such lands or waters, including contributions by cooperators, but excluding sales of used equipment, shall be exempt from the provisions of section 3743 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (title 41, U. S . C ., sec. 20), when the lease or other instruments do not require payment to the Govern- ment in excess of $300 in any one fiscal year: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe from time to time regula- tions requiring that originals or copies of any class or group of documents within the foregoing exemption, in the circumstances and upon the conditions designated by him in such regulations, shall be deposited in the General Accounting Office for audit purposes. Approved November 28, 1943. 592

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