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PUBLIC LAW 222-AUG. 8, 1953

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SEC. 2. The amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to 65 Stat. 44. affcct in any way the application of Public Law 38, Eighty-second nJte. " ^ ^ ^"^^^ Congress, to copper scrap. Approved August 7, 1953.

Public Law 222

CHAPTER 376

August 8, 1953 AN ACT 1^^'^^^, To amend section 456 of title 28 of the United States Code with respect to the official stations of justices and judges.

Be is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Justice s and United States of America in Congrefis assembled, That section 456 of judges. T r a v e l i n g ex- title 28 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows: pense s. "§ 456. Traveling expenses of justices and judges 62 Stat. 908. •'Each justice or judge of the United States and each retired justice or judge recalled or designated and assigned to active duty shall, upon his certificate, be paid by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts all necessary traveling expenses, and also his reasonable maintenance expenses actually incurred, not exceeding $15 per day, while attending court or transacting official business at a place other than his official station. Official stations. "The official station of the tIJhief Justice of the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court and the judges of the Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, shall be the District of Columbia. "The official station of the judges of the Customs Court shall be New York City. "The official station of each circuit and district judge, including each district judge in the Territories and possessions, shall be that place where a district court is regularly held and at or near which the judge performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, which is nearest the place where he maintains an actual abode in which he customarily lives. "Each circuit judge and each district judge whose official station is not fixed expressly in the second paragraph of this section shall upon his appointment and from time to time thereafter as his official station may change, notify the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in writing of his actual abode and his official station." Approved August 8, 1953. Public Law 223 August 8, 1953 [S. 977]

64 Stat. 157. 42 USC 1875.

CHAPTER 377

AN ACT To anaend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hotise of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 16 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 is amended by striking out "not to exceed $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and not to exceed $15,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter" and inserting in lieu thereof "such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act". Approved August 8, 1953.

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