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 920 62 Stat. 915; 70 Stat. 1026; 75 Stat. 5 2 1.

PUBLIC LAW 91-448-OCT. 14, 1970

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title 28, United States Code, section (505, and subject to the conditions of that section, a budget for each organization for each fiscal year and shall out of the appropriations therefor make payments to and on behalf of each organization. Payments under this subparagraph to an organization shall be in lieu of payments under subsection (d) or (e). "(B)

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DEFENDER

ORGANIZATION.—A

Community

Defender Organization shall be a nonprofit defense counsel service established and administered by any group authorized by the plan to provide representation. The organization shall be eligible to furnish attorneys and receive payments under this section if its bylaws are set forth in the plan of the district or districts in which it will serve. Each organization shall submit to the Judicial (Conference of the United States an annual report setting forth its activities and financial position and the anticipated caseload and expenses for the coming year. Upon application an organization may, to the extent approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States: " (i) receive an initial grant for expenses necessary to establish the organization; and "(ii) in lieu of payments under subsection (d) or (e), receive periodic sustaining grants to provide representation and other expenses pursuant to this section." (c) A new subsection (1) is added as follows: "(1) APPLICABILITT I N THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—The provisions of this Act, other than subsection (h) of section 1, shall be applicable in the District of Columbia. The plan of the District of Columbia shall be approved jointly by the Judicial Council of the District of Columbia Circuit and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals." SEC. 2. A United States commissioner for a district may exercise any power, function, or duty authorized to be performed by a United States magistrate under the amendments made by section 1 of this Act if such commissioner had authority to perform such power, function, or duty prior to the enactment of such amendments. SEC. 3. The amendments made by section 1 of this Act shall become effective one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment. Approved October 14, 1970.

Public Law 91-448 October 14, 1970 [H. R. 14485]

U.S. postage meter stamps. Counterfeiting, prohibition. 62 Stat. 713; Ante, p. 777.

AN ACT To amend sections 501 and 504 of title 18, United States Code, so as to strengthen the law relating to the counterfeiting of postage meter stamps or other improper uses of the metered mail system. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) notwithstanding the amendment made to section 501 of title 18, United States Code, such section is amended to read as follows: "Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, postage meter stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; or "Whoever makes or prints, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell, any such forged or counterfeited postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, postal card, die, plate, or engraving; or
 * ^§ 501. Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and postal cards

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