Chapter 396. To authorize the destruction of duplicate accounts and other papers filed in the offices of clerks of the United States district courts
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CHAP. 396.— An Act To authorize the destruction of duplicate accounts and other papers filed in the offices of clerks of the United States district courts. June 3, 1930.[[H. R. 5261](/us/bill/71/hr/5261).][[Public, No. 302](/us/pl/71/302).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, United States Courts.Duplicate accounts of marshals, etc., miscellaneous papers, etc., in, may be destroyed.Vol. 45, p. 998.[U.
S. C., p. 925; Supp. IV, p. 442](/us/usc/p925/442). That upon the recommendation of the clerk of a district court of the United States, and with the approval of the senior district judge of the proper district, the Attorney General may, in his discretion, authorize the destruction of duplicate accounts of United States marshals, attorneys, clerks, and commissioners, and other miscellaneous papers or records, not in cases, which have been on file for ten years or more, and the further retention of which will serve no useful purpose.
Sec. 2. Bankruptcy proceedings, proof of claims.Vol. 30, p. 560. That proofs of claims filed in bankruptcy proceedings in the United States district courts, pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved July 1, 1898, as amended, and which have remained on file in the offices of clerks of United States district May be destroyed after ten years.courts, for a period of ten years after final disposition of such proceedings, may be destroyed, pursuant to an order of the presiding judge of the court in which such proofs of claims have been filed, said order to be filed and entered of record in said court.
Approved, June 3, 1930.