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Public Law 298.

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(/us/pl/74/297).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Cordova, Alaska.May construct, etc., certain municipal public structures. That the incorporated town of Cordova, in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, reconstruct, enlarge, extend, improve, and repair all or any part of the municipal public structures, utilities, works, and improvements in said town hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
(a)School buildings;
(b)wharf;
(c)sewers;
(d)city hall, offices, and fire-department house; and
(e)such other municipal public structures, utilities, works, and improvements as may be selected and approved by the common council of said town Bond issue.of Cordova; and for such purposes to issue bonds in any amount not exceeding $50,000. Sec. 2. Special election to authorize issue. Before said bonds shall be issued a special election shall be ordered by the common council of the said town of Cordova, Alaska, at which election the question of whether such bonds shall be issued in the amount above specified for the purpose hereinbefore set forth shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said town of Cordova, Alaska, whose names appear on the last assessment roll of Form of ballot.said town for purposes of municipal taxation. The form of the ballot shall be such that the electors may vote for or against the issuance of bonds for the purposes herein specified up to the amount Notice to be posted.herein authorized. Not less than twenty days’ notice of such election shall be given to the public by posting notices of same in three conspicuous places within the corporate limits of the town of Cordova, Alaska, one of which shall be at the front door of the United States post office at Cordova, Alaska. The election notice shall specifically state the amount of bonds proposed to be issued Conduct of election.for the purposes herein specified. The registration for such election, the manner of conducting the same, and the canvass of the returns of said election shall be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the requirements of law in general or special elections in said municipality; and such bonds shall be issued for the purposes herein authorized only upon condition that not less than a majority of the votes cast at such election in said municipality shall be in favor of the issuance of said bonds for such purpose. Sec. 3. Form, etc., of bonds. The bonds herein authorized shall be coupon in form and shall mature in not to exceed thirty years from the date thereof. Denominations; maturity dates.Such bonds may bear such date or dates, may be in such denomination or denominations, may mature in such amounts and at such time or times, not exceeding thirty years from the date thereof, may be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, may 673be sold at either public or private sale, may be nonredeem able or redeemable (either with or without premium), and may carry such registration privileges as to either principal and interest, or principal only, as shall be prescribed by the common council of said town of Cordova. The bonds shall bear the signatures of the mayor and ofSignatures. the clerk of the town of Cordova, and shall have impressed thereon the official seal of said municipality. The coupons to be annexed to such bonds shall bear the facsimile signatures of the mayor and of the clerk of said municipality. In case any of the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear on the bonds shall cease to be such officers before delivery of such bonds, said signatures or counter-signatures, whether manual or facsimile, shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if said officers had remained in office until such delivery. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rateInterest rate. to be fixed by the common council of the town of Cordova, not to exceed, however, 6 per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and said bonds shall be sold at not less than the principal amount plus accrued interest. Sec. 4. The bonds herein authorized to be issued shall be generalBonds deemed municipal obligations. obligations of the town of Cordova, Territory of Alaska, payable as to both interest and principal from ad valorem taxes which shall be levied upon all of the taxable property within the corporate limits of such municipality in an amount sufficient to pay the interest on and the principal of such bonds as and when the same become due and payable. Sec. 5. No part of the funds arising from the sale of said bondsUse of funds restricted. shall be used for any purpose or purposes other than those specified in this Act. Said bonds shall be sold only when and in such amountsSale limitation. as the common council of the town of Cordova shall direct; and the proceeds thereof shall be distributed only for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned and under the orders and direction of said common council from time to time as such proceeds may be required for said purposes. Sec. 6. The town of Cordova is hereby authorized to enter intoContracts authorized with United States, for bond sale.Vol. 48, pp. 200, 351. contracts with the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof under the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and Acts amendatory thereof and Acts supplemental thereto, and revisions thereof, and the regulations made in pursuance thereof, and under any further Acts of the Congress of the United States to encourage public works, for the relief of unemployment, or for any other public purpose, including the Emergency Relief*Ante*, p. 115. Appropriation Act of 1935, for the sale of bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or for the acceptance of a grant of money to aid said municipality in financing any public works; or to enter into contracts with any persons or corporations, public or private, for the sale of such bonds; and such contracts may contain such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between the common council of said town of Cordova and the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any such purchaser. Sec. 7. The Act approved April 12, 1930, to authorize the incorporatedVol 46, p. 161, repealed. town of Cordova, Alaska, to issue bonds for the construction of a trunk-sewer system and a bulkhead or retaining wall, and for other purposes (Public, Numbered 18 11So in original., Seventy-first Congress, second session, 46 Stat. 161), is hereby repealed. Approved, August 21, 1935. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain”, approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U. S. C., title 30, secs. 185, 221, 223, 226), as amended. 1935-08-21 599 Chapter 49 Stat. 674 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public 674 [CHAPTER 599.] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain”, approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U. S. C., title 30, secs. 185, 221, 223, 226), as amended. August 21, 1935.[[S. 3311](/us/bill/74/s/3311).][[Public, No. 297½](/us/pl/74/297½).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, General Leasing Act, amendments.Vol. 41, pp. 441–442, 443, 449; Vol. 46, pp. 1007, 1523, amended.[U. S. C., pp. 1343, 1346](/us/usc/pp1343/1346). That sections 13, 14, 17, and 28 of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain”, approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U. S. C., title 30, secs. 185, 221, 223, 226), as amended, are amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 13. Oil and gas deposits.Prospecting permits; granting. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, and directed, under such necessary and proper rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any applicant qualified under this Limited to two years.Act a prospecting permit, which shall give the exclusive right, for a Maximum area.period not exceeding two years, to prospect for oil or gas upon not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land wherein such deposits belong to the United States and are not within any Conditions.known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field upon condition that the permittee shall begin drilling operations within six months from the date of the permit, and shall, within one year from and after the date of permit, drill one or more wells for oil or gas to a depth of not less than five hundred feet each, unless valuable deposits of oil or gas shall be sooner discovered, and shall, within two years from date of the permit, drill for oil or gas to an aggregate depth of not less than two thousand feet unless valuable deposits of *Proviso*.Date of filing applications.No preferential permits.oil or gas shall be sooner discovered: *Provided*, That said application was filed ninety days prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act. It being the intention of Congress that there shall be no discrimination as between applicants for prospecting permits, the Secretary of the Interior is directed, in every case where one or more permits have been issued, to issue permits to all other applicants for prospecting permits on the same structure, even though one or more of the permittees has developed the said structure into a producing oil or gas field, if said application for permit was filed prior to the development of such structure into a producing oil or gas field, and said applicant has otherwise complied with the law: Royalty to be paid when permit issued after discovery.*Provided further*, That when such permit is issued upon any structure after discovery, the royalty to be paid upon the preferential lease provided for in section 14 hereof shall be 10 per centum in amount or value of the production and the annual payment of a Time limit on applications.rental as provided in said section 14. No prospecting permit shall be granted upon any application filed after ninety days prior to the Extension of permit; conditions.effective date of this amendatory Act. The Secretary of the Interior may, if he shall find that the permittee has been unable with the exercise of diligence to test the land in the time granted by the permit, extend any such permit for such time, not exceeding two years, and upon such conditions as he shall prescribe: *Provided*, Valid outstanding permits.That all permits outstanding on the effective date of this amendatory Act, which on said date shall not be subject to cancelation for violation of the law or operating regulations and which have theretofore been extended by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be, and the same are hereby, extended until December 31, 1937, subject Conditional extension of periods.to the applicable conditions of such prior extensions: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, to extend for an additional period of not to exceed one year any permit on which diligence has been exercised or on which drilling or prospecting has been suspended at the direction of the Secretary during the extension period hereby granted, but no exten-675sion of any permit beyond December 31, 1938, shall be granted under authority of this Act, or any other Act. Whether the landsLocation sites. sought in any such application and permit are surveyed or unsurveyed the applicant shall, prior to filing his application for permit, locate such lands in a reasonably compact form and according toDimensions. the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys if the land be surveyed; and in an approximately square or rectangular tract if the land be an unsurveyed tract, the length of which shall not exceed two and one-half times its width, and if he shall cause to be erected upon the land for which a permit is sought a monument not less than four feet high, at some conspicuous place thereon, and shall post a notice in writing on or near said monument, statingNotices; posting; contents. that an application for permit will be made within thirty days after date of posting said notice, the name of the applicant, the date of the notice, and such a general description of the land to be covered by such permit by reference to courses and distances from such monument and such other natural objects and permanent monuments as will reasonably identify the land, stating the amount thereof in acres, he shall during the period of thirty days following such marking and posting, be entitled to a preference right over others to a permit for the land so identified. The applicant shall, within ninety days after receivingCorner marks on tracts. a permit, mark each of the corners of the tract described in the permit upon the ground with substantial monuments, so that the boundaries can be readily traced on the ground, and shall post in a conspicuous place upon the lands a notice that such permit has been granted and a description of the lands covered thereby: *Provided further*,Drilling periods in Alaska. That in the Territory of Alaska prospecting permits not more than five in number may be granted to any qualified applicant for periods not exceeding four years, actual drilling operations shall begin within two years from date of permit, and oil and gas wells shall be drilled to a depth of not less than five hundred feet, unless valuable deposits of oil or gas shall be sooner discovered, within three years from date of the permit and to an aggregate depth of not less than two thousand feet unless valuable deposits of oil or gas shall be sooner discovered, within four years from date of permit: *Provided further*, That in said Territory the applicant shallPreference rights of applicant. have a preference right over others to a permit for land identified by temporary monuments and notice posted on or near the same for six months following such marking and posting, and upon receiving a permit he shall mark the corners of the tract described in the permit upon the ground with substantial monuments within one year after receiving such permit: *Provided further*, That any personExchange of valid permits for leases hereunder. holding a permit to prospect for oil or gas which shall not be subject to cancelation for violation of the law or operating regulations or which shall have been extended under the authority of this or any other Act, in force on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act, or for which timely and acceptable application for extension shall have been filed prior to said date, shall have the right prior to the termination of such permit to exchange the same for a lease to the area described in the permit without proof of discovery, at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum or value of the production,Royalty. to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior by general rule and under such other conditions as are fixed in section 17 of this Act: *Provided further*, That no such lease shall be subject to the acreage limitations of section 27 of this Act, as amended, untilAcreage limitations not to apply.Vol. 41, p. 448; [U. S. C., p. 1342](/us/usc/49/p1342).Leases to supersede prospecting permits. one year after the discovery of valuable deposits of oil or gas thereon: *Provided further*, That any application for any prospecting permit filed after ninety days prior to the effective date of this 676amendatory Act shall be considered as an application for lease under Rentals.section 17 hereof: *And provided further*, That upon leases so granted in lieu of existing permits or granted to applicants for permits, no rentals shall be payable for the first two lease years, unless valuable deposits of oil or gas are sooner discovered within the boundaries of such lease. “Sec. 14. Lease to permittee upon discovery. That upon establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of oil or gas have been discovered within the limits of the land embraced in any permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for one-fourth of the land *Provisos*.Maximum acreage.embraced in the prospecting permit: *Provided*, That the permittee shall be granted a lease for as much as one hundred and sixty acres of said lands, if there be that number of acres within the permit. Location sites; dimensions.The area to be selected by the permittee, shall be in reasonably compact form and, if surveyed, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; if unsurveyed, to be surveyed by the Expenses of surveys.Government at the expense of the applicant for lease in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the lands leased shall be conformed to and be taken in accordance with the legal subdivisions of such surveys; deposits made to cover expense of surveys shall be deemed appropriated for that purpose, and any excess deposits may be repaid to the person Term, royalty, and rental.or persons making such deposit or their legal representatives. Such leases shall be for a term of twenty years upon a royalty of 5 per centum in amount or value of the production and the annual payment in advance of a rental of $1 per acre, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year, and shall continue in force otherwise as prescribed in section 17 hereof for leases issued prior to the effective date of this amendatory Preference right to remaining area.Minimum royalty, etc.Act. The permittee shall also be entitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his prospecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production nor more than the royalty rate prescribed by regulation in force on January 1, 1935, for secondary leases issued under this section, and under such other conditions as are fixed for oil or gas leases issued under section 17 of this Act the royalty to be determined by competitive bidding or fixed by such other method as Rejection of bids.the Secretary may by regulations prescribe: *Provided further*, That the Secretary shall have the right to reject any or all bids. “Sec. 17. Leases of known deposits to highest bidder, etc.Vol. 46, p. 1523. All lands subject to disposition under this Act which are known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits, except as herein otherwise provided, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior after the effective date of this amendatory Act, to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general Size of units limited.regulations. Such lands shall be leased in units of not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, which shall be as nearly compact in form as possible. Payment of bonus and royalty.Such leases shall be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such bonus as may be accepted and of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease, which shall be not less than 12½ per centum in amount Rentals.or value of the production and the payment in advance of a rental to be fixed in the lease of not less than 25 cents per acre per annum, which rental except as otherwise herein provided shall not be waived, suspended, or reduced unless and until a valuable deposit of oil or gas *Provisos*.Credit of rental against accrued royalties.Rental canceled during suspension of operations.shall have been discovered within the lands leased: *Provided*, That the rental paid for any one year shall be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year: *Provided further*, That in the event the Secretary of the Interior shall direct or shall assent to the suspension of operations or of production of oil or gas under any such lease, any payment of acreage rental as herein provided shall likewise be suspended during such period of suspension of operations or production: 677*And provided further*, That in the case of leases valuable only forUnproductive gas leases. the production of gas the Secretary of the Interior upon showing by the lessee that the lease cannot be successfully operated upon such rental or upon the royalty provided in the lease, may waive, suspend, or reduce such rental or reduce such royalty. “The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of more properlyConditional agreement may be required for conserving resources. conserving the oil or gas resources of any area, field, or pool, may require that leases hereafter issued under any section of this Act be conditioned upon an agreement by the lessee to operate, under suchCooperative plan. reasonable cooperative or unit plan for the development and operation of any such area, field, or pool as said Secretary may determine to be practicable and necessary or advisable, which plan shall adequately protect the rights of all parties in interest, including the United States: *Provided*, That all leases operated under such plan approved*Proviso*.Effect of. or prescribed by said Secretary shall be excepted in determining holdings or control under the provisions of any section of this Act. “Leases hereafter issued under this section shall be for a period ofPeriods of leases. five years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities when the lands to be leased are not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field, and for a period of ten years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities when the lands to be leased are within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Suspension of operations. no such lease shall be deemed to expire by reasons of suspension of prospecting, drilling, or production pursuant to any order or consent of the said Secretary: *Provided further*, That the person firstPreference rights to first qualified applicants, etc. making application for the lease of any lands not within any known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field who is qualified to hold a lease under this Act, including applicants for permits whose applications were filed after ninety days prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act shall be entitled to a preference right over others to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding at a royalty, in the case of oil, of 12½ per centum in amount or value ofRoyalty rates. the production when the said production does not exceed fifty barrels per well per day for the calendar month and of not less than 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production when the said production exceeds fifty barrels per well per day for the calendar month, and, in the case of gas, at a royalty of 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production when the said production does not exceed five million cubic feet per well per day for the calendar month and, when the said production exceeds five million cubic feet per well per day for the calendar month, at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production. “Leases issued prior to the effective date of this amendatory ActExisting leases to continue in force. shall continue in force and effect in accordance with the terms of such leases and the laws under which issued: *Provided*, That any*Provisos*.Development, under cooperative plan. such lease that has become the subject of a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation, or other plan for the conservation of the oil and gas of a single area, field, or pool, which plan has the approval of the Secretary of the Department or Departments having jurisdiction over the Government lands included in said plan as necessary or convenient in the public interest, shall continue in force beyond said period of twenty years until the termination of such plan: *And provided further*, That said Secretary or SecretariesReports of leases to Congress. shall report all leases so continued to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session after the date of such continuance. “Any cooperative or unit plan of development and operation,Rights reserved to modify any unit plan, etc. which includes lands owned by the United States, shall contain a provision whereby authority, limited as therein provided, is vested 678in the Secretary of the department or departments having jurisdiction over such land to alter or modify from time to time in his discretion the rate of prospecting and development and the quantity Suspension of drilling, etc., if necessary.and rate of production under said plan. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized whenever he shall deem such action necessary or in the public interest, with the consent of lessee, by order to suspend or modify the drilling or producing requirements of any oil and gas lease not subject to such a cooperative or unit plan, and no lease shall be deemed to expire by reason of the suspension of production pursuant to any such order. Compensation for drainage, by wells not Government owned.“Whenever it appears to the Secretary of the Interior that wells drilled upon lands not owned by the United States are draining oil or gas from lands or deposits owned in whole or in part by the United States, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate agreements whereby the United States or the United States and its permittees, lessees, or grantees shall be compensated for such drainage, such agreements to be made with the consent of the permittees and lessees affected thereby. Royalty reduction for small production.“Whenever the average daily production of the oil wells on an entire leasehold or on any tract or portion thereof segregated for royalty purposes shall not exceed ten barrels per well per day, or where the cost of production of oil or gas is such as to render further production economically impracticable the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of encouraging the greatest ultimate recovery of oil and in the interest of conservation of natural resources, is authorized to reduce the royalty on future production when in his judgment the wells cannot be successfully operated upon the royalty fixed in Applicability.the lease. The provision of this paragraph shall apply to all oil and gas leases issued under this Act, including those within an approved cooperative or unit plan of development and operation. Cancelation provisions.“Any lease issued after the effective date of this amendatory Act under the provisions of this section, except those earned as a preference right as provided in section 14 hereof, shall be subject to cancelation by the Secretary of the Interior after thirty days’ notice upon the failure of the lessee to comply with any of the provisions of the lease, unless or until the land covered by any such lease is Notice to be sent.known to contain valuable deposits of oil or gas. Such notice in advance of cancelation shall be sent the lease owner by registered letter directed to the lease owner’s record post-office address, and in case such letter shall be returned as undelivered, such notice shall also be posted for a period of thirty days in the United States Land Office for the district in which the land covered by such lease is situated, or in the event that there is no district land office for such leased land, then in the post office nearest such land. Leases covering lands known to contain valuable deposits of oil or gas shall be canceled only in the manner provided in section 31 of this Act. “Sec. 28. Rights-of-way on public domain for pipeline purposes. That rights-of-way through the public lands, including the forest reserves of the United States, may be granted by the Conditions.Secretary of the Interior for pipeline purposes for the transportation of oil or natural gas to any applicant possessing the qualifications provided in section 1 of this Act, to the extent of the ground occupied by the said pipe line and twenty-five feet on each side of the same under such regulations and conditions as to survey, location, application, and use as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and upon the express condition that such pipe lines shall be constructed, operated, and maintained as common carriers and shall accept, convey, transport, or purchase without discrimination, oil or natural gas produced from Government lands in the vicinity of the pipe line in such proportionate amounts as the Secretary of the Interior may, after a full hearing with due notice 679thereof to the interested parties and a proper finding of facts, determine to be reasonable: *Provided*, That the Government shall in*Provisos*.Reservation as to conveying oil of Government or of other producers. express terms reserve and shall provide in every lease of oil lands hereunder that the lessee, assignee, or beneficiary, if owner, or operator or owner of a controlling interest in any pipe line or of any company operating the same which may be operated accessible to the oil derived from lands under such lease, shall at reasonable rates and without discrimination accept and convey the oil of the Government or of any citizen or company not the owner of any pipe line, operating a lease or purchasing gas or oil under the provisions of this Act: *Provided further*, That no right-of-way shall hereafterApplicability to future grants. be granted over said lands for the transportation of oil or natural gas except under and subject to the provisions, limitations, and conditions of this section. Failure to comply with the provisions ofForfeiture for violation. this section or the regulations and conditions prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior shall be ground for forfeiture of the grant by the United States district court for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located in an appropriate proceeding.” " Sec. 2.
(a)That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized toIssue of new leases in lieu of present holdings. issue new leases to lessees holding oil or gas leases under any of the provisions of this Act at the time this amendatory Act becomes effective, such new leases to be in lieu of the leases then held byRoyalty rate. such lessees and to be at a royalty rate of not less than 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production and upon such other terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall by general rule prescribe: *Provided*, That no limitation of acreage not provided*Proviso*.New limitation of acreage restricted. for under the law or regulations under which any such old lease was issued shall be applicable to any such new lease.
(b)Nothing contained in this amendatory Act shall be construedSaving clause.Vol. 41, p. 437; Vol. 46, pp. 1007, 1523; [U. S. C., p. 1342](/us/usc/p1342). to affect the validity of oil and gas prospecting permits or leases previously issued under the authority of the said Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, and in existence at the time this amendatory Act becomes effective, or impair any rights or privileges which have accrued under such permits or leases. Sec. 3. That nothing in this amendatory Act shall be construedNaval oil reserves, etc., not affected. as affecting any lands within the borders of the naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves or agreements concerning operations thereunder or in relation to the same, but the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, with the consent of the President, toAgreements authorized.Vol. 46, p. 1523; [U. S. C., p. 1348](/us/usc/p1348). enter into agreements such as those provided for under the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1523), which agreement shall not, unless expressed therein, operate to extend the terms of any lease affected thereby. Approved, August 21, 1935. Relating to the continuance on the pay rolls of certain employees in cases of death or resignation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. 1935-08-21 600 Chapter 49 Stat. 679 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 600.] JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the continuance on the pay rolls of certain employees in cases of death or resignation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. August 21, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 189](/us/bill/74/hjres/189).][[Pub. Res., No. 52](/us/bill/74/pubres/52).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstandingClerks of deceased Member of the House.Continuance on roll, not exceeding six months.Vol. 44, p. 1148.[U. S. C., p. 13](/us/usc/p13). the provisions of the third paragraph under the heading “Clerical assistance to Senators” of section 1 of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 2. sec. 92a), in case of the death or resignation of a Member of the House during his term of office, the clerical assistants designated by 680him and borne upon the clerk hire pay rolls of the House of Representatives on the date of such death or resignation shall be continued upon such pay rolls at their respective salaries until the successor to such Member of the House is elected to fill the vacancy. In no case shall such clerical assistants be continued on said pay roll for a period exceeding six months after the date of death or resignation of a Member of the House. Sec. 2. Placed under direction of Clerk of the House. Any clerical assistants who continue on the House pay rolls under the provisions of this joint resolution shall, while so continued, perform their duties under the direction of the Clerk of the House, Removal for inattention to duties.and he is hereby authorized and directed to remove from such pay rolls any such clerks who are not attending to the duties for which their services are continued. Sec. 3. “Member of the House” construed. As used in this joint resolution the phrase “Member of the House” shall mean a Representative, Representative-elect, Delegate, Delegate-elect, Resident Commissioner, or Resident Commissioner-elect. Sec. 4. Effective date. This joint resolution shall be effective as of the beginning of the Seventy-fourth Congress, January 3, 1935. Approved, August 21, 1935. To fix the compensation of registers of district land offices. 1935-08-22 602 Chapter 49 Stat. 680 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 602.] AN ACT To fix the compensation of registers of district land offices. August 22, 1935.[[S. 2361](/us/bill/74/s/2361).][[Public, No. 298](/us/pl/74/298).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Compensation of registers.Vol. 45, p. 684; [U. S. C., p. 1828](/us/usc/p1828). That the Act entitled “An Act to fix the compensation of registers of local land offices, and for other purposes”, approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. L., ch. 661, p. 684), is hereby amended to read as follows: “That from and after the 1st day of the month following the approval of this Act the compensation of registers of district land offices shall be a salary of $2,000 per annum each, and all fees and commissions now allowed by law to such registers, but the salary, fees, and commissions of such *Proviso*.Juneau, Alaska.registers shall not exceed $3,600 each per annum: *Provided*, That the salary of the register of the Juneau land district, Alaska, shall be $3,600 per annum.” Approved, August 22, 1935. To establish a new division of the northern district of Georgia with terms of court to be held at Newnan, Georgia. 1935-08-22 603 Chapter 49 Stat. 680 74 1 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 603.] AN ACT To establish a new division of the northern district of Georgia with terms of court to be held at Newnan, Georgia. August 22, 1935.[[H. R. 7955](/us/bill/74/hr/7955).][
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