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Volume 45

Public Law 70–45

Limiting the operation of sections 198 and 203 of title 18 of the Code of Laws of the United States.

Approved December 21, 1928

Statutory text

Joint Resolution

Limiting the operation of sections 198 and 203 of title 18 of the Code of Laws of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That nothing in

Counsel in suits cancel naval oil leases.

Removal of prohibition against employment of, in claims, etc.

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U. S. Code, pp. 474, 475.

Vol. 43, p. 6.

sections 198 or 203 of title 18 of the Code of Laws of the United States (sections 109 and 113, Criminal Code) or any other Act of Congress forbidding any person in the employ of the United States or acting in any official capacity under them from acting as agent or attorney for another before any department or branch of the Government or from receiving pay for so acting shall be deemed to apply to counsel serving under the provisions of S. J. Res. 54, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, approved February 8, 1924.

Approved, December 21, 1928.

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