Volume 49 · 1514
Public Law 74–549
Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases.
Approved June 15, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the employment
Criminal Code.
Vol. 35, p. 1107; U. S. C., pp. 734, 735.
R. S., sec. 190, p. 30.
Operation of designated sections limited with respect to counsel in certain cases.
of Angus D. MacLean as an attorney or counselor specially employed, retained, or appointed by the Attorney General or under authority of the Department of Justice to assist in the prosecution of the case pending in the Supreme Court of the United States entitled “The Sugar Institute, Incorporated, and others, appellants, against The United States of America” (docket numbered 268, October term, 1935), or the investigation and prosecution of any case pending either in the Federal or State courts, in the western district of North Carolina, involving lands owned or claimed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, or by the United States in their behalf, or other public lands owned or involved in litigation in such western district of North Carolina shall not be construed to be employment within the meaning of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code of the United States, as amended (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 198 and 203), or section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 99).
Approved, June 15, 1936.