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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 637, 638-NOV. 13 , 1942 be elected from each district for such office, receiving the highest number of votes of the electors of such district for such office, shall Tie votes. be elected. In. case of a tie vote in any election for senator or repre- sentative, the candidates affected shall settle the question by lot. Vacancies. "(e) In case of a vacancy in either branch of the legislature the Governor shall order an election to fill such vacancy, giving due and proper notice thereof. Regular biennialses "(f) Each member of the legislature shall be paid by the United iPay and mileage of States the sum of $15 per day for each day's attendance while the members. legislature is in session, at each regular biennial session thereof, and mileage, in addition, for each such session, at the rate of 15 cents per mile for each mile from his home to the capital and return by Other legislative ex- the nearest traveled route. All other legislative expenses, including penses salaries and mileage of the members at other than regular biennial sessions, shall be paid by the Territory." 37 Stat. 5 1 4. SEC. 2 . Section 7 of said Act is amended to read as follows: 48U.S.C. 175. residing officers. "SEC. 7. ORGANIZATION OF LEGISLATURE.- That when the legislature shall convene under the law, the senate and house of representatives shall each organize by the election of one of their number as pre- siding officer, who shall be designated in the case of the senate as 'president of the senate' and in the case of the house of representa- Subordinate officers. tives as 'speaker of the house of representatives,' and by the election by each body of the subordinate officers provided for in section 'eighteen hundred and sixty-one of the United States Revised Stat- utes of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,' and each of said sub- ordinate officers shall receive the compensation provided in that section, which shall be paid by the Territory." 37 Stat. 516. SEC. 3. Section 15 of said Act is amended to read as follows: 48U.S.C.§87. Annual appropria- "SEC. 15. PAYMENT OF LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES.-T here shall be annu- tions by Congress. ally appropriated by Congress a sum sufficient to pay the salaries and mileage of members of the legislature for each regular biennial ses- Appropriations by sion. All other legislative expenses, including the salaries and mile- age of the members of the legislature for other than the regular bien- nial sessions, the salaries of the employees of the legislature, the printing of the laws, and all other incidental expenses of the legisla- Disbursements. ture, shall be appropriated and paid by the Territory. All of the sums so appropriated by Congress shall be disbursed by the Governor of Alaska, under sole instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Governor shall report quarterly to the Secretary of the Treas- Restriction. ury for the manner in which said funds have been expended. No expenditure, to be paid out of money to be appropriated by Con- gress, shall be made by the Governor or by the legislature for objects not authorized by the acts of Congress making appropriations nor beyond the sum thus appropriated for such objects." When effective. SEC. 4 . (a) The amendments made by this Act shall take effect only with respect to the seventeenth and succeeding legislatures of the Territory of Alaska. Approved, November 13, 1942. [CHAPTER 638] November 13, 1942 AN ACT [H. R. 7528] · To amend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 by providing for the [Public Law 772] extension of liability. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the nSeletvce Taining United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of 1940, amendments the first sentence of section 3 (a) of the Selective Training and [56 STAT.