56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 584 , 585-OCT. 9 , 1942 SEC. 2 . The duties performed by the register at Anchorage and by the ex officio register and the ex officio receiver at Nome and at Fair- banks prior to the abolishment of such offices thereafter shall be performed at each office under the title "register" by such civil-service employee of the Department of the Interior as the Secretary of the Interior may appoint or designate for that purpose: Provided, That the present incumbent of the office of register at Anchorage is hereby covered into the classified civil service, and, subject to civil-service rules, shall be appointed to a position at the Anchorage office and designated to act at that office under the title "register'. SEC. 3 . The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to desig- nate an additional employee of the Department of the Interior for each land office in Alaska to act as register pursuant to the provisions of the Acts of October 28, 1921 (42 Stat. 208), and May 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 558). SEC. 4 . The employees designated to serve as registers and acting registers shall be charged with all the obligations, duties, and responsi- bilities provided by law which are applicable to registers and acting registers, respectively, of the district land offices. SEC. 5 . No provision of this Act shall relieve any public land claimant from the necessity of making payment of fees, commissions, or purchase money required by law or regulation in connection with an application, selection, location, or lease of public lands in Alaska, and all. such payments, when made, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. SEC. 6 . Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing in Alaska on the date of the approval of this Act are hereby continued. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered in his discretion to change the boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the location of any land office for such land district or land region. SEC. 7. Section 12 of the Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 409, 414), and sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1232), are hereby repealed. The Act of February 14, 1902 (32 Stat. 5, 20), is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words: "That on and after June first, nineteen hundred and two, the number of land offices and land districts in the district of Alaska is hereby reduced to one, the location of which shall be fixed by the President." The proviso contained in the Act of May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 684), is hereby amended to read as follows: "That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the Territory of Alaska." Approved, October 9, 1942. [CHAPTER 585] October 9,1942 To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens [H.i. 71521 residing abroad. [Public Law 736 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter IV of the Nationality Act of 1940, section 409, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 409. Nationality shall not be lost under the provisions of sec- tion 404 or 407 of this Act until the expiration of four years following the date of the approval of this Act: Provided, however, That a naturalized person who shall have become subject to the presumption Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. 54 Stat. 1171 . 8U.S.C., Supp.I, I809. Time restriction on loss of nationality. 54 Stat. 1170 . 8U.S.C. § 804,807. Promo. 779 Appointment of civil-service employees as registers. Proviso. Present incumbent at Anchorage. Acting registers. 43U.S.C.§ 73,75. Duties. Payment of es, etc. Continuance of ex- isting districts and offices. Changesauthorized. Repeals and amend- ments. 48U.S.C.if38- 367. 43U. S.. isO. AN A(fT
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