63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., IST SESS. - CH. 383 -AUG. 2, 1949 [CHAPTER 383] AN ACT To transfer the office of the probation officer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the office of the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, and the Commission on Mental Health, from the government of the District of Columbia to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for budgetary and administrative purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the office of the probation officer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the office of the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, and the Commission on Mental Health, are hereby trans- ferred from the government of the District of Columbia to the Admin- istrative Office of the United States Courts for budgetary and adminis- trative purposes, and the provisions of chapter 41 of title 28, United States Code, shall apply to such offices. SEC. 2. The provisions of title 18, sections 3654, 3655, and 3656 shall apply to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Accordingly, the first paragraph of section 3654 of title 18 is amended by striking therefrom the words, "except in the District of Columbia", so that said paragraph shall read as follows: "Any court having original jurisdiction to try offenses against the United States may appoint one or more suitable persons to serve as probation officers within the jurisdiction and under the direction of the court making such appointment." SEC. 3 . That section 929 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, as enacted June 22, 1874, as amended (title 19, sec. 401, D. C . Code, 1940), is further amended by adding the following sentence: "The Register of Wills shall be appointed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and shall be subject to removal by that court." SEC. 4. That the office of the Register of Wills shall be a part of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. SEC. 5. That the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia shall pay into the Treasury all fees, costs, and other moneys collected by him (except uncollected fees not required by Act of Congress to be pre- paid), and shall make returns thereof to the Director of the Adminis- trative Office of the United States Courts under regulations prescribed by him. SEC. 6. That the annual estimates of expenditures and appropria- tions necessary for the maintenance and operation of the courts sub- mitted by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall include estimates of appropriations for the opera- tion and maintenance of the office of the probation officer of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the office of the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, and the Commission on Mental Health. SEC. 7. That title III of an Act entitled "An Act to provide revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved July 26, 1939 (53 Stat. 1107; title 11, sec. 330, D. C . Code, 1940), is amended to read as follows: "There shall be credited to the District of Columbia that proportion of the fees and fines collected by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, including fees and fines collected by the offices of the clerk of that court, of the Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, and of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, as the amount paid by the District of Columbia toward salaries and expenses of such court and of the offices of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia and of the United August 2, 1949 [H. R. 4705] [Public Law 201] District of Colum- bia. Transfer of certain offices. 62 Stat. 913. 28 U. S. C., Supp. II, 5§ 601-610. Post, p . 881. 62 Stat. 843. 18 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 36543656. Ante, p. 97. Appointment ofpro- bation officers. Appointment of Register of Wills. Payment of fees into Treasury, etc. Estinates of appro- pri ations. Credit of fees and fines to D. C. 491
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