PUBLIC LAW 679 - 83D CONGRESS CHAPTER 1017 - 2D SESSION H. R. 8634 AN ACT

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• Publication Date: August 27, 1954
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Public Law 679 - 83d Congress
Chapter 1017 - 2d Session
H. R. 8634
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of. Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembed, That subsection (b) Guam.
of section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam (64 Stat. 389), is amended Distriot court
by striking out the period at the end of such subsection and inserting prooeaure.
in lieu thereof the following : "; except that no provisions of any such 48 Usc 1424.
rules which authorize or require trial by jury or the prosecution of
offenses by indictment by a grand jury instead of by information shall 68 stat. 882.
be applicable to the District Court of Guam unless and until made so 68 s a ? 883.'
applicable by laws enacted by the Legislature of Guam and exce tfurther that the terms `attorney forte government' an mite tates Definitions.
attorney', as used in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall,
when applicable to cases arising under the laws of Guam, mean the
Attorney General of Guam or such other person or persons as may be
authorized by the laws of Guam to act therein."
SEc. 2. The amendment made by section 1 shall be deemed to be in Effeotive date.
effect as of August 11 1950. -
Sxc. 3. No conviction of a defendant in a criminal proceeding in the Nonreversal of
District Court of Guam heretofore had shall be reversed or set aside prior oonvio-
on the ground that the defendant was not indicted by a grand jury or tion.
tried by a petit jury.
SEc. 4. If any particular provision of this Act, or the application separability.
thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder
of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Approved August 27, 1954.
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