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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 33-35--FEB. 24, 1938 memorandum agreement of March 9, 1921, approved March 31, 1921, as amended, wherein provision is made among other things for pay- ment of the actual cost of the two hundred and fifty thousand acre- feet of water for certain of the lands under the Wapato Indian irri- gation project so as to extend payment of the balance of the cost of such water over a twenty-four-year period commencing with the payment due December 31, 1937. Approved, February 24, 1938. [CHAPTER 34] AN ACT To amend the Act authorizing the Attorney General to compromise suits on certain contracts of insurance. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth para- graph following the subtitle "Veterans' Administration" in the Inde- pendent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 283, ch. 101), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "That the Attorney General of the United States is hereby author- ized to agree to a judgment to be rendered by the presiding judge of the United States court having jurisdiction of the case, pursuant to compromise approved by the Attorney General upon the recommen- dation of the United States attorney charged with the defense, upon such terms and for sums within the amount claimed to be payable, in any suit brought under the provisions of the World War Vet- erans' Act, 1924, as amended, on a contract of yearly, renewable term insurance which may be now pending or hereafter may be filed, and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to make payments in accordance with any such judgment: Provided, That the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of disbursing officers of the Veterans' Administration for all payments of insurance made in accordance with any such judgment: Provided fwrther, That all such judgments shall constitute final settlement of the claim and no appeal therefrom shall be authorized." Approved, February 24, 1938. 81 February 24,1938 [S. 2383] [Public, No. 434] Veterans' Adminis- tration. 48 Stat. 300. 38 U.S. C. §445b. Compromise judg- ments; yearly, renew- able term insurance. 43 Stat. 607. 38 U. S.C. §421. Provisos. Credit allowed in accounts for payments made. Judgments to con- stitute final settle- ment of claim. [CHAPTER 35] AN ACT February 24, 1938 To exempt from taxation certain property of the Society of the Cincinnati, a In. R. 9024] corporation of the District of Columbia. [Public, No. 435] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 20 of the Code of the District of Columbia (to March 4, 1921) be amended by adding to such title a paragraph numbered 1 as follows: "The property situated in square numbered 67, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, described as lot numbered 42, as per plat recorded in the office of the surveyor for the District of Columbia in liber 27 at folio 135; lot numbered 43, as per plat recorded in said surveyor's office in liber 28 at folio 25; lot num- bered 49 as per plat recorded in said surveyor's office in liber 40 at folio 15; and part of original lot numbered 5 described as fol- lows: Beginning for the same at the northeast corner of said lot 'So in original. 36525--3:--- District of Colum- bia. Society of the Cin- cinnati; certain prop- erty exempted from taxation. Description.

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