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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 633 -AUG. 9, 1939 [53 STAT. tion with the construction of a highway between Chorrera and Rio Hato, in the Republic of Panama, as authorized by the Act approved Ante, p. 1071. July 20, 1939 (Public, Numbered 200, Seventy-sixth Congress), $1,500,000, fiscal year 1940, to remain available until expended. CIVIL FUNCTIONS Damage claims, river and harbor work. 41 Stat. 1015. 33U.S.C.§564. Nicaragua, investi- gation, etc., of canal and highway. Flood control, Sac- ramento River, Calif. Ante, p. 859. 39 Stat. 949; 45 Stat. 539; 50 Stat. 849; ante, p. 859. 33U.S.C.§§703, 704. Property damage claims. 42 Stat. 1066. 31U.S.C.§§215- 217. CORPS OF ENGINEERS Claims for damages, river and harbor work: To pay claim for dam- ages under river and harbor work adjusted and determined by the War Department under the provision of section 9 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 5, 1920 (U. S . C ., title 33, sec. 564), as set forth in House Document Numbered 414, Seventy-sixth Congress, $587.50. Investigation and survey of a canal and highway across the Republic of Nicaragua: For every expenditure requisite for and inci- dent to an investigation and survey, with estimates of cost, for a barge canal and highway project across the Republic of Nicaragua, fiscal year 1940, to remain available until expended, $100,000. Flood control, general: Not to exceed $1,258,000 of the amount of $133,000,000 appropriated under this head in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1940, is hereby made available for prose- cuting work of flood control on the Sacramento River, California, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts approved March 1, 1917, May 15, 1928, and August 26, 1937 (33 U. S . C. 703, 704; 50 Stat. 849; Public, Numbered 154, Seventy-sixth Congress). TITLE II-JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS SEC. 201. (a) For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property, adjusted and determined by the follow- ing respective departments and independent offices, under the pro- visions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the set- tlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, sees. 215-217), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 412 of the Seventy-sixth Congress, as follows: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, $13.75; National Emergency Council, $12; Veterans' Administration, $131.40; Works Progress Administration, $3,590.58; Department of Agriculture, $4,316.48; Department of Commerce, $315.75; Department of the Interior, $2,225.36; Department of Labor, $45.54; Navy Department, $1,742.71; Treasury Department, $238.13; War Department, $6,547.12; Post Office Department (payable from postal revenues), $567.25; In all, $19,746.07. (b) For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 1328

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