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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 240 -APR. 11, 1942 term 'citizens' is used in Public Law 173, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved July 14, 1941) or owned or controlled by, or made available to, the United States or any department or agency thereof, and (4) any foreign-flag vessel not owned or controlled or made available as described in clause (3) hereof, but engaged in the water-borne foreign commerce of the United States or other transportation by water or other vessel services deemed by the Commission to be in the interest of the war effort or the domestic economy of the United States, while so engaged. "(b) Cargoes shipped or to be shipped on any vessels specified in subsection (a), including shipments by express or registered mail. "(c) The disbursements (including advances to masters and gen- eral average disbursements) and freight and passage moneys of such vessels. "(d) The personal effects of the masters, officers, and crews of such vessels, and of other persons transported on such vessels. "(e) Masters, officers, and crews of such vessels and other persons employed or transported thereon against loss of life, personal injury, or detention by an enemy of the United States following capture. "(f) Statutory or contractual obligations or other liabilities of such vessels or of the owner or charterer of such vessels of the nature customarily covered by insurance. "SEC. 223. The Commission may reinsure, in whole or in part, any company authorized to do an insurance business in any State of the United States, on account of marine and marine war risks, including protection and indemnity risks, assumed by any such company, on persons, property, and interests specified in section 222 of this subtitle, and may reinsure with, or cede or retrocede to, any such company any war risk insured pursuant to such section 222, or any marine or war risk reinsured with the Commission as hereinbefore provided. No insurance broker or other person acting in a similar intermediary capacity shall be paid any fee or other consideration by the Commission by virtue of his participation in arranging any insurance wherein the Commission directly insures any of the risk thereof. Reinsurance shall not be provided by the Commission at rates less than (1) the rates established by the Commission on the same or similar risks or (2) the rates charged by the insurance carrier for the insurance so reinsured, whichever is the higher, except that the Commission may make to the insurance carrier such allowance for taxes, commissions, and other customary expenses (not to exceed 5 per centum of the premiums paid for that portion of the direct insurance so reinsured) as it may deem reason- ably to accord with good business practice. "SEC. 224 . (a) Any department or agency of the United States is hereby authorized to procure insurance from the Commission as provided for in section 222 of this subtitle, except as provided in the Government Losses in Shipment Act, approved July 8, 1937, as amended (50 Stat. 479; U. S. C., Supp. VI, title 5, secs. 134 to 134h). "(b) The Commission is authorized to provide such insurance at the request of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy on a nominal premium basis in consideration of the agreement of the department concerned to indemnify the Commission against all losses covered by such insurance, and the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to execute such indemnity agreement with the Commission. "SEC. 225. In the event of disagreement as to a claim for losses or the amount thereof, on account of insurance under this subtitle, an action on the claim may be brought and maintained against the United States in the district court of the United States sitting in 215 55 Stat. 591. 46U.S . C ., Supp.I, prec. § 1101 note. Cargoes. Disbursements. Personal effects. Individuals. Liabilities. Reinsurance of com- panies. Ante, p. 214. Restriction on bro- kerage fees. Rates. Allowance for taxes etc. U. 8 . departments and agencies. Ante, p. 214. 5U. . C. i. 134- 134h. Nominal premium basis. Suits against U. S.

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