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 50 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 26-MAR. 24, 1943 [57 STAT. 41 Stat. 525 . in the manner provided by section 2 of the Suits in Admiralty Act and service of process shall be made in the manner therein pro- vided by service upon the United States attorney and by mailing by registered mail to the Attorney General and the United States Mari- time Commission and due notice shall under order of the court be given to all interested persons, and any decree shall be subject to appeal and revision as now provided in other cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction." 46 t. .2 1, Supp. (e) (1) The second sentence of section 223 of Subtitle-Insurance II, § 128b. of Title II of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (Public Law 523, Seventy-seventh Congress), is amended by inserting before Compensation for the period at the end thereof a comma and the following: "but the Commission may allow fair and reasonable compensation to any com- pany authorized to do an insurance business in any State of the United States for servicing insurance written by such company as an underwriting agent for the Commission, and such compensation may include an allowance for expenses reasonably incurred by such agent but such expenses shall not include any commission paid by such agent in excess of 5 per centum of the premiums in respect of such insurance" (2) The last sentence of such section 223 is amended by striking out the clause in parentheses, and by inserting before the period at ommissions. the end of such sentence a comma and the following: "but in no case shall such allowance to the carrier provide for payment by the carrier of commissions in excess of 5 per centum of the premiums paid for that portion of the direct insurance so reinsured". 46 Sat. 215.:, (f) Section 224 (a) of Subtitle-Insurance of Title II of the Mer- II. 1128c (a). chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (Public Law 523, Seventv- seventh Congress), is amended by striking out the words "section 222" ,Ate,t p. 47; poat, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "sections 222 and 229" and by inserting after the word "subtitle" and before the comma following 46u1 St.gI9 such word the-words "or in section 10 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended". 46 S,1. .,pp. (g) Section 225 of Subtitle-Insurance of Title II of the Mer- .11,l. chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (Public Law 523, Seventy- seventh Congress), is amended by adding at the end thereof the lrt,urimr it in follwing: ll persons having or claiming to have an interest in such v.. insurance, or who it is believed might assert such an interest, mav be made parties to such suit, either initially or upon the motion of either party. In any case where the Commission acknowledges the indebtedness of the United States on account of such insurance, and there may be a dispute as to the person or persons entitled to receive payment, the United States may bring an action in the nature of a - bill of interpleader against the persons having or claiming to have any interest in such insurance, or who it is believed might assert such an interest, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, or in the district court in and for the district in which ervice upon per- any such person resides. In either of such actions any person claim- ing to have an interest in such insurance, or who it is believed might assert such an interest, if not an inhabitant of or found within the district within which either of such actions is brought, may be brought in by order of the court to be served personally or by publication or m such other reasonable manner as the court may direct, and if it be shown to the satisfaction of the court that persons unknown might assert a claim on account of such insurance, the court may direct service upon such persons unknown by publication in the Fed- biDtschge ot l- eral Regster. Judgment in any such action shall discharge the United States from further liability to any parties to such action, and to all persons where service by publication upon persons unknown is directed by the court. The procedure herein provided shall apply

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