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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 959-AUG. 13, 1946 shall promulgate such rules of practice as it may find necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions of this section. (c) Determinations of questions of law by the Court of Claims under this section shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States in the manner prescribed by section 3 of the Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 939; 28 U. S. C., sec. 288), as amended. REPORT OF COMMISSION TO CONGRESS SEC. 21. In each claim, after the proceedings have been finally con- cluded, the Commission shall promptly submit its report to Congress. The report to Congress shall contain (1) the final determination of the Commission; (2) a transcript of the proceedings or judgment upon review, if any, with the instructions of the Court of Claims; and (3) a statement of how each Commissioner voted upon the final determination of the claim. EFFECT OF FINAL DETERMINATION OF COMMISSION SEC. 22. (a) When the report of the Commission determining any claimant to be entitled to recover has been filed with Congress, such report shall have the effect of a final judgment of the Court of Claims, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to pay the final determination of the Commission. The payment of any claim, after its determination in accordance with this Act, shall be a full discharge of the United States of all claims and demands touching any of the matters involved in the controversy. (b) A final determination against a claimant made and reported in accordance with this Act shall forever bar any further claim or demand against the United States arising out of the matter involved in the controversy. DISSOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION SEC. 23. The existence of the Commission shall terminate at the end of ten years after the first meeting of the Commission or at such earlier time after the expiration of the five-year period of limitation set forth in section 12 hereof as the Commission shall have made its final report to Congress on all claims filed with it. Upon its dissolu- tion the records of the Commission shall be delivered to the Archivist of the United States. FUTURE INDIAN CLAIMS SEC. 24. The jurisdiction of the Court of Claims is hereby extended to any claim against the United States accruing after the date of the approval of this Act in favor of any Indian tribe, band, or other identifiable group of American Indians residing within the terri- torial limits of the United States or Alaska whenever such claim is one arising under the Constitution, laws, treaties of the United States, or Executive orders of the President, or is one which otherwise would be cognizable in the Court of Claims if the claimant were not an Indian tribe, band, or group. In any suit brought under the juris- diction conferred by this section the claimant shall be entitled to recover in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions and limitations, and the United States shall be entitled to the same defenses, both at law and in equity, and to the same offsets, counterclaims, and demands, as in cases brought in the Court of Claims under section 145 of the Judicial Code (36 Stat. 1136; 28 U. S. C., sec. 250), as amended: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed as altering the 1055 Reiyew by Supreme Court of U. S. Report. Appropriation sa- thorizedi Further claim barred. Recorda Extension of Juris- diction of Court of Claims.

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