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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 826-JULY 3, 1948 Penalty. Finality of dedsion. 40 Stat. 411 . 50U.S.C.app. i1-38; Supp. I, §4 et seq. Ante, p. 1218. Nonreturn of prop- erty to former owner. O0Stat. 0, 41&8 50U S. . app. 132; Supp. I, 32; 22e U. S. O. 381-138 oupp. I, t 1382 note. REPORTS TO CONGRESS SEC. 9. Not later than six months after its organization, and every six months thereafter, the Commission shall make a report to the Con- gress concerning its operations under this Act. REMUNERATION FOR SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH CLAIMS SEC. 10. No remuneration on account of services rendered or to be rendered to or on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the administering agency under this Act shall exceed 10 per centum (or such lesser per centum as may be fixed by the administering agency with respect to any class of claims) of the amount allowed by the administering agency on account of such claim. Any agreement to the contrary shall be unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, pays or offers to pay, or promises, to pay, or receives, on account of services rendered or to be rendered in connec- tion with any such claim, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both, and, if any such payment shall have been made or granted, the administering agency shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same, and, in addition thereto any such claimant shall forfeit all rights under this Act. HEARINGS WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS SEC. 11. The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, and, if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved. Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full allowable amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission or its representatives with respect to such claim. Upon such hearing, the Connmission may affirm, modify, or revise its former action with respect to such claim, including a denial or reduction in the amount theretofore allowed with respect to such claim. The action of the Com- mission in allowing or denying any claim under this Act shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by any other official of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of any certifying or dis- bursing officer for payments in accordance with such action. AMENDMENT TO TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT SEC. 12. The Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 39. No property or interest therein of Germany, Japan, or any national of either such country vested in or transferred to any officer or agency of the Government at any time after December 17, 1941, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, shall be returned to former owners thereof or their successors in interest, and the United States shall not pay compensation for any such property or interest therein. The net proceeds remaining upon the completion of administration liquidation, and disposition pursuant to the provisions of this Act of any such property or interest therein shall be covered into the Treasury at the earliest practicable date. Nothing in this section shall be con- strued to repeal or otherwise affect the operation of the provisions of section 82 of this Act or of the Philippine Property Act of 1946." 1246 [62 STAT.

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