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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 175, 176-JUNE 7, 1949 of set-off or counterclaim, any cause of action, whether arising out of the same transaction or not, which would otherwise be barred by such limitation if the claim upon which the defendant's cause of action is based had not been barred prior to the date that the plaintiff's cause of action arose: Provided,That the defendant shall not be awarded a judgment on any such set-off or counter- claim for any amount in excess of the amount of the plaintiff's claim established in the suit."; and (c) by inserting before the period at the end thereof a comma and the following: "except that (1) any such suit against the United States based upon any claim of the type enumerated in title 28, section 1491, of the United States Code, may be brought in the United States Court of Claims, and (2) no such suit against the United States may be brought in a district court unless such suit might, without regard to the provisions of this Act, be brought in such court". SEC. 6. Section 15 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: " USE OF WORDS 'COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION' "(f) No individual, association, partnership, or corporation shall use the words 'Commodity Credit Corporation' or any combination of the same, as the name or a part thereof under which he or it shall do or purport to do business. Every individual, partnership, association, or corporation violating this prohibition shall be guilty of a misde- meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both." Approved June 7, 1949. 157 62 Stat. 940. 28 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1491. 62 Stat. 1074. 15 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 714m. [CHAPTER 176] AN ACT For the relief of the city of El Paso, Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the city of El Paso, Texas, the sum of $3,293.95. Such sum represents the amount of a judgment (plus interest and costs) rendered against the city of El Paso, in the case of Francisco Mendoza et al. against City of El Paso, Forty-first District Court, El Paso County, Numbered 53430, for damages on account of the death on June 9, 1943, of Lionides Rodolfo Mendoza, as a result of falling from a temporary walk on the Park Street Bridge over the Franklin Canal. Such canal and the bridges thereover are owned by the United States, and such temporary walk was constructed and was being maintained by the Bureau of Recla- mation in connection with repair work which the United States was performing on such bridge, and not by the city of El Paso: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved June 7, 1949. June 7, 1949 [H. R. 967] (Public Law S6] El Paso, Ter.

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