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PUBLIC LAW 611-JUNE 26, 1966

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Congress; 61 Stat. 239; 10 U.S.C. sec. 37la; 32 U.S.C. sec. 76), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The words 'officers and employees of the United States or of the District of Columbia', as used in such provisions of law, as now or hereafter amended, also shall be construed to mean substitute employees in the postal field service; such substitute employees shall be entitled to military leave of absence on the basis of one hour of such leave for each period or periods aggregating twenty-six hours of work performed in the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which they are ordered to duty by proper authority: Provided, That the number of hours worked during the preceding calendar year shall not be less than one thousand forty hours before such substitute employee shall be entitled to military leave of absence, pay for such leave not to exceed eighty hours in each calendar year.". Approved June 22, 1956. Public Law 611

CHAPTER 436

AN ACT To further amend section 20 of the Trading With the Enemy Act, relating to fees of agents, attorneys, and representatives.

June 25, 1956 ^^ ^^^^^

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 20 of Trading with the the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended (60 Stat. 54; 50 U.S.C. n!^nT/ ^'' ""'•"* App. 20), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 20. No property or interest or proceeds shall be returned under Fees. this Act, nor shall any payment be made or judgment awarded in respect of any property or interest vested in or transferred to any officer or agency of the United States under this Act unless satisfactory evidence is furnished to the President or such officer or agency as he may designate, or the court, as the case may be, that the aggregate of the fees to be paid to all agents, attorneys at law or in fact, or representatives, for services rendered in connection with such return or payment or judgment does not exceed 10 per centum of the value of such property or interest or proceeds or of such payment. Any agent, attorney at law or in fact, or representative, believing that the aggregate of the fees should be in excess of such 10 per centum may, in the case of any return of, or the making of any payment in respect of, such property or interest or proceeds by the President or such officer or agency as he may designate, petition the district court of the United States for the district in which he resides for an order authorizing fees in excess of 10 per centum and shall name such officer or agency as respondent. The court hearing such petition, or a court awarding any judgment in respect of any such property or interest or proceeds, as the case may be, shall approve an aggregate of fees in excess of 10 per centum of the value of such property or interest or proceeds only upon a finding that there exist special circumstances of unusual hardship which require the payment of such excess. Any person accepting any fee in excess of an amount approved hereunder, or retaining for more than thirty days any portion of a fee, accepted prior to approval hereunder, in excess of the fee as approved, shall be guilty of a violation of this Act." Approved June 25, 1956.

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