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oranges designated by the trade as 'packing house elimination'), the skins of which have been colored at any time prior to March 1, 1959, with the coal-tar color certified prior to the enactment of this proviso as F. D. & C. Red 32, or certified after such enactment as External D. & C. Red 14 in accordance with section 21, Code of Federal Regulations, part 9: And provided further, That the preceding proviso shall have no further effect if prior to March 1, 1959, another coal-tar color suitable for coloring oranges is listed under section 406". Approved July 9, 1956.

Public Law 673

21 USC 346.

CHAPTER 5 3 1

AN ACT To amend the Japanese-American Eh'acuation Claims Act of 1948, as amended, to expedite the final determination of the claims, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 2, 1948 (62 Stat. 1231), as amended, is further amended as follows: That section 1 of the Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. (a) The Attorney General shall have jurisdiction to compromise and settle and make an award in an amount not to exceed $100,000 as hereinafter provided on any claim by a person of Japanese ancestry against the United States arising on or after December 7, 1941, when such claim is not compensated for by insurance or otherwise, for damage to or loss of real or personal property (including without limitation as to amount damage to or loss of personal property bailed to or in the custody of the Government or any agent thereof), that is (except as is otherwise provided by subsections 1(b) (2) and (1)(b)(3)) a reasonable and natural consequence of the evacuation or exclusion of such person by the appropriate military commander from a military area in Arizona, Caliiornia, Oregon, or Washington; or from the Territory of Alaska, or the Territory of Hawaii, under authority of Executive Order Numbered 9066, dated February 19, 1942 (3 C. F. R. Cum. Supp. 1092), section 67 of the Act of April 30, 1900 (48 U.S.C. 532), or Executive Order Numbered 9489, dated October 18, 1944 (3 C. F. R. 1944 Supp. 45). " (b) As used herein— "(1) 'Evacuation' shall include voluntary departure from a military area prior to but in anticipation of an order of exclusion therefrom. "(2) 'Claims by a person of Japanese ancestry' shall include claims that were filed by any profit or nonprofit organization, corporate or otherwise, the majority of whose stock was owned by, or the majority of whose stockholders or members were, on December 7, 1941, and on the date of the filing of the claim, persons of Japanese ancestry actually residing within the continental limits of the United States or its Territories: Provided, however, That the losses sustained by the particular organization were the result (1) of the evacuation and exclusion of its stockholders or members, or (2) of the evacuation and exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry upon whom the organization depended for its business or support. Such claims shall not be barred by awards or disallowances heretofore made." "(3) 'Claim by a person of Japanese ancestry' shall also include claims which have been timely filed for such damage or loss as heretofore defined incurred by persons of Japanese ancestry detained, interned, or paroled, and subsequently released, pursuant to Revised

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21 CFR Part 9.

July 9, 19S6 [H. R. 7763]

Japanese evacu^ ation claims.

50 USC 1981.

app.

31 Stat. 153. 3 C F R, 19 4 4 Supp., p. 94. "Evacuation".

"Claimsby apeitw s o n o f Japanese ancestry".

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