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 514 50 USC 21-24.

PUBLIC LAW 673-JULY 9, 1956

[70 S T A T.

Statutes, sections 4067-70, as amended (relating to alien enemies). Such claims shall also include losses due to the exclusion of the families and relatives of such persons during their detention or internment. Any such person shall be deemed to have been excluded from such-military areas and territories as of the date he would have been evacuated had he not been detained or interned. The claim of or on behalf of such person shall not be barred by any award or disallowance heretofore made." 1982. ^ ^ ^ ^^^' That section 2(a) of the Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) The Attorney General shall receive claims for a period of eighteen months from the date of the original enactment of this Act. All claims not presented within that time shall be forever barred: Provided, however, That any claim received by the Attorney General bearing a postmark prior to midnight, January 3, 1950, shall be considered to be timely filed within the said eighteen months. Any claim, timely filed, may be amended at any time prior to its final determination in order to include then compensable items of claim which, by the provisions of this Act as they existed when the claim was filed, the Attorney General was not authorized to determine or consider." That section 2(b)(2) of the Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: ''(2) Except as provided in section 1(b)(3), for damage or loss arising out of action taken by any Federal agency pursuant to sections 4067, 4068, 4069, and 4070 (relating to alien enemies) of the Revised Statutes, as amended (50 U.S.C. 21-24), or pursuant to the Trading 50 vie *^\ I. ^^^^^ *^® Enemy Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App., and Supp., 1-31, 616)." 1984 " ^ ^ ^^^' That section 4(a) of the Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: " (a) The Attorney General is authorized to compromise and settle and make an award in an amount not to exceed $100,000 on any claim timely filed under this Act, as amended, on the basis of affidavits, available Government records, and other information satisfactory to him." That section 4(b) of the Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: c"lirt'*f c\^^ms **' " ( ^) '^^^ Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to determine any claim timely filed under this Act. A petition for the determination of a claim by the Court of Claims shall be filed with the clerk of the said court and a copy of the petition shall be served upon the Attorney General by registered mail. Such a petition may be filed at any time after enactment of this subsection except that it must be filed within ninety days after the date of a notice by the Attorney General served on the claimant by registered mail that no further consideration will be given to the compromise of the claim. Upon the timely filing and serving of such petition, the Court of Claims- shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine said claim in the same manner and under the same rules as any other cause properly before it and applying rules of equity and justice. Upon being served with a copy of such petition, the Attorney General shall forthwith certify and transmit to the clerk of the Court of Claims the original statement of the claim and any requested amendments thereto for filing with the said clerk as a preliminary record in the case. Such petition shall, to the fullest practicable extent, be treated for docketing, hearing, and determination as^ if the petition had been filed with the Court of Claims on the date the original claim was received by the Attorney General: Provided, however, That no such petition shall have precedence by reason hereof over petitions involving interest-bearing obligations of the United States."

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