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PUBLIC LAW 85-766-AUG. 27, 1958

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CHAPTER XV CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, A U D I T E D CLAIMS, AND JUDGMENTS For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and the United States Court of Claims, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 112, and House Document Numbered 418, Eighty-fifth Congress, $14,223,316, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act.

CHAPTER XVI GENERAL PROVISIONS Ante, p. 243. Ante, p. 480. Ante, p. 244.

SEC. 1601. The provisions of title II of Public Law 85-472, approved June 30, 1958, shall apply also to costs in the fiscal year 1957 and 1958 of pay increases granted by or pursuant to Public Law 85-584 and 85- and 8 5 - : Provided, That for the purposes of this paragraph the limitation for the warranting of appropriations and transferring of appropriations contained in section 206(b) of title II of Public Law 8 5 ^ 7 2 shall be extended to September 30, 1958: Provided further, That the portion of this paragraph applicable to teachers and pension increases for policemen, firemen, and their widows and orphans shall be effective only upon enactment into law of H. R. 13132 and H. R. 7450, or similar legislation. SEC. 1602. No part of the funds appropriated in this (or any other) Act shall be used to pay (1) any person, firm, or corporation, or any combinations of persons, firms, or corporations, to conduct a study or to plan when and how or in what circumstances the Government of the United States should surrender this country and its people to any foreign power, (2) the salary or compensation of any employee or official of the Government of the United States who proposes or contracts or who has entered into contracts for the making of studies or plans for the surrender by the Government of the United States of this country and its people to any foreign power in any event or under any circumstances. Approved August 27, 1958.

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