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P U B U C LAW 87-846-OCT. 22, 1962

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Public Law 87-846 AN ACT

October 22, 1962

To amend the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended, to provide compensation for certain World War II losses.

[H. R. 7283]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress ossembled^

of the

TITLE I 101. That the W a r Claims Act of 1948, as amended, is further amended by inserting after section 1 thereof the following: SECTION

War Claims Act of 1948, amendment.

62 Stat. 1240. 50 USC a p p. 2001 note.

"TITLE I" SEC. 102. The word "Act" wherever it appears in title I except in section 13(a) in reference to thfe W a r Claims Act of 1948, as amended, is amended to read "title". SEC. 103. The W a r Claims Act of 1948, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

50 USC a p p. 2012.

"TITLE II '•DEFINITIONS

"SEC. 201. As used in this title the term or terms— " (a) 'Albania', 'Austria', 'Czechoslovakia'^ 'the Free Territory of Danzig', 'Estonia', 'Germany', 'Greece', 'Latvia', 'Lithuania', 'Poland', and 'Yugoslavia', when used in their respective geographical senses, mean the territorial limits of each such country or free territory, as the case may be, in continental Europe as such limits existed on Decemb3r 1, 1937. "(b) 'Commission' means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States established pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954 (68 Stat. 1279). 5 USC 1332.15 "(c) 'National of the United States' means (1) a natural person who note. is a citizen of the United States, (2) a natural person who, though not i9S8'^comp!^^ a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States, and (3) a corporation, partnership, unincorporated body, or other entity, organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or any possession of the United States and in which more than 50 per centum of the outstanding capital stock or other proprietary or similar interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by persons referred to in clauses (1) and (2) of this subsection. I t does not include aliens. " (d) 'Property' means real property and such items of tangible personalty as can be identified and evaluated. "CLAIMS AUTHORIZED

"SEC. 202. The Commission is directed to receive and to determine according to the provisions of this title the validity and amount of claims of nationals of the United States for— " (a) loss or destruction of, or physical damage to, property located in Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Free Territoiy of Danzig, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, or Yugoslavia, or in territory which was part of Hungary or Rumania on December 1, 1937, but which was not included in such countries on September 15, 1947, which loss, destruction,

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