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PUBLIC LAW 90-421-JULY 24, 1968

[82 STAT.

Public Law 90-421 July 24, 1968 [H. R. 9063]

International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, amendment. 64 Stat. 15. 22 USC 1623. Attorneys' f e e s, limitation.

Penalty.

Deductions for expenses. 64 Stat. 16; 67 Stat. 506. 22 USC 1626.

Legal disability or death payments.

64 Stat. 17. 22 USC 1627.

Payments procedure.

22 USC 1623.

AN ACT To amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 11)49, as amended, to provide for the timely determination of certain claims of American nationals, and for other purposes.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Reprei^entatices of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended as follows: (1) Subsection (f) of section 4, title I, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(f) No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under this title shall exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this title, on ftccount of such claim. Any agyeement to the contrary shall be unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both." (2) Subsection (b) of section 7, title I, is amended by inserting " (1) " after the subsection letter, and adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: "(2) The Secretary of the Treasury shall deduct from any amounts covered, subsequent to the date of enaotmeiit of this parugraph, into any special fund, created pursuant to section 8, 5 per centum thereof as reimbursement to the Government of the United States for expenses incurred by the Commission and by the Treasury Department in the administration of this title. The amounts so deducted shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts." (3) Paragraph (1) of subsection (c), section 7, title I, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(1) if any person to whom any payment is to be made pursuant to this title is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative, except that if any payment to be made is not over $1,000 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates;" (4) Subsection (c) of section 8, title I, is amended by inserting the phrase ", prior to the date of enactment of subsection (e) of this section," immediately after the word "covered" and before the word "into", and by inserting " (1) " after the words "section 7(b) " and before the words "of this title." (5) Section 8, title I, is hereby further amended by adding a^t the end thereof the following subsection: "(e) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed out of sums covered, subsequent to the date of enactment of this subsection, into any special fund created pursuant to this section to make payment on account of awards certified by the Commission pursuant to this title with respect to claims included within the terms of a claims settlement agreement concluded between the Government of the United States and a foreign government as described in subsection (a) of section 4 of this title, as follows and in the following order of priority: " (1) Payment in the amount of $1,000 or the principal amount of the award, whichever is less;

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