Volume 67

Public Law 83–211

To amend section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended.

Approved August 7, 1953

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, is

62 Stat. 1246.

50 USC app. 39.

amended by inserting “(a)” after “Sec. 39.” and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

“(b)
The Attorney General is authorized and directed, immediately
War Claim Fund.
Sums for deposit.
upon the enactment of this subsection, to cover into the Treasury of the United States, for deposit into the War Claims Fund, from property vested in or transferred to him under this Act, such sums, not to exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary to satisfy unpaid awards heretofore or hereafter made under the War Claims Act of 1948. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the
62 Stat. 1240.
50 USC app. 2001 note.
Attorney General such sums as may be necessary to replace the sums deposited by him pursuant to the foregoing sentence.”
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Approved August 7, 1953.