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contracts let pursuant to the provisions of this joint resolution shall be subject to the provisions of section 3 of title III of such Act.

(b) Any allocation, grant, or other distribution of funds for any project, Federal or non-Federal, from the appropriation made by this joint resolution, shall contain stipulations which will provide for the application of title III of such Act to the acquisition of articles, materials and supplies for use in carrying out such project. SEC. 14. The authority of the President under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes approved March 31, 1933, as amended, is hereby continued to and including March 31, 1937.

Approved April 8, 1935, 4 p. m.

[PUBLIO NO. 374-67TH CONGRESS.]

[H. R. 5349.]

An Act To amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision contained in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriation for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, and for other purposes," approved June 24, 1910 (Public, Numbered 261, Sixty-first Congress, second session), authorizing the Secretary of the Navy "to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $500, hereafter occasioned by collision, for which collisions vessels of the Navy shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress there for," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, namely:

"The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages occasioned since the 6th day of April, 1917, where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $3,000, occasioned by collisions or damage incident to the operation of vessels for which collisions or other damage vessels of the Navy or vessels in the Naval Service shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to the Congress through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor."

Approved, December 28, 1922.

(140)

[PUBLIC-No. 375-67TH CONGRESS.]

[H. R. 7912.]

An Act To provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any

one case.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when used in this Act the terms "department and establishment" and "department or establishment" mean any executive department or other independent establishment of the Government; the word "employee" shall include enlisted men in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

SEC. 2. That authority is hereby conferred upon the head of each department and establishment acting on behalf of the Government of the United States to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine any claim accruing after April 6, 1917, on account of damages to or loss of privately owned property where the amount of the claim does not exceed $1,000, caused by the negligence of any officer or employee of the Government acting within the scope of his employment. Such amount as may be found to be due to any claimant shall be certified to Congress as a legal claim for payment out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor, together with a brief statement of the character of each claim, the amount claimed, and the amount allowed: Provided, That no claim shall be considered by a department or other independent establishment unless presented to it within one year from the date of the accrual of said claim.

SEO. 3. That acceptance by any claimant of the amount determined under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in full settlement of such claim against the Government of the United States.

SEO. 4. That any and all Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Approved, December 28, 1922.

(141).

[PUBLIC-No. 481-74TH CONGRESS]

[S. 2603]

AN ACT

To provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising out of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney General of the United States may consider, adjust, and determine any claim accruing after January 1, 1934, on account of damages to any person or damages to or loss of privately owned property, caused by the Director, any Assistant Director, inspector, or special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice acting within the scope of his employment, and such amount as may be found due to any claimant, not exceeding $500 in any one case, shall be certified to Congress as a legal claim for payment out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor, together with a brief statement of the character of each claim, the amount claimed, and the amount allowed: Provided, That this authorization shall not be construed to apply to cases of persons in the employ or service of the United States while acting within the scope of such employ or service: Provided further, That no claim shall be considered under this Act unless presented to the Attorney General within one year from the date of the accrual of said claim; except that any claim accruing between January 1, 1934, and the date of the approval of this Act may be presented within three months after the date of such approval: And provided further, That acceptance by any claimant of the amount determined to be due him under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in full and final settlement of such claim against the Government of the United States.

Approved, March 20, 1936.

(142)

[Extract from Public No. 465, Sixty-seventh Congress. Approved, March 2, 1923.]

CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO AND LOSS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

For payment of claims of not to exceed $500 in amount for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $40,000: Provided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages.

(143)

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