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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 629-OCT. 26, 1942 Quarterly mail re- ports, suspension. 54 Stat. 2643 . 50 U. S. C., app.. prec. § 1note. 39 U. . C. §321b. 42 Stat. 1066. 31 U. S. C., Supp. I, §215 note. 24 Stat. 506; 36 Stat. 1168. "SEC. 301. That during the period of the national emergency declared by the President on September 8, 1939, to exist, so much of section 6 of the Act approved May 6, 1939 (53 Stat. 683), as amended by section 2 of the Act approved June 30, 1939 (53 Stat. 989), as requires the head of each executive department and independ- ent establishment (other than the Post Office Department) to submit to the Postmaster General quarterly reports relating to mail matter which has been transmitted free of postage, is hereby suspended." TITLE III-JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS SEC. 301. For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1.000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (31 U. S . C. 215), as fully set forth in Senate Documents Numbered 253 and 265, Seventy-seventh Congress, as follows: Executive Office of the President: Office for Emergency Management, $308.33; .Office of Strategic Services, $25.60; Federal Communications Commission, $35; Federal Works Agency, $1,940.04; National Housing Agency, $26.65; Department of Agriculture, $2,426.95; Department of Commerce, $1,671.45; Department of the Interior, $2,065.21; Department of Justice, $214.05; Navy Department, $5,439.75; Treasury Department, $408.66; War Department, $69,937.18; Post Office Department (payable from postal revenues), $19.40; In all, $84,518.27 . JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS SEC. 302. (a) For the payment of the final judgments, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States", as amended by section 297 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (28 U. S . C. 761), and which have been certified to the Seventy-seventh Congress in Senate Docu- ment Numbered 254, under the following Department and estab- lishment: War Department, $3.476.27: Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration, $8,024.40; In all, $11,500.67, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay costs and interest as specified in such judgments or as provided by law. (b) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. (c) Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments con- tained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. [56 STAT.