62 STAT.] 80Tr CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 646-JUNE 25, 1948 (d) Any claim for which a remedy is provided by sections 741-752, 781-790 of Title 46, relating to claims or suits in admi- ralty against the United States. (e) Any claim arising out of an act or omission of any employee of the Government in administering the provisions of sections 1-31 of Title 50, Appendix. (f) Any claim for damages caused by the imposition or estab- lishment of a quarantine by the United States. (g) Any claim arising from injury to vessels, or to the cargo, crew, or passengers of vessels, while passing through the locks of the Panama Canal or while in Canal Zone waters. (h) Any claim arising out of assault, battery, false imprison- ment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, misrepresentation, deceit, or interference with contract rights. (i) Any claim for damages caused by the fiscal operations of the Treasury or by the regulation of the monetary system. (j) Any claim arising out of the combatant activities of the military or naval forces, or the Coast Guard, during time of war. (k) Any claim arising in a foreign country. (1) Any claim arising from the activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority. SEC. 2 . (a) The Chief Justices of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia and the Court of Claims, and the presid- ing judge of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, in office on the effective date of this Act, shall be the chief judges of their respec- tive courts. (b) The provisions of title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, of the United States Code, set out in section 1 of this Act, with respect to the organization of each of the several courts therein provided for and of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, shall be construed as continuations of existing law, and the tenure of the judges, officers, and employees thereof and of the United States attor- neys and marshals and their deputies and assistants, in office on the effective date of this Act, shall not be affected by its enactment, but each of them shall continue to serve in the same capacity under the appropriate provisions of title 28, as set out in section 1 of this Act, pursuant to his prior appointment: Provided, however That each circuit court of appeals shall, as in said title 28 set out, hereafter be known as a United States court of appeals. No loss of rights, inter- ruption of jurisdiction, or prejudice to matters pending in any of such courts on the effective date of this Act shall result from its enactment. (c) The sum of $7,500 specified in this Act as the salary which the Assistant Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall receive, and the sum of $7,500 specified in this Act as the salary which each commissioner whom the Court of Claims may appoint shall receive, shall each respectively be that basic compensa- tion on which shall be computed and paid the additional basic com- pensation mentioned in section 521 of the Act of June 30, 1945 (ch. 212, 59 Stat. 301), as amended by the Act of May 24, 1946 (ch. 270, sec. 6, 60 Stat. 217). (d) Anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the provisions of section 14 of the Act of July 1, 1944 (ch. 358, 58 Stat. 663), are not hereby repealed. SEC. 3 . Section 366 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S . C ., section 315), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 366. Every attorney specially retained under authority of 985 50U. .C., Supp.I, app. §4etseq. Chief udges. Ante, p. MD . Continuance in of- fice of judges, etc. Salary of Assistant Director of Adminis- trative Office of U. S. Courts. 6U. . C .§§934,935. 41U.S.C. 114. Attorneys under authority of Deprt- ment of Juste.
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