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[70 Stat. 1072]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 1072]

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PUBLIC LAW 1007-AUG. 6, 1956

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(1) Trust Numbered 47667, Consolidated Unclaimed Balances Account; (2) Trust Numbered 47669, Unpayable Balances Account; (3) Government Earnings—Interest Account; and (4) Undistributed Income—Interest Reserve; (b) to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury the assets, other than cash, credited on the books of the Attorney General in Trust Numbered 47863, German claimants, maintained with respect to property or interests acquired by the United States prior to December 18, 1941, under the Trading With the Enemy ^g^^ g g amended. The Secretary of the Treasury shall, if pos^ sible, liquidate such assets and deposit the net proceeds of their liquidation in the German Special Deposit Account created under section 4 of the Settlement of W a r Claims Act of 1928. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized in his sole discretion at any time to abandon or destroy any asset transferred to him pursuant to this subsection upon his determination that such asset has no value or a value less than the cost of its liquidation; (c) to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury the cash credited on the books of the Attorney General in Trust Numbered 6179, Osterreichisch Ungarische Bank, Vienna, maintained with respect to property or interests acquired by the United States prior to December 18, 1941, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended. So much of such cash as shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Attorney General to be the property of Czechoslovakia and Poland shall be carried with the Treasury in accounts in the names of Czechoslovakia and Poland blocked in accordance with Executive Order 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended. So much of such cash as shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Attorney General to be the property of Rumania shall be covered by the Secretary of the Treasury into the Rumanian Claims Fund created by section 302 of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, and shall be subject to disbursement under section 309 of that Act; (d) to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury for deposit in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts all cash credited on the books of the Attorney General in the following accounts maintained with respect to property or interest acquired by the United States prior to December 18, 1941, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended: „ j.^.t^. (1) Trust Numbered 47675, Polish claimants; (2) Trust Numbered 47677, Czech claimants; and (3) Trust Numbered 47687, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Rumanian claimants. Upou such transfer, the Attorney General shall publish notice thereof in the Federal Register, together with notice of the rights conferred by this subsection upon any person having any claim with respect to any cash so transferred. Within two years after the publication of such notice, any person having any claim to any cash so transferred may file in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia an action against the United States for the recovery of the cash so claimed. Upon the filing of any such action, such court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such claim, and to enter judgment against the United States for such sum, if any, as the court may determine to be the amount to which such claimant would have been entitled to receive from any such account if the transfer authorized by this subsection had not been made, except that the amounts so determined to be payable shall be subject to the provisions of any