Religious organizations

The Commission is authorized to receive, adjudicate according to law, and provide for the payment of any claim filed by any religious organization functioning in the Philippine Islands and affiliated with a religious organization in the United States, or by the personnel of any such Philippine organization, for reimbursement of expenditures incurred, or for payment of the fair value of supplies used, by such organization or such personnel for the purpose of furnishing shelter, food, clothing, hospitalization, medicines and medical services, and other relief in the Philippines to members of the armed forces of the United States or to civilian American citizens (as defined in section 4104 of this title ) at any time subsequent to December 6, 1941 , and before August 15, 1945 . Any claim allowed under the provisions of this section shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment out of the War Claims Fund established by section 4110 of this title .

( July 3, 1948, ch. 826 , title I, § 7, 62 Stat. 1245 ; Apr. 9, 1952, ch. 167, § 2 , 66 Stat. 48 ; Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 985 , 70 Stat. 1063 ; Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 102 , Oct. 22, 1962 , 76 Stat. 1107 .)