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Title 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE > CHAPTER 51—WAR CLAIMS > SUBCHAPTER I—TITLE I OF WAR CLAIMS ACT OF 1948

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There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the War Claims Fund. The War Claims Fund shall consist of all sums covered into the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of section 4336 of this title . The moneys in such fund shall be available for expenditure only as provided in this chapter or as may be provided hereafter by the Congress.

( July 3, 1948, ch. 826 , title I, § 13, 62 Stat. 1247 ; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 19, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950 , 15 F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1271 ; Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1162 , title I, § 104, 68 Stat. 1036 ; Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 102 , Oct. 22, 1962 , 76 Stat. 1107 .)

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