An Act conferring jurisdiction on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon certain claims of the State of California
PL 83-488 (H.R.3191), enacted 07/14/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 489-JULY 14, 1954 
471 
SEC. 2. The Postmaster General may, under such regulations as he 
may prescribe, destroy, or otherwise dispose of, all postal-savings cer-
tificates, or other evidences of deposit in the postal-savings depository 
system, including duplicates, after the expiration of six years from 
the date payment thereon has been made as shown by the records 
of the Post Office Department. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth calendar 
month following the date of its enactment. 
Approved July 14, 1954. 
Disposal. 
Effective date* 
Public Law 488 
CHAPTER 477 
AN ACT 
Conferring jurisdiction on the United States District Court for the Northern 
District of California to hear, determine, and render judgment upon certain 
claims of the State of California. 
July 14,1954 
[H. R. 3191] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is 
hereby conferred upon the United States District Court for the North-
ern District of California, sitting without a jury, to hear, determine, 
and render judgment upon the claims of the State of California against 
the United States for reimbursement of the amounts expended and 
to be expended in repairing the damage to levees and other flood-
control works of the Sacramento River alleged to have resulted from 
the closing of the outlet gates on Shasta Dam by the Bureau of Recla-
mation, Department of the Interior, during May 1948. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any statute of limitations or lapse of time, 
suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. In any suit brought pursuant to this Act (whether sounding 
in tort or in contract) proceedings shall be had, and the liability, if 
any, of the United States shall be determined, in accordance with the 
provisions of law applicable in the case of contract claims, or under 
the Federal Tort Claims Act, as amended, respectively, against the 
United States: Provided, That the passage of this legislation shall not 
be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the United 
States Government. 
Approved July 14, 1954. 
S a c r a m e n t o 
R i v e r levee dam-
age claims, Calif. 
60 Stat. 842; 62 
Stat. 982. 
28 u s e 2671 et. 
• eq. 
Public Law 489 
CHAPTER 478 
AN ACT 
To credit the Shoshone Irrigation District with a share of the net revenues 
from the Shoshone powerplant, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized, on behalf of the United States to enter 
into a contract with the Shoshone Irrigation District, Wyoming, con-
taining appropriate provisions whereby— 
(a) the United States shall credit the district with the sum of 
$426,000 which sum shall be applied toward the payment of the 
annual construction payments of the district under its contract 
with the United States dated November 4, 1926, or any amend-
ment thereof, as the same become due for the year 1954 and sub-
sequent years until such credit is exhausted. Until such credit 
July 14,1954 
[H. R. 6893] 
Shoshone Irriga* 
tion District, Wyo. 
Powerplant rev-
enue contract.