An Act to amend section 40 of the Bankruptcy Act, so as to increase and fix the salary of fulltime referees and to authorize increased salaries for part-time referees
PL 82-457 (S.2240), enacted 07/07/1952

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order confirming the plan, share on a parity with the prior un-
secured debts of the same classes, provable in the ensuing bank-
ruptcy proceeding, and for such purpose the prior unsecured 
debts shall be deemed to be reduced to the amounts respectively 
provided for them in the plan or in the order confirming the plan, 
less any payment made thereunder; and 
"(3) the provisions of chapters I to VII, inclusive, of this Act 
shall, insofar as they are not inconsistent or in conflict with the 
provisions of this section, apply to the rights, duties, and liabil-
ities of the creditors holding debts incurred by the debtor after 
the confirmation of the plan and before the date of the final order 
directing that bankruptcy be proceeded with, and of all persons 
with respect to the property of the debtor, and, for the purposes 
of such application, the date of bankruptcy shall be taken to be 
the date of the entry of the order directing that bankruptcy be 
proceeded with." 
SEC. 55. (a) All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with any provi-
sions of this amendatory Act are hereby repealed. 
(b) If any provision of this amendatory Act or the application 
thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity 
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this amendatory 
Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or appli-
cation, and to this end the provisions of this amendatory Act are 
declared to be severable. 
SEC. 56. EFFECT OF THIS AMENDATORY ACT.^—(a) Nothing herein con-
tained shall have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, for-
feiture, or liability incurred under any Act or Acts of which this Act 
is amendatory. 
(b) The provisions of this amendatory Act shall govern proceedings 
so far as practicable and applicable in cases pending when it takes 
effect; but proceedings in cases then pending to which the provisions 
of this amendatory Act are not applicable shall be disposed of con-
formably to the provisions of said Act approved July 1,1898, and the 
Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. 
SEC. 57. This amendatory Act shall take effect and be in force on and 
after three months from the date of its approval. 
Approved July 7, 1952. 
July 7, 1952 
[S. 2240] 
Public Law 457 
CHAPTER 580 
AN ACT 
To amend section 40 of the Bankruptcy Act, so as to increase and fix the salary 
of full-time referees and to authorize increased salaries for part-time referees. 
Bankruptcy Act, 
amendment. 
80 Stat. 556. 
11 u s e 68. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembled^ That section 40a of 
the Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy 
throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, as amended, is 
amended to read as follows : 
"SEC. 40. COMPENSATION OF REFEREE'S SALARY AND EXPENSE FUNDS ; 
RETIREMENT OF REFEREES, a. Referees shall receive as full compensa-
tion for their services salaries to be fixed by the conference, in the light 
of the recommendations of the councils, made after advising with the 
district judges of their respective circuits, and of the Director, at 
rates not more than $12,500 per annum for full-time referees, and not 
more than $6,000 per annum for part-time referees. 
In fixing the 
amount of salary to be paid to a referee, consideration shall be given 
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to the average number and the types of, and the average amount of 
gross assets realized from, cases closed and pending in the territory 
which the referee is to serve, during the last preceding period of ten 
years, and to such other factors as may be material. 
Disbursement 
of such salaries shall be made monthly by or pursuant to the order of 
the Director,'' 
Approved July 7, 1952. 
Public Law 458 
CHAPTER 581 
AN ACT 
To amend section 182^ (a) of title 28, United States Code, to permit the advance 
or payment of expenses of travel and subsistence to Federal officers or employees 
by one agency and reimbursement by another agency. 
Be it enacteci hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1823 (a) 
of title 28, United States Code, be amended by the addition of a 
sentence reading as follows: 
"In any case which does not involve its activity, any department or 
agency may advance or pay the travel expenses and per diem allowance 
of its officer or employee, summoned as a witness on behalf of the 
United States, and later obtain reimbursement from the department 
or agency properly chargeable with such witness' travel expenses." 
Approved July 7, 1952. 
July 7, 1952 
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U.S. employees. 
Public Law 459 
CHAPTER 582 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the transfer of a certain tract of land in the Robinson Remount 
Station, Fort Robinson, Dawes County, Nebraska, to the city of Crawford. 
July 7, 1952 
IH. R. 4686] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is hereby authorized to transfer by quitclaim deed to 
the city of Crawford, Nebraska, the following-described tract and 
parcel of land lying within the Robinson Remount Station, Fort Robin-
son, Dawes County, Nebraska, described as follows: 
A triangular tract situated between the west boundary line of the 
dty of Crawford, the east right-of-way line of the Chicago and North-
western Railroad and the north right-of-way line of United States 
Highway Numbered 20, bounded by a line commencing three hundred 
and seventy-four feet south of the Fort Robinson Military Reservation 
boundary post numbered 14 where the east boundary line of said mili-
tary reservation intersects the north boundary line of United States 
Highway Numbered 20. From this point north one degree fifty-six 
minutes west a distance of two thousand one hundred twenty-four and 
ninety-eight one-hundredths feet to said military reservation post 
numbered 15 being along the east boundary of said military reservation 
and the west boundary of the city of Crawford; thence west one hun-
dred and sixty-seven feet eighty-nine degrees thirty-eight minutes west 
to the intersection of the east boundary of the right-of-way of the 
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad; thence in a southwesterly direc-
tion along the east boundary line of the Chicago and Northwestern 
Railroad a distance of approximately two thousand six hundred and 
thirty-two feet to a point where the east boundary line of said railroad 
Crawford, Nebr. 
Conveyance.