An Act to further amend section 20 of the Trading With the Enemy Act, relating to fees of agents, attorneys, and representatives.
PL 84-611 (S.1146), enacted 06/25/1956

70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 611-JUNE 26, 1966 
331 
Congress; 61 Stat. 239; 10 U. S. C, sec. 37la; 32 U. S. C, sec. 76), 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"The words 'officers and employees of the United States or of the 
District of Columbia', as used in such provisions of law, as now or 
hereafter amended, also shall be construed to mean substitute em-
ployees in the postal field service; such substitute employees shall be 
entitled to military leave of absence on the basis of one hour of such 
leave for each period or periods aggregating twenty-six hours of work 
performed in the calendar year immediately preceding the year in 
which they are ordered to duty by proper authority: Provided^ That 
the number of hours worked during the preceding calendar year shall 
not be less than one thousand forty hours before such substitute em-
ployee shall be entitled to military leave of absence, pay for such leave 
not to exceed eighty hours in each calendar year.". 
Approved June 22, 1956. 
Public Law 611 
CHAPTER 436 
AN ACT 
June 25, 1956 
To further amend section 20 of the Trading With the Enemy Act, relating to 
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fees of agents, attorneys, and representatives. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 20 of 
Trading with the 
the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended (60 Stat. 54; 50 U. S. C. n!^nT/ ^'' ""'•"* 
App. 20), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 20. No property or interest or proceeds shall be returned under 
this Act, nor shall any payment be made or judgment awarded in re-
spect of any property or interest vested in or transferred to any officer 
or agency of the United States under this Act unless satisfactory evi-
dence is furnished to the President or such officer or agency as he 
may designate, or the court, as the case may be, that the aggregate of 
the fees to be paid to all agents, attorneys at law or in fact, or repre-
sentatives, for services rendered in connection with such return or pay-
ment or judgment does not exceed 10 per centum of the value of such 
property or interest or proceeds or of such payment. 
Any agent, at-
torney at law or in fact, or representative, believing that the aggregate 
of the fees should be in excess of such 10 per centum may, in the case 
of any return of, or the making of any payment in respect of, such 
property or interest or proceeds by the President or such officer or 
agency as he may designate, petition the district court of the United 
States for the district in which he resides for an order authorizing fees 
in excess of 10 per centum and shall name such officer or agency as 
respondent. 
The court hearing such petition, or a court awarding any 
judgment in respect of any such property or interest or proceeds, as the 
case may be, shall approve an aggregate of fees in excess of 10 per 
centum of the value of such property or interest or proceeds only 
upon a finding that there exist special circumstances of unusual hard-
ship which require the payment of such excess. Any person accepting 
any fee in excess of an amount approved hereunder, or retaining for 
more than thirty days any portion of a fee, accepted prior to approval 
hereunder, in excess of the fee as approved, shall be guilty of a vio-
lation of this Act." 
Approved June 25, 1956. 
Fees.