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[CITE: 40USC309]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 309. Payment

    In all cases where a stipulation is entered into under section 308 
of this title, and, in consequence thereof, the property is discharged, 
and final judgment is afterward given in the court of last resort to 
which the Attorney General may deem proper to cause such proceedings to 
be carried, affirming the claim for the security or satisfaction of 
which such proceedings have been instituted, and the right of the person 
asserting the same to enforce it against such property by means of such 
proceedings, notwithstanding the claims of the United States thereto, 
such final judgment shall be deemed, to all intents and purposes, a full 
and final determination of the rights of such person, and shall entitle 
such person, as against the United States, to such rights as he would 
have had in case possession of such property had not been changed. 
Whenever such claim is for the payment of money, and the same is by such 
judgment found to be due, the presentation of a duly authenticated copy 
of the record of such judgment and proceedings shall be sufficient 
evidence to the proper accounting officers for the allowance thereof; 
and the same shall thereupon be allowed and paid out of any moneys in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The amount so to be allowed and 
paid shall not, however, exceed the value of the interest of the United 
States in the property in question.

(R.S. Sec. 3754; Pub. L. 89-30, Sec. 1(b), June 2, 1965, 79 Stat. 119.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3754 derived from act June 11, 1864, ch. 117, 13 Stat. 
122.


                               Amendments

    1965--Pub. L. 89-30 substituted ``Attorney General'' for ``Secretary 
of the Treasury''.


                             Appropriations

    Section 3 of act June 26, 1934, ch. 756, 48 Stat. 1226, which was 
classified to section 725b of former Title 31, Money and Finance, 
provided in part that, effective July 1, 1935, the permanent or 
continuing appropriation account ``Judgments of courts (Revised 
Statutes, section 3754 [40 U.S.C. 309]) (7x965)'' is abolished, and any 
unobligated balances in such account are covered into the Treasury; and 
that any claims accruing on and after July 1, 1935, which, but for this 
section would have been charged to this appropriation title, shall, upon 
proper audit, be certified to Congress for appropriation from the 
general fund of the Treasury, which is authorized.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 308 of this title.
