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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 664, 665-AUG. 10, 1939 Division of fee with a nonresident cooper- ating broker. Bonds with cor- porate sureties. 50 Stat. 787. 20 D. C. Code, Supp. IV, §§ 1970- 1988. pensation to anyone for the performance within the District of Columbia of any service or act defined in this Act as the act of a real- estate broker, real-estate salesman, business-chance broker, or busi- ness-chance salesman, who was not duly licensed as such at the time such service or act was performed, provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the division of commission by a broker licensed here- under with a nonresident cooperating broker." SEC. 12 . No license heretofore issued under the authority of said Act of Congress approved March 25, 1937, where the application therefor was accompanied by a bond which does not conform with the requirements of said Act as amended hereby, shall be reissued or renewed unless the application for such reissuance or renewal shall be accompanied by a bond in accordance with said Act as amended by this Act. Approved, August 10, 1939. [CHAPTER 665] August 10, 1939 [H. R. 6614] IP,,hlie Nn 3781 AN ACT To amend the Government Losses in Shipment Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Government Losses United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second in Shipment Act, amendments, proviso of section 3 of the Government Losses in Shipment Act, ^5U. S. C.Supp. v, approved July 8, 1937 (50 Stat. 480; U. S . C ., 1934 edition, Supp. §biiDebtS IV, title 5, sec. 134b), is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided iceshipments rvo further, That the fund shall be available for the replacement of any valuables loss or destruction of, or damage to valuables shipped by or on behalf of the Public Debt Service of the Treasury Department prior to the effective date of this amendment, the replacement of which was chargeable against the securities trust fund established under authority of the indefinite appropriation 'Expenses of loans, Act of September 40Stat.292. 24, 1917, as amended and extended' (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 31 31 U. S. C. §§760. 761. secs. 760, 761); and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized Transfer of fund. and directed to transfer on the books of the Treasury Department the amount standing to the credit of the securities trust fund and credit the same to the fund." 50 Stat. 479. "SE. 2. The Government Losses in Shipment Act (50 Stat. 479; U. S . C., 1934 edition, Supp. IV, title 5, sees. 134-134h; title 31, sees. 528, 738a), is hereby amended by adding the following sections to the end of section 3 thereof: Losses of ost Office "S 3a. All losses or destruction of, or damage to, internal revenue ing as Treasury agent. or other stamps, United States securities, or other obligations of the United States, and funds, occurring heretofore or hereafter but not prior to February 4, 1935, while such stamps, securities, obligations, or funds were in the custody or possession of, or charged to, the Post Office Department or Postal Service while it was acting as agent for, or on behalf of, the Treasury Department for the sale of such stamps, securities, or obligations and for the collection of such funds, irre- spective of the manner in which such loss, destruction, or damage occurred, shall be replaced out of the fund under such regulations as Liabilityofemploy- the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, however, That ees . no postmaster, Navy mail clerk, or assistant Navy mail clerk having the custody or possession of such stamps, securities, obligations, or funds at the time of the loss, destruction, or damage shall be relieved of any liability to the United States or receive credit in his accounts for such loss, destruction, or damage under the provisions of the Act 39 U. T S.C 49. of March 17, 1882, as amended (U. S . C., 1934 edition, title 39, sec. 49), until the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Treasury have jointly determined that such loss, destruction, or damage resulted 1358 [53 STAT.