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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 83, 84--MA . 8, 11, 1946 41 Stat. 977. 50U.S.C.app. 9 (a). 42 Stat. 1515 . 50U.S.C. app. 520. Schedule of fees. Petition for judicial review. Person accepting ei- cess fee. March 11, 194 [8. J . Res. 1361 [Public Law 3231 Buffalo Bill Dam and Resewvoir, Wyo. or interest or proceeds returned pursuant to this section or section 9 (a) of this Act an amount not exceeding that expended or incurred by him for the conservation, preservation, or maintenance of such property or interest or proceeds, or other property or interest or proceeds returned to the same person."' SEC. 2 . Section 20 of the Trading With the Enemy Act is hereby 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 respect of any property or interest vested in or transferred to the Alien Property Custodian unless a schedule of the fees to be paid to all agents, attorneys at law or in fact, or representatives, for services in connection with such return or payment or judgment, has been furnished to, and approved in accordance with this section by, the President or such officer or agency as he may designate, or the court, as the case may be. In the case of any return of, or the making of any payment in respect of, any such property or interest or proceeds (other than pursuant to an order of a court), the President or such officer or agency as he may designate may make such modifications, if any, as are appropriate, and shall approve such schedule only upon determining that the individual fees do not exceed fair compensation for the services rendered and that the aggregate of the fees does not exceed 10 per centum of the value of such property or interest or proceeds or of such payment. Any person aggrieved by the deter- mination of the President or of such officer or agency as he may designate may petition the district court of the United States for the district in which he resides to review the determination, and shall name the person or agency making the determination a party defend- ant. The court hearing such petition for review, or a court awarding any judgment in respect of any such property or interest or proceeds, as the case may be, may make such modifications, if any, as are appro- priate, and shall approve such schedule only upon determining that the individual.fees do not exceed fair compensation for the services rendered, and 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 accept- ing 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 violation of this Act." Approved March 8, 1946. [CHAPTER 84] JOINT RESOLUTION Changing the name of the Shoshone Dam and Reservoir to Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth on February 26, 1846, of William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, the name of the Shoshone Dam and Reservoir in Park County, Wyoming, is changed effective February 26, 1946, to the "Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir". Approved March 11, 1946. 54 [60 STAT.