[CHAPTER 842.] AN ACT June 26, 1934. Boston Store Com- pany, Chicago, Ill. For the relief of the Boston Store Company, a corporation, Chicago, Illinois Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $6,246 to the Boston Store Company, a corporation of Chicago, Illinois, such sum representing a loss incurred because of misrepresentation in the purchase of cots from the quartermaster supply officer of the surplus property branch at Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 1921, which claim had at one time been allowed and paid, but subsequently, because of some technicality, now cured, returned to the Treasury upon request: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall ney's, etc., fees. be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the Penalty for violation. provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 26, 1934. ICHAPTER 843.] AN ACT For the relief of B. J. Sample. Proviso. June 26, 1934. [H.R. 8650.] [Private, No. 419.] B. J. Sample. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to B. J. Sample the sum of $1,324.14 in full settlement of all claims against the Government of the United States for carrying the mail upon star route numbered 20183, between Allendale and Augusta, the said sum representing pay for mileage on said route in excess of the mileage advertised by the Post Office Department as a correct mileage of the route: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or ney's, etc., fees. received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary Proviso. notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act Penalty for violation: shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 26, 1934. June 27, 1934. [8.86.] [Private, No. 421.] A. L. Ostrander. ices. Proviso. Limitation on attorney's, etc., fees. For the relief of the First State Bank and Trust Company, of Mission, Texas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to redeem in favor of the First State Bank and Trust Company, of Mission, Texas, United States registered bond numbered 89539 for $1,000 of the third Liberty Loan 42 per centum per annum bonds of 1928, registered in the name of Alpha G. Decker, with interest from March 15, 1928, to September 15, 1928, without presentation of the bond, said bond having been assigned in blank by the registered payee and alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed in the First State Bank and Trust Company, of Mission, Texas: Provided, That the said bond shall not have been previously presented and paid: And provided further, That the said First State Bank and Trust Company shall first file in the Treasury Department of the United States a bond in the penal sum of double the amount of the principal of the said bond and the final interest payable thereon September 15, 1928, in such form and with such surety or sureties as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the bond hereinbefore described. Approved, June 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 852.] AN ACT For the relief of A. L. Ostrander. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Payment to, for serv- of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to A. L. Ostrander, of Yakima, Washington, the sum of $270 in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for compensation for services rendered during the year 1931 as a member of the land designating committee for the Wapato project, Washington, in connection with the designation of irrigable lands of such project: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Penalty for violation. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. ald. June 27, 1934. [8. 365.] [Private, No. 422.] Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 853.] AN ACT For the relief of Archibald MacDonald. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Archibald MacDon- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Reimbursement, due of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, to loss of postal funds. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Proviso. Archibald MacDonald, postmaster at Putnam, Connecticut, the sum of $143.86, in full settlement of all claims against the Government of the United States, for payment of loss of postal funds due to the failure of the First National Bank of Putnam: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per ney's, etc., fees. centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any Penalty for violation. person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 854.] AN ACT For the relief of Lucy B. Hertz and J. W. Hertz. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to Lucy B. Hertz and J. W. Hertz, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,500, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States on account of injuries sustained on February 18, 1931, when they were struck by a bus belonging to the United States Indian Service: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 855.] AN ACT For the relief of Uldric Thompson, Junior. June 27, 1934. [8.887.] [Private, No. 423.] Lucy B. Hertz and JW. Hertz. sonal injuries. Payment to, for per Proviso. Limitation on attorney's, etc., fees. Penalty for violation. June 27, 1934. [S. 1382.] [Private, No. 424.] Junior. Thompson, Court of Claims, re Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction, Uldric is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States, Claim of, referred to notwithstanding the lapse of time or the statute of limitations, to gardless of statute of hear, determine, and render judgment under the Act of July 1, limitations. 1918 (40 Stat.L., ch. 114, pp. 704, 705), on the claims of Uldric Thompson, Junior, for the use of or the manufacture by the United States without license of the owner thereof or the lawful right to use or manufacture war material under certain inventions of said Uldric Thompson, Junior, described in or covered by Letters Patent Vol. 40, p. 705. Provisos. Evidence available to court. Appeal allowed. June 27, 1934. [8. 1505.] [Private, No. 425.] ̄ ̄ Thomas E. Read. Military record corrected. Proviso. No back pay, etc. June 27, 1934. [S. 2272.] [Private, No. 426.] Bert Moore. Payment to, for personal injuries. Proviso. ney's, etc., fees. Numbered 1237362 and 1255836, respectively: Provided, That the records of the War Department as to such manufacture and use under these patents shall be available to the court and to the claimant: Provided further, That from any decision in any suit prosecuted under the authority of this Act an appeal may be taken by either party as is provided for by law in other cases. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 856.] AN ACT For the relief of Thomas E. Read. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the administration of any laws conferring rights, privileges, and benefits upon honorably discharged soldiers Thomas E. Read, otherwise known as Thomas Griffiths, who was a member of Company I, Twenty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry, shall hereafter be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States as a member of that organization on the 12th day of February 1900: Provided, That no bounty, back pay, pension, or allowance shall be held to have accrued prior to the passage of this Act. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 857.] AN ACT For the relief of Bert Moore. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Bert Moore, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,500 in full settlement of all claims for injuries sustained by reason of being shot and seriously wounded by a military guard at Fort Logan H. Roots on the night of April Limitation on attor- 23, 1925: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the conPenalty for violation. trary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. June 27, 1934. [8. 2617.] [Private, No. 427.] Jennie Walton. Payment to estate of, for damages. For the relief of the estate of Jennie Walton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the estate of Jennie Walton, late of Bantry, North Dakota, the sum of $4,000, in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for damages from an automobile accident on Highway Numbered 5, near Belcourt, North Dakota, within the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, on October 5, 1931. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 859.] AN ACT June 27, 1934. [S. 2752.] [Private, No. 428.] Mrs. C. A. Toline. For the relief of the legal beneficiaries and heirs of Mrs. C. A. Toline. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay beneficiaries, etc., of. to the legal beneficiaries and heirs of Mrs. C. A. Toline, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,000 in full settlement of all claims against the Government on account of the death of Mrs. C. A. Toline, which occurred November 7, 1923, at the National Military Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Wisconsin: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or ney's, etc., fees. received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act Penalty for violation. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 860.] AN ACT For the relief of Margoth Olsen von Struve. Proviso. June 27, 1934. [S. 2875.] [Private, No. 429.] Payment to widow. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Henry C. von Struve. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Margoth Olsen von Struve, widow of Henry C. von Struve, late American consul at Tenerife, Canary Islands, the sum of $5,000, equal to one year's salary of her deceased husband. SEC. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum to carry out the purpose of this Act. Approved, June 27, 1934. [CHAPTER 861.] AN ACT For the relief of Ransome Cooyate. Appropriation au thorized. June 27, 1934. (S. 2906.] [Private, No. 430.] Ransome Cooyate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, sonal injuries. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000 to Ransome Cooyate, of the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico, in full satisfaction of his claim for injuries received while a |