attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the [CHAPTER 818.] AN ACT For the relief of N. W. Carrington and J. E. Mitchell. Penalty for violation. June 26, 1934. [S. 2620.] [Private, No. 394.] N. W. Carrington Payment to, for de Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- and J. E. Mitchell. tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to N. W. Carrington, Dumbarton, Virginia, and J. E. struction of cattle. Mitchell, Richmond, Virginia, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums of $1,020 and $1,260, respectively, in full settlement of all claims against the Government of the United States, as Federal indemnity for the destruction of their cattle in 1925 and 1926 which were found to be affected with tuberculosis: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered eyes. 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 Penalty for violation. 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. [CHAPTER 819.] AN ACT For the relief of George M. Wright. June 26, 1934. [S. 2720.] [Private, No. 395.] George M. Wright. taxes. Proviso. 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 ously collected income refund and pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to George M. Wright, Great Falls, South Carolina, the sum of $545.03, in full settlement of all claims against the Government of the United States, for income taxes erroneously collected for the taxable year 1924: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be ney's, etc., fees." 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 26, 1934. 86637°-34-PT 2-11 Penalty for violation. June 26, 1934. [S. 2806.] [Private, No. 396.] Carlo de Luca. [CHAPTER 820.] AN ACT To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim of Carlo de Luca. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Court of Claims of the United States be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to hear and determine the claim of Carlo de Luca, and to award him just compensation for losses and damages, if any, which he may have suffered through action of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in commandeering or requisitioning two certain contracts dated June 25, 1917, which the said Carlo de Luca owned and which he had with the Standard Shipbuilding Corpora tion of New York for the construction and delivery of two certain ships designated as "hulls 12 and 13"; and to enter decree or judgment against the United States for such just compensation, if any, notwithstanding the bars or defenses of any alleged settlement or adjustment heretofore made or of res judica, lapse of time, laches, or any statute of limitation: Provided, however, That the United Credit for sum paid. States shall be given credit for any sum heretofore paid the said Carlo de Luca by reason of said action of the United States Shipping Board and/or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Proviso. Commencement of suit. Jurisdiction, etc. Vol. 36, p. U.S.C., p. 897. June 26, 1934. [S. 2809.] SEC. 2. Such claim may, under section 1 of this Act, be instituted at any time within four months from the approval of this Act. Proceedings in any suit brought in the Court of Claims under this Act, 1136; appeals therefrom, and payment of any judgment therein shall be had as in the case of claims over which such court has jurisdiction under section 145 of the Judicial Code, as amended. Approved, June 26, 1934. [Private, No. 397.] and Fuze Company, Incorporated. Claims of, referred to Court of Claims. [CHAPTER 821.] AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claims of the International Arms and Fuze Company, Incorporated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the International Arms United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction. is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims, notwithstanding the lapse of time or any statute of limitations or any defense because of any awards previously made by the War Department or other authority of the United States or any alleged acceptances thereof by the International Arms and Fuze Company, Incorporated, to hear and determine, upon the basis of just compensation, the claims of the said International Arms and Fuze Company, Incorporated, growing out of contracts numbered G-1048-559-A, dated January 1, 1918, and P-19219-4797-A, dated November 5, 1918, with the United States and the amendments and modifications thereof: Provided, however, That from any decision or judgment rendered in any suit presented under the authority of this Act a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States may be applied for by either party thereto, as is provided by law in other cases. Proviso. Writ of certiorari allowed either party U.S. Supreme Court. to Approved, June 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 822.] AN ACT For the relief of Marie Louise Belanger. June 26, 1934. [S. 2872.] [Private, No. 398.] Marie Louise Bel Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary anger. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, Payment to. 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 Alfred Belanger, caused by an explosion in the meter house of the Federal Hospital for Defective Delinquents, at Springfield, Missouri, on September 15, 1933: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of ney's, etc., fees. 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 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 823.] AN ACT For the relief of Stella D. Wickersham. Penalty for violation. June 26, 1934. [S. 2873.] [Private, No. 399.] Stella D. Wicker Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary sham. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, Payment to. 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 Robert L. Wickersham, caused by an explosion in the meter house of the Federal Hospital for Defective Delinquents, at Springfield, Missouri, on September 15, 1933: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess ney's, etc., fees. 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 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 824.] AN ACT For the relief of Cornelia Claiborne. Penalty for violation. June 26, 1934. [S. 2919.] [Private, No. 400.] Hamilton Cabell Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is Claiborne. hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Payment to widow Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Cornelia Claiborne, widow of. June 26, 1934. [S. 2957.] [Private, No. 401.] Wakicunzewin. authorized. of Hamilton Cabell Claiborne, late American consul at Frankfort, Germany, the sum of $7,000, being one year's salary of her deceased husband, who died while in the Foreign Service. Approved, June 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 825.] AN ACT For the relief of the rightful heirs of Wakicunzewin, an Indian. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Payment to heirs of, of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the respective heirs of Wakicunzewin, deceased Sisseton-Wahpeton allottee, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to existing law, the sum of $2,888.90, as follows: Waste, $481.48; Cankumazwin, $481.48; Hotonnahowin, $240.74; Ticahdeiyotanke, $240.74; Mnimapson, or Charles Boesdi, $240.74; Cetanhote, or Grayhawk, $120.37; Hankadutana, or Charles Blackbird, $60.20; George Young, $60.19; Cankutopewin, $481.48; and George Track, $481.48: Provided, That, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, the amount due any beneficiary may be deposited to the credit of the individual and handled in the same manner as other individual Indian moneys: Provided further, That, should any of the persons named herein be not living upon the date of the passage of this Act, his or her share shall be credited to and become a part of the estate of such beneficiary. Provisos. Sum due may be benefit of Indian. deposited to credit and Credit of estate if person named be dead. June 26, 1934. [S. 3016.] [Private, No. 402.] Company, Limited. Approved, June 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 826.] AN ACT For the relief of the Dongji Investment Company, Limited. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Dongji Investment United States of America in Congress assembled, That Private Law Release of liability for Numbered 228, Seventy-second Congress, entitled "An Act for the excess amount of per- relief of the Dongji Investment Company (Limited)", be, and it is hereby, amended by deleting from lines 5 and 6 the words "in excess of the amount of the performance bond given by such company". formance bond. June 26, 1934. [S. 3122.] [Private, No. 403.] H. N. Wilcox. ments. for Approved, June 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 827.] AN ACT For the relief of H. N. Wilcox. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary hospital, etc., treat of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to H. N. Wilcox, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $119 in full settlement of all claims against the Government for hospital and medical expenses incurred as a result of injuries sustained by H. N. Wilcox and Edson Reed in an explosion aboard the gasoline fishing boat Cachalot on December 8, 1933: Provided, That before any payment is made to the imbursement of hospi- claimant, H. N. Wilcox, that reimbursement be made to the Truesdale Hospital, Incorporated, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Provisos. Conditional upon retal, etc. Limitation on attor Doctor C. H. Bryant, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, in full satisfaction of all hospital and medical expenses incurred by H. N. Wilcox and Edson Reed: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated yes. 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 Penalty for violation. 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. [CHAPTER 828.] AN ACT For the relief of Charles E. Secord. June 26, 1934. [S. 3160.] [Private, No. 404.] Payment to, for personal injuries.' Charles E. Secord. Proviso. Limitation on attor 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, to Charles E. Secord the sum of $500, in full settlement of all claims against the Government, for injuries received through the negligent operation of a motor vehicle by a prohibition agent working under the Treasury Department of the United States Government: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in ney's, etc., fees. 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 26, 1934. [CHAPTER 829.] AN ACT For the relief of Mary Seeley Watson. 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 Mary Seeley Watson, widow of the late John J. Crittenden Watson, formerly Foreign Service officer, American Consulate, Dundee, Scotland, the sum of $5,000, being one year's salary of her deceased husband, who died of illness incurred while in the Consular Service; and 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 26, 1934. Penalty for violation. June 26, 1934. [8. 3161.] [Private, No. 405.] John J. Crittenden Watson. Payment to widow. |