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SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Gus. 163-166. 1914. 1305 sum of $1,079.60, and said sum of $1,079.60 is hereby appropriated, APP’°P"¤“°¤· m full compensation for extra work done in the installation of a ` portable experimental ref `veratin plant for, and by direction of, the Department of Agriciilture, Uureau of Plant Industry, in the year nineteen hundred and eight. Approved, July 17, 1914. Ju1y17, 1914. CHAP. 164.--An Act For the relief of John Streckfus. [H· R· 253**] Be it enacted by the Senate and House (gf Re esentatives of the United [mms' Nm G1`] States of America in Congress assembl , Tdiilt the Mississi pi River fibn %,'€°¥,§}“‘d,,m, Commission be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, §gy;{m;{,°*r¤g°*{‘{,,§;; from any appropriation made by Congress for works of river and improvemeniiliunds. harbor improvement carried on by said commission, to John Streckfus, captain and owner of the J. S., the sum of $209, in a ent and full settlement of all damages done to the said vessel guby the commission’s steamer Mississippi on April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, when said steamer Mississi pi collided with said steamer J. S. while the latter was lying at her dlick at New Orleans, Louisiana. Approved, July 17, 1914. July 17, 1914. CHAP. 165.-An Act For the relief of the estate of Philip Felix Herwig, deceased. [H· R· 25***] ` Private, No. 62.] Be enacted by the Senate and House of Raglresentatives ry the United [ _ States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the w,PP”‘*‘ Fm H°" Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause an g:m·f, °*=*¤* account to be stated by the proper accounting officers crediting on ` the books of the Treas De artment Philip Felix Herwig, deceased, late assistant treasurerildly the Ilnited States at Newprleans, Louisiana, with $20,959.81 now charged against him by miscellaneous settlement numbered fifty-eigiht hundred and ten of June fourteenth v,,,_36_,,_m,_ nineteen hundred and e even, under an Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, said amount be1n%the shortage occurring in the public moneys at the New Orleans ubtreasury during sa1d Herwig’s administration on account of the embezzlement of John H. Aufdemorte while employed in said Subtreasury, as stated on page live of House Document Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, and said claim is hereby remitted and satisfied. Approved, July 17, 1914. I uly 17,;g§14. CHAP. 166.-—-An Act To carry into effect findings of the Court of Claims in the cases of Charles A. Davidson and Charles M. Campbell. [Private, No. ea.] Be it enacted the Senate and House q Re escntatives of the United States of Ameri};/a in Congress assemble; Thiit the Secretary of the .m(<ih¢i:5°i1¢!§'1]ifcii1:1°;l° Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and to pay, out "°{,',;,.m,,m_ of the mone in the Treasury not otherwise apfpropgated, the sum of $750 to Charles A. Davidson, and the sum o $7 _ to Charles Campbell, late clerks of United States courts in Indian Temtory, in ursuance of the findings of fact reported to the United States Senate b the Court of Claims in the cases of Charles A. Davidson and Charles M. Campbell against The United States, numbered fourteen thousand and forty-six, congressional Approved, July 17, 1914.