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1350 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cue. 288-291. 1916. Thomas J. Bye, of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, out of any monei in the Treasury not otherwise aplprgrpriated, the sum of $500, in fu settlement of his claim aglainst the ovemment of the United States by reason of the loss of is team of horses through dro while 1 y d G k d h ° f & emp 0 e on overnment wor un er the supervision 0 vernment officials. Approved, August 7, 1916. Aag¤st7,1916. _ _ [ · R- u660·l GKAP. 289.-An Act For the relief of Mathilda Hesterman. Private, No. 79. [ I Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofR'Ie£resentatives of the United mI{*“*m° H°’*°'· States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the Payment tckior Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to - °°°°°°° °““°'“ Mathilda Hesterman, widow of Herman Hesterman, out of any money in the Treasuitz not otherwise Iippropriated, the sum of $1,248, on account of e death of said erman Hesterman, which was caused by the negl§ence of employees of the United States Government at the Broo yn Na? Yard, in the State of New Yorlh on or about the twenty-eighth o February, nineteen hundred an Approved, August 7, 1916. €§?"i€Y ii€?if cmu-. 2eo.—A¤ Act For the mus: of same D. Kingsbury. [mmm Nm ml Be it enacted by the Senate and House of I?Ie£>resematives M the United b£•;¤¤¤¤ D- Ki¤e¤- States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the néaeisfueu or Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a “‘°'°‘"’° · registered bond of the three dper centum loan of nineteen hundred and eight to nineteen hundre and eighteen, with interest from May first, nineteen hundred and fom; in favor of Samuel D. Kingsbury, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, in lieu of United States three er centum coupon bond of said loan, for $500, numbered one hundred and forty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, the said PWM bond with coupons attached dated August first, nineteen hundred reaamiity ima. and four, to maturity inclusive, having been stolen: Provided, That the said Samuel Kingsbiuy shall first file in the Treasury Department a bond in the penal sum of double the amount of the principal and the unpaid interest coupon of the said bond, in such orm and with such sureties as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the stolen bond hereinbefore described or the coupons belonging thereto. Approved, August 7, 1916. are T;l§i.§.;§.. CHAP. 291.-—An Act For the relief of Wallace L. Bell. A Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatrllves 0 the United g.°§}l.lZ°{$.§""‘ States of America in Congress assembled, Tgdt the Secreloary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Wallace L. Bell, out of any money in the Treasuiy not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $160, for thirty-two days' automobile hire for the use of the Government as s ecial agent in collecting statistics for the Bureau of the Census in district numbered twenty-four, in Georgia, in March and April, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Approved, August 7, 1916.