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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 341, 343, 344, 346. 1916. 1357 KAP. 341.-An Act For the relief of Sarah S. Plank. Ag? gpg?- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqegresentatives of the United {Private. N0. 99·l States of Amerika in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the §,§;‘¤¤¤§6r{’g*· { Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out amid.: ausmriii. M of any money in the Treasury not otherwise a propriated, the sum of $1,000 to Sarah S. Plank, widow of Ed. S. Pl)ank, who was killed in the dischar e of his duties as a United States officer in seeking to enforce thedjnited States laws in the Indian coimtry. Approved, August 11, 1916. A us me. mA?. 343.--An Act For the relief of Nabor and Victoria Leon. [gg- 5696-J Private, No. 100. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives of the United :;,,1,,,, md vim; States of America in Congress assembled, Tmt the Secretary of the uggymont to hr Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of death crm. ’ any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro riated, the sum of $780, and said sum of $780 is hereby appropriated? to be paid in such portions and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe to N abor Leon and Victoria Leon, being, respectivel , the ather and mother of Rurnaldo Leon, an employee of the Ilhited States, who was drowned in the course of his employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands at Granite Reef, on Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona, on February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, such sum being the amount to which the above relatives would have been entitled under the rovisions of the Act of Congress of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred) and eight, but v°'·’°·’·“°· which the did not receive because the reepluired affidavit of claim was not [ized on their behalf within ninety ays after the death, as required by section four of the said Act. Approved, August 15, 1916. A is me. CHAP. 344.-An Act For the relief of George H. Hammond. te, o.101.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives o the United (,,,0, ,, H_ H,,m_ States of America in Congress assembled, Tligt the Secrébary of the mgy- g t to M m_ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of jmredmm ' any mone in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to George H. Hammond; of Dekalb Count , Georgia, for injuries received in the rformance of his duties tmdyer the postmaster and in the post-office bililding in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, the sum of $1,200. Approved, August 15, 1916. CHAP. 346.-—An Act For the relief of John H. Janssen. "@?§a33i”` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of lggresentatioes of the United I States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the Payment vc. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,355, in full com ensation for a.1l claims, to John H. Janssen, of Woonsocket, South lgakota, found and held to be due him by the Secretary of the Interior under contract of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, for two six-inch artesian wells on the shors of Lake Andes, in the ankton Indian Reservation, in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. Approved, August 16, 1916.