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SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 31, 34-36. 1919. 1457 hereby, relieved of the payment. of $544.73, together with the amount of the costs whiph may have accrued on account of the United States brmguzni am 8.Ct»lOI1 to enforce the payment of said sum, the said sum being the amount of cash and funds held by the Post Oiiliice Department to be due from said Hall’s estate to the United States for money misappropriated to his own use by a, clerk in said office while the proffered resignation of said Hall was pending in the Post Office Department and while the said clerk was acting postmaster with the consent and acquiescence of the United States. Approved, December 30, 1919. CHAP. 34.-An Act For the relief of the Southern States Lumber Company. mm Private, N0. 18. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe esentatives of the United [ 1 States of America in Congress assembled, TEL: the Secretary of the L§1gg;}*gg;1p§}1;°€$ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ay the Paymmm. ‘ Southern States Lumber Company, a. corporation, Pensacola, £`l01'id8, out of any money in the Treasmy not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $603.7 9. Approved, December 31, 1919. CEA?. 35.—A11 Act Providing for the refund of taxes collected for stamp tax on [SP?6g231u9' certain Eolicies under jzlgc Emergency Tax Act of October 22, 1914, under the proviso [Pfiv¤¥·¤. N¤· 19-] to wluc Act such pohcnes were exempt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ey Representatives of the United I States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the m$§'§?’§ut§$°Y¤§Z$Z Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed todpay, out °“g,$1‘;1’{1‘¥;‘;’g§;;ES_ of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriate , to the Central M&Hl1f&CtUI61S, Mutual Insurance Company of Van Wert, Ohio, the sum of $2,888.77, being the amount paid for stamp taxes under the Emergency Revenue ct of October 22, 1914, on policies V<>1-38.v- 762- of such company, which policies were exempt from such tax under a proviso to said Act as determined by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the case of Niles collector of internal revenue, against Central Manuf z1cturers’ Mutual insurance Company decided June 10, 1918, and reported in volume 252 of the Federal Reporter, page 564. Approved, December 31, 1919. December sx mw. CHAP. 36.-An Act For the relief of the Arundel Sand and Gravel Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House oéikpresentatizzes of the United I Q States of America in Congress assembled, at the claim of the Arundel G§`a$`§'f°é$,m;§§°,%_ and Sand and Gravel Companv, a corporation organized and existing under da§{1*§ée;*§;*§t gg ‘ the laws of the State of Delaware and doing business in the city of "A-.G.Bige1o-·." Norfolk, Virginia, owner of the steam tug A. G. Bigelow, against the United States for damages alleged to have been caused by collision between the said tug and the United States steamship Susquehanna in Norfolk Harbor on the 26th day of November, 1917, may be sued for by the said Arundel Sand and Gravel Company in the District Court of thelinited States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting as a court of admjmltv and acting under the rules governing such court, and said court shali have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit ¥¤¤s<1i¤¤¤¤ ¤f¢<>¤¤· and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due against the Ynited States in favor of the Arundel Sand and Gravel (`ompany, or against