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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. I . Cns. 981-985. 1928. 2027 SEC.~. T.hat the President of the. United States. is herey aut~orized tat~:J>;:~~ort~ p~~ to receIve, m the name of the NatIOn, the AmerIcan flag whICh the said Lincoln Ellsworth took over the top from Kings Bay over the North Pole to Point Barrow and Teller, Alaska. Approved, May 29, 1928. CHAP. 982. -An Act For the relief of R. E. Hansen. M[l ~91r' [Private, No. 288 .] Be it erwcted by the Senate and HOWle of Representati'/.'es of the United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the sum of R. E . Hansen. $2,480.65 is hEreby authorized to be appropriated out of funds da~:g~:.nt to, for crop received from the sale of stored water in the Blackfoot Reservoir, Fort Hall irrigation project, Idaho, to the North Side Canal Company, to be expend0d under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to pay R. E. Hansen, Blackfoot, Idaho, for damages incurred in the destruction of his crop of hay and oats by the ove:flow of his land on 8.;CCount of the operation of said irrigation proJect.. Approved. May 29, 1928. May 29, 1928. CHAP. 983 .- An Act For the relief of Commodore J. M. Moore, United States [S.3632.] Coast Guard, retired. [Private, No. 289.] Be it erwcted by the Senate and H O'U8e of Representatives 01 the C d JM United States of America in Oongres8 assembled, That the Spanish M';~,m~o:'t. O'uard; war service of Second Lieutenant James M. Moore, United States re~~a~ish war service Revenue Cutter Service (now commodore, retired, United States of,corrected. Coast Guard), attached to the United States Revenue Cutter Wood- bury, operatinO' as a pa:-t of the Navy during the war with Spain, be considered for all purposes as continuing during the period ,the Woodbury operated as a part of the Navy in 1898. Approved, May 29, 1928. May 29, 1928, CHAP. 984.- Au Act For the relief of John J. Fitzgerald. [S.3314.] [Private, No. 290.] Be it enacted by the Senate and HOWle of Representatives of the United States of America in Orm.rrres8 (J)8semJJled That the Secre- John 1. Fitzgerald . ._.v~ ., . Monthly yayments tary of the Tre:lsury be, and he IS hereby, authOrized and dIrected to to, autbor zed f?r tf . thT t th' . t d dIsease contracted lD pay, ou 0 any money m e reasury no 0 erwlse appropria e , Emergency Fleet Corp- to John J. Fitzgerald, during his natural life, the sum of $50 per oration. month, to date from the passage of this Act, as compensation in contracting tuberculosis while in line of duty as an employee of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, said monthly payments to be paid thrcugh the United States Employees' Admittance to bos- Compensation Commission; and that said John J. Fitzgerald pitdl, etc. shall be admitted to a Government hospital as may be directed by the United States Employees' Compensation Commission for neces- sary care and treatment. Approved, May 29, 1928. May 29, 1928. CHAP. 98lS. -An Act For the relief of Donald M. Davidson. [S.3088.] [Private, No. 291.] Be it enacted by the Senate a:nd H O'U8e of RepresentatWes of the United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the President so~onald M. Davld- of the United States be, and he i.. hereby, authorized to summon A sum~f~~d b ~J0i:: Donald M. Davidson, formerly second lieutenant of the Field Artil- ln~.k as ~~gco~dition lery, unassigned, of the Army of the United States, before a retiring wbendi.'cbarged. board to inquire whether at the t,ime of his honorable discharge