1103
63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 150, 156, 157-MAY 27,31 , 1949
west boundary of United States survey 1581 to a point from which
corner numbered 1 of United States survey 1581 bears south one
hundred and eighty and fifty-seven one-hundredths feet- thence west
one hundred and forty feet; thence north one hundred and ninety feet;
thence east thirty-eight and six-tenths feet to the point of beginning,
containing sixty-one one-hundredths acre.
SEc. 2 . The patent issued under this Act shall contain a reservation
to the United States of all mineral deposits in said lands and the right
to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under applicable laws and
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved May 27, 1949.
[CHAPTER 156]
AN ACT
For the relief of Jeptha R. Macfarlane.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary
of the Treasury is authorized and is directed to pay, out of any money
not otherwise appropriated, to Jeptha R. Macfarlane, formerly a
lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy, the sum
of $420. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all
claims of Jeptha R. Macfarlane against the United States for per diem
alleged to have been due while he was on temporary additional duty
at New York, New York, from September 9, 1944, to May 23, 1945.
Provision for payment of this per diem was omitted from orders issued
to him on September 8, 1944, because of clerical error in the writing
thereof: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this
Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or
received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in
connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any
contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the
provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved May 31, 1949.
May 31 1949
[H. R.1e3]
[Private Law 74]
Jeptha R. Macar-
lane.
[CHAPTER 157]
AN ACT
For the relief of John P. Reilly.
May 31, 1949
(H. R. 68s]
[Private Law 751
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Jobn P.Reilly.
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to John P. Reilly, Revere,
Massachusetts, the sum of $2,000, in full settlement of all claims
against the United States for personal injuries, medical and hospital
expenses, and loss in salary sustained when claimant was injured at or
near the Boardman Street Bridge, East Boston, Massachusetts, when
workmen employed by the United States Navy negligently allowed
steel rods to drop from the bridge to the railroad tracks beneath, upon
which the claimant was operating a railroad motorcar on April 1,1944:
Provided,That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in ex-
cess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received
by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection
with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the con-
trary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this
Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000,
Approved May 31, 1949.
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