PRIVATE LAWS--CHS. 631, 633-OCT. 6, 7 , 1949
October 6, 1949
[H. R. 5148]
[Private Law 298]
Hilda Links and
others.
Time limitation.
[CHAPTER 631]
AN ACT
To confer jurisdiction upon the District Court for the Territory of Alaska to
hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim or claims, of Hilda Links
and E. J . Ohman, partners, and Fred L. Kroesing, all of Anchorage, Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is
hereby conferred upon the District Court for the Territory of Alaska
to hear, determine, and render judgment in the same manner and to
the same extent as against a private individual under like circum-
stances, except that the United States shall not be liable for interests
or costs, upon the claim, or claims, of Hilda Links and E. J. Ohman,
partners, and Fred L. Kroesing, for any losses and damages sustained
by Hilda Links and E. J . Ohman, partners, and Fred L. Kroesing,
arising out of air flights or maneuvers of the United States armed
forces occurring over or in the vicinity of the mink ranches conducted
by the said Hilda Links and E. J. Ohman, partners, and Fred L.
Kroesing, at Anchorage, Alaska, or by virtue of any acts or actions of
any and all officers, agents, or employees of the United States in
connection with the operation of military aircraft or with the establish-
ment and maintenance of military posts or bases in Alaska, or by all
of said flights, maneuvers, acts, or actions: Provided, That the action
in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska to establish such
losses and damages may be instituted within one year from the date
of the approval of this Act, and the same right of appeal to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the judg-
ment of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska shall be had
as in other causes in that court: Provided, That the passage of this
Act shall not be construed as an inference of liability on the part of
the Government of the United States.
Approved October 6, 1949.
[CHAPTER 633]
October 7,1949
AN ACT
[H. R. 1020]-
For the relief of the legal guardian of Moody L. Smitherman, Junior, a minor,
[Private Law 299]
and Moody L. Smitherman.
Guardian of Moody
L. Smitherman, Jr.
Moody L. Smither.
man.
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 directed to pay, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $750 to the
legal guardian of Moody L. Smitherman, Junior, a minor, of Birm-
ingham, Alabama, and the sum of $245 to Moody L. Smitherman, of
Birmingham, Alabama. The payment of such sum to the legal
guardian of said minor shall be in full settlement of all claims of
said minor against the United States arising out of personal injuries
sustained by said minor on April 17, 1944, when he was struck by a
United States mail truck at the intersection of Georgia Road and
Forty-eighth Street in Birmingham, Alabama. The payment of
such sum to Moody L. Smitherman, the father of said minor, shall be
in full settlement of all claims of said individual against the United
States arising out of medical expenses incurred by him on account
of such personal injuries sustained by said minor: Provided, That no
part of either of the sums 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
the claim settled by the payment of such sum, and the same shall
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