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[84 STAT. 2113]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
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PRIVATE LAW 91-116-JULY 13, 1970

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Private Law 91-115 AN ACT For the relief of Kimball B r other s Lumber Company.

July 10.1970 [H. R. 13740J

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Conqress assembled. That the Secretary „^^|"^^^ of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out ot any money co. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Kimball Brothers Lumber Company, of Dexter, Oregon, a partnership composed of C!lyde K. Kimball, Clayton Kimball, Kendall V. Kimball, Edgar Dowdy, and Arthur Lindley, the sum of $13,726.62. The payment of such sum shall be in full satisfaction of all claims of such partnership against the United States for certain expenses incurred by it under a timber sale contract numbered 18-997 entered into between such partnership and the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, on November 23, 1965, one of the terms of which required such partnership to construct a permanent road through the lands to be timbered, the cost of such road to be offset against the price charged for the timber in accordance with a formula prescribed in the contract, such contract having been subsequently canceled by the mutual consent of both parties after fire destroyed most of the timber before it was removed, but after the road had been constructed by such partnership at its own expense. SEC. 2. 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 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 10, 1970.

Private Law 91-116 AN ACT For the relief of Roseanne Jones.

jyjy j3^ ig7Q [H. R. 2047]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That, notwithstand- R o s e a n n e J o n e s. ing the limitations of section 2401 of title 28, Imited States Code, go^st^^^^so?^^' or of any other statute of limitations, laches, or lapse of time, jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Unifed States District Court for the Southern District of California, Southern Division, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon any claims of Roseanne Jones, a minor, of San Diego, California, against the United States based on injuries and disabilities suffered as the result of an operation performed upon her at the United States Naval Hospital in San Diego in 1959. SEC. 2. Suit upon any such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. Proceedings for the determination of such claims and review thereof and l)ayment of any judgment thereon, shall be in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to cases over which the court has jurisdiction under section 1346(b) of title 28 of the United States Code. Nothing 63 Stat. 62. in this Act shall be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the United States. Approved July 13, 1970.