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72d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 42,44,47,66. FEB . 7 -9, 14, 1933. 1719 rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstandmg. Any person violating the provisions of this Act u!eoalt Y shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof . shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. for vlola· Approved, February 7, 1933. [CHAPTER 44.] AN ACT For the relief of S. F. St&cher. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit the accounts of S. F . Stacher, superintendent and special disbursing agent, Eastern Navajo Indian Agency, Crown Pomt, New Mexico, in the sum of $3,004.17, representing an expenditure of that sum in the appropriation for IndIan school buildmgs, over and above the $37,000 authorized for construction and equipment of a heating and power plant at Eastern Navajo School, fiscal year 1929. Approved, February 8, 1933. [CHAPTER 47.] AN ACT February 8,1933. (B. 243.) [Private, No. 190.} S. F . Stacber. Credit in accounts of. February II, 1933. To authorize the presentation of a medal of honor, posthumously, to the late ---r.~[,:;s':"":~~']~-r- Henry Clay Drexler and the late George Robert Cholister. [Private, No. 1111 .) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemlJled, That the Presi- anTarmstroBot (talk)Y ~~ dent is authorized to present a medal of honor, posthumously, to Cholister. the late Henry Clay Drexler, former ensign, United States Navy, aw~~:rto. of honor and the late George Robert Cholister, boatswain's mate, first class, United States Navy, for their heroic action in endeavoring to sub- merge a charge of powder in an immersion tank: on the occasion of a fire in the forward turret of the United States Steamship Trenton, wherein they met their death in a supreme effort to save their ship- mates. That said medals of honor may be presented to the nearest next of kin of said deceased, respectively, living at the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved, February 9, 1933. [CHAPTER 66.] AN ACT For the relief of Herbert G. Black, owner of the schooner Oakwoods, and Clark Coal Company, owner of the cargo of coal on board said schooner. February a, 1933. (B. 487.] [Private, No. 192.] Be it e1UUJted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the H bertG Black d United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims Clar~ Coal Com~. of Herbert G. Black, owner of the schooner Oakwoods, and Clark an~~. claims of, Coal Company, owner of the cargo of coal on board said schooner, for damages arising out of a collision between such schooner and the United States submarine B-3 off the southern end of Cape Cod Canal, on November 24, 1919, m~y be sued for by the said owners in the United States District Court for the District of Maine, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court; and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages, and costs, if any, as shall be found to be due