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75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CHS. 188, 189-MAY 14, 1937 [CHAPTER 188] AN ACT For the relief of A. Sereiskis (Maxwell A. Rittenberg). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in the admin- istration of the immigration and naturalization laws, the Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized and directed to cancel the warrant of arrest and the order of deportation against A. Sereiskis (Maxwell A. Rittenberg) heretofore issued on the grounds that on April 18, 1927, admission to the United States had been fraudulently gained pursuant to the commission of a passport or visa offense which, sub- sequent to such admission, has heretofore been held by the Attorney General of the United States to be within the purview of "crimes involving moral turpitude" and thereupon A. Sereiskis (Maxwell A. Rittenberg) shall hereafter be deemed to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence at New York, New York, on April 18, 1927. Any declaration of intention to become a citizen or any petition for citizenship heretofore filed by or any admission to citizenship ordered and certificate of naturalization here- tofore issued to A. Sereiskis (Maxwell A. Rittenberg), which were predicated upon the claim of lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence on April 18, 1927, shall hereafter be deemed valid, unless the original seven-year period of validity of such decla- ration of intention has heretofore expired or A. Sereiskis (Maxwell A. Rittenberg) has heretofore been found otherwise not eligible to such benefit under the naturalization laws. Approved, May 14, 1937. [CHAPTER 189] AN ACT For the relief of Mary E. Cavey, Joseph C. Kinney, and the estate of J. Edgar Gift, deceased. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Miary E. Cavey, of Ilchester, Maryland, daughter of Robert Cavey, deceased, fornler postmaster at Ilchester, Maryland, the sum of $181.31, who, without prior designation by the Postmaster (en- eral. performed the duties of acting postmaster at the office at Ilchester from July 3, 1934, the date following the death of the former postmaster, until October 17, 1934, the day prior to the appointment of Mary E. Cavey as acting postmaster at Ilchester, both dates inclusive, such sum representing the amount of com- pensation which Mary E. Cavey would have been entitled to receive had she been regularly designated as acting postmaster for such period. SEC. 2 . That the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to credit the account of Joseph C. Kinney, postmaster at Stacyville, Iowa, with $68.92, being the amount which he paid from the postal receipts of the post office at Stacyville, Iowa, to Mrs. George H. Kinney as compensation for her voluntary services in acting as postmaster at said post office from October 15 to November 6, 1933, inclusive, following the death of her husband, George H. Kinney, the former postmaster. May 14, 1937 [H. R. 411] [Private, No. 76] A. Sereiskis (Max- well A. Rittenberg) Relief from deporta- tion and validation of previous admission, authorized. Condition. May 14, 1937 [H. R. 1780] [Private, No. 77] Mary E. Cavey. Payment to. Joseph C. Kinney. Credit in postal ac- count.