55 STAT.] 77TIr CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 56-58-APH. 10, 1941 [CHAPTER 56] AN ACT For the relief of Ervine J. Stenson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Comp- troller General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow credit in the official accounts of Ervine J. Stenson, formerly senior clerk and special disbursing agent at the Southern Navajo Indian Agency, for disallowances in the amounts of $125.29 and $5.60 under certificates of settlement of accounts by the General Accounting Office Numbered G-107520-Ind and G-108188-Ind, dated September 22, 1939, and February 2, 1940. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to refund, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, any payments made by the said Ervine J. Stenson on account of the disallowances in question: 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 notwith- standing. 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, April 10, 1941. [CHAPTER 571 AN ACT For the relief of Blanche W. Stout. 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 Blanche W. Stout, widow of Kenneth S. Stout, late American vice consul at Lisbon, Portugal, the sum of $3,000, such sum representing one year's salary of her deceased husband who died while in the Foreign Service. Approved, April 10, 1941. [CHAPTER 58] AN ACT For the relief of Dan A. Tarpley, Ernest H. Tarpley, and Pearl Tarpley. 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 Dan A. Tarpley, the sum of $1,945.83; to Ernest H. Tarpley, the sum of $500, and to Pearl Tarpley, the sum of $1,000, all residents of Rick- reall, Oregon, in full satisfaction of all their claims against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by them when a thirty-seven-millimeter shell exploded in the home of Ernest H. Tarpley on May 29,1938, at Rickreall Oregon, such shell having been shot onto the farm of Dan A. Tarpley by National Guardsmen in carrying out an artillery problem, but which remained unexploded 897 April 10, 1941 18. 432] [Private Law 241 Ervine J. Stenson. Credit In accounts. Refund of pay- ments. Pr"e. April 10, 1941 18. 70]1 [Private Law 25] Blanche W. Stout. Payment to. April 10, 1941 [8. 791 [Private Law 261 Dan A. Tarpley, Ernest H. Tarpley, and Pearl Tarpley. Payments to.
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