Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 2.djvu/27

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61 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 151, 154, 155 -JUNE 26, 1947 make such clause correspond with the present organization of the Methodist Church without changing in any respect the charitable character of such corporation. The procedure followed by such corporation for effectuating such change shall be that prescribed in section 602 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1284), as amended, for changing the name of a benevolent, charitable, educational, musical, literary, scientific, religious, or missionary corporation. Approved June 26, 1947. [CHAPTER 154] AN ACT For the relief of A. A . Pelletier and P. C . Silk. 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, to A. A . Pelletier and P. C . Silk, of Great Falls, Montana, the sum of $334.72, in full satis- faction of their claim against the United States for compensation for reporting and transcribing certain hearings held at Helena, Montana, during the period July 8 to July 16, 1946, by the Special Committee To Investigate Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, 1946, pursuant to S. Res. 224, Seventy-ninth Congress. Approved June 26, 1947. [CHAPTER 155] AN ACT For the relief of Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company. Whereas the Southern Bitumen Company heretofore contracted with the United States to build an outfall sewer in the city of Anniston, Alabama, the contract being designated as Federal Works Agency project numbered Ala. 1 -160 (F) ; and Whereas Roberts Blount became the guarantor on said contract; and Whereas the Southern Bitumen Company defaulted on its contract and Roberts Blount arranged for the completion of said contract by the Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company, and the same was so completed in 1943; and Whereas the Federal Works Agency withheld from the contract price the sum of $13,685 on account of liquidated damages for delay in completion and on account of an alleged defect in workmanship resulting in excess seepage of water into the sewer main, which said defect has since proved in actual use for nearly three years to be of no material consequence; and Whereas the sum of $3,053.88 has been paid to the Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company as assignee of the Southern Bitumen Company in part payment of the sum of $13,685 due under said contract: Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Admin- istrator of the Federal Works Agency is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company, or its assignee, the sum of $10,631.12 in full satisfaction of all claims of the Southern Bitumen Company, the Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company, and Roberts Blount arising out of the construction of the aforementioned sewer at Anniston, Alabama, under project numbered Ala. 1 -160 (F). Approved June 26, 1947. 9B347 "- ' 49 -- T.II---2 977 D. C. Code, § 29- 604. June 26, 1947 [S. 882] [Private Law 33] A. A . Pelletier and P. C. Silk. June 26,1947 [Tt. R. 2257 [Private Law 34] Southeastern Sand and Gravel Company, or its assignee.