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66

STAT.]

PRIVATE LAW

844-JULY

11, 1952

Al53

in Alaska: Southeast quarter northeast quarter section 30, township 4 north, range 1 west, Copper River meridian, Alaska, containing forty acres. SEC. 2. That the conveyance shall be made upon the payment by the said corporation for the land at its reasonable appraised price of not less than $10 per acre, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the conveyance hereby authorized shall not include any land covered by a valid existing right initiated under the public-land laws. SEC. 3, There are hereby reserved to the United States all rights to minerals, including oil and gas, in the lands authorized to be conveyed by this Act. Approved July 11, 1952. Private Law 843

CHAPTER 690 AN ACT

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For the relief of Josephine F. Garrett.

[H.R.41883

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 Josephine F. Garrett, Seattle, Washington, the sum of $390. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Josephine F. Garrett against the United States for property damage sustained by her in Seattle, Washington, on November 21, 1947, when her parked automobile was struck by a United States Army vehicle being driven by an enlisted man of the Army not acting within the scope of his office or employment: 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 notwithstanding. 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.

Josephine F. Garrett.

Approved July 11, 1952. Private Law 844

CHAPTER 691

AN ACT For the relief of Gallagher's Warehouses, Incorporated.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary hout^^^toc.'* ^^*' of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Gallagher's Warehouses, Incorporated, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sum of $4,411.56. Such sum represents the value of storage space occupied by certain imported merchandise which was voluntarily abandoned to the Government by the consignee under the provisions of section 563 (b). Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and which was subsequently stored by the said corporation in its bonded warehouse at Philadelphia, for account of the Government, pending its disposition by the Government: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered