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PRIVATE LAW 86-000—MMMM. DD, 1959
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PRIVATE LAW 86-92-AUG. 7, 1969

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Thomas F. McAllister, judge of the United States court of appeals, is authorized to accept and wear the decoration of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor tendered him by the Government of France, and to accept any supporting documents of such decoration. The Secretary of State shall deliver such decoration and any such supporting documents to the said Honorable Thomas F. McAllister. Approved August 7, 1959.

Private Law 86-92 August 7, 1959 '-—

AN ACT For the relief of certain claimants against the United States who suffered personal injuries, property damage, or other loss as a result of the explosion of a munitions truck between Smithfleld and Selma, North Carolina, on March 7, 1942.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the smfrhfiefd"rn<i United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary cfa^B r^ifV*'^**" ^^ ^^® Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money c a ms, re e. .^^ ^^^ Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants hereinafter named, the sums hereinafter specified, representing the amounts reported by the United States Court of Claims to the Congress in response to H. Res. 319, Eighty-second Congress (congressional numbered 17876, decided January 15, 1958), in full satisfaction of their respective claims against the United States for compensation for property losses or damages sustained by them as the result of an explosion which occurred when a truck in which munitions were being transported for use by the United States Army collided with a privately owned passenger automobile at the intersection of United States Highways Numbered 301 and 70, between Selma, North Carolina, and Smithfield, North Carolina, on March 7, 1942. Herman Benson, Selma, North Carolina, $150.30; Estate of Lloyd Guirkin (Gurkin), deceased, Selma, North Carolina, $17,500; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Temple, Selma, North Carolina, $1,280.06; C. Talton, Selma, North Carolina, $200.32; Mrs. Mollie Creech, Selma, North Carolina, $342.80; Dora O'Neal, Selma, North Carolina, $11.37; Mrs. Frances Ebbs Hobbs and Mrs. E. G. Hobbs, Selma, North Carolina, $231.25; W. O. Fields, Selma, North Carolina, $20; C. P. Harper, Selma, North Carolina, $135.25; Mrs. Mary S. Blake, Selma, North Carolina, $159.33; Henry B. Hughes, Selma, North Carolina, $218.92; C. B. Fulghum, Selma, North Carolina, $66; Mary Boylan, Selma, North Carolina, $116.43; Mrs. Evelyn Morgan, Selma, North Carolina, $117.35; Trustees of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, North Carolina, $140.02; T. R. Fulghum, Selma, North Carolina, $38.34; J i m Smith, Selma, North Carolina, $65.34; Mrs. Lena Proctor, Selma, North Carolina, $60.30; Selma Drug Company, Selma, North Carolina, $317.60; Paul W. McMillan, Selma, North Carolina, $35; Joseph A. Gurley, Selma, North Carolina, $22.91; Mrs. John A. Cox, and Harold Fulghum, Selma, North Carolina, $81.05;