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 1574 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 264, 269-271. 1925. to pay to the administrator of the estate of Filer_McCloud, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000 in full compensation for property on Parris Island, South Carolina, belonging to such estate, which was destroyed by the United States Marine Corps for military reasons. Approved, February 17, 1925. FS [S- 15il&l192°. CHAP. 269.—An Act For the relief of the Export Oil Corporation. [mma, No-ml S t d H f R presentatives of . _ Beitemctedb the enaean ouseo e ugllon Ou Comm the United States?/of America in Congress assembled, That the t° Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed to hear consider, and render judgment in the matter of the claim of the Elxport Oil Cor oration, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of lgelaware, against the United States, growing out of an alleged contract between the said corporation and the United States through the Director of Purchase and Storage of the Quartermaster Corps of the War Department of the United States in the year of 1919, whereby the said corporation agreed to furnish and the United States to accept and pay for at a sti ulated price a certain quantity of soline to be delivered to the [hinted States tanker We1ldrecl1t at Slew Orleans, Louisiana, on or before Ma 5, 1919, which contract it is alleged was breached b the United States to the damage of the said corporation. For the purposes of considering this claim mQ¤¤*=;¢°di¤ W¤i*i¤8 the Court of Claims is directed to disregard the provisions of Bl1Slsec.3744,p.738. Revised Statute 3774 requiring such contracts to be in writing and shall base its judgment as to the legality of the contract wholly upon the law of contracts as applied in commercial usages. If the court finds that there was such a contract and that there was a breach thereof by the United States, and that because of said breach the said corporation was damaged, then the judgment shaH be in such amount as may to the court seem proper to compensate the rmpo. corporation therefor: Provided, That the judgment shall be limited m""‘°“’“°"”°‘“‘ to the amount of the actual cost of the gasoline on the date of its final sale, including shrinkage, demurrage, insurance, freight and Notice to Attorney storage charges, less the amount received therefor. Notice of such °°“°'“‘ suit shall be served on the Attorney General of the United States who shall appear and defend the suit on behalf of the Government. Approved, February 19, 1925. rebmm-y io ms. CHAP. 270.-An Act For the relief of Ellen B. Walker. vate, No. 185.] Eu B an Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the p,,§‘·§‘,,.,,;tW uf" {0, United States of America in Uorogress assembled, That the Secretary d°°"’ °'¤¤**’¤¤“· of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,560 to Ellen B. Walker, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as full compensation for the death of her husband, Thomas A. Walker, who, while in the employ of the United States Government, in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, lost his life by the colla se of a watertower structure at Paguate, New Mexico, on July li), 1915. Approved, February 19, 1925. . Febrj?r{1é§{]I925` CHAP. 271.-An Act For the relief of the heirs of Agnes Ingels, deceased. [Private, N0. 186.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the j§gg_g¤$'j,,cm 0, United States of America in Uongress assembled, That the Secretary fcrdwh n-¤mi¤1¤ri<>sT of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay,