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 1970 SEVEXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SESS. III. CRS. 12, 13, 17. 1930. for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in ths performance of their duties, and for other purposes," approved Sep- Time limitation tember 7, 1916, as amended, from anQ after the enactment hereof, waived. without regard to the time of the filing of his claim for such benefits. Approved, December 12, 1930. CHAP. l3.- An Act For the relief of Laura A. DePodesta. December 15, 1930. [H. R . 17~9.] [pfjvate, No. 284 .] Be it eruu;ted by the Serwie and House of Representatives of the LauraA. DePodesta. United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the Secretary 'rmygratuitypayto f h T . h'd d'd f f~ death of husblilld. ' 0 t e reasury IS aut OrIze and lrecte to pay, out 0 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Laura A. DePodesta, widow of Anthony DePodesta, late a lieutenant, Officers' Reserve Vol. 38, p. 516. U. S. C., p.1180. Corps, Air Service, United States Army, who was killed in an air- plane accident while in the line of duty at Langley Field, Virginia, on July 17, 1925, the sum of $1,575, being a gratuity equal to six months' pay at the rate received by Lieutenant DePodesta at the time of his death, said sum to be in full settlement of all claims for damages agaiI18t the Government on account of the death of her husband. Approved, December 15, 1930. December 17, 1930. rH. R. 1825 .] CHAP. l7. -An Act For the relief of David MeD. Shearer. [Private, No. 285.] Be it enacted by the Senate a~ HOU8e of Representative8 0/ the ~iaiTarmstroBot (talk)Po~s~:fe Dllni~eddMStDateSshof Amferica in Oong-r:es8fassemh bled'b'Thaht tGhe claIm of use of invention, ra- aVl c. earer or compensatIOn or t e use y t e overnment TarmstroBot (talk). to Court of of the United States of certain inventions relating to reinforced- concrete revetment and construction and laying of same, made by said David McD. Shearer, and for which letters patent of the United States, numbered 1173879, 1173880, and 1229152 were issued to him, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, which larlsdiction eon· court is hereby vested with jurisdiction in the premises, and whose fQ~'!,stionstobedeter- duty it shall be to hear and determine any statute limiting the time mt c., p. 867. within which such an action may be brought to the contrary not- withstanding, first, whether the said David McD. Shearer was the first, original, and sole inventor of the inventions described in said letters patent or any of them; and if said ~ourt shall find that he was such first, original, and sole inventor of any of the same, then to Compensation due. determine, second, what amount of compensation, if any, he is justly entitled to receive from the United States for the use of his said inventions or any of them, since the date of said letters patent, up to the time of adjudication. In determining whether or not sftid David ' Whether i~vention McD. Shearer is entitled to compensation and the amount of com- ~:lg::;~g Gov- pensation, if any, for the use of said inventions the court shall take into consideration, if and so far as the facts may warrant, the facts, if proved, that while sa~d David McD. Shearer was engaged in perfecting the invention he was in the service of the United States as a junior engineer superintendent in <:harge of willow bank revet- ment construction under the Mississippi River Commission, and whether and, if at all, to what extent said inventions or any of them were discovered or developed during the working hours of his Government service, and to what extent his said inventions for Meth~, cost, etc., protection of river channels and banks differ from the methods to be studied previously used, in material, method of laying, permanency, and value, and, whether if at all to what extent the expense of making experiments, trials, and tests for the purpose of perfecting said