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 1724 72d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CRS. 82-84. FEBRUARY 15,1933. Februar)' 15, 1933. [H. R . 6786.) [Private, No. 204.] Essie Flngar. Gratuity pay to. Vol. 45, p. 710. February 16, 1933. lH. R .9714.] [Private, No. ~ 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. Approved, February 15, 1933. [CHAPTER 83.] AN ACT For the relief of Essie Fingar. Be it enacted by the Senate and H 0'U86 of Repre8entative8 of the United State8 of Arrurrica in Oong1'e88 aBsembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise app'ropriated, to Essie Fingar, blind and dependent sister of George WIlliam Fingar, late boatswain's mate, second class, United States Navy, a sum equal to six months' gratuity pay, as provided for under the Act of May 22, 1928. Approved, February 15, 1933. [CHAPTER 84.] AN ACT For th(relief of Marion F. Blackwell. Be it enacted by the Senate and H O'U8e of Representatives of the MarlonF.Blackwell. United States of Ame'I'ic<:D in Oong1'eS8 as8embled That the Secretary Payment to, for for- 'fi' hS ~ . feited land patent. of the Treasury, on certI catIon by t e ecretary of the InterIOr, 00, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Marion F. Blackwell, of I.Aaurel, Mississippi, such sum, not to exceed $1,000, a.o:; may be found by the Secretary of the Interior to be the fair and reasonable value of all improvements placed by said Blackwell upon the southeast quarter southwest quarter section 27, township 2 south, range 6 west, Saint Stephens merIdian, Mississippi, the appropriation of which is hereby authorized, for which land he was allowed to make homestead entry numbered 05823, Jackson series, on October 1, 1912, and on September 20, 1916, a patent was issued to him, but on February 20,1917, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi decreed that the titled and rightful claim to the land was vested prior to the patent to Blackwell in the Lampton . E.ntry on other lands Realty' Company tlius defeating Blackwell's claim. It is further mheu. '., proviaed that he may have the optIon at any tIme within three years in lieu of pa~ent to him of moneys herein before provided of making entry of other unappropriated public lands to the amount of one hundred and sixty acres under the general homestead law or three hundred and twenty acres under the enlarged homestead law or six hundred and forty acres under the stocK raising homestead law anywhere in the United States where there are public lands subject to such entry and receiving United States patent for such land without payment to the Umted States of any fees, commissions, or other moneys and without showing of complIance with the require- ments of the homestead laws in connection therewith the patent, however, to contain a reservation of the mineral to the United States i~ necessary as in other entries under the same law. Approved, February 15, 1933.