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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.--CHS. 77, 78,80,81 -APR. 5, 6, 1938 tion Commission is hereby authorized and directed to receive and consider, if filed within six months after the approval of this Act, the claim of Lynn E. Barker, of Crandon, Wisconsin, for disability alleged to have been incurred by him on or about July 11, 1934, while in the employment of the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Com- merce, at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and to determine said claim upon its merits under the provisions of said Act: Provided, That no benefits shall accrue prior to the approval of this Act. Approved, April 5, 1938. [CHAPTER 78] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. George Orr. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to Mrs. George Orr, of Tuckerton, New Jersey, widow of George Orr, late an employee of the Consular Service of the United States, the sum of $5,500, such sum representing one year's salary of her deceased husband who died while in the Foreign Service. Approved, April 5, 1938. [CHAPTER 80] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Dessie Masterson. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,500 to the administrator of the estate of the late Dessie Masterson, who was shot and killed in her home in Saint Louis, Mis- souri, on July 13, 1934, by a bullet fired during a raid participated in by agents of the Bureau of Investigation: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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 con- tract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the pro- visions 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, April 6, 1938. April 5, 1938 [H. R. 8021] [Private, No. 428] Mrs. George Orr. Payment to. April 6,1938 [H. R. 726] [Private, No. 429] Dessie Masterson. Payment to estate of. Proviso. Attorney's, etc., fees forbidden. Penalty for viola- tion. [CHAPTER 81] AN ACT For the relief of Charles N. Robinson. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $517 to Charles N. Robinson, of Brooklyn, Mississippi, in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for expenses incurred by him in connection with a homestead entry for a tract of land known as Jackson 07920, which he was allowed to make on June 6, 1918, and which he subsequently relinquished on June 24, 1922, after it was determined that the United States was not in a April 6, 1938 [H. R. 4493] [Private, No. 430] Charles N. Robin- son. Payment to. 1271 Proviso. No prior benefits.

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