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 1294 48 Stat. 371; 49 8tat. 189, 1772. April 13, 1938 [H. R. 64671 [Private, No. 4841 The Portland Elec- trio Power Company. Payment to. Proabo. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., tees. Penalty for viola- tion. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 154-156 --APR. 13, 14 , 1938 [52 STAT. at Tomah, Wisconsin, and to allow credit in the accounts of other disbursing agents of the United States for expenditures made during the fiscal years 1935, 1936, and 1937 from the appropriation "Indian schools, support" for boarding-home care and other special services for Indian children attending private or public schools under authori- ties issued by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Approved, April 13, 1938. [CHAPTER 155] AN ACT For the relief of The Portland Electric Power Company. 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 the special fund "The Oregon and California Land Grant Fund", to The Portland Electric Power Company, a corporation, of Portland, Oregon, the sum of $6,721.65, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the refund of a sum paid to the United States on July 7, 1917, as the amount of compensation awarded by the circuit court for Clackamas County, Oregon, in a condemnation suit against the Oregon and California Railroad Company, wherein claimant company sought to acquire title to fifty-two and forty-one one-hundredths acres of Oregon and California Railroad Company grant lands in the State of Oregon, the title to said land having sub- sequently been forfeited to the United States by the Oregon and California Railroad Company as the result of a decision by the United States Supreme Court: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof 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 contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per- son 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, April 13, 1938. [CHAPTER 1561 April. 14 .938 AN ACT [H. R. an771 For the relief of T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company, [Private, No. 48]5 citizens of the State of Texas. T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Com- pany. Authority granted to enter suit in dis- lct court. Juriediltion con- 18ad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That T. T. East and the Cassidy Southwestern Commission Company, a corporation their heirs, legal representatives, executors, administrators, and assigns, any statutes of limitations being waived, are hereby author- ized to enter suit in the United States District Court of the North- ern District of Texas for the amount alleged to be due to said claim- ants from the United States by reason of the alleged neglect and alleged wrongdoing of the officials and inspectors of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry in the dipping of tick-infested cattle in Texas, which said cattle were shipped from Texas to Rock- land, Kansas, in the year 1922. SEC. 2. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to hear and deter- mine all such claims without intervention of a jury. The action in

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