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 970 [CHAPTER 131] March 24, 1944 [H. R. 2183] (Private Law 250] Mathfide B. Meis- ter. March 24, 1944 [H. R. 3371] [Private Law 261] Dependents of Dr. Arthur B. Wyse, and others. 3 Stat. 742 . AN ACT For the relief of Mathilde B. Meister. 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 Mathilde B. Meister, of Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of $1,500, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries and medical and other expenses sustained by her as the result of a fall from a stairway in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, a National Capital Park, in Washington, District of Colum- bia, on August 24, 1941: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated 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 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 March 24, 1944. [CHAPTER 132] AN ACT For the relief of the dependents of Doctor Arthur B. Wyse, and others. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the administration of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved Sep- tember 7, 1916, as amended (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 5, secs. 751- 791), the late Doctor Arthur B. Wyse, Doctor Charles R. Hoover, Doctor Lawrence S. Moyer, and Israel H. Tilles, who died as the result of the collision of naval aircraft which occurred June 8, 1942, off Lakehurst, New Jersey, while engaged in scientific research for the United States, shall be deemed to have been civil employees of the United States within the purview of said Act, at the time of their deaths, and compensation for death payable under said Act shall accrue from the date of their deaths and shall be payable to such dependents of such decedents as may qualify under section 10 of said Act, under the conditions therein provided, such compensation to be computed in the manner prescribed by said Act upon the basis of the monthly pay respectively of such decedents in their employ- ment under the direction of the Office of Scientific Research and Development of the Office for Emergency Management, or upon the PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 127, 131, 132-MAR. 22,24, 1944 [58 STAT. south eighty-eight degrees thirty-seven minutes forty-five seconds west sixty-four and eighty-two one-hundredths feet to a point on the eastern boundary of the land of the Western Pacific Railroad Com- pany; thence north twenty-three degrees fifty minutes thirty seconds west along said boundary thirty-four and ninety-one one-hundredths feet; thence leaving said boundary line and running north seventy- two degrees twenty-four minutes twenty seconds east eighty-one and forty one-hundredths feet to the place of beginning, containing seventy-three one-thousandths acre, more or less. Approved March 22, 1944.

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