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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 27, 29, 37-FEB. 15, 18, 28, 1946 [60 STAT. [CHAPTER 27] Februry 15, 1946 [S.815] [Private Law 387] Edwin Dougherty and M. H. Ogden. February 18, 1946 [. 314] [Private Law 388] Sigurdur Jonsson and Thorolina Thor- dardottir. February 28 1946 [S. 1588] [Private Law 389] Mrs. Lona Wilson. AN ACT For the relief of Ogden and Dougherty, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to certify for payment to Edwin Dougherty and M. H. Ogden, trading as Ogden and Dougherty, the sum of $15,414.21, recommended by the United States district engineer at Cincinnati, Ohio, the division engineer at Columbus, Ohio, and the Chief of Engineers as the amount of just mathematical errors in the accepted bid submitted on January 7, 1941, by Ogden and Dougherty for the construction of a hospital building at Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, the exigencies of the military service being such as not to admit of delay necessary to correct the errors in the bid before the contract was entered into and the construction work commenced. Approved February 15, 1946. [CHAPTER 29] AN ACT For the relief of Sigurdur Jonsson and Thorolina Thordardottir. 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 Jon Sigurdsson as attorney in fact for his parents, Sigurdur Jonsson and Thorolina Thordardottir, of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, for and on their behalf, the sum of $4,070.85, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the death of their son, Thordur Sigurdsson, who was fatally injured when shot by an enlisted soldier in the Army of the United States on November 8, 1941, at Hafnar- fjordur, Iceland: Provided, That the claimants accept such sum in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the death of their son: 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 ren- dered 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 1and( upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved February 18, 1946. [CHAPTER 371 AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Lona Wilson. 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 is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Lona Wilson, of Malta, Montana, the sum of $119, in full satisfaction of her claim against the United States for the replacement costs of certain abstracts of title to lands, which abstracts were furnished by her to the Resettle- ment Administration upon its request on June 1, 1936, but were not

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