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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., IST SESS. -CHS. 141, 142,147-MAY 24, 25, 27, 1949 the amount, if any, legally or equitably due from the United States to the claimant; and Whereas the Court of Claims has considered such claim pursuant to such resolution and has certified on March 2, 1948, to the Senate its findings of fact, conclusions, thereon, and its opinion on the several items of such claim: Therefore be it Resolved 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 the First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Raleigh, North Carolina, as administrator of the estate of C. A. Ragland, Senior, deceased, (1) the sum of $9,860.35, the amount to which the Court of Claims found the said First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company entitled, the payment of such sum being in full satisfaction of the claim of the said First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company against the United States for compensation for work performed by the late C. A. Ragland, Senior, under contracts num- bered 1-1P-5554 and 1-1P-5688, on projects 1T1 and 2E2, Shenan- doah-Great Smoky Mountains Parkway. Approved May 24, 1949. [CHAPTER 142] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell the land of George Peters under existing regulations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the filing of a written application by George Peters, Crow Indian allottee num- bered 1292, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell to a Crow Indian, under existing regulations, the homestead and other land of said George Peters, described as all of section 20; the north half of the north half; the north half of the north half of the south half of the north half of section 29, township 4 south range 37 east, Montana principal meridian, containing eight hundred and forty acres, the status of such land with respect to taxability to remain unchanged. Approved May 25, 1949. [CHAPTER 147] AN ACT For the relief of certain officers and employees of the Office of United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands who suffered losses of personal property by reason of war conditions. 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, the following sums of money to the following-named officers and employees of the Office of United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands, which sums represent the value of reasonable and necessary personal property lost by them, while in the course of their respective duties, as a result of war conditions: Helen Burke, $4,779.16; Claude Buss, $3,355; Donald L. Cochran, $1,558; William H. Cropper, $117.50; Gordon W. Ells, $3,119.82; Elise Flahavan, $1,268; Charles W. Franks, $5,582.50; George 0. Gray, $445; Bertha T. Greusel, $834; Grace Jurgensen, $392.50; Ruth P. Lovell, 1101 First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co. , Raleigh, N. 0. Ma 25,1949 [8. 7N8] [Private Law 701 George Peters. May 271949 I .11621 [Private Law 711 Office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands. Relief of certain offi- cers and employees.

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