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PRIVATE LAW 625-MAY 10, 1956

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of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Winston Bros. Company and the Utah Construction Company, jointly, the sum of $102,475.41, and to J. A. Terteling & Sons, Inc., the sum of $24,666.41. The payment of such sums shall be in full satisfaction of all claims of Winston Bros. Company and the Utah Construction Company and J. A. Terteling & Sons, Inc., against the United States for compensation for increased costs incurred as the result of the disruption or delay in performing certain construction work for the Bureau of Reclamation on the Columbia Basin project under contracts numbered 12r-16197, dated June 28, 1946, 12r-16796, dated October 25, 1946, and 12r-16745, dated October 25, 1946. Such disruption or delay was caused by insufficient appropriations by the Congress to continue payment for the normal construction schedules for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948. The sums appropriated by this Act are the amounts of damages found by the Court of Claims, acting pursuant to Senate Resolution 343, Eighty-second Congress, to have been suffered by the said construction firms because of such disruption or delay. SEC. 2. No part of the amounts 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 these claims, 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 May 10, 1956.

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CHAPTER 263

AN ACT For the relief of Joseph Righetti and Marjorie Righetti.

May 10, 1956 .. ^^' ^- ^"^^"^

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Joseph Righetti jori^^R^ghem.'^" and Marjorie Righetti, of Santa Rosa, California, are hereby relieved of all liability to refund to the United States the sum of $557.40. Such sum represents the amount of certain payments erroneously made by the Veterans' Administration to Joseph Righetti and Marjorie Righetti under the Servicemen's Indemnity Act of 1951, by reason f|use si inote. of the death of their son, James Chatelain. I n the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, full credit shall be given for the amount for which liability is relieved by this Act. Approved May 10, 1956. Private Law 625

CHAPTER 264 AN ACT For the relief of William F. Friedman.

May 10, 1956 ^' ^- ^°^^^

Be it enaMed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ainencoi in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ^^"^®™^' ^''^** of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to William F. Friedman, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $100,000, in full settlement for all rights in respect of his inventions in connection with military, naval, and air communications facilities which are now or at any time have been placed in secrecy

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