Chapter 401. For the relief of the Hoffman Engineering and Contracting Company
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CHAP. 401.— An Act For the relief of the Hoffman Engineering and Contracting Company. January 25, 1907.[[S. 1648](/us/bill/34/s/1648).][[Private, No. 366](/us/pvt/34/366).] Whereas certain accounts of the Hoffman Engineering and Contracting Preamble.Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, for compensation for extra work done in carrying out its contract with the United States, through the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, bearing date March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, providing, among other things, for certain construction work at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, have been investigated and reported upon under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, by a board of officers consisting of Captain S.
W. Very and Civil Engineers A. C. Lorenz and A. J. Menacal, which said board found to be due the said corporation the sum of fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty--eight dollars and twenty-five cents, against which sum certain counter-charges amounting in the aggregate to two thousand one hundred and ten dollars and forty-four cents are due the United States: Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Hoffman Engineering and Contracting Company.Payment to.Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjudicate and settle the account of the said Hoffman Engineering and Contracting Company, and pay the same in an amount not exceeding twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents, out of any moneys heretofore appropriated for the construction of cadet quarters and other buildings at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Approved, January 25, 1907.