Chapter 175. For the relief of Cora Evans
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CHAP. 175.— An Act For the relief of Cora Evans.March 4, 1913.[[H. R. 27090](/us/bill/62/hr/27090).][[Private, No. 175](/us/pvtl/62/175).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cora Evans.Payment to, for death of husband. 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 Cora Evans, widow of Joseph E.
Evans, the sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars, this being the amount of the annual salary of the said Joseph E. Evans, who at the time of his death was an employee of the Bureau of Mines and came to his death on April seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, in a mine at Throop, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, while engaged, under the direction of the Bureau of Mines, in the hazardous employment of leading a rescue party, following a mine lire, in an attempt to rescue miners supposed to be barricaded at the face of the mine.
Approved, March 4, 1913.