Chapter 58. To pay certain employees of the Government for injuries received while in the discharge of their duties, and other claims
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CHAP. 58.— An Act To pay certain employees of the Government for injuries received while in the discharge of their duties, and other claims.February 18, 1913.[[H. R. 24121](/us/bill/62/hr/24121).][[Private, No. 134](/us/pvtl/62/134).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations for paying claims for personal injuries to Government employees. That twenty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay certain employees of the United States Government for personal injuries received while in the dis-charge of their duties, without any fault on their part; the same being in full, the receipt of the same to be taken in each case as full and final release and discharge of the respective claims, namely:
Alice M. Burrows.To pay one thousand dollars to Alice M. Burrows, widow of Leslie Burrows, late rural mail carrier on route numbered two, Coal Run, Ohio, who lost his life in discharge of his duty. Lars P. Peterson.To pay five thousand dollars to Lars P. Peterson, for injuries received in the discharge of his duties on the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, said injuries having rendered him permanently and totally helpless. 1373 To pay one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars to JohnJohn and Bessie Maher. and Bessie Maher, dependent father and mother of Edward Maher, who lost his life on the Isthmus of Panama, said sum being equal to one year’s pay at the rate of compensation being paid him at the time of his death.
To pay one thousand five hundred dollars to Oscar F. Lackey, forOscar F. Lackey. injuries received while in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Com-mission as assistant engineer in construction of the Panama Canal on November twenty-first, nineteen hundred and live. To pay two thousand dollars to Pedro Sanches, as compensationPedro Sanches. for the loss of both bands, which were blown off by a premature explosion of dynamite in Culebra Cut, Canal Zone, on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight.
To pay one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-eightJohn H. Cole. cents to John II. Cole, as compensation for severe personal injuries and the loss of his right hand while in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission in the Canal Zone on May seventh, nineteen hundred and eight. To pay seven hundred and fifty dollars to Benjamin Demorest, forBenjamin Demorest. personal injuries sustained while employed on the United States lighthouse tender Oleander, on the Mississippi River.
To pay five thousand dollars to Theodore E. Rollett, for injuriesTheodore E. Rollett received while serving as quartermaster on the lighthouse tender Marigold, which injuries crippled and wholly incapacitated said Rollett for any manual labor during the remainder of his life. To pay eight hundred dollars to John Moynihan, for personal injuriesJohn Moynihan. received from a defective elevator in the United States post-office building, in Kansas City, Missouri, said injuries resulting in paralysis of both arms.
To pay one thousand five hundred dollars to Robert Coggan,Robert Coggan. dependent father of Clifford J. Coggan, who was killed in the line of his duty while in the employ of the United States Government on the Panama Canal. To pay seven hundred and fifty dollars to Patrick Feeny, thePatrick Feeny. dependent father of James J. Feeny, Brooklyn, New York, who died as a result of injuries received in the discharge of his duty at Brooklyn Navy Yard, May twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten.
Approved, February 18, 1913.