Chapter 35. Authorizing the Postmaster General to cancel or readjust the screen-wagon contract of H
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CHAP. 35.— An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to cancel or readjust the screen-wagon contract of H. H. Hogan at Kansas City, Missouri. March 29, 1918.[[S. 3689](/us/bill/65/s/3689).][[Private, No. 5](/us/pvtl/65/5).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,H. H. Hogan.Readjustment of postal wagon contract. That should the Postmaster General find as a fact that the screen-wagon contract of H. H. Hogan, of Kansas City, Missouri, was entered into prior to the entrance of the United States into the war with Germany, and that the prices agreed to be paid in said contract are at the present time inequitable and unjust by reason of the increase in the cost of materials and labor employed in the performance of such contract, the Postmaster General is authorized, in his discretion, with the consent of the said H.
H. Hogan and his bondsmen, to cancel the same or to readjust the terms of said contract in such manner as to relieve the contractor from the hardships being by him suffered on account of such increased costs and expenses. Approved, March 29, 1918.