Chapter 561.
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CHAP. 561.— Joint Resolution For the relief of special disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, authorizing the payment of certain claims, and for other purposes, affecting the management of the Alaska Railroad. March 4, 1925.[[H. J. Res. 226](/us/bill/68/hjres/226).][[Pub. Res., No. 73](/us/bill/68/pubres/73).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the General AccountingAlaska Railroad.Credits directed in accounts of disbursing agents, for payments on account of injuries, etc.
Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of special disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission the several payments made by them to the Swedish Hospital (Seattle, Washington), Doctor H. V. Wurdemann, A. B. Funk, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Doctor J. B. Bowen, amounting to $1,433.60, heretofore disallowed by the General Accounting Office, covering medical, surgical, and hospital services and subsistence furnished under the hospital regulations of said commission to contractors who were injured or taken sick while engaged in the performance of their work in the construction of the railroads in Alaska, and said payments are hereby validated.
Sec. 2. That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorizedR. D. Chase.Credit directed in accounts of. and directed to credit in the accounts of R. D. Chase, special disbursing agent of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, the sum of $1,197.10, covering payments made to C. F. Clasen, F. H. Coney, W. A. McDonald, Lief Strand, Tom Tellefsen, Walter Wright, and Soter Chamis, employees of said commission, on account of the destruction of their personal effects by fire October 2, 1920, and March 10, 1922, respectively, said payments having been disallowed by the General Accounting Office, and the said payments are hereby validated. 1356 Sec. 3.
Blanche L. Burns.Payment to, from railroad revenues for fire loss. That the Alaska Railroad is hereby authorized and directed to pay out of the revenues of operation of the railroad, to Blanche L. Burns, administratrix of the estate of W. T. Burns, the sum of $597.25, the value of a mess house and other property located at or near El Dorado, Alaska, on the Chatanika Branch of the railroad, destroyed April 18, 1919, by fire resulting from sparks thrown by a locomotive operating on said railroad.
Sec. 4. Railroad employees.Payment for fire losses, etc., of. That the Alaska Railroad is hereby authorized and directed to pay out of the revenues of operation of the railroad the ten existing claims of employees of said railroad amounting to $267.06, for loss of personal effects by fire at the power house at Anchorage, November 14, 1921, and four existing claims of employees of said railroad amounting to $58.75, for loss of clothing and other personal effects at the time of a wreck at mile 277 of said railroad, July 22, 1922 ; and to pay to C.
H. Thompson, formerly employed as a hospital steward by said railroad, the sum of $211.54, and any additional amounts hereafter allowed him by the railroad, as necessary expenses of care and treatment under its hospital regulations. Sec. 5. Injuries to employees.Officer to be designated for administering claims, etc.Vol. 39, p. 750, amended. That the President may, from time to time, transfer the administration of the Injury Compensation Act of September 7, 1916, so far as employees of the Alaska Railroad are concerned, to the officer designated by him as the successor of the chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, including the powers and duties of the chairman of said commission, provided in section 42 of said Reimbursement from employees’ compensation fund.Act; in which case the payments authorized in said section to be made out of appropriations for the Alaskan Engineering Commission shall be made out of appropriations for the Alaska Railroad, such appropriations to be reimbursed for such payments by the transfer of funds from the employees’ compensation fund.
Approved, March 4, 1925.