Chapter 847. For the relief of Pirtle Handley
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CHAP. 847.— An Act For the relief of Pirtle Handley. July 3, 1926.[[H. R. 1565](/us/bill/69/hr/1565).][[Private, No. 276](/us/pvtl/69/276).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pirtle Handley.Payment to, for personal injuries. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated and in full settlement against the Government, the sum of $5,000 to Pirtle Handley, of Louisville, Kentucky, as compensation for injuries sustained on April 6, 1918, at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, during a Liberty loan demonstration, when a machine gun, while being manipulated by Army officers, was accidentally fired, the bullet striking Handley’s leg and so mangling the same as to require its amputation at the hip joint.
Approved, July 3, 1926.