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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · March 4, 1929 · Chapter 724

Chapter 724. For the relief of J

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Chap. 724: For the relief of J. Edward Burke. Chapter 724 45 Stat. 2379 1929-03-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 private Chapter 724.— An Act For the relief of J. Edward Burke. March 4, 1929. [[H. R. 3047](/us/bill/70/hr/3047).] [[Private, No. 563](/us/pvtl/70/563).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryJ.
Edward Burke. Refund of fine. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to J. Edward Burke, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,000, the amount of a fine paid by J. Edward Burke in pursuance of a judgment entered upon a plea nolo contendere under certain provisions of the so-called Lever Act previous to the time that the Supreme Court of the United States held such provisions void, the said plea and said payment being made under a stipulation as follows:
“In consideration that the Attorney GeneralConsideration for. and this court shall accept the plea nolo contendere which I hereby tender to the above-entitled indictment, I do hereby waive any and all fines which the court may see fit to impose upon me, upon such plea, except in the event that the so-called Lever Act under which said indictment is found shall be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States and that no prosecution could be sustained upon the facts stated in said indictment.
” Approved, March 4, 1929.
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