Chapter 556. For the relief of C
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CHAP. 556.— An Act For the relief of C. O. Smith. March 4, 1931.[[S. 5201.](/us/bill/71/s/5201)][(Private, No. 471.]](/us/pvtl/71/471) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, C. O. Smith.Payment to, for loss, etc., of seed cotton. That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the claim of C. O. Smith for loss or damages sustained on account of the Government’s destruction of two thousand eight hundred pounds of seed cotton owned by him and which, remained unharvested from a seven-acre tract of land leased to 2151 the Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, for experimental plots for cultural control investigations in re pink boll worm of cotton, under lease numbered Ae—992, dated November 12, 1929, and to allow in full and final settlement of said claim not to exceed the sum of $168.
There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $168, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay said claim. Approved, March 4, 1931.