Chapter 808. For the relief of certain persons of Schenley, Pennsylvania, who suffered damage to their property as a result of erosion of a dam on the Allegheny River
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CHAP. 808.— An Act For the relief of certain persons of Schenley, Pennsylvania, who suffered damage to their property as a result of erosion of a dam on the Allegheny River. July 2, 1930.[[H. R. 636](/us/bill/71/hr/636).][[Private, No. 251](/us/pvtl/71/251).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Allegheny River. Payment of designated claims for damages, by dam on. of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
(1)the estate of William F. Casey the sum of $50,
(2)Ermildo Romano the sum of $2,700,
(3)Domenico Cordera the sum of $3,000,
(4)the heirs of Anna M. Keesy the sum of $6,500,
(5)Emma Cunningham the sum of $350, and
(6)Clarence C. Keesy the sum of $190. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damage to their land and property as a result of 1959the erosion of Dam Numbered 5 on the Allegheny River on November 18 and 19, 1927. Sec. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to (1 Restoration of certain affected land.restore that portion of land belonging to
(a)the estate of William F. Casey,
(b)Ermildo Romano, and
(c)the heirs of Anna M. Keesy, lying landward of a line parallel with the riverward face of the abutment of such Dam Numbered 5, and forty-eight feet landward thereof, to an elevation level with the top of the landward paving of said abutment (elevation 776), by filling in with slag or other relatively nonerodible materials; and
(2)fill in the land belonging to Filling.Domenico Cordera and Emma Cunningham to an elevation level with the top of the landward paving of the abutment of such Dam Numbered 5 (elevation 776), such filling to be composed of slag or other relatively nonerodible materials. Approved, July 2, 1930.