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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 21, 1932 · Private Law 379

Private Law 379.

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(/us/pvtl/74/378).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That jurisdiction Alta Melvin and son. Claims of, referred to District Court. is hereby conferred upon the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington to hear, determine, and render judgment, as if the United States were suable in tort, upon the 2216 claims of Alta Melvin and her son, Tommy Melvin, both of Seattle, Washington, for damages resulting from injuries received by them when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a United States Army truck from Fort Lawton, Washington, at the intersection of Twenty-eighth Place West and Gilman Avenue in Seattle, Washington, on June 21, 1932.
Sec. 2. Commencement, etc., of suits. Suit upon such claims may be instituted at any time within one year after the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the lapse Proceedings. of time or any statute of limitations. Proceedings for the determination of such claims, and appeals from and payment of any judgment thereon, shall be in the same manner as in the cases of claims over which such court has jurisdiction under the provisions of [U. S. C., p. 1230](/us/usc/p1230). paragraph twentieth of section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended.
Approved, January 24, 1936. To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer certain moneys to “Funds of Federal prisoners.” 1936-01-27 37 Chapter 49 Stat. 2216 74 2 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 2025-01-07 private [CHAPTER 37.] AN ACT To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer certain moneys to “Funds of Federal prisoners.
” January 27, 1936.[[S. 3120](/us/bill/74/s/3120).][[Private, No. 379](/us/pvtl/74/379).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, “Funds of Federal prisoners.” Transfer of certain moneys to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the trust fund in the United States Treasury entitled “Funds of Federal prisoners”, the sum of $685.62, which amount represents the loss sustained by said fund as a result of the failure of the State Savings Bank, of Leavenworth, Kansas, in which part W.
I. Biddle, etc. Release of liability. of said fund was formerly deposited. W. I. Biddle, formerly warden and special disbursing officer of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and the sureties on his bonds as warden and special disbursing officer are hereby released from all liability on account of the loss sustained by the said fund. Approved, January 27, 1936. For the relief of the Otto Misch Company. 1936-01-27 38 Chapter 49 Stat. 2216 74 2 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 2025-01-07 private [CHAPTER 38.] AN ACT For the relief of the Otto Misch Company. January 27, 1936.[[H. R. 6137](/us/bill/74/hr/6137).][
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