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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 53 STAT. · January 19, 1939 · Private Law 234

Private Law 234. for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company”, approved May 21, 1934. 1939-08-10 657 Chapter 53 Stat. 1532 76 1 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

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(/us/pvtl/76/233)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mrs. S. F. Sewell.Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. S. F. Sewell, of Vienna, Georgia, the sum of $5,000 for the death of S. F. Sewell, husband of Mrs. S. F. Sewell, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States, sustained when S.
F. Sewell, employed as bridge foreman by Dooly County in constructing a concrete culvert, was struck by a falling tree cut down by Works Progress Administration employees at a place known as Moccasin Branch on the Unadilla Hawkinsville Highway, on January 19, 1939: *Proviso*.Limitation on attorney’s etc., fees.*Provided*, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any Penalty for violation.contract to the contrary notwithstanding.
Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, August 10, 1939. To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company”, approved May 21, 1934. 1939-08-10 657 Chapter 53 Stat. 1532 76 1 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 2024-11-24 private [CHAPTER 657] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company”, approved May 21, 1934.August 10, 1939[[H. R. 7132](/us/bill/76/hr/7132)][[Private, No. 234](/us/pvtl/76/234)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Co., claim adjustment.[48 Stat. 1361](/us/stat/48/1361). That the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company, approved May 21, 1934”, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following:
" “Sec. 2. Evidence, etc., to be admitted. All competent testimony, exhibits, or other evidence heretofore admitted in evidence in any proceeding heretofore had under53 Stat. 1533 authority of this Act and all competent testimony, exhibits, or other evidence heretofore admitted in evidence in the cases docketed in said court as numbers 1 and 3, and, respectively, entitled ‘Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company, a joint-stock corporation, Plaintiff vs. Eusebia Diaz, et al., and The Panama Railroad Company, a corporation, defendants’, and ‘The Panama Railroad Company, a corporation, Plaintiff vs.
J. H. Stilson, W. Andrews, and C. P. Fairman, as the successors in interest and estate to Eufracis C. De Villalobos, et al., defendants’, shall be received in evidence for the same purpose as heretofore admitted in any suit brought or to be brought under authority of this Act, as amended: *Provided*, That such evidence *Proviso*.Relevancy, etc.shall be subject, however, to any objection that the United States may interpose as to relevancy, materiality, or competency other than the objection of the witnesses not being produced in person.
” " Approved, August 10, 1939. To provide for the presentation of a medal to Reverend Francis X. Quinn in recognition of his valor in saving the lives of two of his fellow citizens. 1939-08-10 658 Chapter 53 Stat. 1533 76 1 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 2024-11-24 private [CHAPTER 658] AN ACT To provide for the presentation of a medal to Reverend Francis X.
Quinn in recognition of his valor in saving the lives of two of his fellow citizens.August 10, 1939[[H. R. 7389](/us/bill/76/hr/7389)][
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for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company”, approved May 21, 1934. 1939-08-10 657 Chapter 53 Stat. 1532 76 1 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
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