1A300 RELIEF OF SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE U.S. Congress. House, 0318 COMMITTEE ON THE TERRITORIES SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. J. Res. 226 FOR THE RELIEF OF SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS OF · A38 1924 RELIEF OF SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS OF THE ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES, The committee this day met, Hon. Charles F. Curry (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will first take up for consideration this morning House Joint Resolution 226, for the relief of special disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, authorizing the payment of certain claims and for other purposes affecting the management of the Alaska Railroad. The text of the joint resolution will be made a part of the record, (The joint resolution above referred to is as follows:), [H. J. Res. 226, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session] JOINT RESOLUTION For the relief of special disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, authorizing the payment of certain claims, and for other purposes, affecting the management of the Alaska Railroad J Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of special disbursing agents of the Alaskan Engineering Commission the several payments made by them to the Swedish Hospital (Seattle, Washington), Doctor H. V. Wurdemann, A. B. Funk, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Doctor J. R. Bowen, amounting to $1,433.60, heretofore disallowed by the General Accounting Office, covering medical, surgical, and hospital services and subsistence furnished under the hospital regulations of said commission to contractors who were injured or taken sick while engaged in the performance of their work in the construction of the railroads in Alaska, and said payments are hereby validated. SEC. 2. That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of R. D. Chase, special disbursing agent of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, the sum of $1,197.10, covering payments made to C. F. Clasen, F. H. Coney, W. A. McDonald, Lief Strand, Tom Tellefsen, Walter Wright, and Soter Chamis, employees of said commission, on account of the destruction of their personal effects by fire October 2, 1920, and March 10, 1922, respectively, said payments having been disallowed by the General Accounting Office, and the said payments are hereby validated. SEC. 3. That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Frank Doner, formerly a special disbursing agent of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, the sum of $9,937.65, covering remittance in a registered package consigned to him in September, 1921, by the First National Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, containing, when mailed, $9,900 in paper currency, which was missing from said package when called for at the post office at Nenana, Alaska, and is supposed to have been stolen from the mail, and $37.65 in coin, which is being retained by the Post Office Department; the said sums having been disallowed and suspended, respectively, by the General Accounting Office. SEC. 4. That the General Accounting Office is hereby authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of R. B. Chase, special disbursing agent of the Alaskan 1 |