Private Law 64–343

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $780, and said sum of $780 is hereby appropriated, to be paid in such portions and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe to Nabor Leon and Victoria Leon, being, respectively, the father and mother of Rumaldo Leon, an employee of the United States, who was drowned in the course of his employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands at Granite Reef, on Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona, on February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, such sum being the amount to which the above relatives would have been entitled under the provisions of the Act of Congress of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, but

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which they did not receive because the required affidavit of claim was not filed on their behalf within ninety days after the death, as required by section four of the said Act.