Volume 39 · 1391
Private Law 64–383
For the relief of the dependent widow of Patrick Curran, civilian employee of the Government, who was killed while in the discharge of his duties at the United States naval magazine at Iona Island, New York.
Approved August 21, 1916
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of the dependent widow of Patrick Curran, civilian employee of the Government, who was killed while in the discharge of his duties at the United States naval magazine at Iona Island, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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, to Ellen Curran, of Haverstraw, New York, the dependent widow of Patrick Curran, civilian employee of the Government, who was killed while in the discharge of his duties on the fourth day of November, nineteen hundred and three, at the United States naval magazine on Iona Island, in the Hudson River, New York, by the explosion of gunpowder and thirteen-inch shell, without his fault or negligence, the sum of $624.
Approved, August 21, 1916.