Volume 44
Private Law 69–401
For the relief of certain claimants for interest arising from delay in the payment of drafts and cable transfers of the American Embassy at Constantinople between December 23, 1915, and April 21, 1917.
Approved March 3, 1927
Statutory text
An Act
For the relief of certain claimants for interest arising from delay in the payment of drafts and cable transfers of the American Embassy at Constantinople between December 23, 1915, and April 21, 1917.
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 the individuals and corporations, or their attorneys in fact in the United States, listed in the report of March 24, 1926, of the Secretary of State to the President, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 86 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, the amounts specified therein, representing interest at 4¾ per centum on drafts drawn on and cable transfers sent by the American Embassy in Constantinople between December 23, 1915, and April 21, 1917, payment of which was deferred, and amounting to a total sum of $108,971.12: Provided,
Provisos.
Subject to direction of Secretary of Slate.
That no payment hereunder shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, except at the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided further,
Full discretionary authority vested.
That full authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of State to determine, in his discretion, whether payment in whole or in part should be made, withheld, or deferred.
Approved, March 3, 1927.