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Volume 50

Private Law 75–225

For the relief of Sallie Gillespie.

Approved May 18, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

For the relief of Sallie Gillespie.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the limitations

Sallie Gillespie.

Provisions of Employees’ Compensation Act extended to.

39 Stat. 746.

5 U. S. C. §§ 765–770.

of time in sections 15 to 20, inclusive, of the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, secs. 767, 770), are hereby waived in favor of Sallie Gillespie, the widow of Lynns P. Gillespie, of Millett, Texas, who is alleged to have sustained an injury while employed as a patrol inspector and prohibition agent about the first part of July 1927 which resulted in his death on June 16, 1929, and her case is authorized to be considered and acted upon under the remaining provisions of such Act, as amended, if she files a notice of such injury and claim for compensation with the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission not later than six months after the date of the enactment benefits,

Proviso.

No prior benefits.

of this Act: Provided, That no benefits shall accrue prior to the approval of this Act.

Approved, May 18, 1937.

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