Volume 71 · A64
Private Law 85–168
For the relief of Mrs. Bertha K. Martensen.
Approved August 16, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Mrs. Bertha K. Martensen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the ten-year
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period (prescribed in the Act of October 9, 1940 (31 U. S. C., sec. 71a) ) within which claims against the United States must be filed is hereby waived with respect to the claim of Mrs. Bertha K. Martensen, New Orleans, Louisiana, against the United States for payment of the six-months’ death gratuity, and accrued pay and allowances, due her by reason of the death of her son, Victor J. Martensen, if the said Mrs. Bertha K. Martensen files a claim therefor with the General Accounting Office within the six-month period which begins on the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved August 16, 1957.