SIXTY-EIGHTH cousnnss. sm. 11. on. 555. 1925. 1327 The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to credit the P°°k°” md S*°°k· accounts of the disbursing clerk of the Department of Agriculture yaligsvdzgiiw for expert with payments heretofore or hereafter made for expert services $$°°S °°d°"°"° °" under existing agreements entered into by the Secretary of Agri- V°*·‘2·¥’·*5°· culture in connection with investigations under the Act of August 15, 1921, Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 159. J B mmm d That the claimants mentioned in S. 1253, "A.n Act to reimburse ¤¢¤€rs·` 0 an J. B. Glanville and others for losses and damages sustained by them aggsmilivs iikniihxggild through the negligent dipping of tick—infested cattle by the Bureau §§§°§’;s$§{‘c‘§,‘Q§ Km of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture," which passed the ` Senate J anuaiy 16, 1924, be, and the are hereby, authorized to enter suit in the United States District (lourt for the State of Kansas for the amount due or claimed to be due to claimants from the United States by reasons of the neglect of the governmental officials in the dipping of the tick-infested cattle. _ And jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said United States I°"s°u°t'°° °I°°‘“t' District Court for the District of Kansas to hear and determine all such claims. The action in said court may be presented by a. single P'°°°°“"°' petition, making the United States party defendant, and shall set forth all the facts on which the claimants have their claims, and the petition may be verified by the agent or attorney of said claimants. Oflicial letters, reports, and public records or certified copies thereof Y _ may be used as evidence. Nothing contained in this or the pre- M d°£°°S° w°w°d° ceding paragraph shall be construed as waiving any defense against such demands, or any of them, existing prior to the approval of this Act, except that the Government of the United States hereby waives its immunity from suit thereon; but every other legal or equitable defense against such demands, or any of them, shall be available to the United States and shall be considered by the Am . . cunt oljudgmeut court. Any judgment or judgments rendered shall not exceed the mama. amounts sti ulated in such S. 1253 and shall not include interest for any period before or after rendition. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE ...£.‘§.‘i""“‘°“‘°‘°°“* coN·rii<eEm· Exrnusizs, m:rAi<·rMEN·r or commence C°°"°g°°t°"'°°`°°' For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, sngmmng md md` including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year 1925. $100,000. Mmm mt Hereafter section 3648 of the Revised Statutes shall not agjply to ments aiiawea. If"' advance payments for rent of offices in foreign countries y the R‘*·*s"°·‘°‘8·*’·"8· Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. izriznau or LIGHTIIOUSES L*¢¤¤¤¤¤¤‘¤ Bums Retired pay. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, fiscal year 1925, $35,000. . Damage claims: To pay claims adjusted and determined by the i?»—iy¤i»i¢g°at°i»ii!i)§i. wi- Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the 1‘S{'?§j ,,_;.;;_ Act approved June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account. of damages occasioned to private property by co lision with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service were responsible, certified in House Document Numbered 565, Sixty-eighth Congress, $387 .60. _ The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of James C. Woolley, spscml disbursing agent, Department of Commerce, in the office of the Super- 45S.‘Z2°-—:25i——Sfi
