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PRIVATE LAWS ENACTED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, January , 1,941, and adjourned without day on Friday, January2, 1942 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; HENRY A. WALLACE, Vice President; PAT HARRISON,' President of the Senate pro tempore; LISTER HILL, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, March 31 and June 5, 1941; CARTER GLASS, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, May 23, 1941, and elected President of the Senate pro tempore, July 10, 1941; KENNETH MCKELLAR, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 4-5 and 15-19, October 2 and 9, 1941; WALTER F. GEORGE, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 30, 1941-January 2, 1942; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House of Representatives; CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, August 15- September 15, 1941; JERE COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, October 27-November 6, 1941; WILLIAM P. COLE, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, December 23, 1941-January 2, 1942. [CHAPTER 13] AN ACT For the relief of John W. Young. 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 John W. Young, Ailsa Craig, Rural Route Numbered 3 Parkhill, Ontario, Canada, the sum of $1,471, in full satisfaction ol all claims against the United States on account of property damages sustained as a result of an accident involving an Army airplane near Parkhill, Ontario, Canada, on March 4, 1939: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, March 14, 1941. [Died June 22,1941,6: 45 a. m.] 887 March 14, 1941 [H. R. 30041 [Private Law 1] John W. Young. Payment to. Prori.