Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 55 Part 2.djvu/47

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PRIVATE LAWS--CHS. 154 , 169, 1T--JY 2 3, 1941 June 3, 1941 [55 STAT. in Jasper County, Texas: 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 notwith- standing. 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, May 29, 1941. [CHAPTER 169] June 3, 1941 [H. R. 1684] [Private Law 69] Charles E. Allison. Payment to. June 3, 1941 [H. R. 1688] [Private Law 70) Herman E. Schorr. Payment to. AN ACT For the relief of Charles E. Allison. 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 Charles E. Allison, of Glade Spring, Virginia, the sum of $3,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Charles E. Allison against the United States on account of injuries sustained by him as the result of being struck on October 1, 1938, while driving his automobile on State Route Numbered 58, near Damascus, Virginia, by an object extending beyond the truck bed of a truck in the service of the Civilian Conservation Corps: 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 con- tract 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, June 3, 1941. [CHAPTER 170] AN ACT For the relief of Ierman E. Schorr. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amenica 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 Herman E. Schorr the sum of $499.50, in full settlement of all claim against the United States for reimbursement for personal effects destroyed as the result of a fire at the Mohawk State Forest Camp, Torrington, Connecticut, on December 24, 1938: 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 agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any per- son 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, June 3, 1941. 916 Protso.