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[55 STAT. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 200 -202-JUNE 13, 1941 June 13,1941 [S. 6571 [Private Law 91] Certain U. S . Com- missioners. Payments to. Proric. 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, June 13, 1941. ICHAPTER 201] AN ACT For the relief of certain United States Commissioners. 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, and m full settlement against the Government of the United States, the sum of $231 to David J. Meyerhardt, United States Commissloner at Atlanta, Georgia; the sum of $57 to C. Wayne Clampitt, United States Commissioner at Tucson, Arizona; the sum of $39 to Ray K. Bannister, United States Commissioner at El Reno, Oklahoma; the sum of $219 to Malcolm McNaughton, United States Commissioner at Leavenworth, Kansas; and the sum of $159 to Reginald H. Carter, Junior, United States Commissioner at New Orleans, Louisiana, for fees due them which were disallowed by the Comptroller General of the United States because they followed instructions erroneously issued by the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice: 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, June 13, 1941. ICHAPTER 202] June 13, 1941 18. 931) [Private Law 92] Robert B. Ayers. Payment to. AN ACT For the relief of Robert B. Ayers. 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 Robert B. Ayers, of Avalon, Livingston County, Missouri, the sum of $1,534.46, m full satisfaction of all his claims against the United States for medical and hospital bills incurred in connection with personal injuries and property damage sustained by him when the two-horse team (drawing a wagon with a hay rack attached) which he was driving at the time was struck by a Government truck operated in connection with the Civilian Conservation Corps, the same being United States Civilian Conservation Corps truck numbered 11, license numbered T451-4171, attached to Camp BF-2, located at Swan Lake Refuge, Sumner, Livingston County, Missouri, and at that time under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, on the highway designated as "J" one and three- 926