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PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 703-705-DEC. 8, 1942 [CHAPTER 703] December 8 1092 [8. 26181 [Private Law 568] Beatrie Milan Vda. de Vazquez. Payment to. Propo. December 8 1942 [8. 27051 [Private Law 669] Camilla C. Moore. Payment to. Profa" . December 8 1942 [S. 2712 (Private Law 560] Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear. Payment for deposit to credit of. [56 STAT. AN ACT For the relief of Beatriz Milan Vda. de Vazquez. 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 Beatriz Milan Vda. de Vazquez, of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, the sum of $4,200.70 in full settlement of her claim against the United States for personal injury sustained when the automobile in which she was riding was struck by a United States Army command car on Insular Road Numbered 1, near Barrio Montellano, Cayey, Puerto Rico, on June 29, 1941: Provided,That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 unlaw- ful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violat- ing 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, December 8, 1942. [CHAPTER 704] AN ACT For the relief of Camilla C. Moore. 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 is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Camilla C. Moore, widow of the late Captain Samuel N. Moore, United States Navy, the sum of $734.20 for the value of personal property lost or damaged in the hurricane at Tutuila, Samoa, on January 1, 1926: 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, December 8, 1942. AN ACT For the relief of Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to correct an award of money in lieu of an allotment of land under the Acts of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 484), and June 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 340), erro- neously made to Henry Leon Prue rather than to Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear, a Sioux Indian of the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, and the Indian rightfully entitled thereto, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay the sum of $664 to the Secre- tary of the Interior or his authorized representative for deposit to the credit of Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear. The 1228 [CHAPTER 7051 a