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979 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS. -CHS. 183-185--APR . 26, 1944 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with these claims, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the con- trary 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 April 26, 1944. [CHAPTER 184] AN ACT To provide for reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy per- sonnel for personal property lost or damaged as the result of a fire in building B. O. Q. 0-3 at the United States naval construction training center, Davis- ville, Rhode Island, on March 27, 1943. 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, such sum or sums, amounting in the aggregate not to exceed $4,797.15, as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse under such regulations as he may prescribe, certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for the value of personal property lost or damaged in a fire in building B. O . Q. 0 -3, at the United States naval construction training center, Davisville, Rhode Island, on March 27, 1943: 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 April 26, 1944. April 26, 1944 [8. 1542] [Private Law 273] Navy personnel. Reimbursement for fire losses at Davis- ville, R. I . [CHAPTER 185] AN ACT April26, 1944 For the relief of Captain S. E . McCarty (Supply Corps), United States Navy. 16321 [Private Law 274j 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, the sum of $388.25 to reimburse Captain S. E . McCarty (Supply Corps), United States Navy, for the value of personal property lost or dam- aged by a storm on 17 August 1942, which flooded Government quarters occupied by him at the United States Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island: 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 April 26, 1944. Capt. S. E. Mc- Carty (Supply (orfp), U.8 .N.