Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 2.djvu/108

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PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 571-573-JUNE 19,1948 Department truck and the said injuries being sustained in the result- ant collision; the accident occurring on Government Street Road, a highway leading west from Mobile, Alabama, said accident occurring in Mobile County in the State of Alabama: 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 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 572] June 19, 1948 [H. R . 2062] [Private Law 369] Mrs. Carre M. Lee. June 19, 1948 [H. R . 2479] [Private Law 370] Hardy H. Bryant. AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Carrie M. Lee. 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 Mrs. Carrie M. Lee, Florence, South Carolina, the sum of $500. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States arising out of an accident in which the automobile in which she was riding was struck by an Army truck on United States Highway Num- bered 1, about two and one-half miles south of Rockingham, North Carolina, on July 21, 1944: 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 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 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 573] AN ACT For the relief of Hardy H. Bryant. 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 Hardy H. Bryant, the sum of $2,032.34, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for performance of certain service not covered by his contract with the Post Office Department to carry mail on screen wagon route 450002 at Beaumont, 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 attor- ney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty o a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved June 19, 1948. 1382 [62 STAT.