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62 STAT.] 80rT CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 110 -112 -MAR. 11 , 1948 [CHAPTER 110] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Roberta Flake Clayton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed, for the purpose of paying amounts owing as arrears of pay and unearned premiums on national service life insurance in the case of James William Clayton, late a machinist's mate, third class, United States Navy, to consider Mrs. Roberta Flake Clayton, of Mesa, Arizona, the adoptive mother of the said James William Clayton, a legal heir within the meaning of the Act entitled "An Act to permit settlement of accounts of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and of deceased commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, without administration of estates", approved February 25, 1946 (Public Law 306, Seventy-ninth Con- gress), and the payment to the said Mrs. Roberta Flake Clayton of an amount not to exceed $2,849.74, shall be in full satisfaction of the obligation of the United States to pay the same. Approved March 11, 1948. [CHAPTER 111] AN ACT For the relief of Ruth Grossman. 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 Ruth Grossman, of Miami Beach, Florida, the sum of $5,463.09 . The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Ruth Grossman against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained on May 9, 1944, when a United States Army truck collided with an auto- mobile at the intersection of Meridian Avenue and Sixteenth Street, Miami Beach, Florida, overturned and fell upon the said Ruth Gross- man, a pedestrian: 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 March 11, 1948. [CHAPTER 112] AN ACT For the relief of Antonio Zamora; Mrs. Antonio Zamora; Antonio Zamora, Junior; Mrs. Juan Chavez; John Chavez, Junior; Roland Chavez; Selso Trujillo; Doctor M. G . Wright; and the heirs of Keith Lane. 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 (1) Antonio Zamora, of Winslow, Arizona, the sum of $2,500; (2) Mrs. Antonio Zamora, of Winslow, Arizona, the sum of $1,500; (3 Antonio Zamora, Junior of Winslow, Arizona, the sum of $500; (4) Mrs. Juan Chavez, o Winslow, Arizona, the sum of $1,000; (5) John Chavez, Junior, 1317 March 11, 1948 [S. 641] [Private Law 195] Mrs. Roberta Flake Clayton. 60 Stat. 30. 34U. .C.§941a. March 11, 1948 [S. 922] [Private Law 196] Ruth Grossman. March 11, 1948 I8. 1031] [Private Law 197] Antonio Zamora and others.