62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 221 , 226 , 227-APR. 20, 21, 1948 approved by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the recommendations of a Treasury claim board: Isadore G. Alk, $231; Daniel Henry Blake, $195; Charles R. Clark, $346.38; William A. Conkright, $742.05; Earl W. Daley, $2,326.58; Dolor J. DeLagrave, $158; Mrs. Ella M. Doughty, $839.65; Joseph A. Fortier, $151.60; Roy V. Fox, $792.56; Smith B. Griffin, $82.59; William Lawrence Hebbard, $137; Paul Hermes, $753.31; Sidney J. Kennedy, $397.89; Charles Kruszewski, $379.40; Alice Libby, $170; Ronald N. Marquis, $50; T. F. McCrea, $200; Karl M. Richards, $4,995.48; Martin G. Scott, $2,246.59; Bernard Wait, $348.48; Laura S. Walker, $80; Hugo Wallenfels, $321.67; H. A. Wambold, $420; Florence I. Wilson, $76.56; Walter M. Wolff, $2,818.01: 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 20, 1948. [CHAPTER 226] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Mary D. Briggs, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the estate of Mary D. Briggs, deceased, former postmaster at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, is relieved of all liability to refund to the United States the sum of $2,796.60, which sum remains due as the result of a defalcation of one Clyde T. Suttle, then a clerk in the Los Angeles post office, in the amount of about $9,000, less amounts regained from the surety on the bond and by judgment against the said Clyde T. Suttle. All charges remaining against the postmaster's account of the said Mary D. Briggs arising from the embezzlement of the said Clyde T. Suttle shall be remitted, and the Civil Service Commission is authorized and directed to release to the personal representative of the said Mary D. Briggs the amount to her credit in the civil-service retirement and disability fund which has been retained because of such shortage in her account. Approved April 21, 1948. [CHAPTER 227] AN ACT For the relief of Claude T. Thomas, legal guardian of Elizabeth Ann Mervine, a minor, and the estates of Mary L. Poole, deceased, and Hazel S. Thomas, deceased. 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 hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000 to Claude T. Thomas, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the sum of $250 to the legal guardian of Elizabeth Ann Mervine, a minor, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the sum of $5,000 to the estate of Mary L. Poole, deceased, of Fort Madison, Iowa; and the sum of $5,000 to the estate of Hazel S. Thomas, deceased, of Oklahoma City, Okla- homa, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries to Claude T. Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Mervine April 21, 1948 [H. R. 927] [Private Law 257] Mary D. Briggs, estate. April 21, 1948 [H. R. 2633] [Private Law 258] Claude T. Thomas and others. 1339
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