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62 STAT.] O0TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 250-252-MAY 3, 1948 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 May 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 251] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Anthony D. Chamberlain, 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 he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the estate of Anthony D. Chamberlain, deceased, of Oakdale, Louisi- ana, the sum of $5,000, in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of the death of Anthony D. Chamberlain as a result of a collision on January 26, 1944, on United States Highway 165, near Kinder, Louisiana, involving the truck which he was driving and a United States Army truck: 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 misde- meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved May 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 252] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of T. L . Morris. 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 the estate of T. L. Morris, deceased, late of Cherokee County, South Carolina, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of the death, on July 5, 1944, of the said T. L. Morris from injuries sustained by him when he was struck, on the said date, while plowing in a field, eight miles west of the town of Gaffney, South Carolina, by an airplane in the service of the Army of the United States: 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 May 3, 1948. 1343 May 3, 1918 [H. R. 761] [Private Law 267] Anthony D. Chain- berlain, estate. May 3, 1944 (11. It. 16l7l [I'rivalte Law 21s[ T. L . Morri.s, Istlat.