Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 63 Part 1.djvu/1208

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PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 550-552-SEPT. 7, 1949 SeDtember 7,1949 H. R. 1631] [Private Law 263] John J. O'Mara. September 7, 1949 [H. R. 1701] - [Privae Law 21-5 Mrs. Vesta Mein. Mrs. Edns Wil. HIMa full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for reimburse- ment of expenses incident to the transfer of his household goods from Glencoe, Illinois, to Chevy Chase, Maryland, in connection with the change of his official station from Chicago, Illinois, to Washington, District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 September 7, 1949. [CHAPTER 551] AN ACT For the relief of John J. O'Mara. 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 hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John J. O'Mara, Dublin, Eire, the sum of $1,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said John J. O'Mara against the United States arising from an attack made upon him in Dublin on January 27, 1944, by a citizen of the United States who was under prison sentence as the result of a general court martial and who had escaped from the custody of the United States Army: 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 September 7, 1949. [CHAPTER 552] AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Vesta Meinn and Mrs. Edna Williams. Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse 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. Vesta Meinn, Concord, California, the sum of $1,000, and to Mrs. Edna Williams, San Francisco, California, the sum of $630. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by the said Mrs. Vesta Meinn and Mrs. Edna Williams, and on account of damage to the automobile owned by the said Mrs. Vesta Meinn and her husband, Louis Meinn, when such automobile which the said Mrs. Vesta Meinn was driving and in which the said Mrs. Edna Williams was a passenger was involved on July 27, 1944, in a collision with a United States Marine Cors truck on Third Street at or about China Basin in the cl t y of San Francisco, California. At the time of such collision the said Mrs Edna Williams was an unmarried woman known as Edna Rosen: Proide, That no part of either of the sums appropriated in 1172 [63 STAT.