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[70 Stat. 144]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 144]

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PRIVATE LAW 805-JULY 24, 1956

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of Agriculture is authorized and directed to pay, out of money heretofore made available for the eradication of the disease vesicular exanthema in swine, to A. O. Nissen and Don Nissen, San Antonio, Texas, the sum of $14,250.32. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said A. O. Nissen and Don Nissen against the United States arising out of the destruction, in January of 1953, of swine owned by them because of the infection and exposure of such swine to the contagious disease vesicular exanthema. Such sum represents 50 per centum of the amount of losses incurred by the said A. O. Nissen and Don Nissen by reason of the destruction of such swine, 50 per centum of the amount of such losses having been heretofore paid to them by the State of 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 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 July 24, 1956. Private Law 805 July 24, 1956 IH. R. 11346]

C amillus Jeter.

^^ ^^^ Yov the relief of Camillus Bothwell.Jeter.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ^' United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey, without consideration therefor, to Camillus Bothwell Jeter, Whitmire, South Carolina, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property described in section 2 of this Act, which was originally acquired by the United States solely by reason of a surveying error. SEC. 2. The real property referred to in the first section of this Act is situated in Fishdam Township, Union County, South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at corner 8 of the Forest Service survey of the Katherine V. Lipscomb and others, tract numbered 302, a stone identified by David Jeter as the corner common to Carrie Jeter tract and Doctor Jeter tract, south 13 degrees 30 minutes west, 17.35 chains to a point; thence south 38 degrees 03 minutes west, 5.61 chains to corner 7 of the Forest Service survey of tract numbered 302, a stone on the edge of cleared right-of-way of the Broad River Power Company transmission line; thence north 19 degrees 30 minutes east, 22.7 chains to the place of beginning, containing 2.02 acres, being the same more or less. Approved July 24, 1956.

Private Law 806 July 24, 1956 tH. R. 11530]

CHAPTER 710

CHAPTER 711

AN ACT poj. fjjg relief of Master Sergeant Harold LeRoy Allen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the pstenf^' "^°^'* ^* 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 Master Sergeant Harold LeRoy Allen, RA36978744, the sum of $672.25 in full settlement of his claim for costs of hospitalization and medical