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74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 588, 589. AUGUST 20,1935. 2155 [CHAPTER 588.] AN ACT Aucust 30, 11IIa. For the relief of the General Baking Company. 18. 14011.) (Private, No. M .l B~ it enacted by tM Senate aM H O'U8e of Repruentative8 of the United States 01 America in Oongru8 assembled, That the Commis- c2:~~al Daklnl sioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to ReI'Ilnd 'ot tax over· pay, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia not otherwise payment. appropriated, to the General Baking Company, a corporation organ- ized under the laws of the State of New York, the sum of $1,007.25, in full satisfaction of the claim of such corporation against the District of Columbia for a refund of overpayment of taxes on lots 16 to 22, both inclusive, 801, 802, 814, 815, and 816 in square 576, in the District of Colwnbia: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in n:t::ilon on att«. this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be pald or delivered DeY's , etc. , fees. to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any ferson violating the provisions of this Act PenaltyforvtolatlOD. shall be deemed guilty 0 a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shan be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, August 20, 1935. [CHAPTER 589.] AN ACT T August 20, 1935. For the relief of Elliott H. asso and Emma Tasso. IS. zm.) [I'rh'ate, No. 2t9.] Be it enacted by the Senate llnd House of Representatives of the United States of America in O(mgress a.'<sembled, That the Secretary Elliott n. Tasso and of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, E'i!a~':n~: out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Elliott H. Tasso and Emma Tasso, of Colony, Oklahoma, the sum of $2,000 in full settlement of all claims which they may have against the Government of the United States, due to the death of their child, un infant ten days old, by reason of an accident caused by negligence of the nurse at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Hospital, in October 1932, when said nurse placed the infant child on a table in the bathroom for the purpose of bathing it, and left the room, leaving the child unattended, and during her absence it fell from the table to a hot radiator and thence to the Hoor, being badly burned and injured in the fall from which it died three weeks later: Provided, That in the f7~)~luent. discretion of the Secretary of the Interior the amount herein appro- priated may be held as individual Indian money by the Superintend- ent of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Oklahoma, and be dis- bursed in accordance with regulations governing such funds: Pro- vided further, That no part of the amount appropriated in this L!mit8ti0r on attor· Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to ney 5, elC. , e es . or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriatoo in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act Penaltytorvlolation. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction tbereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, August 20, 1935. 10.t01W--:W-!·T JI·- -8