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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 366 -368 --JUNE 14, 1938 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Emily Hyer LaVergne, executrix of the estate of W. K. Hyer, deceased, formerly of Charleston, South Carolina, the sum of $2,500 in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries resulting in the death of the said W. K. Hyer, in a collision on October 21, 1935, between an automobile owned and operated, by the said W. K . Hyer and a Government vehicle operated in connection with the Civilian Conservation Corps near Charleston, South Carolina: 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 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 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, June 14, 1938. [CHAPTER 367] AN ACT For the relief of Mary Way. 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 Mary Way, of Escanaba, Michigan, the sum of $3,500, in full satisfac- tion of her claim against the United States for personal injury and property damage sustained in a collision at Gladstone, Michigan, with a Civilian Conservation Corps truck, on November 14, 1935: 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 reecived 1 by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connec- tion 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 con- viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 14, 1938. 1325 Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. June 14, 1938 [S. 1878] [Private, No. 551] Mary Way. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. [CHAPTER 368] AN ACT For the relief of Samuel L. Dwyer. 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 Samuel L. Dwyer, of Palmerdale, Alabama, the sum of $2,500, in full satisfaction of all his claims against the United States for damages sustained by him for medical expense and by his five-year-old son, Luther Allen Dwyer, for permanent disfigurement, when the explosion of a dynamite cap with which the latter was playing, after finding it on the homestead of his father where said cap had been negligently left by employees of ' So in original. June 14, 1938 [S. 2417] [Private, No. &521 Samuel L. Dwyer. Payment to.