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1330 Proviso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 378-380, 406-JUNE 14, 15, 1938 [52 STAT. much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the claim: 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, June 14, 1938. [CHAPTER 379] AN Ar" June 14, 1938 [H. R . 9371] Authorizing the grant of a patent for certain lands in New Mexico to Mitt Taylor. [Private, No. 663] Mitt Taylor. Issuance of land patent to. June 14, 1938 [S. J. Res. 247] [Priv. Res., No. 5] Capt. William Bowie. Acceptance, etc. , of decoration, author- ized. Delivery by Depa rt- ment of State. June 15, 1938 i[. 821] [Private, No. 664] Lawson N. Dick. Payment to. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent, under the stock-raising homestead entry, Las Cruces, New Mexico, numbered 040822, made by Mitt Taylor on October 19, 1929, for the west half of section 4, township 2 south, range 9 west, New Mexico principal meridian, in support of which satisfactory final proof as to residence and improvements was submitted October 17, 1935. Approved, June 14, 1938. [CHAPTER 380] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing William Bowie, captain (retired), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, to accept and wear decoration of the Order of Orange Nassau, bestowed by the Government of the Netherlands. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William Bowie, cap- tain (retired), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, be, and he hereby is, authorized to accept and wear the decoration of the Order of Orange Nassau, bestowed by the Govern- ment of the Netherlands; the same having been conferred upon him by the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the interests of international science and geodesv. The Department of State is hereby authorized to deliver the said decoration to the aforementioned William Bowie. Approved, June 14, 1938. [CHAPTER 406] AN ACT For the relief of Lawson N. Dick 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 Lawson N. Dick, an employee in the office of the Mississippi River Commission, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, a sum equal to $60 per annum from July 1, 1928, to July 2, 1930, plus $120 per annum from July 3, 1930, to August 28, 1934, less 31/2-percentum retirement deductions which shall be credited to his account in the civil-service retirement and disability fund, such sum representing additional