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PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 507-509-JUNE 16, 1938 Promiso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. June 16, 1938 [H. R. 79981 [Private, No. 623] First National Bank and Trust Company of Kalamazoo, Kala- mazoo, Mich. Payment to. Recovery by United States from Grace E. Gibson. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. States Revised Statutes requiring a written contract with the lowest bidder for performance of such work: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 percentum 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 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 508] AN ACT For the relief of The First National Bank and Trust Company of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 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 The First National Bank and Trust Company of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo. Michi- gan, the sum of $2,001.86 in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for a refund on twenty-one invalid postal money orders, for which it was paid by the postmaster at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and which sum the said bank and trust company subsequently refunded to the Post Office Department, said loss having resulted from the fraudulent negotiation of said money orders by one Herman M. Sharpsteen, a former postal employee at Scotts, Michigan, between December 4, 1933, and January 16, 1934, and payment by said bank and trust company without fault or negligence on its part. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the recovery by the United States from Grace E. Gibson, former post- master at Scotts, Michigan, or the surety on her official bond, for the losses suffered by the United States as the result of the stealing and fraudulent negotiation of twenty-one postal money orders by said Herman M. Sharpsteen. SEC. 3 . No part of the amount appropriated in this Act, or credited to any account by virtue of 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 said claims, 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 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 509] June 16, 1938 [H. R. 8275] [Private, No. 624] Stanley Kolitzoff and Marie Kolitzoff. Oancelation of order of deportation, etc. AN ACT For the relief of Stanley Kolitzoff and Marie Kolitzoff. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Labor is directed to cancel forthwith the oustanding 1 warrant for arrest, order of deportation, warrant of deportation, and bond, if any, in the case of aliens Stanley Kolitzoff and Marie Kolitzoff, insofar as such future warrants or orders are based on the alleged 'So in original. 1356 [52 STAT.