PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 672-674-AUG. 13 , 1940 Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. ated, to the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital, of Newport News, Virginia, the sum of $155.30 in full settlement of all claims against the Govern- ment of the United States for services rendered to Keaston Church and Lacy Creighton Carrell, Junior, employees of the Fort Eustis National Youth Administration Camp, and hospitalization at the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital given Keaston Church from October 30, 1938, to November 7, 1938, and to Lacy Creighton Carrell, Junior, from November 6, 1938, to November 15, 1938: 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 con- trary 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, August 13, 1940. [CHAPTER 673]
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AN ACT [H. R. 7851] For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Division of Disbursement, [Private, No. 6271 Treasury Department. G. P. Allen and others. Oredits in ccounts of. Certitying offleers not to be ohared. August 13, 1940
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[Private, No. 628] Willie Perry. Payment to. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to credit the accounts of the following disbursing officers, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, with the amounts set opposite their names and symbols: G. F. Allen, symbol 95-981, $61.10; J. J . Gallagher, symbol 63-01-30, $5,513.47; P. J. Larkin, symbol 3 7 -01-30, $11,113.24; and J. W. Yates, Junior, symbol 31-01- 30, $2,445.72; said amounts being public funds for which they are accountable and which comprise payments made to employees of the Resettlement Administration and/or the Farm Security Adminis- tration, Department of Agriculture, and which have been disallowed by the Acting Comptroller General of the United States as a result of certain irregularities: Provided, That no part of the amounts so credited shall be later charged against the certifying officers of the Resettlement Administration and/or the Farm Security Adminis- tration who certified the vouchers upon which such payments were made. Approved, August 13, 1940. [CHAPTER 674] AN ACT For the relief of Willie Perry. 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 Willie Perry, a resl- dent of Moro, Lee County, Arkansas, the sum of $4,000 in full settle- ent of all claims of the said Willie Perry against the United States for personal injuries sustained by him as a result of being struck, on December 4, 1937, at a point about six or seven miles west of Mariana, Arasas, on Unted States Higway Numbered 79, by a vehle ia the service of the Land Utiization DivisiofIof the 1348 [54 STAT.
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