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57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 42, 43 , 48, 49-APR. 9 , 10, 1943 District of Columbia, in 1934, to determine said claim upon its merits under the provisions of said Act, and to award benefits from the date of the original disability if said claim be approved: Provided, That claim hereunder shall be made within ninety days from the enact- ment of this Act. Approved April 9, 1943. [CHAPTER 43] AN ACT For the relief of Shumate Investment Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Sec- retary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Shumate Investment Company, of San Francisco, California, the sum of $18,768.11, in full settlement of all claims of the said Shumate Investment Company against the United States for property damage sustained on October 1, 1941, when a United States Army training plane crashed into certain buildings located on the Troy farm near Sunnyvale, California: Provided,That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 April 9, 1943. 653 39 Stat. 742. 5 U.S. C. §§ 751-791, 793; Supp. II, § 793. April 9,1943 [H. R.605] [Private Law 14] Shumate Invest- ment Company. [CHAPTER 48] AN ACT For the relief of H. F . Mathis. 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 H. F. Mathis, Bardstown, Kentucky, the sum of $3,000, in full satis- faction of all claims against the United States Government for dam- ages done his Galion ten-ton chief roller by an Army plane at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on August 1, 1941: 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 notwithstand- ing. 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 April 10, 1943. [CHAPTER 49] AN AC"T .. l April 10, 193 For the relief of Raymond W. Baldwin, Mattie Baldwin, and Clement B. Baldwin. [. R 12716] [Private Law 16] 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, Raymond W. Bald- win, Mattie Baldwin, and Clement B. Bald- win. April 10, 1943 [H. R. 218] [Private Law 15] H. F. Mathis.