PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 389 -391-JULY 1, 1944
July 1,1944
[H. R. 3859]
[Private Law 360]
E. Bird Giles and
Sherman Beck.
of damages to an automobile owned by him when struck by a United
States Army jeep near Lyons, New York, on December 11, 1942:
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 July 1, 1944.
[CHAPTER 390]
AN ACT
For the relief of E. Bird Giles and Sherman Beck.
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, the
sums of $180 to E. Bird Giles, of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, and
$251.50 to Sherman Beck, of Hot Springs, South Dakota, in full
settlement of their claims against the United States for services
rendered the Department of Agriculture as farm-debt adjustment
committeemen in South Dakota, from August 1936 through July
1937. Such sum, in each case, represents the difference between the
salary stipulated by the farm-debt adjustment supervisor and the
salary actually received on account of said services as farm-debt
adjustment committeemen: 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 July 1, 1944.
[CHAPTER 391]
AN ACT
For the relief of Charles L. Kee.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
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United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre-
tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed
to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, to Charles L. Kee, of Portsmouth, Virginia, the sum of $9,000,
in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for damages
arising out of the loss by officers of the United States Navy on June
26, 1920, at Hampton Roads, Virginia, of an aircraft-planted mine
invented by said Charles L. Kee and constructed by him for demon-
stration: 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
July 1, 1944
[H. R . 3976]
[Private Law 361]
[58 STAT.
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