58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CIIS. 545 , 550, 557-DEC. 7, 9 , 13, 1944
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 December 7, 1944.
ICHAPTER 550]
AN ACT
For the relief of Alex Wylie, and the estate of James Evans.
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 Alex
Wylie, of Columbus, Georgia, $1,000, and to the administrator or
executor of the estate of James Evans, of Columbus, Georgia, $3,000.
The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims
against the United States arising out of the injury of Alex Wylie,
and the injury and death of James Evans, when the truck they were
driving was struck by a tank driven by Private W. J. Jenkins, Com-
pany B, Seven Hundred and Sixtieth Tank Battalion, at the inter-
section of the Cusseta Highway and First Division Road at Fort
Benning, Georgia, on August 21, 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 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 December 9, 1944.
[CHAPTER 557]
AN ACT
For the relief of Conrad H. Clark and Rocco Cellette.
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
Conrad H. Clark, of Cranston, Rhode Island, the sum of $500 and
to pay the sum of $200 to Rocco Cellette, of Cranston, Rhode Island,
in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal
injuries and medical expenses and loss of wages suffered by them as
a result of an automobile accident which occurred in Cranston,
Rhode Island, on February 27, 1939, when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a Government-owned Ford coach
and operated by an employee of the Works Progress Administration:
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 shall be fined not exceeding $1,000.
Approved December 13, 1944.
1057
December 9, 1944
[H. R. 4366]
[Private Law 460]
Alex Wylie.
James Evans, estate.
December 13, 1944
1I1.It.933)
(Private Law 461]
Conrad H. Clark
and Rocco Cellette.
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