58 STAT.]
78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 765-767-DEC. 23, 1944
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the
estate of Kimball Lee Beckner, of Richmond, Virginia, the sum of
$2,000, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for
personal injuries and medical and other expenses sustained by Kim-
ball Lee Beckner as the result of being injured on February 21, 1944,
by an Army motorcycle driven by Eldon L. Dickinson, private, first-
class, Company D, Seven Hundred and Ninety-seventh Military
Police Battalion, Byrd Park, Richmond, Virginia: 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 23, 1944.
[CHAPTER 766]
AN ACT
For the relief of the estate of Emma B. Fleet, deceased.
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 the estate of Emma
B. Fleet, late of Everett, Massachusetts, the sum of $5,759.65. The
payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against
the United States on account of the death, on July 29, 1940, of the
said Emma B. Fleet as a result of injuries sustained by her when the
vehicle in which she was riding was struck, on July 8, 1940, at the
intersection of Elm Street and Route 2 in Concord, Massachusetts,
by a vehicle in the service of the Army of the United States: Pro-
vided, 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 23, 1944.
1107
December 23, 1944
[H. R. 4878]
[Private Law 582]
Emma B. Fleet,
estate.
[CHAPTER 767]
AN ACT
For the relief of Doctor J. Sims Norman.
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
Doctor J. Sims Norman, of Pueblo, Colorado, the sum of $432. The
payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims which the
said Doctor J. Sims Norman has against the United States for and
on account of professional services rendered during the month of May
1942, in making physical examinations of Government employees
engaged in the construction of the Army air base and the Pueblo
Ordnance Depot at Pueblo, Colorado, which examinations were made
under the orders and direction of the United States Army engineers
who were in charge of said projects: Provided, That no part of the
December 23, 1944
[H. R. 4921]
[Private Law 583]
Dr. J . Sims Norman.
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