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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.