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TDe. 29, 1945 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 656 , 65 Dee. 9, 194 Jan. 19, 1946 [CHAPTER 656] AN ACT [59 STAT. December 29, 1945 [H. R . 3574] For the relief of certain claimants who suffered loss by flood in, at, or near Bean [Private Law 365] Lake in Platte County, in the State of Missouri, during the month of March 1934 Bean Lake, Platte County, Missouri. Payment of certain claims. 53 Stat. 1543 . January 19, 1946 [S. W0] [Private Law 366] GeorgeO'Hara, estate Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri having made a finding by authority of the provisions of Private Law Numbered 256 of the Seventy-sixth Congress, approved August 11, 1939, that certain dikes constructed in the Missouri River by the War Department (which dikes were thereafter removed) caused the flooding of certain farm lands at or near Bean Lake, in Platte County, in the State of Missouri, in the month of March 1934, with resultant damage to certain claimants' property, and the court hav- ing further found and determined the amount of loss suffered by each of said claimants, 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 the following-named per- sons or their heirs, representatives, administrators, executors, suc- cessors or assigns, the following amounts: Julius P. Kuhnert, $1,538.75; G. M. McCrary, $240; Paul N. Shouse, $2,775; Mrs. C . E. Johnson, $4,235.46; Mrs. A. H. Wilbert, $797.90; G. E . Hutson, $2,127; James D. Kelly, $8,806; W. H . Myers, $693.22; Frank Dougherty, $956.75; H. A. Whitnah, $858.20; N. D. Gasaway, $134.75; Paul Johnson, $206.08; John H. Chapin, $250; L. K. Poos, $692.77; H. F. Chapin, $785.50; Goldie Noland, who is the same per- son as Goldie P. Noland, $783.17; B. F. Kabel, $497; S. O . Daniels, $2,395; W. D . Shreve, $667.50- Elmer Willis, $1,011.90; Ethel McDuff, $1,426; and Emma Schuits, $981.55. Approved December 29, 1945. [CHAPTER 659] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of George O'Hara. 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, the sum of $7,882.97 to the estate of George O'Hara, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the death of the said George O'Hara, late of Forest City, Illinois, who was killed as the result of a collision with a United States Army truck between Manito and Forest City, Illinois, on December 6, 1943: 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 January 19, 1946.