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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 35 8- 36 0--A Juy 31 1945 Aug. 8, 1945 medical, and hospital expenses sustained as the result of a collision between the automobile in which she was a passenger, and a United States Army truck on United States Route Numbered 12, near Baraboo, Wisconsin, on May 2, 1940: 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 31, 1945. [CHAPTER 359] AN ACT For the relief of L. S . Strickland. 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 sum of $120 to L. S. Strickland, of Buchanan, Georgia, in full settle- ment of all claims against the United States on account of damage sustained in a collision with a United States Army truck which occurred three miles south of Rome, Georgia, on United States High- way Numbered 27, on April 17, 1943: 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 August 8, 1945. [CHAPTER 360] AN ACT For the relief of Doctor Jabez Fenton Jackson and Mrs. Narcissa Wilmans Jackson. 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 Jabez Fenton Jackson, of Newport, Arkansas, the sum of $50; and to Mrs. Narcissa Wilmans Jackson, of Newport, Arkansas, the sum of $3,500, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for property damage and personal injuries sustained by them in the collision of an automobile, owned and operated by them, and a United States Army command car in Columbus, Georgia, on April 2, 1942: Provided,That no part of the amounts appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum shall be paid to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claims. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact or collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amounts appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection August 8, 1946 [H. R. 2461 [Private Law 184] L. S . Strickland. August 8, 1945 [H. i . 2899] [Private Law 185] Dr. Jabez Fenton Jackson and Mrs. Nar- cissa Wilmans Jack- son.