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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 649-651-JULY 25, 1946 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 con- tract 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 25, 1946. [CHAPTER 650] AN ACT For the relief of I. E . and Minerva Mitchell, and Rosie Monroe. 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 J. E. and Minerva Mitchell, Modesto, California, the sum of $3,000, and to Rosie Monroe, Modesto, California, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the deaths of Claude Lewis Mitchell and Elmer Oscar Monroe sustained as the result of a collision between the motorcycle in which they were riding and a United States Army vehicle on Golden State Highway near Manteca, California, on November 16, 1944: 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 con- trary notwithstanding. Any person violatig 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 25, 1946. [CHAPTER 651] AN ACT For the relief of Claude S. Crouse. 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 $4,000, to Claude S. Crouse, of Eldridge Hill, Woodstown, New Jersey, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries sustained as a result of a collision between the automobile in which he was driving and a United States Government truck on United States highway in Alleghany County, North Caro- lina, on September 22, 1939, and upon condition that the said Claude S. Crouse executes a good and sufficient release of the judgment obtained by him against Clifford Rector, the driver of such truck, in the Superior Court of Alleghany County, North Carolina, in Sep- tember 26, 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 ren- dered 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 25, 1946. 1269 July 25, 1946 [H. B . 33411 [Private Law 762] J. E . and Minerva Mitchell, and Rosie Monroe. July 25, 146 [H. R. 337]- [Private Law 7i631 Claude S. Crouse.