61 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 1ST SESS. - CH. 501-AUG. 5, 1947 [CHAPTER 501] AN ACT For the relief of A. E . McCartney and others. 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 A. E. McCartney and O. A . Foster, of Newport, Arkansas, the sum of $3,087.02; to pay P. W . Woodyard and J. R. Mahon the sum of $2,982.69; to pay B. E. Truitt, T. L. Truitt, and W. B . Lacy the sum of $6.207.17; to pay G. W. Cox, J. M. Cox, and F. T. Cox the sum of $6,258.05; to pay W. W. Cox, and Doctor J. W. Cox the sum of $7,116.60, and to pay Robert Cathcart and Claude Cathcart the sum of $3,688.69, the sum of $930.75 to Joseph Natali, Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, and Farmers' Land and Canal Company, and the sum of $1,004.06 to J. E. Fournier, Stanolind Oil and Gas Company and Farmers' Land and Canal Company, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damage to rice crops sustained as a result of dusting opera- tions by the United States Public Health Service in connection with certain malaria-control work in 1943 and 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 these claims, 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 5, 1947. 1017 August 5, 1947 [H. R. 629] [Private Law 131] A. E . McCartney and others.
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