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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2n SESS.-CHS. 12 -14 -JAN. 19, 1948 out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,145 to J. C . Bateman, of San Jose, California, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for property damage to an Inter- national pick-up truck and an Allis-Chalmers tractor and loader, sustained as the result of the crash of a United States Navy plane at the naval auxiliary air station, Alameda, California, on June 27, 1943: Provided, Tat 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 January 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 13] AN ACT For the relief of Charles J. Smith. 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 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles J. Smith, an employee of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, the sum of $205.42, which sum was collected from him and covered into the Treasury as a result of his certification of disbursing officer's voucher numbered 15-13491, paid September 15, 1937, in connection with the contract numbered I-1-P-9485, dated June 22, 1937, between the United States and the Olds Brothers Lumber Company, Incor- porated, Winslow, Arizona: 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 January 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 14] AN ACT For the relief of Mattie A. Horner. 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 Mattie A. Horner, of Richmond, Virginia, the sum of $176, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries and medical and other expenses sustained by her as the result of a fall on December 22, 1944, at the naval air station, Fort Lauderdale, Florida: 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 January 19, 1948, 1299 January 19, 1948 [H. R . 2348] [Private Law 141] Charles J. Smith. January 19, 1948 [H. R. 2891] [Private Law 142] Mattie A. Horner.