PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 227, 228 , 233, 234 -APR. 21, 27, 1948 [62 STAT. and for the deaths of Mary L. Poole and Hazel S. Thomas, all result- ing from an accident involving a United States Army vehicle, near Seiling, Oklahoma, on December 26, 1944: Provided, That no part of the amounts 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 April 21, 1948. [CHAPTER 228] April 21,1948 AN ACT [H. R . 4118] To confirm title in fee simple in Thomas Loflin to certain lands in Rankin County, [Private Law 259] Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Thomas Lofin. United States of America in Congress assembled, That title in fee simple is hereby confirmed in Thomas Loflin, who made entry under Choctaw scrip certificate on November 1, 1854, at the Jackson, Missis- sippi, district land office, his heirs and assigns, to all rights to and interest in the following-described lands in Rankin County, Missis- sippi: The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, section 35, township 3 north, range 2 east, Choctaw meridian, containing forty and one one-hundredths acres. Approved April 21, 1948. April 27, 148 [S. 329] [Private Law 260] Gentaro Takahashi. April 27, 1948 [S. 936] [Private Law 261] Burnett A. Pyle. [CHAPTER 233] AN ACT For the relief of Gentaro Takahashi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the admin- istration of the immigration and naturalization laws, the Attorney General is authorized and directed to record Gentaro Takahashi as having entered the United States on July 13, 1927, for permanent residence. The said Gentaro Takahashi shall not be subject to depor- tation by reason of such entry. SEC. 2. The Attorney General is authorized and directed to cancel any warrants of arrest or orders of deportation which may have been issued, and to discontinue any deportation proceedings which may have been commenced, in the case of said Gentaro Takahashi. Approved April 27, 1948. [CHAPTER 234] AN ACT For the relief of Burnett A. Pyle. 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 Burnett A. Pyle, of Bradford, Arkansas, the sum of $6,000, in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for compensation for personal injuries sustained by him on June 29, 1945, as a result of being knocked to the ground and trampled by a team of mules which he was harnessing and which became frightened when three United States Army planes 1340
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