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1102 May 27, 1949 [H. R. 636] [Private Law 72] B. G . Jones. May 27,1949 [H. R. 2812] [Private Law 73] Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Ohurch of North Ameriea. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 147, 148, 150-MAY 27, 1949 [63 STAT. $1,217; Edward L. Mack, $540; James Moses, $3,335.97; Anna Belle Newcomb, $790; Frederick I. Noble, $700.50; Margaret Pierce, $265; Mona Raymond, $852; Ervin C. Ross, $3,086; Francis B. Sayre, $2,037; William J. Stumpf, Junior, $1,251; Woodbury Willoughby, $2,434; Janet D. Wilson, $1,045; Mrs. Marie F. Wolff, $1,070. SEO. 2 . If any of the beneficiaries under this Act shall have died before the payment herein provided for is made, said payment shall be made to the estate of such beneficiary. SEC. 3 . The acceptance of any payment herein authorized shall con- stitute a complete discharge of the United States of all claims and demands touching any of the matters involved in section 1 of this Act. SEC. 4 . 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 May 27, 1949. [CHAPTER 148] AN ACT For the relief of B. G. Jones. 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 Mr. B, G. Jones, of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, the sum of $2,686, such sum representing the damages sustained by the said Mr. B. G. Jones to 1943 rice crops as a result of malaria-control dusting of rice fields by the United States Public Health Service: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 May 27, 1949. [CHAPTER 150] AN ACT To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain land at South Naknek to the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That upon the filing of an application and the payment of $10 within one year from the date of this Act by the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue a patent to said corporation for a tract of land at South Naknek near South Naknek Village on the south side Naknek River, Bristol Bay Area, Alaska, described as follows: Beginning at corer numbered 1 of United States survey 2875; thence east one hundred and one and four-tenths feet to corner num- bered 4 of United States survey 2875 on the west boundary of United States survey 1581; thence south one hundred and ninety feet along