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63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 160-162- -JUNE 1, 1949 Minneapolis, Minnesota, the sum of $1,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Forest L. Weatherly against the United States for personal injuries, medical and hospital expenses, and loss of earnings which he sustained as a result of being struck, on March 11 1944, at the intersection of Fourth Avenue South and Ninth Street South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, by an automobile operated by an employee of the Post Office Department engaged in the performance of his duties as a special-delivery mail carrier for the United States post office at Minneapolis: 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 June 1, 1949. [CHAPTER 161] AN ACT For the relief of the legal guardian of George Generazzo. 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 the legal guardian of George Generazzo, Revere, Massachusetts, the sum of $750, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries and pain and suffering sustained by the said George Generazzo as a result of his having been struck by a United States Army ambulance on a public highway in Revere, Massachusetts, on October 18, 1943: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or deliv- ered 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 June 1, 1949. [CHAPTER 162] AN ACT For the relief of Joseph Thompson. 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 Joseph Thompson, Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana, the sum of $6,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Joseph Thompson against the United States for injuries sustained as a result of an accident involving a United States Army truck on December 26, 1944, in Oberlin, Louisiana, at a gasoline service station located near Highway 165 where he was employed: 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 agents, attor- ney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with 81939'---5-P . -- 70 1105 June 1,949 [H. R. 681] [Private Law 79] Guardian of George Generazo. June 1, 1949 [H. R. 692 [Private Law 80] Joseph Thompson.