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PRIVATE LAW 5 5 1 - A P R. 11, 1952

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instruct the proper quota-control officer to deduct two numbers from the number of displaced persons who shall be granted the status of permanent residence pursuant to section 4 of the Displaced Persons Act, as amended (62 Stat. 1011; 64 Stat. 219; 50 U.S.C. App. 1953). Approved April 11, 1952. Private Law 551 AN ACT For the relief of Daniel J. Crowley.

April 11, 1952 [S. 1682]

Daniel J. Crowley.

CHAPTER 197

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 Daniel J. Crowley, 225 Frye Avenue, Peoria, Illinois, the sum of $4,439.10 in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for reimbursement of medical, nursing, and hospital expenses suifered by him as a result of being hospitalized with poliomyelitis on April 1, 1946, while on authorized leave from his duties as a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve: 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 April 11, 1952.

Private Law 552

April 11, 1952 [S. 1749]

56 Stat. 359. 37 USC 101 note.

CHAPTER 198 AN ACT For the relief of Gordon E. Smith.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed^ That (a) Gordon E. Smith is hereby relieved of all liability to repay to the United States such sums (amounting in the aggregate to approximately $1,006.25) as were received by him as additional pay for duty requiring aerial flights, pursuant to the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, on account of flight duty performed by him in the months of March through September, 1946, as a Sanitarian, United States Public Health Service, while assigned to duty w ith the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Greece. (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Gordon E. Smith the sum of $143.75, which sum was repaid by him to the United States under protest pursuant to a decision of the Comptroller General (B-90700, January 13, 1950) disallowing payment of such additional pay to the said Gordon E. Smith for such duty: 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