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PRIVATE LAW 85-332-SEPT. 7, 1957

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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 September 7, 1957, Private Law 85-332 September 7, 1957

[H. R. 1411]

Qeorge H. Meyer Sons and others.

AN

ACT

PQJ. j-jjg relief ^f George H. Meyer Sons, Brauer and Company, Joseph McSweeney and Sons, Incorporated, C. L, Tomlinson, Junior, and Richmond Livestock Company, Incorporated.

Be it enacted by the Seriate 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 heretofore made available for the eradication of the disease vesicular exanthema in swine, to George H. Meyer Sons the sum of $488.21, to Brauer and Company the sum of $303.37, to Joseph McSweeney and Sons, Incorporated, the sum of $25.33, to C. L. Tomlinson, Junior, the sum of $13.45, and to Richmond Livestock Company, Incorporated, the sum of $425.14, These amounts are equal to those heretofore paid by the State of Virginia, and the payment of such sums shall be in full settlement of all claims of the above-named owners of swine against the United States arising out of the destruction of swine at the Richmond Union Stock Yards in Richmond, Virginia, in January 1953 because of the infection and exposure of these swine to the contagious disease vesicular exanthema. Such swine were destroyed by order of the Department of Agriculture of the State of Virginia, cooperating with the United States Department of Agriculture, under an agreement whereby such losses were to be indemnified on the basis of 50 per centum by the State and 50 per centum by the United States. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act 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 provision 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 September 7, 1957. Private Law 85-333

September 7, 1957 [H. R. 1474]

Jennie Maurello.

AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. Jennie Maurello.

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 the sum of $500 to Mrs. Jennie Maurello of 1343 North Clinton Avenue, Rochester, New York, in full settlement of all claims against the United States as reimbursement for bond posted for her brother, Giacomo Restivo, in November 1949: 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.