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 PRIVATE RESOLUTION OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city oj Washington, in the District of Oolumbia, on Monday, thefijteenth My_Oj April, 1929, and was adjourned without day on Friday, the twenty-second day oj November, 1929. HERBERT HOOVER, Pr.esident; CHARLES CURTIS, Vice President; GEORGE H. MOSES, President of the Senate pro tempore; NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JUDe 28, 1929. CHAP. 42 .-Joint Resolution To repeal an Act approved March 2, 1929, -n;S[H;::-.~J':,::R-:-=es""'T'li8,,-,;']...-­ entitled "An Act for the relief of C. C . Spiller, deceased," and to provide for [Priv. Res., No.1.] the relief of the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased. Resowed by the Senate and House oj Rep1'esentatives oj the United States of A'TJU1Wa in Oongress alJsembled, That the Act approved ~o~esif1frepealed March 2, 1929, entitled" An Act for the relief of th2 estate of C. C . Vol. 4t ~. 2370, re: Spiller, deceased," being Private Act Numbered 532, Seventieth pealed. Congress, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: He it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury Payment of ~<!:; not otherwise appropriate<h to the estate of C. C. Spiller, deceased, i!:e:TarmstroBot (talk)OfC. late of Hamilton County, Tennessee, the sum of $8,000, found to be due him by the Court of Claims in congressional case numbered 10549, as appears by Senate Document Numbered 173, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, being his share of the reasonable charter value, together with the destruction thereof, of a small Eteamboat known as the Paint Rock taken and used by the United States and while in their possession accidentally destroyed and never l?aid for, 11,11 while the said C. C. Spiller, deceased, was a loyal citIzen of the United States, as evidenced by the findings or report dated June 27, 1864, of a board of claims designated by the commanding officer of the Department of the Cumberland by Special Field Orders Numbered 104, dated April 12, 1864, stIii of record in the War Department: Proviied, That no part of the amount appropriated in ProllilOl. this joint resolution in exceS8 of 20 per centum thereof shall be paid at~!~:or services of or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or. attorneys, on account of services rendered or advances made in cQn- nection with said claim: Provided fu.rtMr, That it shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, with- w!fs.x:i:iJ~ggreatersum hold, or receive any sum which in the aggregate exceeds 20 per centum of the amount appropriated in this joint resolution on account of services rendered or advances made in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrarl notwithstanding. Any per- Punishment for. son violating the provisions of this jomt resolution shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $4,000. Approved, June 28, 1929. 578940 -,'U-PT2 - --1 1631