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 2160 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SESS. III. CRS: 583-586. 1931. paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said Excessive, unlawful. claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, any Peualtyforviolatlon. 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. March 5, 1931. [So 1918.] [Private, No. 499.] Approved, ~Iarch 5, 1931. OHAP. 6S4.-An Act For the relief of Irene Strauss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati1Jes of the ¥:!r'~ordeath United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the Secretary of husband. ' of the Treasury is authorized and directed to J.>ay to Irene Strauss, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwIse appropriated, the sum of $5,000 in full settlement of all claims against the Govern- ment, for the death of her husband, Arthur B. Strauss, reSUlting from injuries sustained when he was struck by a United States mail Prool8o. truck in San Francisco, California, on September 26, 1927: Provided, LjmitBtlon on attor- That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of ney s, etc., fees. 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services Excessive, unlawful. rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, collect, withhold, or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connec- tion with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Peualtyforviolation. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guiJty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined III any sum not exceeding $1,000. March II, 1931. [S.2614.] [Private, No. 600.1 Approved, March 5, 1931. OHAP. 6S6.-An Act For the relief of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad Company. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreBentatives of the S Maconh' DRub!lln an~ United States of America in Oont1'6ss assembled, That the claim avanna a1roaufh Dbl' dS. dC . Company. 0 t eMacon, u IIIan avanna Rallroa ompany agamst the Sett!ement of trans- United States in relation to the transportation of Government portat~on claim, au - thorized. property by way of Macon to Camp Wheeler, both in the State of Certification. Vol. 23, p. 2M. March 5, 1931. [S.3050 .] [Private, No. 501.] Iames M. Booth. Payment to, for death of son. Georgia, in the year 1917, be, and the same hereby is, referred to the General Accounting Office for settlement, and for certification of any amount due to the Congress, without intere~ pursuant to section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (Twenty-th,ird ~tatutes, page 254). Approved, March 5, 1931. OHAP. 6S6. -An Act For the relief of James M. Booth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-resentatives of the United States of America in Oongress assembledz That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and in full settle- ment against the Government, to James M. Booth, dependent father