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 PRIVATE LAWS OF mE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRB OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Passed at tAt 8eCOM session1 which was begun aM held at the city oj Wash~, iA the District oj OolumbW., on FrUio,y, tAt third day oj Jan'UlJry, 19!J6, aM 1DGB adj~ without day on Saturday, the twentieth day oj June, 1986. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; JOHN N. GARNER, Vice President; KEY PrrnuN, President of the Senate pro tempore; JOSEPH W. BYRNS 1, Speaker of the House of Representatives; WILLIAM B. BANXHEAD, elected Speaker of the House of Representa.tives June 4, 1936. [CHAPTER 5.} AN ACT For the relief of Homer H. Adams. Jan~l~l_. (8.86.) [Private, No. aMI.) Be it enacted by the Senate and H otl.6e of Representatives 01 the United State8 01 America in Oongres8 a88embled, That the Secretary Homer H. Adama. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, Payment to. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Homer H. Adams of Tarrytown, Georgia, the sum of $1,000 in full satisfaction of a.Il claims of such Homer H. Adams against the United States for damages rffiulting from injuries received by him ,,?hen shot by one John Alford on November 13, 1918, while such Homer H. Adams was assisting J. Ben Wilson late United States deputy marshal for the southern district of Georgia., to serve a warrant on one J. A . Alford, father of such John Alford: Provided PrLioftlo' i Th fh t . td' h'A' '1 mitat on on att«- at no part 0 t e amoun approprIIL e In t IS ct lD excess ot ney's,etc.,fees. 10 per centum thereof shall be paId or delivered to or received by any agent or a~nts, attorney or attorneys, on account of services 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 connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any PenaltyforvioiatioD. 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, January 16, 1936. [CHAPTER 6.] AN ACT For the relief of Doris Allen. Be it eMCted by the Senate and H0U8e of Reprtsentatives of the United States 01 America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of 8Jly money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Doris Allen,.. widow of Charles E. Allen, late American consul at Gibralter 2, ~pain, the sum of $6,600, being one year's salary of her deceased. husband, who died while in the Foreign Service. Approved, January 16, 1936. 1 Died, June 4, 1936, 12: 15 a. Ill. 2 So in orlglnal. 2207 1anuary HI, 111M. (S.3280.) (Private, No. aeo .J Doris Allen. Payment to.