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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 10, 14, 15. JANUARY 17,20,1936. 2209 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 con- nection with said claim, any contract to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined m any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, January 17, 1936. [CHAPTER 14.) AN ACT Authorizing adjustment of the claim of Francis B. Kennedy. Penalty for violatiOD. January~. 11136. (8. u•.) [Private. No. 3M.I Be it enacted by the Senate and House 01 Re'Pl"!sentative8 of the United State8 of America in Oongress as8embled, That the reD~:::~ Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereb1, authorized. authorized and directed to settle and adjust the claim of FranCIS B. Kennedy, narcotic agent as reimbursement for money (private funds) of which he was rob~d while investigating charges against Frank De Ma10 and others at Kansas City, Missouri, May 28, 1928, and to allow m full and final settlement of said claim in the swn of not to exceed $350. There is hereby appropriated, out of any Appropriation. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $350, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to I?ay said claim: Pro-:;~ ttor- vided, That no part of the amount approprIated in this Act in neY's,etc.• r:.~n a excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, 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 person violating the provisions of this Act Penalty for violation. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, January 20, 1936. [CHAPTER 15.1 AN ACT January 20. 1936. To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render' [8.25111 .) judgment upon the claims of F. Mansfield and Sons Company, and others. [Private. No. 365.) Be it enacted by the Sennie and Hoose of Representa.tives of the United States of America in Oongress a8semhled, That jurisdiction ~ F. ~lansfield and is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States ~fh:rs. ompany. and to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the F. cTarmstroBot (talk):~scTarmstroBot (talk) 14:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC) to Mansfield and Sons Company, N. P. Staroranch, Charles K. Wed- more, Charles E. Hamilton, Ernest E. Ball, the McNeil Oyster Company, the Thomas Oyster Company, the Connecticut Oyster Farms Company, and Fred C. Kral and George A. Rohr, partners trading under the name of Kral and Rohr, for a compensation for damages sustained by said claimants by reason of the injury to oysters on beds operated under perpetual franchises or leases from the State of Connecticut and inJUry to such oyster beds, caused by officers, employees, and/or agents of the United States in performing dredging work in the harbOr of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1933,