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 946 Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. 75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION--CHS 118-120-APRIL 21, 1937 available for payment of such claims: 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 agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with these claims. 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 these claims, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, April 21, 1937. [CHAPTER 119] April 21, 1937 [H. R. 1870] [Private, No. 51] Kate Carter Lyons. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. AN ACT For the relief of Kate Carter Lyons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembbled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Kate Carter Lyons, of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000 in full satisfaction of her claim against the United States for personal injuries received by her when she fell into an excavation on her property at the above address on June 4, 1934, said excava- tion having been made in January 1934 and left open by employees of the Civil Works Administration in preparation for the placement of a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey monument therein: 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. 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, April 21, 1937. [CHAPTER 120] April 21, 1937 [H. R. 1923 [Private, No. 521 Evangelos Karacos- tas. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. AN ACT For the relief of Evangelos Karacostas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- tary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Evangelos Karacostas, of Boston, Massachusetts, the sum of $500. Such sum shall be in full settlement of all his claims against the United States for the amount of a cash bond declared breached by the Department of Labor on April 13, 1929, upon the failure of said Evangelos Karacostas to depart from the United States as a tem- porary visitor, and subsequently covered into the Treasury of the United States, while there was pending a suit instituted by him and before a decision was rendered by the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts that said Evangelos Kara- costas was entitled to remain in this country permanently: Pro- vided, 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

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