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 May 15, 1937 [H. R. 1315] [Private, No. 91] W. J. Nolan and others. Claims of, for over- time labor, submitted to Court of Claims. Proviso. Commencement of suit. 75TH CONGRESS, 1BT SESSION-CHS. 210, 211 -MAY 15, 1937 [CHAPTER 210] AN ACT To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of W. J. Nolan, L. Jacobson, J. A. Higuera, C. H. Damsted, R. Galleguillo, F. G. Grigsby, K. H. Johnson, R. Dupouy, C. J. Degen, W. L. Nolan, R. C. Jensen, M. J. Roderick, L. K. Moore, C. Lederer, M. Kelley, R. Dinkel, A. J. Mouchou, C. R. Taylor, M. Knull, S. W. Ligon, C. C. Johnson, W. P. Brennan, C. F. Siebert, and J. T. Weeks. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of W. J. Nolan, L. Jacobson, J. A. Higuera, C. H. Damsted, R. Galleguillo, F. G. Grigsby, K. H. Johnson, R. Dupouy, C. J. Degen, W. L. Nolan, R. C. Jensen, M. J. Roderick, L. K. Moore, C. Lederer, M. Kelley, R. Dinkel, A. J. Mouchou, C. R. Taylor, M. Knull, S. W. Ligon, C. C. Johnson, W. P. Brennan, C. F. Siebert, and J. T Weeks, all of Vallejo, California, for extra labor over and above the sixteen-hour period of duty per day required to be performed at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, which extra labor over said period was not in accordance with the order of the Secretary of the Navy, dated December 1, 1920: Provided, That the action in the Court of Claims to establish such losses and damages may be instituted within one year from the date of the approval of this Act, without regard to any statute of limitations. Approved, May 15, 1937. [CHAPTER 211] May 15, 1937 [H. R. 481] [Private, No. 92] Edward 0. Paxton. Payment to. 49 Stat. 2246. Proviso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. AN ACT For the relief of Edward C. Paxton. 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 appro- priated, to Edward C. Paxton the sum of $1,374.50 in full satisfac- tion of his claim against the United States for the total of the amount disallowed in his expense accounts for travel and subsistence expenses incurred while traveling on a foreign vessel from New York City, New York, to Sydney, Australia, as a representative of the Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture, and of the amount paid by the Government to a steamship company for transportation requests issued to and used by him in connection with said travel, and which the said Edward C. Paxton was required by the Comptroller General of the United States to refund to the United States prior to the approval of Private Law Numbered 450, Seventy-fourth Congress, and while such legislation was pending; which authorized and directed the Comptroller General to allow in the accounts of the said Edward C. Paxton in the sum of $324.50 and to relieve him of any liability for the payment of the sum of $1,050: 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, May 15, 1937.

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