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 974 Provisos. Notice to Attorney General. Commencement of suit. 75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CHS. 250, 251, 257-MAY 24, 25, 1987 damages and costs, if any, as shall be found due against the United States in favor of the said A. Mateos and Sons, or against the said A. Mateos and Sons in favor of the United States, by reason of such collision, upon the same principles and under the same measures of liability as in like cases between private parties and with the same rights of appeal: Provided, That such notice of the suit shall be given to the Attorney General of the United States as may be pro- vided by order of the said court, and upon such notice it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to cause the United States attorney in such district to appear and defend for the United States: Provided further, That such suit shall be begun within four months of the date of the approval of this Act. Approved, May 24, 1937. [CHAPTER 2511 May 24, 1937 [H. R. 53111 [Private, No. 112] Robert Edwin Lee. Payment to estate of. Proviso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. May 25, 1937 [H. R. 859] [Private, No. 113] Union Shipping and Trading Company, Ltd. Claim of, submitted to District Court. Jurisdiction con- ferred. AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury allocated by the President for the maintenance and operation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, to the administrator of the estate of Robert Edwin Lee, late of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damages sustained by the said estate of Robert Edwin Lee on account of his death when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck on November 12, 1934, near Awendaw, South Carolina, by a truck in the services of the Civilian Conservation Corps: 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 24, 1937. [CHAPTER 257] AN ACT For the relief of the Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the claim of the Union Shipping and Trading Company, Limited, against the United States of America for damages alleged to have been caused by a collision on April 25, 1918, near Pauillac, in the Gironde River France, between the Spanish steamship Consuelo (at the time of the collision the British steamship Reims) and the American steamship Berwind, then in the transport service of the United States War Department, may be sued for by the said Union Shipping and Trad- ing Company, Limited, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, sitting as a court of admiralty and acting under the rules governing such court, and said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit (in accordance with the principles of libels in rem and/or in personam), and to enter a

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