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 Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. 75TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CHS. 259, 260, 265-MAY 25, 1987 clients from the Dayton (Ohio) Transient Service Bureau to United States Government transient camps at Patterson Field, at Fairfield, Ohio, under and in pursuance of a plan formulated by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and while he was an employee thereof. SEC. 2. 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 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 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, May 25, 1937. [CHAPTER 260] n tl May 25, 1937 [H. R. 3573] [Private, No. 116] AN ACT For the relief of D. B. Carter. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the D. B. Carter. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Payment to. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to D. B. Carter, of Richmond, Virginia, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,000 in full settle- ment of all claims against the Government of the United States for personal injuries caused by an automobile truck leased to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and driven by an enlisted man named Frank Swoveland, on January 14, 1934, about five miles west Limitationonattor- of Portsmouth, Virginia: Provided, That no part of the amount ey's, etc., fees. 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 Penalty for viola- 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 25, 1937. May 25, 137 [H. R. 3773J [Private, No. 117] B. B. Odom and Lilla Odom. Payment to. [CHAPTER 265] AN ACT For the relief of B. B. Odom and Lilla Odom. 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 not otherwise appropriated, to B. B. Odom and Lilla Odom, of Eatonton, Georgia, jointly, the sum of $805 in full satisfaction of their claim against the United States for the value of one hundred and sixty-one acres of land at $5 per acre, located in Putnam County, Georgia, which they con- veyed by deed to the Government, represented by the Resettlement Administration, then the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, said deed describing the land as six hundred and thirty acres, more or less, on the basis of which they were paid, but upon survey by the General Land Office the tract was found to contain seven hundred

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