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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 22, 26-FEB. 10, 12 , 1938 [CHAPTER 22] February 10, 1938 [S. 2606] [Private, No. 421] Chicago, Milwau- kee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Com- pany. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. February 12, 1938 [S. 676] [Private, No. 422] Heinrich Schmidt, G. m. b. H., ofFlens- burg, Germany. Payment to. R. S. §§ 4219, 4225. 46U.S.C.§§121, 128. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. AN ACT For the relief of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. 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 is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Chicago, Mil- waukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company the sum of $798 in full satisfaction of its claims against the United States for dam- ages to its transmission lines resulting from blasting operations of a Forest Service road-construction crew engaged in construction on Saint Joe River Road Project Numbered 456, in the Saint Joe National Forest, State of Idaho: 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, February 10, 1938. [CHAPTER 26] AN ACT For the relief of Heinrich Schmidt, G. m. b. H ., of Flensburg, Germany. 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 Heinrich Schmlidt, G. m. b. H ., of Flensburg, Germany, owner of the steamship Pollux of Germany I registry, the sum of $1,151 in full satisfaction of all claims of such Heinrich Schmlidt, (G. m . b . H., against the United States resulting from the levy and collection by the United States of certain taxes, pursuant to sections 4219 and 4225 of the Revised Statutes, on the tonnage of such steamship Pollux, at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, on March 9,1920, similar taxes having subsequently been held in the cases of The Sophie Rickmers (45 F. (2d) 413) and Flensburger Dampfercampagnie (73 Ct. Cls. 646) to be invalid as to ships of such registry: 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 convic- tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, February 12, 1938. 1 So in original. 1268 [52 STAT.

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