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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3 D SESS.-CHS. 449-451 -JUNE 15, 1938 Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936) shall be held to have accrued prior to the enactment of this Act by reason of its enactment. SEC. 2 . The Secretary of the Navy is authorized and directed to present to the said Joseph McDonnell a discharge certificate showing that the said Joseph McDonnell is held and considered to have been honorably discharged as of November 12, 1917. Approved, June 15, 1938. [CHAPTER 450] AN ACT For the relief of Al D. Romine and Ann Romine. 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 Al D. Romine and Ann Romine, of Camas, Washington, jointly, the sum of $5,000, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for personal injuries, and expenses resulting therefrom, suffered when the automobile in which they were riding June 3, 1936, was struck by a United States Forest Service truck on the Evergreen Highway, near Ellsworth, Washington: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 ren- dered in connection with said claim, any contract to the contrary not- withstanding. 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, June 15, 1938. 1347 Discharge certif- cate. June 1, 1938 [H. R. 7639] [Private, No. 602] Al D. Romine and Ann Romine. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc. , tees. Penalty for viola- tion. [CHAPTER 451] AN ACT For the relief of Sibbald Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congres.s assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sibbald Smith, of Patrick, North Carolina, the sum of $167, in full satis- faction of his claim against the United States for all expenses incurred in defending a charge of trespass by the State of North Carolina during April 1935 in the superior court for Cherokee County, North Carolina, on account of his assistance as an Emergency Conservation Work employee in erecting a fence, at instructions of his superiors, over disputed land adjoining the Cherokee Indian agency: 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, June 15, 1938. June 15, 1g38 [11. R. 77611 [Private, No. 603) SbbaIld Smith. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola tion.

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