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 1348 June 15, 1938 [H. R. 8193] [Private, No. 604] Long Bell Lumber Company. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 452, 463 , 491-JUNE 15, 16, 1938 [52 STAT. [CHAPTER 452] AN ACT For the relief of the Long Bell Lumber 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the Long Bell Lumber Company, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, the sum of $177.10 in full settlement of all claims against the United States for losses incurred in delivering certain material used in fencing the Kaw City Cemetery at Washunga, Oklahoma, under the juris- diction of the Pawnee 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. [CHAPTER 463] June 16, 1938 AN ACT [H. R. 9201] For the relief of the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley, California, and A. E. Colby. [Private, No. 605] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the FederaleLand Bank United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- of Berkeley, Calif., and A. E. Colby. troller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed Settlement of claim to settle and adjust the joint claim of the Federal Land Bank of authoried. Berkeley, California, and A. E. Colby, in the sum of $1,000, as dam- ages to a parcel of land owned by them and situated in Trinity County California, such damages having resulted from the willful trespass of employees of the Civilian Conservation Corps stationed at Camp Mad River F-30, after May 1933, and to allow in full and final settlement Appropriation. of the claim the sum of not to exceed $1,000. There is hereby appro- priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for pay- ri io on at- ment of the claim: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. priated 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 tion. 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 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 491] June 16, 1938 [S. 546] [Private, No. 606] Annie Mary Wil- muth. Provisions of Em- ployees' Compensa- tion Act extended to. 39 Stat. 746, 747. 5 U. S. C. §§767,770. AN ACT For the relief of Annie Mary Wilmuth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States Employees' Compensation Commission be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to consider and determine, in the same man- ner and to the same extent as if application for the benefits of the United States Employees' Compensation Act had been made within the one-year period required by sections 17 and 20 thereof, the claim of Annie Mary Wilmuth, of Phoenix, Arizona, on account of tuber-

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