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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 831-833-JUNE 29, 1938 assistance of said Joseph Webbe, and returned for sentence, without cost to the Government: 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 29, 1938. 1437 Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. [CHAPTER 832] AN ACT For the relief of Celia Koehler. 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 Celia Koehler, Custer, South Dakota, the sum of $5,000, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for the death of her husband, Frank Koehler, a flagman on a highway construction crew, who was killed on October 13, 1937, when struck by a truck belonging to the United States Forest Service, and driven by an enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps on United States Highway Numbered 16 within the boundaries of the Harney National Forest, near Custer, South Dakota: 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 con- tract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the pro- visions 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 29, 1938. [CHAPTER 833] AN ACT For the relief of William Monroe. Be it enacted by the Senate and Howue of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as.sembled, 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 William Monroe, of Mellette County, South Dakota, the sum of $100, in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for loss of a horse which had been used by employees on an Indian Emergency Conservation Work project of the Rosebud Indian Agency, South Dakota, to pull a truck, on October 26, 1936, and which died shortly after such use: 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 notwith- standing. 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 29, 1938. June 29, 1938 [H. R. 9132] [Private, No. 817] Celia Koehler. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion. June 29, 1938 [11. R. 9133] [Private, No. 818] William Monroe. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty for viola- tion.

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