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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 600-602-JULY 11, 1940 [CHAPTER 600] AN ACT 1327 July 11, 1940 For the relief of Charles N. Barber, former United States property and disbursing IS.3401] officer, Vermont National Guard, and for other purposes. [Private, No. 481] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That payments heretofore made for hospital and medical expenses incident to the injury of five enlisted men of Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Seventy-second Infantry, Vermont National Guard, on August 17, 1936, as the result of an automobile accident, and payments made to one of the injured enlisted men as pay subsequent to the termina- tion of the encampment period, are hereby ratified and validated, and the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby author- ized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of Major Charles N. Barber, former United States property and disbursing officer, Ver- mont National Guard, for and on account of all such payments. Approved, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 601] AN ACT For the relief of George 0. Elliott and Winslow Farr Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- tary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to George 0. Elliott and Winslow Farr Smith, both of Salt Lake City, Utah the sums of $1,000 and $2,000, respectively, in full satisfaction of their claims against the United States, such sums representing fines imposed upon and paid by said claimants on February 2, 1937, in a certain cause in the District Court of the United States in and for the District of Montana (No. 5833), the judgment in said cause having been reversed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (95 Fed. 2d 669), as to said claimants' codefendants (but not as to said claimants since they did not join in said appeal) and said claimants having subsequently received a pardon from the President because of such reversal: 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 con- trary 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, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 602] AN ACT For the relief of Vernon C. Brown and F. L. Copeland. 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 Vernon C. Brown the sum of $80.35 and to F. L. Copeland the sum of $227.75 in full settlement of their claims for personal injuries and loss of employment arising out of a collision between an automobile Charles N. Barber. Credit in accounts of. July 11, 1940 [S. 3424] [Private, No. 482] George 0. Elliott and Winslow Farr Smith. Payments to. Proriso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. July 11, 1940 IS. 3597] [Private, No. 483] Vernon C. Brown and F. L. Copeland. Payments to.

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