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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 602-604-JULY 11, 1940 Proiso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. July 11,1940 IS. 3748] [Private, No. 484] Guy F. Allen. Credit in account of. July 11, 1940 [S. 3749] [Private, No. 485] being driven by Vernon C. Brown and a truck owned by the Work Projects Administration and driven by Bryant Merryman on August 1, 1939, near Phoenix, Arizona: 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, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 603] AN ACT For the relief of Guy F. Alien, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow credit in the February 1937 account of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, without charge against the certifying officer of the Department of the Interior, for voucher 16-28071, $149.94. Approved, July 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 604] AN ACT To relieve certain employees of the Veterans' Administration from financial liability for certain overpayments and allow such credit therefor as is necessary in the accounts of certain disbursing officers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Veterans' Adml ui s- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the employees tration. Credit In accounts responsible for the excess or erroneous payments represented by the of certain former diie bursing officers. sums (including interest accruals) herein stated be, and they are hereby, relieved of financial liability therefor and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit in the settlement of the accounts of the following-named former disbursing officers of the Veterans' Administration and Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Treasury Department, in such amounts not exceeding the sums (including interest accruals) stated herein which have been, or hereafter may be, disallowed as may be necessary to relieve such ery of pay disbursing officers of financial liability therefor: Provided, That this ments. Act shall not be construed to bar recovery of the amounts herein specified from the persons to whom and through whom such amounts have been paid: J. B. Schommer. First. J. B. Schommer, former disbursing officer, Veterans' Admin- istration, Washington. District of Columbia, in the sums of $3,654.84, symbol 99-220 $1,680.69, symbol 11-499; $75.21; symbol 11-501; $3,197.75, symbol 11-532; and $7,102.47, symbol 11-666, which amounts were expended during the period from July 1, 1929, through June 30, 1934. wmlimH. -Homes. Second. William H. Holmes, former disbursing officer, Veterans' Administration, Washington, District of Columbia, in the sums of $162.70, symbol 11-465, and $6,853.73, symbol 11-348, which amounts were expended during the period from January 1, 1919, through June 30, 1929. 1328 [54 STAT.

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