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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 659-661-AUG. 9, 1940 under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and operated by an employee of the Civilian Conservation Corps: 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, August 9, 1940. 1345 Provio. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty. [CHAPTER 660] AN ACT For the relief of Rufus K. Sanderlin. 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 Rufus K. Sanderlin, Fort Worth, Texas, the sum of $713.30. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Rufus K. Sanderlin against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by him on March 3, 1939, when his truck n which he was parked on the Randal Mill Road in Tarrant County, Texas, was struck by a truck in the service of the Works Progress Administration: 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, August 9, 1940. [CHAPTER 661] AN ACT For the relief of Fred Shelton. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to Leonard A. Shelton, as legal guardian of his minor son, Fred Shelton, the sum of $4,062.50 in full settlement of all claims against the United States Government on account of permanent injuries received by the said Fred Shelton, by the explosion of a dynamite cap picked up by the boy in a gravel pit on his father's farm near Lewisville, Denton County, Texas, on August 12, 1936, said dynamite cap having been left carelessly in the pit by Works Progress Admin- istration workers on Works Progress Administration project num- bered 3213, being a farm-to-market project: 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, August 9, 1940. August 9, 1940 [H. R. 89461 [Private, No. 619] Rufus K. Sanderlin. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on it- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. August 9, 1940 [H. R. 91301 [Private, No. ta2 Fred Shelton. Payment to guard- ian of. Proviso. Limitation on at. torney's, etc., fees.

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