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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 677-679-AUG. 13, 1940 [CHAPTER 6771 August 13, 1940 [H. R. 8217] [Private, No. 531] Thomas R. Fox. Payment to. Provo. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty. AN ACT For the relief of Thomas R. Fox. 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 Thomas R. Fox, of Paducah, Kentucky, the sum of $2,966.62, in full settlement of all claims against the United States, growing out of his personal injuries occasioned by the negligence of the driver of a Soil Conservation Service automobile operated at the time by the Department of Agriculture on May 13, 1938: 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 13, 1940. [CHAPTER 6781 August 13, 1940 [H. R. 8459] [Private, No. 532] Edna 8. Gardiner. Payment to. Proviso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty. August 13, 1940 [H. R. 8504] [Private, No. 533] Dr. A. C. Wade. Payment to. AN ACT For the relief of Edna S. Gardiner. 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, the sum of $3,000 to Edna S. Gardiner, of Denver, Colorado, in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of the death of her husband Frank K. Gardiner, who died as a result of being struck by a United States mail truck on September 1, 1989: 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 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 13, 1940. [CHAPTER 679] AN ACT For the relief of Doctor A. C. Wade. 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 appropri- ated, to Doctor A. C. Wade, Augusta, Georgia, the sum of $1,000. The payment of such sum represents reimbursement for the loss sustained by the said Doctor A. C. Wade on account of the forfeiture to the United States of a bond conditioned upon the delivery in court of one Henry Anger. By reason of the nonappearance of the said Hen Anger, such bond was declared forfeited in the Augusta division o the United States District Court for the Southern Dis- trict of Georgia on April 11, 1939, and the amount of the bond was 1350 [54 STAT.

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