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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3n SESS.-CHS. 679, 680 -AUG. 13, 1940 subsequently paid by the said Doctor A. C. Wade. The said Doctor A. C. Wade expended several hundred dollars in attempting to apprehend the said Henry Anger, who is an alien, and on the basis of evidence in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, appears to have left the United States: 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 680] AN ACT 1351 Provo. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fee Penalty. ... August 18, 1940 For the relief of certain claimants on account of loss by fire for which the United [H. R. 8666] States was adjudged liable. [Private, No. 534] 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 the owners of the following lands in Lake Landing Township, Hyde County, North Carolina, the following sums, in full settle- ment of all claims against the United States for damage and conse- quent loss sustained as a result of the forest fire or fires which burned land and timber of the Pamlico Timber Corporation, for damage for which the United States was held liable in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina on August 2,1937: R. B. Stotesbury, forty-five acres, $700; E. B. Bell, sixty-two acres, $1,138; Elizabeth W. O'Neal, one hundred acres, $1,500; John H. C. Berry, four hundred acres, $4,800; W. Warren Watson, two hundred and thirty-seven acres, $2,136; W. Warren Watson, J. S. Mann, and others, two-thirds undivided interest in three hundred and eighty acres (two hundred and fifty-three acres), $2,533; S. A. Long and L. A. Dudley, nine hundred acres, $3,600; Closs Gibbs and 0. L. Williams, four thousand and two hundred acres, $1,500. Charles H. Swink, sixty acres, $525; Closs Gibbs forty acres, $400; D. S. McGowan, ten acres, $80; J. G. Weston heirs, two acres, $37; W. T. Howard, twenty-eight acres, $322; G. S. Emory, fifty-five acres, $550; Emory heirs, seven acres, $120- J. W. Spence heirs, ninety acres, $900; George E. Davis thirty-three acres, $370; W. M. Ross, four acres, $24; Mrs. H. T. Weston, six acres, $98; James McClaud heirs, twenty-five acres, $309; Mrs. B. H. Black, twenty-five acres, $125; Mrs. L. L. Boomer, twenty-five acres, $125; Julian S. Mann, five hundred and fifty-two acres, $2,350; Julian S. Mann and Roper Lum- ber Company, two thousand six hundred and ninety-four acres, $2,500; Elizabeth Pugh estate, thirty-seven acres, $296- Mrs. B. A. Credle, six acres, $300; Philip Selby and others, one hundred and fifty acres, $750; John Midyette, two acres, $50; State of North Caro- lina, one thousand acres, $5,000; in all, $33,138. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, upon application filed within two years after the date of enactment of this Act by any person not listed in section 1, to determine if such person suffered damage or loss on account of such fire or fis and to determine the amount of such damage, and to report ;uch determi- nations to the Congress. - 19470°-41-PT. -- 8 Lake Landing Township Hyde County, N. C. Payments to desig- nated claimants. Consideration of subsequent claims.

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