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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 55, 63, 64 , 67-MAR. 14, 15, 18 , 1940 deducted from amounts otherwise due it for lumber and building materials furnished the United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, pursuant to purchase order numbered 427, dated May 29, 1936, purchase order numbered 477, dated June 9, 1936, and purchase order numbered 4832 dated June 10, 1936: 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, March 14, 1940. 1249 Proviso. Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. Penalty. [CHAPTER 63] AN ACT March 15, 1940 To authorize the posthumous appointment of the late Arthur Mortimer Fields, [S. 2879] Junior, to be an ensign of the United States Navy. [Private, No. 284] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized to issue posthumously to the late Arthur Mortimer Fields, Junior, a commission as an ensign of the United States Navy with date of rank as of June 1, 1939: Provided, That no back pay, allowances, gratuities, or pension shall accrue due to the passage of this Act. Approved, March 15, 1940. Arthur Mortimer Fields, Jr. Posthumous a p - pointment as ensign, U. S. N., authorized. Provso. No back pay, etc. AN ACT For the relief of Inez Gillespie. 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 Inez Gillespie, widow of Julian E. Gillespie, late American com- mercial attache at Istanbul, Turkey, the sum of $7,200, such sum representing one year's salary of her deceased husband who died June 23, 1939, while in the Foreign Service of the United States of America. Approved, March 15, 1940. [CHAPTER 67] AN ACT For the relief of Ernestine Huber Neuheller. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the admin- istration of the immigration laws, relating to the issuance of immigra- tion visas for admission to the United States for permanent residence and relating to admissions at ports of entry of aliens as immigrants for permanent residence in the United States, that provision of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 875), as amended (U. S . C title 8, sec. 136 (c)), which excludes from admission into the United States "persons who have been convicted of or admit having com- mitted a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpi- tude", shall not hereafter be held to apply to Ernestine Huber Neu- March 15, 1940 [. 2973] [Private, No. 286] Inez Gillespie. Payment to. March 18,1940 [8. 1998] IPrivate, No. 286] Ernestine Huber Neuheller. Admission to U. S. for permanent rei- dence. 8 U. 8S. . 136(e). [CHAPTER 64]

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