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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 482-484- -JUNE 29, 1940 ProVio. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. Pennsylvania State College which property was occupied by the Civilian Conservation Corps without permission of the Pennsylvania State College: 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, June 29, 1940. [CHAPTER 483] June 29, 1940 [H. R. 698] [Private, No. 418] AN ACT For the relief of Charles H. Upton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Charles H. Upton. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- accomts orf eorge troller General of the United States is authorized and directed to Vice for payments to. allow credit in the accounts of George Vice, United States marshal, northern district of California, for payments totaling the amount of $223.83 made to Charles H. Upton, of San Francisco, California, which payments were for mileage allowance while the said Charles H. Upton was performing the duties of acting chief probation and parole officer for the northern district of California, for travel authorized by means of a privately owned automobile during the period from May 1936 to February 1937, both inclusive, such claim for mileage having been disallowed by the General Accounting Office because travel was performed in an automobile registered in the name of the 4BSta. 1' 3. wife of the said Charles H. Upton, whereas the Act of February 14, 1931 provides for the payment of mileage to an officer or employee of the United States only for travel performed in the traveler's own automobile. Approved, June 29, 1940. June 29, 1940 [H. R. 8822] - Private, No. 419] Eliza and George T. Warren. Payments to. Proio. Limitation on at. tornes, etc., fees. Penlty. [CHAPTER 4841 AN ACT For the relief of Eliza Warren and George T. Warren. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Umited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, in full settlement of all claims against the United States, to Eliza Warren, of Brookhaven, Mississippi, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500 for per- sonal injuries received, and to George T. Warren the sum of $143.05 for damage to his car, on the 7th day of April 1938, when said automobile was struck by a car driven by Bertha Rich, an employee of the Works Progress Administration, and attached to its office at Brookhaven, Mississippi, while in the official performance of her duties for said 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 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 m any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 29, 1940. 1302 [54 STAT.

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