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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3 D SESS.-CHS. 5, - 5 37-JULY 2, 1940 as executrix of the estate of Richard M. Arthur, deceased, the sum of $593.84. The payment of said sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for household equipment, furniture, grain, feed, livestock, tools, farm implements, and any and all other personal property sold in or about the year 1933 by Richard M. Arthur to the United States officials in charge of a project located at Arthurdale, West Virginia, then under the juris- diction of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior, and now under the jurisdiction of the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture: 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 con- viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, July 2, 1940. 1309 Proviso. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees Penalty. [CHAPTER 536] AN ACT For the relief of Beatrice Lois Rucker. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlw United States of Amneriea 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 legal guardian of Beatrice Lois Rucker, a minor, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, the sum of $1,000. The payment of such sum sha be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by the said Beatrice Lois Rucker when she was struck by the towline of a Navy airplane 7CS9 piloted by Aviation Cadet Moulton B. Taylor, United States Naval Reserve, on July 11, 1938: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum therof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services ren- dered 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, July 2, 1940. [CHAPTER 5371 AN ACT For the relief of Mrs. E. J. McCardle. 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 Mrs. E J. McCardle, of Macon, Georgia, the sum of $5,000, as com- pensation for the death of her son, James Courson, resulting from a collision on September 5, 1929, between a motorcycle on which he was riding and an automobile operated by a Federal prohibition agent: 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 serviees rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be ulaWf,*, a July 2,1940 [H. R. 4412] [Private, No. 436] Beatrice Lois Rucker. Payment to guard- ian. Protiao. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., fees. Penalty. July 2, 1940 [H. R. 5424] [Private, No. 437] Mrs. E. J. McCardle. Payment to. PrA io. Limitation on at- torney's, etc., tes

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