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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 34, 36, 37-APR. 1, 2, 1941 amount of money and postage stamps lost in the burglary of the post office at Hopewell, Virginia, on September 30, 1937, such loss having resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of said post- master, as determined by the Postmaster General under a provision in title 39, United States Code, section 49: 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, April 1, 1941. [CHAPTER 36] AN ACT For the relief of Mary Madeline Zwalinski and Ilene Mary Zwalinski, a minor. 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 Mary Madeline Zwalinski, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, the sum of $3,024.70, and to the legal guardian of Ilene Mary Zwalinski, a minor, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, the sum of $2,500, in full settle- ment of all claims against the United States for damages to the said Mary Madeline Zwalinski and Ilene Mary Zwalinski, as the result of the death of John Zwalinski, husband of Mary Madeline Zwa- linski, and father of Ilene Mary Zwalinski, caused by being struck by a rock blown from blasting operations of a Work Projects Admin- istration project on the highway running between Shamokin and Kulpmont, Pennsylvania, on March 23, 1940: 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, April 2, 1941. [CHAPTER 37] AN ACT For the relief of Helen Louise Giles. 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 L. C. Giles, of El Paso, Texas, the sum of $559.70, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for injuries received on the Fort Bliss Military Reservation by his minor child, Helen Louise Giles, due to negligence of personnel employed by or enlisted in the War Department, on July 10, 1938: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per 891 Proviso. April 2, 1941 [H. R. 1144] [Private Law 10] Mary Madeline Zwalinski and guard- ian of Ilene Mary Zwalinski. Payments to. Proviso. April 2, 1941 [H. R. 1370] [Private Law 11] L. C. Giles. Payment to.

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