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 900 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 65 -67-APR. 11, 1941 [55 STAT. under contract ER-W-6407-qm-39, entered into August 29, 1939, with the War Department, for furnishing and installing door and window screens in bakers' and cooks' school and barracks and in five hundred barracks at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, which material was not used by the Federal Mill and Cabinet Company due to its default under the contract, but was used by the Government in the com- pletion by it of a part of said contract and to allow in full and final Appropriation. settlement of said claim a sum not to exceed $587.53. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $587.53, or so much thereof as may be Proso*. necessary, for the payment of said claim: 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 11, 1941. April 11, 1941 [Is. 304] [Private Law 32] Missoula Mercan- tile Co. Payment to. Proliio. April 11, 1941 S. 933] [Private Law 33] John MeAlister, Inc. Payment to. [CHAPTER 66] AN ACT For the relief of the Missoula Mercantile Company. 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 Missoula Mercantile Company, of Missoula, Montana, the sum of $904.40, in full satisfaction of its claims against the United States for the remission of liquidated damages assessed against such company under the provisions of contracts numbered Als-14981 and Als-14996, entered into by such company with the United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, under date of June 3,1937, for the dlelivery of certain quantities of jam to the United States Forest Service at Missoula, Montana, the delivery of such jam having been delayed as the result of a jurisdictional strike with a subcontractor of such com- pany and without the fault or negligence of such company: 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 not- withstanding. 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 11, 1941. [CHAPTER 671 AN ACT For the relief of John McAlister, Incorporated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rcpresentativ'es of the United States of America in Congress assemnbled, 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, the sum of $200 to John McAlister, Incorporated, of Charleston, South Carolina, in full satisfaction of its claim against the United States for compensation for services rendered in connection with the burial of Pinckney A. Allison, deceased, who was employed by the Work

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