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 902 [CHAPTER 76] April 23. 1941 [H. R. 2990] [Private Law 36] Reimbursement of certain Marine Corps personnel. Proviso. AN ACT To provide an additional sum for the payment of claims under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as a result of the earthquake which oc- curred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931", approved January 21,1936 (49 Stat. 2212). 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, such sum or sums, amounting in the aggregate not to exceed $1,747.16, as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy to reimburse, under such regulations as he may prescribe pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved January 21, 1936 (49 Stat. 2212), Private Law Num- bered 373, Seventy-fourth Congress, the persons hereafter named, in sums not exceeding the amounts set forth, for losses of and damages to reasonable and necessary personal property resulting from the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931: Colonel Robert L. Denig, United States Marine Corps, $491.88; Major Herbert Hardy, United States Marine Corps, $120.80; Captain Robert S. Viall, United States Marine Corps, $150.25; Master Techni- cal Sergeant George J. Boyle, United States Marine Corps, retired, $231.75; Master Technical Sergeant Clarence B. Kyle, United States Marine Corps, $53.75; Quartermaster Sergeant Frank P. Manley, United States Marine Corps, $477.23- Paula V. Snyder, widow of the late Quartermaster Sergeant Harry 6. Snyder, United States Marine Corps, $221.50; in all, $1,747.16: 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 these claims, 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 23, 1941. [CHAPTER 77] April 23, 1941 [H. R. 3097] [Private Law 371 Reimbursement of certain Navy and Marine Corps person- nel. AN ACT To provide for the reimbursement of certain Navy and Marine Corps personnel and former Navy and Marine Corps personnel and certain Federal civil em- ployees for personal property lost cr damaged as a result of the hurricane and flood at Parris Island, South Carolina, on August 11-12, 1940. 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, such sum or sums, amounting in the aggregate not to exceed $23,334.42, as PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 73, 76, 77-APR. 12, 23, 1941 [55 STAT. 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 12, 1941.

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