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 PRIVATE LAWS--HS. 121, 122 -FEB. 25, 27, 1942 Grace D. Lester. Payment to. Florence E. Daw- son. Payment to. Proiso. February 27, 1942 [H. R. 4179] [Private Law 306] Alien Pope. Jurlsdiction of Court of Claims to hear claims of. Items to be con- sidered. 27, 1940, on the Coast Highway, near Corona Del Mar, California, when the automobile of the said Hiram O. Lester, in which he and his wife, Grace D. Lester and Florence E. Dawson were riding, was struck by a panel truck (numbered 7069), in the service of the United States Navy. SEC. 2. 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 Grace D. Lester, the wife of Hiram O. Lester, of Glendale, California, the sum of $2,642.59. The pay- ment to the said Grace D. Lester shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for hospital, medical, and other expenses, and for damages sustained on account of the injuries received by the said Grace D. Lester, who was a passenger in the car of Hiram 0. Lester. her husband, in the collision described in section 1. SEC. 3. 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 Florence E. Dawson, of Glendale, Cali- fornia, the sum of $4,000. The payment to the said Florence E. Dawson shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for hospital, medical, and other expenses, and for damages sustained on account of injuries received by the said Florence E. Dawson, who was a passenger in the car of Hiram O. Lester, in the collision described in section 1: 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, February 25, 1942. [CHAPTER 122] AN ACT To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Allen Pope, his heirs or personal representatives, against the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That jurisdiction be, and the same is hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims of the United States, notwithstanding any prior determination, any statute of limitations, release, or prior acceptance of partial allow- ance, to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Allen Pope, his heirs or personal representatives, against the United States, as described and in the manner set out in section 2 hereof, which claims arise out of the construction by him of a tunnel for the second high service of the water supply in the District of Columbia. SEC. 2. The Court of Claims is hereby directed to determine and render judgment at contract rates upon the claims of the said Allen Pope, his heirs or personal representatives, for certain work per- formed for which he has not been paid but of which the Government has received the use and benefit; namely, for the excavation and con- crete work found by the court to have been performed by the said Pope in complying with certain orders of the contracting officer, whereby the plans for the work were so changed as to lower the upper "B" or "pay" line three inches, and as to omit the timber lagging from the side walls of the tunnel; and for the work of excavating materials which caved in over the tunnel arch and for filling such 1122 [56 STAT.

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