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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 59-61 -APR. 12, 1943 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 notwithstand- ing. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined m any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved April 12, 1943. [CHAPTER 60] AN ACT Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to consider the claim of Lew 0. Calhoun. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand- ing the provisions of any other law, the Comptroller General of the United States is authorized and directed (1) to consider the claim against the United States of Lew O. Calhoun, of Marshfield, Oregon, arising out of an allotment of his pay to the National Bank of Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington, while the said Lew O. Calhoun was an enlisted man in the United States Army during the World War, and (2) to certify to the Congress any amount found to be due the said Lew O. Calhoun as a result of the making of such allotment. Approved April 12, 1943. [CHAPTER 61] AN ACT For the relief of the First National Bank of Huntsville, Texas. 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 First National Bank Huntsville, Texas, the sum of $105.61, in full settlement of the claim of the said bank on account of two checks numbered 4120725 and 5455048, dated November 1, 1940, in the amounts of $27.66 and $77.95, respectively, drawn on the Treasurer of the United States by the Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, over symbol Numbered 894-404, in favor of Jesse Cooper Hickman, and cashed by the said bank on the endorse- ment of Mrs. Jesse Cooper Hickman as temporary guardian, such checks thereafter being erroneously canceled by the Division of Dis- bursement, Treasury Department, and the amounts thereof included in a new check issued to Mrs. Jesse Cooper Hickman: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve the said Mrs. Jesse Cooper Hickman from any liability to the United States on account of any amounts improperly received by her: Provided further, 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 12, 1943. 657 April 12, 1943 [S. 258] [Private Law 24] Lew 0. Calhoun. April 12, 1943 [8. 854] [Private Law 25] First National Bank, Huntsville, Teax.

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