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 eptA.30, 1943 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 252, 254, 255 O1943 [57 STAT. unpaid portion of the compensation agreed upon for the services rendered by him during the Wyoming Adult Education, Recreation, and Nursery School Workers Training Conference held at the Uni- versity of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, from August 18 to 30, 1941, inclusive: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or de- livered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlaw- ful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person vio- lating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved September 30, 1943. [CHAPTER 254] October 1, 1943 [S. 332] [Private Law 98] Velma Pikkarainen. October 2, 1943 IS. 159] [Private Law 99] U. S. Parcel Post Building Company. AN ACT For the relief of Velma Pikkarainen. 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 is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $825, to Velma Pikkarainen, of Towner County, North Dakota, in full satis- faction of her claim against the United States for compensation for the value of a Ford automobile seized by agents of the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, on June 22, 1939, and sold on Novem- ber 10, 1939, the basis for such seizure and sale being that such automobile allegedly had been used by O. V. Pikkarainen, the husband of the said Velma Pikkarainen, to facilitate a violation of the customs laws, although the criminal case against the said O. V. Pikkarainen was dismissed: 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 October 1, 1943. [CHAPTER 255] AN ACT For the relief of the United States Parcel Post Building Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. 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 United States Parcel Post Building Company the sum of $4,827.06, in full settlement of its claim against the United States for rent alleged to be due for the period from July 1 to July 23, 1935, for quarters in the Parcel Post Station Building, Cleveland, Ohio, formerly occupied by the Post Office Department as a parcel-post station under lease dated October 9, 1928: 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 690

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