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 Nov.22, 1943 PRIVATE LAWS--CHS. 326, 327 , 33 4-De-,c 3, 1943 [57 STAT. and directed to settle and adjust the claim of Pacific Construction Company, Limited, for loss sustained by expropriation of lumber and building materials at Haleiwa, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, by the United States Army on and after December 7, 1941, and to allow in full and final settlement of said claim not to exceed $2,604.55. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $2,604.55, or so much thereof as may be 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 November 22, 1943. [CHAPTER 327] November 22, 1943 [H. R. 3331] [Private Law 137] Harry L. Smith. AN ACT For the relief of Harry L. Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comp- troller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the claim of Harry L. Smith, of Manteo, North Carolina, for $236.06, as the amount of damages to his automobile caused by transporting a wounded soldier to a hospital in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on February 2, 1942, at the request of a lieutenant in the United States Army and to allow in full and final settlement of the claim not to exceed $236.06. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- priated the sum of $236.06, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the claim. Approved November 22, 1943. (CHAPTER 334] D)mi:enl'r 3, 1943 [S. 759] [Private Law 138] W. I. Dooly. AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of W. I. Dooly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the United States District Court for the East- ern District of Tennessee to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of W. I. Dooly, of Conasauga, Polk County, Tennessee, for compensation for the value of his undivided one-half interest in tract numbered 766d, containing one hundred and twenty-four and three one-hundredths acres, in Fannin County, Georgia, which was included with other lands acquired by the United States pursuant to condemna- tion proceedings instituted March 21, 1936 (case numbered 1928 at law), in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, and in which final judgment was rendered on October 5, 1936. Approved December 3, 1943. 706

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