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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG, 2D SESS.-CHS. 457-459--SEPT. 30, 1944 in which they were riding struck an Army truck, on United States Highway Numbered 49, near Camp Shelby, Mississippi, on November 8, 1940: 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 September 30, 1944. [CHAPTER 458] AN ACT For the relief of Frank J. Recely and Mary T. Recely. 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 Frank J. Recely and his wife, Mary T. Recely, of 2528 Sage Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, the sum of $500, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries and property damage sustained when the car of Frank J. Recely, operated by Mary T. Recely, was struck by a United States Army truck at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad crossing, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Decem- ber 19, 1941: 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 ren- dered 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 September 30, 1944. 1027 September 30, 1944 [H. R. 1042] [Private Law 388] Frank J. Recely and Mary T. Recely. [CHAPTER 459] AN ACT For the relief of Charles Fred Smith. 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 Charles Fred Smith, of 530 Williams Boulevard, Springfield, Illinois, the sum of $507.57, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for damage sustained to his private airplane on August 21, 1940, during a recruiting publicity campaign directed by Captain Carl L. Goering, recruiting publicity officer of the Peoria, Illinois, district of the United States Army Recruiting Service: 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 attor- ney 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 in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved September 30, 1944. September 30, 1944 [I[. it. IK 61 [Private Law 389] Charles Fred Smith.

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