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 58 STAT.] 78T9 CONG., 2n SESS.-CHS. 736-738-DEC. 23, 1944 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 December 23, 1944. [CHAPTER 737] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Ida M. Rutherford. 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, to the estate of Ida M. Rutherford, of West Bloomfield, New York, the sum of $4,000, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for compen- sation for personal injuries sustained by her and for reimbursement of medical, hospital, and other expenses incurred by her as the result of her being struck and knocked down by Israel Zitron, an employee of the Ordnance Department of the United States, on a public side- walk on Franklin Street, in the city of Rochester, New York, on December 28, 1942: Provided, That no part of the amount appropri- ated 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 December 23, 1944. [CHAPTER 738] AN ACT To extend Reissued Letters Patent Numbered 19,023. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Reissued Letters Patent Numbered 19,023 granted on December 12, 1923, to Art Metal Works, Incorporated, a corporation of New Jersey, as assignee of Louis V. Aronson, of Newark, New Jersey, for "cigar lighter" be, and the same is hereby, extended for the term of seven years from and after the 12th day of June in the year 1945. The benefits of this Act shall extend to the assignee aforesaid, its succes- sors and assigns, with the same force and effect as if said letters patent had been originally granted for the extended term herein specified; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed to cause notice of this extension to be published in the Official Gazette and marked upon copies of said letters patent for sale by the Patent Office in such man- ner as the Commissioner may determine, and further is directed upon request of said assignee or its successors or assigns, to make a certifi- cate of said extension and append an authenticated copy thereof to the aforesaid letters patent, whenever the same shall be requested by said assignee or its successors or assigns. Approved December 23, 1944. 1095 December 23, 1944 [H. R. 2827] (Private Law 553] Ida M. Rutherford, estate. December 23, 1944 [II. It. 2n41 IPrivate Law 554] Reissued Letters Patent Numbered 19,- 023, extension.

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