Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 58 Part 2.djvu/196

 PRIVATB LAWS-HS. 772, 773-DEC. 23, 1944 December 23,1944 [H. B. 51671 [Private LawB 881 Board of Trustes of Saunders Memorial Hospital Deoember 23 1944 OPrivate Law 6i8 Oliver N. Knight. [CHAPTER 772] AN ACT To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Board of Trustees of the Saunders Memorial Hospital. 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 Eastern District of South Carolina to hear, determine, and render judgment upon, notwithstanding the lapse of time or any provision of law to the contrary, the claim of the Board of Trustees of the Saunders Memorial Hospital, Florence, South Carolina, against the United States for damages arising from the failure of the United States to exercise the option granted to the United States on November 16, 1942, to lease such hospital for the use of the Army. Such suit shall be insti- tuted within six months from the date of enactment of this Act, and the liability of the United States in such suit shall be determined upon the same principles and measures of liability as in like cases between private individuals. Approved December 23, 1944. [CHAPTER 773] AN ACT For the relief of Oliver N. Knight. 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 Oliver N. Knight, Guilford County, North Carolina, the sum of $20,442.16, in full settle- ment of all claims against the United States for the death of his wife and three children, as a result of an airplane in the service of the United States Navy crashing into his residence on September 13, 1943: Pro- vided, That no part of the amount appropriated in the 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 convic- tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved December 23, 1944. [58 STAT.

�