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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 32-34 -FEB. 22 ,1944 Alabama, the sum of $2,100. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries sustained by the said John Sims on September 26, 1942, when he was struck while walking on a sidewalk bordering upon Highway Numbered 45, near Toulminville, Alabama, by a truck of the Work Projects Administration, assigned to project WP-6796: 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 February 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 33] AN ACT For the relief of Kernan R. Cunningham. 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 Kernan R. Cunningham, of Davenport, Iowa, the sum of $631.63, in full settlement of all claims against the United States as compen- sation for the loss of or damage to personal effects destroyed by fire on November 28, 1941, while being transported incident to his change of station, when en route from Plainview, Minnesota, to Moville, Iowa, on a United States Civilian Conservation Corps truck: Pro- vided, 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 February 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 34] AN ACT For the relief of Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Company, Incorporated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Company, a corporation, created by and existing under the laws of the State of California, the legal owner of a drydock and repair yard, including marine railway numbered 1, at Oakland, California, which said marine railway was seriously damaged on or about June 13, 1941, by collisions of the United States tug Colonel Ernest H. Agnew and the barge Pacific in tow of said tug with said marine railway numbered 1, for damages caused by said collisions may be sued for in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and that said court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such suit according to the prin- ciples of law and rules of practice obtaining in like cases between private parties at common law and to enter a judgment or decree for the amount of such damages and costs, if any, as shall be found 943 February 22, 1944 [H. R. 547] [Private Law 183] Kernan R. Cun- ningham. February 22, 1944 [U. R. 610] [Private Law 184] Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Company, Inc.

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