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 992 [CHAPTER 264] ANT AC'T June 17, 1944 [S. 1416] For the relief of Mrs. Judith H. Sedler, administratrix of the estate of Anthony [Private Law 04] F. Sedler, deceased. Anthony F. Sedler, estat mune17, 1944 [. 162] Private Law 30] Pearl Harbor, T. H. Payments to hold- ers of certain fihery right 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 Mrs. Judith I1. Sedler, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, administratrix of the estate of Anthony F. Sedler, deceased, the sum of $5,753, in full settle- ment of all claims against the United States for the death of her husband, Anthony F. Sedler, assistant general superintendent of the Dahlem Construction Company engaged on a project at Fort Knox, Kentucky, resulting from an M4-A4 medium tank of the United States Army, in the service of the Army and operated by a unit of the Army, driving over an automobile which he occupied after having parked it by direction of the military police of the United States Army to permit a convoy of tanks to turn east onto First Avenue from Wilson Road, Fort Knox, Kentucky, on December 19, 1942: 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 notwith- standing. 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 June 17, 1944. [CHAPTER 265] AN ACT To provide for the payment of compensation to certai claimants for the taking by the United States of private fishery rights in Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu; Territory of Hawaii. 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 funds not otherwise appropriated, to the following-named claimants the sums respectively indicated herein as full and complete PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 260, 264, 265 -JUNE 15, 17, 1944 [58 STAT. claimant of any access to its buildings situated on a part of the land not affected by the flowage easement, and to allow in full and final settlement of the claim the sum of not to exceed $1,745 upon the receipt by him of evidence that a release, satisfactory to the War Department, of the United States from any further claim for damages and from any further liability of any kind by reason of the grant of the ease- ment, has been executed by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and has been recorded in the proper land records of the State of Ohio. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $1,745, 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 June 15, 1944.

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