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 782 Condition. November 6, 1945 [H. R. 1560] [Private Law 238] J. B. Grigsby. PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 448, 450, 452-NOV. 6, 8, 1945 [59 STAT. Winfred Alexander, of Graysville, Tennessee, the sum of $5,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Winfred Alexander against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained by him on September 16, 1938, when the motorcycle he was driving was struck on United States Highway Numbered 27, near the intersection of such highway and Liggett Road in Sale Creek, Tennessee, by a truck in the service of the Civilian Conservation Corps. SEC. 2. Before payment is made under this Act, Winfred Alex- ander is required to cancel judgment, together with cost of court rendered against the driver of the Government truck, Hobart Wilson, in the Hamilton County Circuit Court, of the State of Tennessee, on February 22, 1940: Provided, That no part of the amount appro- priated 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 November 6, 1945. [CHAPTER 450] AN ACT For the relief of J. B. Grigsby. 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 J. B. Grigsby, Dallas, Texas, the sum of $123.44. This sum represents the amount of an overpayment made by the said J. B. Grigsby to the United States on account of an error in the calculation of the cost of certain lumber which the J. B. Grigsby Construction Company purchased during April 1921, at the Universal and Midland Bridge Shipyards near Houston, Texas, from the Emergency Fleet Corporation: 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 November 6, 1945. [CHAPTER 452] November 8, 1945 [H. R. 3453] [Private Law 239] John W. Farrell. AN ACT For the relief of John W. Farrell. 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 John W. Farrell, of New York, New York, the sum of $1,000, in full settlement of all claims against the Government of the United States for damages received to an automobile truck owned by the said John W. Farrell on the 6th day of June 1938, when the said truck was completely damaged as a result of the careless and negligent manner in which the Works Progress Administration was construct-

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