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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 547-549-DEC. 3, 1945 December 3, 1945 [H. R. 3198] [Private Law 304] Guardian of Sue Flippin Bratton. Army truck, operated by Private Leslie Stewart, attached to the Second Service Command, 546 West Fifty-eighth Street, New York City, on the highway known as the Pulaski Highway in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 5, 1944: 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 December 3, 1945. [CHAPTER 548] AN ACT For the relief of the legal guardian of Sue Flippin Bratton, a minor. 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 legal guardian of Sue Flippin Bratton, a minor, Lafayette, Tennessee, the sum of $10,030. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of personal injuries, medical and hospital expenses, sustained by the said Sue Flippin Bratton on Feb- ruary 19, 1944, when the automobile in which she was riding as a passenger on the Macon County Highway between Hartsville and Lafayette, Tennessee, struck a steel guard rail projecting over the traveled part of a one-way bridge over the middle fork of Goose Creek. Such projecting steel guard rail pierced the body of the said Sue Flippin Bratton, causing serious injuries and permanent disability. Such bridge had been damaged in January 1944, by United States Army vehicles participating in field exercises in Macon County, and, in attempting to repair such damage, military personnel left such guard rail projecting over the highway: 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 December 3, 1945. [CHAPTER 549] December 3, 1945 [H. R. 3249] [Private Law 305] Stanley J. Lilly. AN ACT For the relief of Stanley J. Lilly. 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 Stanley J.'Lilly, Allen- town, Pennsylvania, the sum of $6,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Stanley J. Lilly against the United States on account of personal injuries sustained on March 21, 1942, when the automobile which he was driving was in collision with a United States Army truck on United States Route Numbered 22, west of Allentown, Pennsylvania: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum 810 [59 STAT.

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