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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 570-572-DEC. 11, 1945 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 11, 1945. [CHAPTER 571] AN ACT For the relief of the estate of Thomas McGarroll. 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 estate of Thomas McGarroll, deceased, late of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the sum of $5,571.50. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims against the United States on account of the death, on October 23, 1944, of the said Thomas McGarroll from injuries sus- tained by him when he was struck, on October 20, 1944, on L Street, South Boston, Massachusetts, near the Boston Edison Company by a vehicle in the service of the Army of the United States. 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 11, 1945. [CHAPTER 572] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey Casa Dorinda Estate in Santa Barbara County, California, to Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred B. Bliss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever he shall determine that such property is no longer needed for exclusively public purposes the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to convey to Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred B. Bliss without consideration (1) all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to the real property situated in Santa Barbara County, California, known as Casa Dorinda Estate, which is described in a certain grant deed by which said property was conveyed to the United States, dated November 23, 1942, and recorded in the official land records of Santa Barbara County, California, at page 492, book 559, (2) all right, title, and interest in and to the appurtenant sewer line and easement men- tioned in said deed, and (3) all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in any of those certain articles consisting of books, furniture, and household furnishings, tools, garden equipment, and other articles of personal property conveyed by deed of gift from Mildred B. Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss to the United States of America dated November 23, 1942, and which are more fully described in exhibit A thereof: Provided,That the conveyance of such property as herein authorized shall be upon the condition that the grantors shall release the Government from any and all claims with respect 815 December 11, 1945 [H. R. 3390] [Private Law 316] Thomas McGarroll, estate. December 11, 194 [8. 1117] [Private Law 3171 Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred B. Bliss.

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